My life took a turn for the better when my mom bought a health food store in our hometown in 2005 and I started working for her in 2006. In August, of that year I tried the raw plant-based diet which completely changed my life. living in the bible belt I first learned about the plants only based lifestyle from a religious group doing it to prevent cancer and other illnesses. I keep reading their testimonials about people not only losing lots of weight easily and fast but having the best quality of health they had ever had. So I decided I wanted to try it just to lose weight. Little did I know it would change my life forever! I learned that weight loss was the least of the benefits I was yet to experience. Not only did I start losing weight, and feeling better but I discovered the root cause of my lifetime of struggles. I started spending hours on hours learning about herbs, detox, iridology, and a fruit-based diet in my mom's store and also online. That is also when I started to get into watching a lot of Youtube one day in early 2007 I was looking on youtube for some juicing recipes and I found Dan McDonald the liferegenerator. From the first time I watched Dan I connected with his soul and the message he was sharing with everyone. He has always been such a big part of my journey. One day In July 2009 was the first time Dan told us about Dr. Morse when he was recommending his book to us all. Then late 2010 or early 2011 Dan told us that Dr. Morse was starting a Youtube channel after he strongly recommended Dr. Morse to do that. I went and watched the first video from Dr. Morse in April 2011 and I immediately was hooked. I have watched 95% of every one of his videos since, some several times. He quickly became one of the main people I watched on Youtube every day. I have always felt this strange connection to Dr. Morse's energy he has easily become my greatest mentor!  Then after I watched Dr. Morse for a year I got my first weeks 1 & 2 detox kit from him. So for the last 15 years, Dan and Dr. Morse have been a huge influence on my detox & health journey. However, being informed did not mean I knew how to actually put into practice my newfound knowledge. I remember in my early days watching Dan I would try some of his recipes and I would be gaging because my taste buds had not adjusted yet to such healthy foods. I was also going through a tough time trying to live two different lives my old life still partying with my friends and my new way of trying to become healthier and work at my mom's health food store. I constantly felt torn between the two different worlds that were conflicting with each other. I also was having lots of emotional challenges coming up during the detox and I like so many people were not expecting that. 

   For 7 years 06 - 13, I went back and forth between my old lifestyle and a strict mostly raw plant-based diet…all or nothing. After that, I learned the importance of a good proper transition period. This is why today I love being a transitional coach. In 2013 a girl walked into the health food store. We became friends and her help and encouragement were all I needed I have never looked back. It took me 3 months to lose 75 lbs, then by 6 months, I had lost over 100 lbs! I also learned from working at my mom's health food store how to work with the public and develop my communication skills. After 10 years of hearing people say "Thad, you should give talks or classes" and telling me how good I was at communicating I thought to myself well maybe I should be a health coach and share with people what I have learned.