Following Passion

I started doing neofilm full time in 2011 after leaving a 15 year career in human services. 2011 was also the year my wife and I went vegan. We went vegan for ethical reasons after watching Gary Yourofsky’s Most Important Speech You’ll Ever Hear.

Going vegan was fairly easy. I just stopped eating animals and simply ate more of the things I was already eating. I wasn’t really all that health conscious at first. Nonetheless 5 years into being vegan in 2016 and I was getting healthier! I no longer would get sick twice a year, I lost all my visceral fat, and my total cholesterol dropped from 168 to 121.

In 2016 I started walking for exercise, offsetting my computer time. On my walks I would listen to YouTube videos and got hooked on nutritional science. This lead me to NutritionFacts.

In 2017 I started an advocacy project called VeganLinked. The first two years I mostly focused on producing content for the channel YouTube.com/VeganLinked covering local businesses like vegan restaurants and actions like festivals and activism. I also did a documentary called Countdown to Year Zero for the incredible Jane Velez-Mitchell.

My inspiration for starting VeganLinked mostly came from what I was learning from Dr Michael Greger online. Hearing doctors speak about nutritional science fascinated me. So I dreamed about videographing their talks. And throughout 2018 I was able to capture some incredible presentations.

I had just what it took to capture these doctor’s presentations run and gun. I was already comfortable taking risks. I use to travel all over the southeast to find and video talented musicians prior to all this. And capturing weddings and training videos for Apple, Facebook, Boeing, Spectrum, etc… wasn’t much different.

In 2020 I geared up to produce frequent content with Dr Garth Davis when he was living in Asheville. As I was finishing up that project I started traveling to interview people in person at the tail end height of the pandemic.

The first run of about 2 dozen interviews was coordinated with the help of my very awesome, dear friend Dr Joanne Kong. I interviewed authors contributing to her book Vegan Voices.

I traveled from North Carolina to Colorado, California, New Mexico, New York, DC, Virginia and stopping in various other states and cities in between. While I was there for Vegan Voices I interviewed them for my VeganLinked YouTube channel. I released the interviews every day until they were all gone and my subscriber base grew substantially. I knew I couldn’t stop, everything fell perfectly in place. I have since been releasing at least 1 new interview with a different vegan every week.

I knew after the first couple of interviews I would eventually want to shift my focus on the topic of raising children vegan. So over the last 5 years, as of 2025, I have progressively been working my way toward this. In the beginning of 2025 I started releasing a yearlong weekly series of interviews on the topic of raising children vegan and started a little website for it called RaisingChildrenVegan.com.

Everything I’ve done throughout life from growing up alone and wild on the streets of Los Angeles to becoming a mental health counselor to becoming a videographer merged together into all my focus being on purposeful, honest, truth based, health promoting content creation. Basically my video advocacy fits into several categories like presentations by Doctors, Vegan Life Stories, Documentaries, and Promotional Videos for Vegan Businesses and organizations. And it’s all in an effort to normalize veganism as the world shifts into this most beautiful way of living.