I was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A. I grew up in an Italian family and was raised Catholic. I attended public high school, graduated with honors and went to college. Again graduating with honors and following the path of my family tradition and what I thought I ‘should’ do with my life, I took my Bachelor’s degree in environmental science and started running in the rat race. I got 3 jobs at once, one was unpaid working in the field I wanted to work in, preserving the natural resources of the planet, one was paid internet sales, and the third was a job I literally hated, but took on simply because of the paycheck. It was working in a lab cleaning up toxic waste. Let me be blunt, it SUCKED. I was unsure of myself and overwhelmed by the competition in the environmental science field, I decided to settle and got a job in the corporate world as a corporate events planner.

At the time, it was a godsend. I was fed up with trying hard to make a difference in the world and I literally decided I had had enough! I was simply going to make as much money as possible so that I could THEN SOMEDAY be a philanthropist and make a difference. So, I started down that path and was on it for 5 years. I experienced success quickly and by the age of 26, I was making as much money as I could have wanted, and had just purchased my dream home. You would think I was excited and passionate about life, but I wasn’t. On the surface, everything looked good, but on the inside, I was completely depressed and unfulfilled. I knew deep down inside I had to do something with my life, I really HAD to do something that impacted others on the heart level, something that made a difference, and so I took a HUGE step and trained to be a yoga teacher. Then, I took on being trained as a life coach. And I did all of this while I still kept my corporate event planning job. So, now I’m a ‘registered’ yoga teacher and a ‘certified’ life coach and I’m still being unfulfilled and depressed.

Shortly after completing my yoga teacher training and during my life coach training, I had a spontaneous shift in my consciousness that at the time, could not be explained. All I would do is look for ways to explain it and try to find others who had or were having the same experience. Two years after the shift in my consciousness occurred and two years after being a life coach and a yoga teacher full time, I finally found shamanism and as soon as I started to learn shamanism, I realized I am a shaman. Then, everything in my life made sense. I had studied environmental science, not so that I could work in the environmental field, but so that I could work in the spiritual growth and self development field incorporating what I know about ecology into supporting the humans and other beings on the planet. I now fuse the distinctions of life coaching, yoga and shamanism to do what I call life guiding. Life is a beautiful process of learning and growing that we can all cherish. The hard part is cherishing who we are and what we’re here on this planet to do. I believe we are all spiritual beings here to have a human experience. The question is: what are you here to experience and are you fulfilling on your purpose? That is the question I support numerous people answer for themselves every day.