I started teaching myself guitar to destress during school. After a year of playing I realized the calluses on my fingers were making it difficult to feel for an IV. One of my goals during nursing was to be clinically sound. I wanted to be the guy everyone went to when they had an issue with IVs. I had to put the guitar away for that time being. That’s when I found the Rubik’s cube. I remember watching "The Pursuit of Happiness" featuring Will Smith. If Will Smith can do a Rubik's Cube surely I can right? I found a fantastic tutorial on YouTube from a guy named Dan Brown. Practiced for months and now I can solve a cube in minutes.

On top of the black belt, magic, guitar, Rubik’s cube… I met an amazing deaf couple in the hospital. They had been in a car accident and the husband had broken both of the long bones in his legs. Meeting the wife and the interpreter changed the direction of my life again. I immediately signed up for sign language that following semester. I loved learning to sign with the couple at work as they were going to be there for a long time. I went to several deaf pot luck dinners at the local church with the patient's wife. Amazing people. I loved the experience. Oddly, my college roommate and I thought it would be funny to put our profiles up on a website called hotornot.com so we could see who got rated higher. Seeing my profile, a girl reached out to me to have lunch with her and her deaf roommates so we could practice ASL (American Sign Language). Through a set of events I started playing softball on the all deaf team and met a deaf girl I dated for several years. I absolutely love the deaf community.

Fast forward a couple years and I found myself in the Emergency Department at Shawnee Mission Medical Center. This is where I met Rebecca for the first time. She and I used to race each other to see who could treat our patients the fastest. We just seemed to work well together. She and I eventually moved into different roles. I went into a leadership role of Critical Care Float Nurse, PICCline Nurse, Patient Care Supervisor, and IV Educator. I was essentially one of the go to guys for everything. For many years I was the guy people reached out to when an IV was “impossible.”

Moving into these new roles put me into a position where I walked the hospital daily. In my travels I noticed that the chapel had a grand piano. Of course I had to start messing around on it. To this day I love stopping at any piano I see to play. Piano is now on top of my many other hobbies. I love woodworking and have a small woodworking shop in my garage. I love to workout and if you have seen my instagram page you may see my home gym. I’m also very much into shooting sports and traveling with my girlfriend Irene.

But Josh, how did you ever get into a medical spa!? Rebecca asked me to come check out her spa after she had opened. After coming down to see the place I was blown away with what she had done. She then said, “try Botox it’s amazing!” To which I laughed and said, “you’re crazy!” Let’s be clear. I have always thought Aesthetics was a bunch of “hogwash” and I openly admit that. But after Rebecca somehow convinced me to sit in her chair and trust her with multiple needles in my face that can paralyze muscles…..looking back that sounds crazy. But it is AMAZING!! First of all, my forehead sweats a lot. My skin is naturally oily. When I have tox I don’t sweat as much! (Which is something tox can be used for) I didn’t realize that. And seeing people's before and after progress in pictures has me hooked. Aesthetics is turning into another thing for me to dive into and master.

I hope that I can bring that same feeling that I had with my first experience to all of my clients.