About

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I have never believed that a person has to stay in one lane.

For most of my adult life, I have built businesses, worked with clients, invested in real estate, coached athletes, raised a family, and continued my own education. On the surface, those things may seem different. To me, they all come back to the same principles: relationships, preparation, accountability, service, and results.

Today, I am a California Real Estate & Mortgage Broker and a Head Varsity Basketball Coach.

Those are two very different worlds, but both require the same thing: people have to trust you.

I have worked in real estate and mortgage lending since 2009.

Over the years, I have helped people buy homes, sell properties, secure financing, refinance, invest, develop, and make some of the biggest financial decisions of their lives.

I understand that real estate is not just about contracts, interest rates, or property values. For most people, it involves their family, their future, and a significant amount of their money.

My job is to make the process understandable, provide good information, tell people the truth, and help them make the decision that is best for them.

Whether someone is buying their first home, selling a property, investing, developing, or trying to find the right financing strategy, my approach is simple:

Listen first. Build a plan. Execute it well.

Basketball has become another major part of my life.

As a head varsity basketball coach, my responsibility goes far beyond wins and losses.

I believe a basketball program should help young men become better players, but also better teammates, students, leaders, and people.

My philosophy is built around culture first.

Before a team can consistently win, there have to be standards. There has to be accountability. Players have to learn how to work, communicate, sacrifice, compete, handle adversity, and care about something bigger than themselves.

I believe the strongest programs are built around people first: players, parents, coaches, administration, and the community.

My goal is to build a program that people are proud to be part of.

Business and coaching have taught me many of the same lessons.

People want to know where they stand.

They want honesty.

They want consistency.

They want someone who will hold them accountable while still treating them with respect.

Ultimately, leadership is not about having a title. It is about accepting responsibility for the people and the organization you are leading.

That philosophy influences the way I coach, the way I work with clients, and the way I try to live my life.

I earned my Bachelor of Science in Psychology and later completed my Master of Arts in Teaching in Social Science. I have since begun my doctoral studies in Sports Coaching and Leadership, continuing a commitment to lifelong learning that has become increasingly important to me as I have gotten older.

I believe education should never really end.

The older I get, the more I realize how much there still is to learn. I am constantly looking for new ideas, challenging my own thinking, reading, studying, asking questions, and trying to understand people and organizations at a deeper level.

Some of my most important lessons have come through formal education. Others have come through business, coaching, parenting, failure, adversity, relationships, and life experience.

Studying psychology, education, coaching, and leadership has strengthened something I had already learned through business and coaching: understanding people matters.

How people think, communicate, respond to pressure, develop confidence, build habits, handle failure, and work within a group can often determine whether an organization succeeds or fails.

My doctoral studies allow me to explore those ideas at a deeper level, particularly the connection between leadership, organizational culture, coaching, psychology, and performance.

That interest is also at the foundation of my developing Before You Win philosophy: the idea that sustainable success is usually created long before the scoreboard, sales numbers, or final results ever show it.

I have spent much of my career creating things.

In addition to real estate and mortgage, I have been involved in investing, development, entrepreneurship, media, and other business ventures. I am also the holder of two United States utility patents, something I am especially proud of because they represent the same mindset that has driven much of my career: seeing a problem or an opportunity and trying to create a better solution.

I have always enjoyed looking at something that does not exist yet, or something that could work better, and figuring out how to build it.

Sometimes that has meant starting a business. Sometimes it has meant investing or developing real estate. Other times it has meant taking an idea from a thought all the way through the process of becoming a patented invention.

I think that desire to create, solve problems, learn, and keep improving is a major part of who I am.

That mindset has carried directly into coaching.

Building a basketball program and building a business have more in common than most people realize. You establish a vision, find the right people, create standards, develop systems, earn trust, adjust when things do not work, and keep moving forward.

The most important part of my life is my family.

I am a husband and father of four. Being a father, watching my children grow up, and seeing them pursue their own goals has shaped the way I think about leadership and coaching more than any book or business experience ever could.

It has also changed the way I view success.

Success matters. Winning matters. Building something meaningful matters.

But how you treat people along the way matters more.

I want to continue learning, continue growing, continue building things that matter, and hopefully leave the people and organizations I am part of better than I found them.

That is ultimately what I want my work, my businesses, and the programs I lead to represent.

Real Estate & Mortgage Broker • Head Varsity Basketball Coach

Business. Coaching. Leadership. Culture.

Different arenas.

The same commitment to people, preparation, accountability, growth, and results.