A perspective few
people can offer.
I've been through the entire federal process — investigation, proffers, indictment, civil lawsuit, arrest, plea offer, pre-trial conditions, a two-month federal criminal trial, sentencing, incarceration, home confinement, civil settlement process, probation, and the appeal process. Today I help individuals and families understand what they are walking into, and prepare for it, in coordination with legal counsel.
Rather than allowing that experience to define me, I chose to use it as an education. While incarcerated, I treated it as a season of intense personal development — reading 27 books, walking more than 1,143 miles, and providing personal, trauma, career, and spiritual coaching to fellow inmates as a licensed Life Coach. I also activated the bocce ball court, started a league, and organized pickleball and cornhole tournaments — creating community, structure, and purpose in a place that often tries to strip all three away.
I learned how the system works from the inside, and how easily people and families become overwhelmed by terminology, procedures, deadlines, decisions, and uncertainty. My role is not to replace an attorney or provide legal advice. It is to provide perspective, preparation, organization, experience, and support from someone who has actually been through it.
“I've been through this. Here's what I learned. Here's what I wish I had known. Here are questions many people take to their lawyer. And here's how some people prepare practically.”
Formal training and personal discipline.
Bachelor's degree in Psychology with a minor in Religion.
Master's degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Licensed Life Coach.
Bilingual in Spanish.
Associate Member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL).
My personal journey has included:
- Being under federal investigation and receiving a Civil Investigative Demand.
- Participating in government proffers.
- Being indicted and arrested, and being sued civilly by the government.
- Declining a plea agreement that would have required me to say things about others I was unwilling to say.
- Living under pre-trial conditions and release restrictions while preparing for trial.
- Preparing for and going through a two-month federal criminal trial.
- Being convicted, then going through the sentencing process — the pre-sentence report, the sentencing hearing, and the reality of what a federal sentence means.
- Self-surrendering and serving a sentence of 12 months and one day in federal prison.
- Moving through the federal prison environment, programming, and social dynamics while maintaining my independence and personal principles.
- Reading 27 books, walking more than 1,143 miles, coaching fellow inmates, and organizing bocce, pickleball, and cornhole leagues.
- Completing home confinement, then working through the civil settlement process while protecting my interests.
- Returning home, completing probation, and continuing through the federal appellate process.
Integrity
Never tell a client what they want to hear simply because it is comforting.
Preparation
Understand what is coming before it arrives.
Perspective
Separate what is actually happening from what fear tells you is happening.
Discipline
Control what you can control.
Independence
Maintain your principles even when circumstances are difficult.
Service
Use difficult experiences to help someone else have a better one.
You may not control the system, but you can control how you prepare for it, how you respond to it, and who you become while moving through it.
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