In The Fitness Mirage, you emphasize the notion that fitness is a whole-person transformation that goes far beyond the pursuit of muscle, weight loss, or discipline for its own sake. Why was this an important book for you to write? 

This book was important for me to write because I truly want to help everyone heal themselves from within as the victor vs the victim!

It was important to me with the work I do as a ISSA certified personal trainer/Exercise Transformation Specialist to help as many people as possible unlock the mind, body, and spirit’s full potential to make the world a better place through one person at a time!

You share your transition from pharmacy technician to personal trainer. Looking back, what was the defining moment that convinced you fitness could become your life’s work?

It was during the 2020 pandemic of COVID where I had the epiphany that we need to get back towards taking control of our health and we must get back to natural healing with a holistic approach! 

Faith plays an important role in your understanding of health and transformation. How has your spiritual life influenced the way you coach clients and approach wellness?

Faith allows me to explain the importance of how achieving our transformation is not only done in the physical; but through the mental and spiritual as well because it comes down to alignment!

If readers finish The Fitness Mirage and make just one lasting change in their lives, what do you hope that change will be? 

I hope every reader can become a blueprint for everyone to become the best version of themselves that they can be!

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