- So Green Devil Garage started after a year long deployment in Afghanistan.

I had a 79 shovel head that just wanted to kind of tinker with, I want to rebuild the motor, called up Bird X cycles.

He answers, I say, I want to rebuild this 79 shovel head.

He asked, is it leaking?

And I said, no.

Is it running?

I said, yes.

And he said, leave it the F alone, and hung up on me.

So I went up to the shop and started talking to him and he let me come in and start just working on my bike there.

He saw that I had a gift.

The talent people heard I was there.

He started getting busy.

He didn't want to be busy, so he told me to go start my own shop.

So that's where Green Devil Garage came from.

My creative process when building a motorcycle comes from charitable causes.

The first motorcycle that I actually built to being the Extortion 17 caused, I did the Crusader 93 Cubic in Japan from SNS and Six Speed Baker.

So that thing not only looks old, but it lies after that was for N 22, which is an organization that brings attention to the 22 veterans a day that take their lives.

Metal Sculpting was, honestly, it was just a, it was a fluke.

I, I can't draw to save my life.

I actually had another charity reach out to me, Tomahawk Charitable didn't hear from him until about two months out and they're like, Hey, you still playing on doing something for us?

I was like, I can't build a motorcycle in in that time.

How about like a Indian chief headdress at a sheet metal?

They're like, ah, it sounds awesome.

I came up with like three or four different feather designs until I found the one that like when you look at it, you're like, that's the warrant.

So I drove it down.

It's in Nashville.

Who knows what it'll go for maybe five, six, $7,000, something like that.

It started out at I, I think five grand, and then it went up to 10 and it kept going.

It sold for $50,000 at that charity event.

And I, it brought tears to my eyes.

It did a lot of good for, for a lot of people.

The following year I actually did a Epoxy River table.

I made a full red wing eagle that inlaid into the epoxy.

It came out beautiful.

It ended up selling for $65,000.

Blew me away.

I was inspired to join the SEAL teams 'cause my, my dad till I got into a bit of trouble and I had a choice of war or jail.

So I looked at the hardest thing I could do, and the SEAL teams seemed like the, the spot for me.

I was an explosives expert.

I was a master breacher for many years.

My change came from just hitting bottom and the, the military is not a conducive place for mental health, especially the, the Special forces community.

I got back to church.

I got into mental health.

I, I felt a massive change internally in myself, just kind of start to grow.

And once it started to grow, I, I had, I had to stick with it.

I thought that I was just a workaholic and I'm a perfectionist, but once I went to one of the TBI clinics, after, you know, getting blown up thousands of times we were doing art therapy and you go in and they actually start explaining the neurological benefit.

So for me, that made things click.

And when I'm concentrating on just one thing, it just turns off all the stories and all those years of, of fighting and just hate.

And once you find your talent, you don't use it for, for you, you use it for, for everybody else.

And whether that be just bringing people in here and teach 'em how to weld or wrench on things or making an art piece that, you know, monetarily helps them out.

There's just so many different layers that you know, you can use your talent to, to really to help other people.

So at Green Devil Garage, we have in-house, in shop programs also have YouTube programs where people can not only just learn foundational mechanics, welding, metal art, things like that.

Not only do we give them, you know, mental health practice with that quieting, you know, all those years of stories down, but we also give them a skill set that, you know, if they did so, choose to be a welder later in life.

They have a foundational understanding, but they also know that it's something that can continue to help me with my mental health.

The future for Green Devil Garage is really, I just want to continue to grow in, in every aspect of, of what I, I do.

And I want to give that back.

Well, because it's done so much for me.

At the end of the day, your morals should match what you want your legacy to be.

If I could say to my younger self, don't be afraid to fail.

Do the right thing.

Take care of the people around you.

If you can lay down in bed and be happy with what you did, that's what mattered.