Built with Passion

Driven by a curiosity of how the world works, I’ve taken over 150 upper division undergraduate courses in bioengineering, physics, astrology, biology, organic chemistry, material science, kinesiology, and data science….plus all the overlapping required lower division courses. My tutoring sessions with my mentors were often filled with discussions of metaphysics, instead of concepts that would help me on tomorrow’s tests.

Often working with patients diagnosed with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, I have found a passion in helping those who are often forgotten and neglected—always willing to dive into the details that otherwise are overlooked.

It is in a patient’s ongoing determination through constant painful therapy that I have seen the best parts of our collective human spirit. To people who have a disability, healing represents a dramatically increased standard of living.  When positive results are achieved, I see real happiness and joy. Over the course of my life, experiencing these rare moments is what I have found to fill me with meaning and purpose.  It took me a while but I found it.

My story is not unique.  It’s amazing what we can achieve if we just look deeper, spend more time, and pay more attention to what might actually work instead of treating people like another number or pay check.

My excessive curiosity has directly affected how truHugs developed, even at the cost of its survival.  I’m lost exploring hemp fields, textile flea markets, and industrial factories in foreign lands.  I’ve spent endless nights in my AirBnB researching every factor that could affect your comfort, constantly consulting university professors over Skype.  I fear I am in a rabbit hole, now obsessed about things like how natural fibers curl in space within a thread and trap your body heat…increasing the warmth provided by the threads themselves over time.