![]() Business and entrepreneurship have always been big passions for us. I am 23 years old and my brother Phillip is currently 24. So with the help of a food scientist, I created a unique blend of ingredients that includes vitamin C and zinc, both of which are clinically proven to shorten your cold, plus a medley of other immune boosters and antioxidants. I have no background in the food & beverage world. I went from someone with a rundown immune system to not having a cold in over a year. When I took all these ingredients I either didn’t fully get sick or got back on my feet significantly faster. I started experimenting with ingredients that science has proven hastens recoveries, to create a single shot to fulfill all my vitamin and antioxidant requirements. There had to be a better way to get back on my feet than a pharmacy cocktail of supplements. As soon as any semblance of a cold surfaced, I ran to the pharmacy, the health foods store, and a smoothie bar and filled up with vitamins, fruits, and pills. We had no “sick days” and instead loaded up on as many vitamins and health drinks we could try to hide our sniffles and returned to our desk. Like many young professionals, I couldn't afford to get sick as an investment banker in New York. I would say the most important thing is to start small and conquer a small niche before expanding set realistic goals. Being in a band meant being a pilot would be difficult. Nonetheless, I still wanted to be involved in the aviation world, but I didn’t want to give up music. It was pretty cool for someone of my age. I played guitar and drums, and I was even doing session work for local musicians who had asked me to play on their demos and albums. ![]() I listened to everything I found, and also tried to learn everything I could about the art form. I would later become addicted to the consumption and creation of music, to the point of it becoming literally everything I did outside of school. “Ok, it’s your airplane!”, the instructor said.īut eventually, somewhere between the 6th and 8th grade, I had discovered the world of music. We were in a shallow bank over Saratoga Lake. I still remember that moment and image very clearly. My parents purchased me a few intro flight lessons at the local flight school, and the first time I was able to actually control an aircraft (with an instructor, of course!) was at 12 years old. I thought I wanted to be a pilot, and it was all I dreamed about. It was these two games that really got me into flying. I was borderline addicted to Microsoft’s Flight Simulator and the online WWII dogfighting game Fighter Ace. For most of my youth, I was obsessed with video games specifically simulation games. At that moment, this business went from a project to a passion the miracle of our bodies to self regulate and heal when given a nurturing environment is amazing to me.Įver since I was a kid, I have been interested in aviation. The moment I tried my sample weighted blanket for the first time, everything changed-I fell in love with the surprising, deeply relaxing sensation that crept in. ![]() Through product research, I discovered weighted blankets, and less than a week later, booked a flight to visit with suppliers and pick up samples. In Bali, I met so many people running businesses while traveling, and I knew the secret to learning was to be surrounded by a community of kind people who could teach me.īack in Bali, I quickly went through an online course to launch a brand through Amazon FBA. I’d spent almost all of my savings and had just a few thousand dollars left, but made the difficult decision to choose the path of uncertainty and risk, and go back to Bali with no income, with the intention of launching a business that I could run remotely and independently. I tried to go back to life as I’d known it, but I had changed so much, I could never go back to working in an office for someone else. I came back to New York City feeling so good and got smacked in the face with reverse culture shock. Over the course of weeks that then became months, I softened my external cover and started to discover what life could be like when there’s nothing to prove, nothing to justify, and no one to impress the experience of being enough, satisfied and happy, just because, was the greatest and most beautiful discovery! In the first weeks without a title, company, or convenient identity, I felt completely naked. In the process of leaving every familiar security behind, I came to understand that I’d been looking for wholeness through external validation. I’d been working so hard, yet felt unfulfilled. ![]() I was completely burned out and confused about the direction of my life. In 2017 I quit my job in marketing and publishing in New York City and booked a one-way flight to Bali. ![]()
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