Originally from Louisiana, I am an international small business entrepreneur who introduced, owned and operated a kettle corn manufacturing business in New Zealand for fourteen years.

I am also a 3x terminal cancer conqueror. Hip cancer surgery left me with the physical challenge of my left leg four inches shorter than the right. Lung and then pancreatic cancer with less than a 5% chance to survive. I changed my diet, exercise routine, mental/spiritual mindset despite five specialists telling me that I would not recover and was given a year to live.

I am now almost three years cancer free.

I have been in a wheelchair or crutches almost five years. Currently I am a patient with Mayo Clinic committed to multiple surgeries over a few years that will give me back the four inches. This is the largest, most complex hip implant ever done with never-done-before-procedures that will be published in medical journals.