1. What do you do for a living? When and how did you start doing this?

I own and operate Paleo Tracks Survival, a wilderness self-reliance school. I specialize in primitive technologies and adaptive survival. I also work within the tv/film industry as a consultant in matters pertaining to survival, safety and medical. I started in survival and wilderness self reliance around the age of 14/15 years of age. I have always been a lover of adventure and a seeker of wilderness and outdoor connections. It has been a passion and lifelong pursuit.

2. What features are needed to participate in your survival courses?What type of people does usually take part in your courses? What are the first things teaching? And the most important?

All and anyone is allowed to participate in any survival courses I teach. I teach people from all walks of life and backgrounds. What each person needs is personal drive, a sense of adventure and the pursuit of knowledge to succeed in any of my courses or teachings. Peoples backgrounds and personal experiences span from business professionals, military, adventurers, youth groups, couples, moms and dad….really anyone.

My first teachings are understanding the survival is a creative process and application. There is no wrong way to be creative. I stress that everything can come from nature and when we overlook this we become dependent of “stuff” and loose our innate ability to create.The is creative process and outlook allows my teachings to be more personal and reflective allowing each person to understand their own personal abilities.

3. The greatest satisfaction in your work? People who are not being able to continue have ever participated in your courses?

My greatest satisfaction is working with people that are seeking a challenge and I am allowed to be part of that process. I love seeing the personal connection to the land and truly embracing the essence of life with each person.

Everyone who participates in my courses finishes, as my course are not a check in the box mentality. my courses are and experience and all have a different pathway based on the person. My courses are run specifically for the person of group dynamic. Canned single source training is a dangerous approach and very ineffective.

4. Have you also written a book,”Scavenger”. Can you talk about this?

Scavenger is a book written about resiliency. The idea behind it is how a person can overcome and deal with life threatening traumas and obstacles. At the age of 37 I nearly died from a genetic based heart attack. My recover was based on my resiliency to overcome the mental, physical, emotional and primal aspects of my now heart attack based life. After I left the hospital I decided to live wild…I moved into a cave, lived in shelters, ate wild foods, drank from streams and truly allowed my mind, body and spirit to heal through and with nature. Scavenger highlights my recovery process and the steps I took to recover and heal from my heart attack.

5. Do you think to be a lucky person?

I don’t think I am lucky, I think am actionable and driven to live free and influence my own decisions and life plans.

6. The most dangerous situation in which you ever found?

One of the most dangerous situations was when I was deep in the mountains and quick thunderstorm rolled in. Lightning was all around and I needed to seek shelter quickly. I could feel the energy in that air and knew I was in extreme danger. I quickly descended in elevation and sought refugee near a giant rock only to turn around and see lighting strike exactly where I was standing a minute or two earlier.

7. Living immersed in nature, you can see many animals. Which animal fascinate you the most and why?

Bear…I love bears as I truly believe they are the most adaptive creatures as they live everywhere and have adapted to do so. They are smart, fast, family based, individually based, tough strong and deadly when they need to be. They have the best resiliency. I see myself as a bear and know if I had a spirit animal it would be the bear.