Meet Dan

I’m not everyone’s cup of tea (mine has mushrooms in it).

I curse, crack jokes just as much as I get deep, am getting covered in tattoos, and do the most powerful medicinal drugs on the planet during my vacations.  I’m a nerd, dork, comedian, party animal, frat bro, and a spiritual seeker.

Here’s a quick look at how I got to this place – CEO and Founder of a multi-6 figure coaching business and creator of The Emotional Alchemy Method.

I learned the skills I’ve used over the last 15 years to help people transform their lives because I needed to save mine.

I suffered from suicidal depression ever since I was born.  It didn’t help that I was born in Jerusalem, Israel, but raised in NJ.  Other kids picked on and bullied me for my weird accent, clothes, and food.  One of my most vivid memories from childhood was telling my mom that all I wanted was to fit in and be liked, and to do that I would never speak Hebrew again. 

I was 3 years old,

and had already learned how to hate and reject myself. 

I shut down my positive emotions (because that’s when you’re most yourself) because it wasn’t safe to be me.  I stifled my empathic abilities, and sent myself on a journey of unmitigated pain and misery.

School broke me.

I was bullied all the way through college, ate lunch by myself for an entire year in high school, and had 2 friends during the best times.  I learned to hate everybody, especially myself.  Which was easy, because I was covered in acne, had braces, and looked emaciated from growing a foot in a month when I was 14.

Doctors told me I’d never be athletic because my joints couldn’t handle it.  And being underweight as a man can be as psychologically damaging as being overweight as a woman.

In college, I regularly drank myself into oblivion to forget everything. I didn’t know that I was also searching for extreme experiences because I couldn’t feel anything positive.

Tons of drugs and alcohol lowered the walls I put up, and allowed me to empathically feel some of the happiness others felt around me.

But I was poisoning myself,

and became increasingly suicidal.

I couldn’t understand how it was so easy for other people to have fun, friends, girlfriends, and enjoy their lives when it felt impossible for me.  After a few nights seriously considering ending it all, though, I decided I would find a way to turn things around for myself.

I HAD to find a way.

That sent me on a journey around the world,

studying personal transformation methods from doctors, scientists, coaches and gurus.  I got a BA in Cognitive Science from Carnegie Mellon University, followed by 3 certifications in Neuro Linguistic Programming, 3 in Vedic Sciences, and one each in Time Line Therapy, Past Life Regression, and Nutrition. 

I spent months meditating in Thailand and living in ashrams in India.  In just those 13 years, I read approximately 700 books about human psychology, neuroscience, behavior, and potential.  I even spent 1.5 years in a Hindu spiritual cult, learning the mysteries of the universe and awakening my kundalini.

What I discovered changed my life. 

It turns out that my brain wasn’t broken, I wasn’t defective, and the world didn’t hate me.  The first level was realizing I could rewire the perceptions that made me feel that way.  And everything began changing.

First, I rewired it to gain weight, and at one point got up to running sub-5 minute miles and deadlifting 400 lbs. Then, I rewired it for my social life, and soon found my tribe and had a happy dating life. At 31 I did what many people still tell me is impossible – I permanently erased my anxiety and depression on my own.  Then I used those same techniques to create a 6-figure business in 6 months, scale it up to multiple 6 figures within 2 years, and become Yelp’s #1 life coach in LA while taking frequent 3-4 day weekends and traveling internationally for months at a time.

I’ve continued to heal since then, and now know my struggles were blessings.

The pain pushed me to do the hard internal work to become who I am today.  Crawling out of darkness helped me lead over 1000 others to their light.  Almost dying again and again taught me how to literally save other people’s lives when doctors had no idea what to do. 

My relentless search for truth has brought me face to face with my deepest, darkest fears and taught me how to help others shatter the illusions that disempower them.

Whereas I used to think life had to be a challenging grind and fight, now I know how sweet life can really be.  It continuously sends me blessings of unreasonable wealth, dream clients, soul-tribe friends, goddess partners, angels-on-earth mentors, life-altering adventures, and laughs all along the way.

And the more I show up to learn the lessons of life and surrender to the grandeur of the Universe, the better my life becomes.