 I grew up in Canada, born and raised in Nemeton, Alberta, so I started playing hockey when I was four years old. In Canada, it's your right of passage, right? Everybody plays hockey in Canada. I played until I was 18 years old. That's when I got the offer to go play professionally. I had somebody call me out of the blue and I'd been scouting and said, would you like to come play hockey in Laredo, Texas? And I've played there for seven years. I went back and forth to a different team. I played in San Antonio, Texas as well and I played a year in England as well too and then ended up playing in Mississippi where I finished out my career. When I played in Texas, we won two championships, which was really cool. We had set a couple of records. We went 48. 8 and 8 was our record. In the final series, we were down three games. The one that we came back and won the best of seven series in overtime at home. It's like you can't write any better for your sportsman. Hockey can be a violent sport, a physical sport. Bro, I've broken my wrist multiple times. I cut the back of my neck with a skate as well when I was younger, playing on the outdoor rank. And then I've broken this arm, and then the wrist, which is what kind of ended my hockey career. I had a skate to the jugular, which cut my jugular, which was pretty scary. It was kind of a freak accident, a goalie skate. Kind of, I don't know if you've ever seen a goalie skate. It's sharp and pointy at the end so they can push side to side. The skate came up at the same time that I got up off my knees and just happened to... It was a wild experience because my trainer reacted before I even knew what happened. He was on the ice and I looked down and there was just a puddle of blood and I was like, Oh, that's not good. And he spent about two hours with his fingers, pressure was on my neck and we sat in the emergency room. It was uncomfortable, but I didn't know the kind of danger I was in. They all stayed pretty calm until they finally sewed me up and then they all started freaking out because they were like, Oh my God, we all thought we thought you were going to die. I'm like, wait, why didn't you tell me that? I mean, hockey was a big part of my life. I have friends that I've met while playing hockey that have lasted to this day. You learn a lot. It builds character, I think, in playing competitive sports, which obviously I didn't play in NHL. So I had to continue working after. That really helped, I think, build my competitiveness, determination to win. I don't like to lose. I like to do the best that I can. It is hard to transition from playing semi-professional sports into, I call it the real world, which is working, going to work, finding a job that you enjoy, that you can show up every day and give it your all kind of like you did in hockey. And I do feel like I found that here and I'm not just saying that because I work here, but I really do. I enjoy it. I've been here for five years now. I love going to work. Everybody here at night, we kind of work as a team, right? I don't think that any of us can be successful without each other, even if we're not working in the same departments. I think that that's one aspect of dealt with my whole life. I've dealt with playing professional hockey, working with a team, working well with others. You can't win a hockey game if you just go out there and try to get through the whole other team yourself. I think that transfers well into the corporate world.