After a 10-year career on the World Athletics Tour and the Olympics, competing in 23 countries, winning 5 National Championships medals, working with the world’s elite Special Operators as a U.S. Air Force Special Warfare Combat Controller (CCT) … Mike was left injured, exhausted and empty inside even after achieving what most would call “The American Dream.” A dream full of glamour, lights, material wealth and superficial possessions.

Over the years, the lights and fireworks of the Olympic stadium have faded and the wounds of Special Operations Training have healed. Mike has learned lessons from a life in the arena in the world’s most stressful environments. These lessons will carry him farther than any athletic accomplishment or experience he has ever had. Now, his unwavering mission is to help men across the world learn the tools and techniques he has mastered and help them recover from high impact, high stress careers.

In his expansive 20 year career, a top the highest level of athletics on the World’s largest stages and Military Special Operations, Mike has been educated from the best sports physiologists, nutritionists and strength & conditioning coaches across the globe.  Not only that, Mike has picked up along the way a Masters Degree in Sports Management, a Bachelors in Kinesiology, a National Strength & Conditioning Association (NSCA) Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) and Cross Fit certifications.  Mike’s also spent 6 years on the resident athlete advisory board at the US Olympic Committee’s (USOC) Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, CA.

Mike’s consulting and keynote speaking facilitates the next steps in personal fitness, professional and spiritual development so men can rewrite how they define a deeper meaning in life (and not how society defines it). He’s on a mission to make a massive shift in men across the world in helping them become an Unmodern Man and push back on the vision that society and social media sell as “The American Dream”.

Through Mike’s life-changing years in the Olympics and Special Operations, Mike learned that one’s mindset is the most crucial key to unlocking a deeper meaning in success, hard work and perseverance.

In Mike’s keynotes, he takes these life lessons learned from competing in the most difficult athletics environment, the Olympics, and military combat missions and applies them to any group, team or organization.

From igniting a deeper meaning in life and discovering a true identity, Mike shares his fundamental, personal beliefs about success, hard work, motivation and perseverance. Mike possesses mass global appeal, motivates thousands each year to take action and attracts a diverse and extensive audience.

In Choice & Sacrifice, Mike shares his life story of the choices he had to make and the repercussions that he has since endured from dedicating his life to compete on the world’s largest stage – the Olympics – and in the most stressful environment known to man… war. Choices that were well informed, well thought out, planned and executed. Choices that had repercussions, a lot more negative ones than positive, that he’s still dealing with today.

Mike’s story illuminates a path that anyone can follow to push past excuses, find contentment in making uncomfortable choices and reach their full potential.

After all, none of us on this journey that we call life are getting out of this alive. So, live life, don’t look back, and whatever you do… don’t say you made sacrifices.