Starting on a crew
My first real responsibility was on a lawn crew at Beals Lawn Services in 2022. I showed up, learned the work and started leading the crew on-site. By the end of that year I was General Manager, running day-to-day operations while I was taking classes at Columbus State.
That job taught me the basics of running a business: customers remember whether you showed up and did what you said, and small problems turn into big ones if nobody owns them.
Learning to trade
I got into trading Nasdaq futures through an online trading community, alongside two friends who are now my partners. I put in the screen time, made the mistakes, and slowly built my own way of reading the market. Over time I went from student to helping teach other students.
Trading taught me more about myself than anything else. The setup is the easy part. The hard part is following your own rules on every single trade, especially right after a loss.
Starting The Trading Ark
When that chapter ended, we started The Trading Ark to teach the way we actually trade. A lot of the people we'd been teaching came with us, and many of them are still here today. It has grown into a community of about 400 members, with daily live sessions, a full course and a team of traders and teachers.
Building Ark pushed me into everything at once: branding, pricing, sales, hiring, support and operations. When we needed a better way for members to journal and learn, I built the platform myself, and turned my trading model into a TradingView indicator.
Building for other businesses
Everything I built for Ark showed me how much time a good system saves. In 2026 I co-founded Terova Solutions to do the same for local businesses: websites, fast follow-up for new leads, automatic reminders and dashboards that show owners how they're doing.
Where I'm headed
I graduate from Ohio State's Fisher College of Business in 2027. I want to keep building and growing businesses, my own and other people's, and surround myself with people who are better than me at the things I'm still learning.