Who is Johnny?

Johnny is a former special operations U.S. Army Ranger out of 2nd Ranger Battalion. Through his service he fought in multiple combat tours between Iraq and Afghanistan. After his departure from the military reaching the rank of Sergeant, he served as the Tactical Commander for the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq's detail. While performing protective services to the U.S. Ambassador, Johnny embarked on his educational journey receiving a BA in Social and Criminal Justice and a MA in Organizational Management. Through a decade of serving in and out of the Middle East, Johnny then took a Civil Service position for the U.S. State Department where he became a Contracting Officer and received his second MA, this time in Public Policy and Administration. 

However, it was during his time back home that he began to struggle with his own limiting beliefs and inability to work through and process his own inner struggles. As he began to learn what it looked like to internally face the shadows he had, he realized he was in a unique position to help men just like him, improve their mindset and lives, while also helping women to understand the men in their lives so that they could have thriving relationships. 

Through Johnny's podcast, The Art of Masculinity, he opens the door to support men in their journey of self reflection and paradigm shifts while giving women the insight of what men deal with internally and externally. 


​Author: Design the Man Within

Podcast Host: The Art of Masculinity

​Keynote Speaker

Leadership and Management: Prime Leadership Consulting

Education: BA, MAOM, MPP

The Foundation of Men Today…

While we hate admitting it, men are struggling in today’s evolving social constructs (if you’re triggered by this statement, good, you were meant to be here. Most of us men have built an expectation in our mind as to what a man is and how he shows up everyday. And in this “man” we have created, we have never succeeded in achieving these traits ourselves. See, real life is just that, its REAL! We aren’t in a controlled environment and as life evolves, we have to evolve with it. I have made it my mission to help men understand the foundation of their masculinity, all in an effort to analyze and reconstruct it in a way that the evolution is true to them. You can only be the man you WANT to be when you Finally CHOOSE to do the work.

As someone who has fought his own demons and seen the struggles of men who lost everything, I am determined to arm you with the tools to position yourself in a form of masculinity that takes you out of your struggles, your fears, your bad habits, your depression, and your loneliness. Your strength will become your healthy masculinity and you will thrive in the depths of your own mind and in the relationships you cultivate. As a man who doesn’t quit, I am here to run this gauntlet with you and help you to create the picture that is your own art of masculinity.