I didn't grow up knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

I was a good student growing up in California. I worked hard. I got good grades. Because that is what you were supposed to do. But I had no clear direction, no idea what I was actually supposed to do with my life.

At 19, I left for a two-year church mission to Pennsylvania. And that changed the direction of my life.

While I was there, I met a chiropractor. He explained the philosophy behind what he did in a way I had never heard before. He told me the body is designed to heal itself. When it isn't healing, something is getting in the way. His job, he said, isn't to heal the body. It's to remove the interference, and then let the body do what it was designed to do: Heal Itself!

Something about that idea unlocked something in my mind. It rang true.

It made so much sense, not just as a healthcare philosophy, but as a way of seeing the whole world. Remove the interference. Trust the design. Get out of the way and let things work the way they were meant to.

I also saw the life he had built. A good home. A family. Calm, purposeful work that actually helped people. And I thought: I could see myself doing that.

I came home with a direction for my life.

Before my mission, I had done 8 credit hours in general classes. When I got back, I returned to BYU, majored in Exercise Science, minored in Nutrition, and graduated valedictorian in under three years. Then I went to Palmer College of Chiropractic, the oldest and considered one of the best chiropractic schools in the country, and graduated valedictorian again.

I moved to Colorado Springs ready to be a great doctor.

​What I wasn't ready for was being a business owner...