Author: David Rivas

David was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala. His family was very poor, not US poor but 3rd world poor. The Shack his family lived in was wedged between a plastic factor and railroad that was within walking distance of a city landfill. At the age of 5 he arrived in the US and fondly recalls seeing carpet, plubming and the 800 sqft palace that his Mom and Stepfather owned in TX. At the age of 13 he entered into fostercare due to an abusive Mother who had many problems from the life she had lived in Guatemala. He become a Ward of the State, and excelled in both School and Athletics. He graduated with honers, placed in State Art compititions, All district Football, Regional Track Qualifier 4 years in a row, and State/National Powerlifing champion. Being in Fostercare wasn't easy as less than 1% of children at the time attended higher education. Despite many suggesting he reconsider his dreams of Attending a large University, he chose to apply to only his dream school since the second grade. He was accepted, and left his mark at his Alma Mater. He worked in the Office of The President, in the Practice football Squad his 1st semester, worked as a recruiter for the College of Arts and Sciences and Athletics department while earning Degrees in Architecture, Psychology, and Business. In 2008 he found it difficult to find a job and resorted to working at lower qualifying jobs. Lowe's and Kohl's helped him to keep his passion and dream alive just long enough. While it took a serious accident to reawaken him, he has now become more of himself than he ever was. He has two wonderful healthy children, an avid weightlifter, ultra distance runner qualifying 1st in his age and top 5% or better in each race, owner of 3 businesses, and has helped over 35 others establish a successful and thriving private healthcare practice. David has been working on an autobiography of his journey. His mission and passion is to help others realize they are much more powerful than they realize. In his words "you do not need to take advantage of others in order to be successful, since we are far more successful together". His personal goal is to live each day aspiring to be better than average as his life has been far from easy. Easy is simply not his style! He lives by the German expression "wennschon, dennschon", if your going to do something than do it! He has often stated that our biggest challenge as people is conformity, we get too comfortable with comfort. We stop growing and challenging our self.