About Me
Hello, I'm John - here's a little bit of my story
I'm still in awe at how I ended up here, I'm not even sure when it all started, but 10 years ago in 2014 I started a Radon Mitigation business, and a year into it, I had built it up enough to a point my best friend was interested in buying in, and we hit the road running. After a couple years I could tell his heart wasn't in it anymore, and I ended up buying him back out, that was June of 2018. At the time of this buy out, I had no employees so it was just us, even thought I was making more money, for a couple months I was working alone with 2x the amount of work, and eventually I had an old buddy offer to help and he started coming along. Well, the stress was too much, and it carried into my relationship, and my ex, partner of 5 years at the time, broke up with me, and then got news my mom needed a serious emergency heart surgery, leaving me in a depressive slump of self pity and I started drinking again. Well if you know me, you know that me and alcohol have no business mixing and nobody would tell me a thing, so god had to tell me.One night I was walking home after the bar closed, I lived across the street from the CC club in uptown Minneapolis off 26th and Lyndale, that's where I was hit by a car then rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery.
I had broken my tibia / fibula and severed an artery, and got compartment syndrome, so I had to be put under and had a fasciotomy on both sides of my leg, thats where they cut it from top to bottom to relieve the blood from the severed artery,I lost so much blood I need a transfusion, then titanium nail & hardware were put in. Then I was on this pump for 5 days, they were hoping the swelling would go down enough they could stitch it up, but they couldn't, so they had to do a skin graft.
I had 3 surgeries and was in the hospital a total of 9 days, (3 & 9, I know) and the initial few days they had to put a catheter in because I couldn't go to the bathroom on my own... I was scared, something told me everything's gonna be ok, just soak this in... When they took the catheter out and let me try to go to the bathroom on my own, and I was able to, the feeling of sheer gratitude that washed over me, for something I had taken for granted my whole life, I never even thought about what a miracle it is to have a working body, let along just a single thing not working, I couldn't pee, and how miserable I was... when I got it back, how absolutely relieved and grateful I was. This accident struck gratitude into me, and that's where I discovered one of the secrets to happiness. Finding ways to source real genuine gratitude for what you have, a pair of eyes, senses, a voice, anything, is a true secret to happiness, because you cannot be grateful and unhappy at the same time,
I had a 6 month recovery before I was back to work in Jan 2020, and then the pandemic hit like another one of the universes jokes, and how it's always throwing a wrench in my plans. When the pandemic started, I kept getting exposed and having to cancel full schedules and reschedule into already full calendars, and then, the department of health decides to roll out regulations on our industry in the middle of the lockdown, couldn't even wait for the lockdown to be over, it causes such a headache and so many todo's I totally lost foot of my business and fell so behind I had to make a hard decision, let it go and focus on getting my mental health back, and finding my happiness, because making a lot of money with a business was not it.
June 2020 I had to put down my best friend Koda, my dog that had been with me from 20 years old til 32, it totally broke me, that was the beginning to my real downfall.
I actually wanted to die, I had made my own life so stressful that, I wasn't suicidal, but I felt like if the world ended I'd be much better, I wouldn't have to deal with this mess I'm stuck in and seemingly can't escape.
And that's when I decided to go to Costa Rica and do Ayahuasca. Long story short, it was something I desperately needed, Because of my experience on ayahuasca, I now know in my heart that god, creator, whatever, is real. I connected with something with such infinite divine wisdom that was so pure and loving that it was all I needed to experience to know that there's a lot more to this life than what we're seeing on the surface. I feel the universe talking to me in symbols now. You can too.
That was Jan 2023, I officially quit my radon business in April of 2023, and decided to pursue my happiness and connected with my soulmate, who introduced me to herbalism and alternative medicine, which made such a positive impact on my life, that it's now my passion and I'm extremely grateful and fortunate to be able to dedicate part of my life to it, help spread it's goodness and positivity, and help people empower themselves, and help teach people what they can be doing to be living better happier more fulfilled healthy lives.
In my last few years, I've been forced into several huge life changes that shocked me, traumatized me, challenged me, and they forced me to adapt and to transform and to grow, and change and learn, and it's amazing that something like getting hit by a car, and being terrified for the future while immobilized in the hospital, can end up being one of the best things that ever happened to me, becaue of how much it forced me to grow, and I wouldn't take it back for the world.
So, moral of the story. You can't have the good without the bad, we need the yin and the yang, if it was all good, it wouldn't be all that good, and when you can take the things life throws at you, and have an attitude towards them of, "this negative thing is not a negative thing, it is a seed that was planted there for my good, a seed that will grow and transform into a flower, that will radiate love on those around it. It's not about what you see, it's how you see it. I was looking at life through some lenses that were ungrateful, Once I actually understood that, I was able to see the lenses and take them off, leaving me with an outlook that's positive always receptive to the universe showing me more miracles I can be grateful for.