Memory champion. Navy EOD. Professional poker player. The common thread was never talent. It was learning how to perform when everything was on the line.
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I spent years chasing peak performance in arenas where failure wasn't theoretical. I competed in the USA Memory Championship. I served as a Navy EOD technician. I played professional poker at the highest stakes I could find.
In every one of those worlds, I hit the same wall. I could prepare endlessly. I could study more than anyone. But when the pressure hit, something broke. I'd freeze in moments that mattered. I'd make decisions I knew were wrong while I was making them. The gap between what I knew and what I could execute under stress was destroying me.
So I stopped looking for better strategy and started looking inward. I studied performance psychology, neuroscience, mindfulness, and the mechanics of how people actually change. Not theory. Application. What makes someone perform at their ceiling instead of their floor when the stakes are real.
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"The work that changed my poker career had almost nothing to do with poker. It had everything to do with how I related to pressure, uncertainty, and myself."
I stopped trying to eliminate emotion from my decision-making. I stopped treating tilt like a character flaw. Instead, I learned to work with the full picture: the fear, the ego, the identity, the narrative running underneath every decision. When I did that, everything shifted. Not just at the table. Everywhere.
Most of my clients fall into one of two categories. Different stories, but the same crossroads.
You're beating the games. The bankroll is there. But something feels hollow. You're grinding without purpose, playing on autopilot, or wondering if this is really it. The results are fine. You're not.
You were crushing, you know you're capable. But something broke and you can't get back to where you were. Tilt, fear, burnout, or some combination you can't name. The skill is there. The execution isn't.
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Focused, structured work on the mental and emotional patterns that show up at the table — and everywhere else.
How you respond to variance. How your identity shifts when results don't match your self-image. What happens in your body and your thinking when the stakes get real.
Players who work with me:
Think more clearly and systematically while playing
Recover faster from bad sessions
Make decisions that reflect what they've studied
I work with a small number of players at a time. If any of this resonated, let's have a conversation.
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