“In 2011, I started the Eau Claire Bike Cab. Once high school was over, I stopped playing sports. My health went downhill. I turned to drinking because I enjoyed the social aspect of it. It became a lot easier to go out with friends than it was to go for a run. The chemical reinforcement happened with every sip. Maybe I wasn’t making bad decisions, but I definitely wasn’t making healthy decisions. I drank way too much in college. The alcohol reinforced my negative competitive habits. I always had a competitive nature growing up. In sports, in work, in friendships. I think a lot of that led to my drinking. I kind of had a flip in my mid 20’s, where I didn’t want to be achieving for achieving sake. I wanted to have a point for what I was doing with my life, and that’s when I moved back home and started the Bike Cab. I changed my diet. I changed my lifestyle and I changed my way of thinking. I needed to be happy. Doing something positive has given me such a better and more fulfilling lifestyle. The Bike Cab started the change in me. That was the first business I did where I felt good about what I was doing. It wasn’t about the profit. It was about being able to help, even if it’s only in a small little way. Drinking in college can be very dangerous. It’s easy to make stupid decisions when you’re drunk. I started the Bike Cab with the mission of seeing if there was a way to get college kids home safe, and to keep people from making bad decisions. To keep drunk drivers off the road and to help our community. I know what it’s like. I did it. I was there. I made bad decisions. So if I can save people from making the same mistakes I made, that’s amazing. The biggest change in my life for healthiness has been realizing that being competitive with everyone and everything just to be better isn’t a healthy way of living life. Helping foster your community and raising that tide makes you a better and healthier person. I want to continue to help build a stronger, safer and healthier community.”