From IT Manager to Ice Bath Mentor: Why I Left Comfort to Find Truth
People often ask me:
“How did you go from managing IT systems… to guiding people into ice baths, breathwork, and radical self-awareness?”
It’s a fair question.
The short answer?
I got tired of being comfortable — but disconnected. Safe — but numb.
I was functioning, but I wasn’t alive.
So I left what looked like a stable life, not because I had the answers — but because I knew I had to find something real.
Here’s the full story.
The Career That “Made Sense”
For years, I worked as an IT manager. It was structured. Predictable. Rational.
I was good at it. I had a career path. A salary. A place in the system.
But quietly, something didn’t sit right.
Behind the control and efficiency was something I couldn’t ignore:
A creeping numbness.
A sense that I was managing systems better than I was managing myself.
My body was tense. My breath was shallow. My energy was drained by 3 p.m. every day.
And no matter how many things I checked off my to-do list… I didn’t feel deeply connected to anything.
I wasn’t sick. I wasn’t broken. But I wasn’t well either.
The Cracks Begin to Show
At some point, I started asking harder questions:
- Is this how I want to feel in 10 years?
- What if I’m not here to just optimize processes?
- What if I’ve built a life that looks good — but doesn’t feel right?
Those questions didn’t give me answers. But they gave me discomfort — the kind I could no longer ignore.
I began searching.
I didn’t want inspiration. I wanted truth. I wanted to feel something real again.
That’s when I stumbled into the world of cold exposure and breathwork.
The Cold Was My Wake-Up Call
The first ice bath I ever did wasn’t part of some big plan. It was curiosity.
But something happened in that water.
When my nervous system screamed get out, and I stayed anyway…
When my breath went from panic to presence…
When my mind stopped spinning and I felt alive in every cell —
I knew: this is medicine.
Not a product. Not a shortcut. Not a supplement.
A felt experience of my own strength and stillness.
And I realized — this is what I’d been missing all along.
Trading Logic for Embodiment
From that moment, my path shifted. I didn’t quit IT overnight.
But the more I trained my body, the more I reconnected to my breath, the more I sat in discomfort instead of numbing it —
the less I could pretend the old path fit anymore.
I stopped chasing control. I started building capacity.
Capacity to feel. To hold stress. To lead from presence, not pressure.
Eventually, I left my old career. Not because it was bad — but because it wasn’t true anymore.
Now, I teach people how to do what I had to learn the hard way:
- Regulate their nervous systems
- Heal through breath, cold, and awareness
- Reclaim their power without force
This Isn’t a Success Story. It’s a Reminder.
This isn’t a story about how I “made it.”
It’s a story about how I stopped pretending.
And if you’re reading this — wondering why you feel exhausted even when life is “fine” — I’ll tell you something no one told me:
You don’t have to collapse to change.
You just have to get honest.
You don’t need to know what’s next.
You just need to stop lying to yourself about what’s now.
And if there’s a quiet voice inside that says, “This isn’t it” — listen to it.
That’s where the real work begins.
Final Words
Today, I work with people from all walks of life — executives, athletes, creatives, entrepreneurs — guiding them into cold, into breath, and into themselves.
Because beneath all our differences, we share one truth:
We are not built to merely function.
We are built to feel. To expand. To lead from truth, not tension.
And if my story helps you take one step closer to yours, then all of this — every ice bath, every breath, every hard decision — was worth it.