I grew up around working men. Shops, tools, and the unspoken standard that if something was worth doing, it was worth doing right.

I was 5, maybe 6 years old, and I'd take those wooden paint mixing sticks and carve them into knives, airplanes, cars — anything my mind could imagine. I'd spend hours creating little worlds out of scrap wood while the sound of sanders and spray guns echoed around me.

We painted countless airplanes together — small Cessnas, Pipers, you name it. We even painted the planes used in the movies Congo and Mulholland Falls. Later, I helped paint a Hummer H1 for the producer of The Hulk. That's when things started taking off for me.

What drove me was simple: do the work right, and let the results speak.

My mother has been in the health and wellness industry for 50 years. Her influence is why I'm diving deep into fulvic acid, supplements, and longevity research today. Creativity and discipline both run in the family. I inherited both.

By my late teens, the direction was clear. The work started coming. MTV called. Magazines called. I painted for Pimp My Ride. I traveled the world. I built choppers in Istanbul, luxury cars in Dubai. I became the guy I'd always imagined — successful, recognized, respected.

That period sharpened the focus. When things get hard, you find out what actually matters.

By my mid-20s, I was living the dream. Pimp My Ride. Speed Channel. History Channel. MTV. Bloomberg. 37+ publications featuring my work. I won Truck of the Year at SEMA in 2008. Three Goodguys first-place awards. My name was in magazines across the world.

The 2008 financial collapse hit. I closed my shops in California. The industry went quiet. My phone stopped ringing. But here's the thing: that "end" became the beginning of something bigger. When the US industry shut me out, the world opened up.

After 25 years of working in shops — welding fumes, paint chemicals, heavy metals — my body was keeping score. I started researching how to undo the damage. That's when I discovered fulvic and humic acid.

I brought the same obsessive precision from building machines to extracting minerals. Cold-extracted, professional-grade fulvic and humic acid powders. The most important machine I've ever worked on is the human body.

That precision became Pure Path Northwest — a bioavailability technology company engineering cellular delivery systems that make supplements actually work. It's the same standard I've always held: no shortcuts, no fillers, no compromise.