Above all, I strive to be genuine, have a mutual respect for others and myself, to teach and inspire, to make everyone feel welcome, to excell at what I do and learn from my mistakes, to find balance, to collaborate and work with others to utilize each and every idividual's strength, and to live life with integrity and empathy, and be a positive force in the lives of others.

     What I do is an art. I've been an artist my entire life. I've been a poet, spitting my jams to crowds of misunderstood teenagers; I've been a dancer, where the only expression you have is whole bodied and incomparable; I’ve been a painter and a visual artist, where each surface is a canvas; I’ve been a decorator, where each bland four-walled room can be a beautiful escape; I’ve been a designer, where my clothes were anything I could imagine; and I have been a baker/ pastry chef, where the sky was the limit.

 

     Now, though, my art is more interpersonal. Everything I do has some relation to a myriad of other people. Like the farmers and the customers, the producers and the consumers. I have a huge network of connections, which is of utter importance, because my life has been one of travel.

Without connections I would not be where I am today, or have the wisdom that I hold near to me.

    

     I can say that this industry has humbled me. By constantly being acquainted with professionals from each and every corner of the world. I welcome any plethora of possibilities that I am faced with. The most important thing I have learned by far is that you can never have a job that you are better than. You can never be too good, but that doesn’t mean one can't eandeavor to better themself every new day.

 

    My mission statement is as it says, it is honest; it aims to find the path that will make me, and others around me, inspired and happy; it keeps the opportunities vast by never shutting the possibilities out. And I do this all by continuing to work hard, allowing my passion and persiverance to drive me; because perseverance is the only perfection in this world. It is the thing we, as human beings, have practiced the most... It is the glue that binds us.