For Starters (photos included)

Something tells me that I would end up doing this at some point anyway, so I'm just going to get it out of the way. Everyone loves talking about themselves, I honestly even like hearing people talk about themselves, most of the time. Passion, pain, goals, achievements, losses, wins, all of that and more makes each of us who we are.

As I've started to grow up (I'm 26 currently, coming up on 27 in a month to the day, 9/9), I've realized that people's perception of me is sometimes totally opposite of how I think of myself. That can go both ways, too, better or worse. Anyways, I like to think of myself as a pretty legit individual. I'm starting to love myself again, I've done some traveling, I've made some incredible friends and I have tons of love to give.

Sometimes I get really excited about stuff that might not be that exciting to someone else. I'm just passionate about what I like and I think that's okay. Sometimes I get really drunk and shuffle until my feet burn or I hurt myself and feel the pain the next day. I set goals any time I'm feeling unmotivated and sometimes when my friends are feeling low, we'll write all of our goals out together. Always make sure your tribe's vibe is on point.

Even though I pretty regularly remind myself I have time to get where I want to be, I still remind myself of everything I've already accomplished.... I was the Music Programming Director for a radio station, I graduated college, I was a Store Manager by 21, I made lots of money with a really good company and then ended up messing that one up, we might get into that later, but now I work for my dream company, iHeartMedia. Along the way there have been a bunch of wins and losses and I'm sure that won't stop any time soon, and that my friends, is life.

I wanted to keep this short but it's hard not to just lay it all out when that's kind of what I came here to do....

My parents raised me with good morals and let me grow to believe whatever I truly wanted to believe. I believe in a higher power, mine just happens to be The Universe, and you may call yours something else. Either way, I believe in positivity and gratitude and I think any decent human should. My parents are both super cool people, not together anymore but my mom got to marry her high school sweet heart from Germany and my pops is building fat houses in California.

California, home to me, born and raised 12 years in The Bay Area, an hour north of San Francisco. Most of my family is still there but I think I'm too chilled for California and am not sure I'll ever move back. I tried that in 2010 for unfortunate reasons and that did not work out, maybe we'll get into that too. Anyway, I ended up having to move to Ohio to be with my mom and finished out high school and got college out of the way there. I made some friends that I still talk to almost every day in Ohio, but again, I'm not sure I'd ever move back.

Currently I'm in Phoenix, it's my second time living here, first time was from 2006-2010. I moved back here immediately after I took my college graduation trip to Germany in 2015 and haven't left since. My friends are here, I had to come back. Did I mention I'm an only child so friendship is huge for me.... but, basically everything has changed since 2015 and again, such is life.

As I write more and start to post the cool shit I do and have done, you'll get to know me and I guess we'll take it from there.