Meet the Vault Health & Fitness Maumee team

In 2016, I was restless. I loved investing in my teams at Target and bringing joy to our guests’ day through our interactions with them and their family, but something was missing. I grew up loving sports and playing them all. Basketball was my first love, replaced later by football, which I played through college. After graduating, I started my career as a financial advisor. I was working 80+ hours/week, my activity levels dropped, and I stopped working out for the first time since I was 13. After several months, my body had shifted shapes and I was hating how I felt and looked. I hired a coach to write a diet plan for me…which led me to the world of bodybuilding which I competed in for 7 years. My career as a financial advisor was short lived. After a short period of time with a bank, I ended up in a leadership role at Target. My leader saw potential in me and she invested heavily in my development. After two years with Target, I was given the opportunity to lead my own team as a store director. I loved Target. I loved the culture, I loved the way we treated our team members, I loved the experience we created for our guests. I moved to Perrysburg, Ohio in 2014, from Howell, Michigan, to take on a struggling store with a broken culture and processes. We started from scratch with new leaders that believed in the vision for the future of our team and our store. Late in 2015, two major life events happened – after nearly a decade of my life largely being controlled by alcohol, I removed it from my life. I’ve been sober for 8+ years (and counting). A few weeks later I was invited to a local church. I was captivated by the pastor and the message he shared. I gave my heart and life to Christ shortly after. The summer of 2016 should’ve been a relaxing season – I was surrounded by great leaders, our teams bought into our vision, our guests were amongst the happiest in the entire country, we were setting records with our metrics…but something was missing. After searching my heart, I realized the ultimate impact I was making through my role wasn’t as fulfilling as it once had been. I wanted to impact lives in a deeper, longer lasting way. I felt my best physically, mentally, and emotionally when I was consistent with my workouts and nutrition. I felt even better when I had set goals, created an intentional plan, executed the plan over an extended period of time and reached the goals. I wanted others to experience what I experienced through training and nutrition. I wanted those closest to me to have an improved quality of life by improving their health, through fitness. I started an online training and nutrition coaching business that year. As more clients experienced more success, their friends and family would ask what they had done to transform their body and, in many ways, their life – which led to more referrals and more growth. As I spent more energy and time working with clients I became more fulfilled and felt my time at Target was nearing its final season. Early in 2018, after a long relationship ended, I was ready to leave Ohio. I interviewed with 1st Phorm, a supplement company in St Louis, Missouri that I had worked with since 2015, for a full time coaching position. I packed my apartment in Perrysburg. I flew to St. Louis. The interview went well. I had prayed for peace and clarity. Coming from a large immigrant family, the thought of starting a new journey halfway across the country, with the intention of meeting my wife, raising my future children and building my life in St. Louis was an important decision. God gave me a clear answer – don’t go. Stay in Ohio and wait. I was obedient to what was put in my heart. Less than a month later, I had a discussion with a gym owner who had started a franchise in my hometown. I was interested in helping build their systems and provide leadership to their franchise locations, but that wasn’t on their radar at the time. The only opportunity was opening my own location. Although I had always been an athlete and loved working out, I never wanted to own a gym. I spent several weeks in prayer – and received so much peace and clarity that I knew God had put (what eventually became Vault Health & Fitness) in my path. I felt the calling to stay in Perrysburg and use this platform as a way to breathe kindness, love, and support into the lives of everyone who would walk through our doors, all while improving their quality of life through health and fitness coaching. I left Target in the summer of 2019 to focus on building a strong team at Vault to provide a high quality of service and to help more people in our community reach their health and fitness goals. Since opening in September 2018, we’ve worked with over 1,000 clients through our services we provide including: personal training, nutrition coaching (led by a registered dietitian), large group training and youth training. I own a gym in Cincinnati, Ohio (Delhi Fitness Club) that provides service to over 3,000 members every month through personal training, nutrition coaching, and access to our training facility. In 2023, I purchased a barre/pilates/yoga studio. We’ve converted the service offerings to small group personal training which allows 1 coach to service 4 clients in a private setting, customizing the workout to each individual’s needs to lead them to progress during each session. We also work with clients on a 1/1 basis and provide nutrition coaching through our online program led by our registered dietitian. Outside of the gyms, I have an online nutrition and personal training business that services clients around the world. I also work for a mentorship program, providing 1/1 mentorship to gym owners around the world to build sustainable businesses and great teams to better serve their community and members – similar to the way we do at Vault and Delhi Fitness Club. I live in Perrysburg, Ohio. I enjoy investing my time and resources into skills that enable me to grow my businesses and impact the quality of life of more people in my communities and across the globe. I look forward to meeting you soon to see how we might be able to help!