Gronk's Transformation Story
From Lost to Architect of Transformation
For most of my life, I felt like a live wire with nowhere to ground. I had this intense fire inside. A pulsing, radiant energy that wanted to be expressed creatively and through leadership in some way. But I couldn’t find the core. What was the truth I was meant to share? What was I here to offer?
For the first 33 years of my life, I carried this restless electricity. Ungrounded and with no complete circuit, this electricity brought chaos and struggle to my life. I wasn’t lazy. I was misaligned. I knew I had something inside me, but I didn’t yet have the language or vision to give it shape.
Then something began to shift. After consuming hundreds of hours of books, podcasts, and courses; after amassing endless journal entries; and after outlining myriad video ideas, meditation scripts, and book ideas — I finally started to create.
I wrote and self-published two children’s books. I filled notebooks with guided meditations and began uploading to a new YouTube channel, Nourishing Meditations. I mapped out a vision of a YouTube channel.
I wasn’t just expressing, I was Transforming. Every minute I devoted to these creative endeavors, I felt a new version of me growing inside. And through this process, I finally saw it clearly:
My life purpose is Transformation.
It’s the current that runs through everything I do. Whether it’s guiding others through life-changing 1:1 work, leading group programs, helping friends become the best that I see within them, publishing spiritual meditations, or building IT systems from scratch as a Product Owner. I transform thoughts into stories. Ideas into offerings. Visions into lived realities.
And the truth is, I’ve always been doing it.
Metanoia in Motion: My Life in Transformation
When I was 14, I radically transformed my body. I was overweight, slow, and insecure. I grew tired of that version and all that came with it.
So I built a new identity of a stronger, faster, more vibrant version of myself. And a Vision of Life to accompany that identity.
Very quickly, I became that identity. I lost 45 pounds in one summer. By senior year, I was running a 5-minute mile, moving from the back of the pack in Cross-Country to finishing top 20 in the open race. My confidence exploded. People didn’t recognize me. I had stepped into my first Metanoia, and it all started with a thought of change.
In my 20s, directionless in my career, I ended up driving Uber full-time to escape the world of managers, deadlines, and the vapid workdays draining my life.
Uber was a gift. My time driving folks to and from work provided rich glimpses into the lives of workers from all backgrounds and professions. After a while, I realized the best industry for me was Information Technology.
So I crafted a Vision: working in IT, building meaningful products, making a consistent salary. This Vision started in sales, found a foothold in tech, and built a career brick by brick.
I devised an identity to go along with that Vision. Who do I need to be to live this new Life path? I wrote all of this out in my journal, with as much clarity and detail available to me at the time.
Two-weeks later, I picked up a passenger who worked for a startup, and they were hiring. I got his info, got an interview, got the job. Rookie of the Month, and two months later I earned a promotion to Quality Analyst in the IT department. I got stuck after this, not knowing where to go from here.
The thing about Transformation is that you must construct a crystal clear Vision. Without that, we are at the whims of the winds of Life, carrying us about without direction. You might land somewhere you love; you might land in an endless field of mud.
So after I gained some skills as a QA, I crafted a Vision of the next role. Within two weeks, I accepted a job offer that perfectly matched the new Vision. After three years there, I exponentially grew my skills, increased my value, and came up with the next Vision.
This part is really cool: I wrote in my journal in Spring 2022: "It would be perfect to start this job in November 2022". My start date for this new role (with double the salary as my last job), was October 31, 2022.
My spiritual Transformation: I was raised Catholic. Then from age 18-25 I was a devout atheist. And then I Transformed again radically. I became not just a believer, but a feeler of God, the Tao, the ALL.
I found a version of God I could see in nature, in numbers, and in the logic of science, and feel in my body and mind.
And now, the current Vision I am working on? That version of me already exists. I see him. I feel him. And I’m walking toward him every single day.
None of this was easy. Transformation rarely is anything but a challenge. Yet with the clarity of Vision and who I must be, and a fierce devotion to that Vision and identity, I continuously Transform into the version of me I once only imagined.
Why I Guide Transformation
I’ve lived the fires. I’ve walked the valleys. I’ve sculpted new versions of myself again and again. I don’t teach from theory. I teach from embodiment.
Transformation isn’t a one-time event. It’s a relationship with your evolving potential.
We can learn to design and build an impenetrable and elegant castle, fortified to endure the most turbulent storms. Yet we can always add more bricks, adding height or making more robust.
Now, I guide you through that relationship, step by step, layer by layer. I don’t claim to Transform you. That power is yours. But I’ll be the architect beside you: designing the blueprint, clearing the path, and walking with you as you work through each Door of Transformation.
This is Metanoia Mind Shift.
This is the space where the old you falls away,
And a greater you rises.
Let’s take the path to your next level.