Frequently Asked Questions

Since I tend to get a lot of the same questions, I have compiled answers to the ones I am frequently asked here. You can also check out the FAQ videos on my YouTube channel for more such questions and answers.

1. Where are you from?
2. Where do you live now?
3. When and how did your minimalist journey start?
4. What’s up with your dreadlocks?
5. What is your diet like? What do you eat in a typical day?
6. Do you eat Organic produce?
7. Do you take supplements?
8. Where do you get your protein from?
8.5. Are you concerned about diabetes with all the fruit sugar you eat?
9. Who is Winnie?
10. Do you have a partner?
11. What’s your sexual orientation?
12. How do you deal with people who are not genuine?
13. What hygiene products do you use?
14. What form of birth control do you use?
15. You talk about your love of acro a lot. What is it and how long have you been doing it?
16. I would love to do acro, but have no experience. Can I do it and where should I start?
17. Did you go to college? What do you think about traditional schooling?
18. Do you give and receive presents on holidays or birthdays?
19. Do you ever fall in love with a spot and have a really hard time leaving it, or do you stay pretty unattached to your living spaces? Do you think you’ll ever get to a spot and decide to put down roots, or not so much?
20. What kind of music do you listen to?
21. What are your religious beliefs?


1. Where are you from?
I’m originally from Rhode Island in the US.

2. Where do you live now? 
Everywhere! I like to travel regularly, living out of my 19-Liter backpack or my RV depending on where I’m going. To see where I am, check out My Location & Events page.

3. When and how did your minimalist journey start?
This is a longer answer, which I share in this video clip.

4. What’s up with your dreadlocks?
You can learn more about my dreadlocks in this article and this video.

5. What is your diet like? What do you eat in a typical day?
I eat a plant-based diet composed of raw fruits and tender, leafy greens. I tend to eat two simple meals of fruit per day, and a large, simple salad of greens and savory fruit at night. What I eat varies depending on where I am and what is in season there. I share more about my diet in these videos.

6. Do you eat Organic produce?
I’ve experimented with organic vs. conventional produce a good deal, done some research and picked Andrew Perlot’s brain, who has dived even deeper into the science of raw food. After a lot of thought on this, I no longer place an importance on Organic produce from the supermarket. It would be ideal to grow all my own food or pick it from someone who I knew grew it in a way I supported. After that I feel like there are so many factors to consider that from what I have found, consuming organic food from the market is not a superior choice.
Andrew has awesome videos about this topic on his youtube channel here.

7. Do you take supplements?
I supplement with B12 sublinguals occasionally. I did at a time supplement with D3, but now I absorb adequate vitamin D from the sun given that I’m in a warm climate all year.

8. Where do you get your protein from?
Fruits and veggies. Here’s a great article with more info on that.

8.5. Are you concerned about diabetes with all the fruit sugar you eat?
No. I am actually healthier than ever before and have more stable blood sugar. Fruit can get a bad rep, but experience has shown me that it is actually the fat in our diets that lead to spikes and peaks in blood sugar levels. There are actually a lot of people who have used a fruit-based diet to cure their type 2 Diabetes and others, such as Robby Barbaro, who use it to assist them in living as a healthy person with Type 1 Diabetes.
Learn more in Andrew Perlot’s articles here and at Robby’s site here.

9. Who is Winnie?
Winnie is my RV. She’s a 1990 Toyota Winnebago Micro Warrior. She’s a 19-foot piece of heaven and I love her dearly. I bought her in the summer of 2014, gutted her, fixed her up with the help of friends and family and took her on the road. Check out videos of Winnie here as well as on her own YouTube channel TravelsInWinnie.

10. Do you have a partner?
I have lots of different “partners” who I connect and share various activities and spaces with, sometimes for a moment, a month, a year, and so on.

11.  What’s your sexual orientation?
I like connecting with humans. I like connecting sexually with humans I’m sexually attracted to in the moments I feel sexually attracted to them.

12. How do you deal with people who are not genuine?
I love entering my interactions with people with as open of a mind as I can, and an open heart too. From this place I feel like I can best appreciate the people I come into contact with, no matter where they are in their journey, no matter where I am in mine. In recognizing the human-ness in all of use, I feel a sense of unity, even if there are a lot of differences present. Specifically, when someone acts in a way that brings up some sort of resistance or negative emotions for me, I like to use it as an opportunity to learn more about myself, reflecting on why it’s causing me to feel negative emotion, and to understand more about the other person and why they may have a certain belief. Ultimately, my goal is to feel more compassion, love, and all the things I really want to be fostering. It’s been so fun to play around with this and empowering in the sense that I feel like by doing this we can really take control of our reality and our experience. Altogether I find that I mostly come into contact with really amazing people though.

13. What hygiene products do you use?
Check out this video, where I share about minimalist natural hygiene and my toiletries.

14. What form of birth control do you use?
I really love the idea of natural birth control and tracking my fertility cycle (and highly recommend reading Taking Charge of Your Fertility if you are interested in natural birth control). So far I have found that since I travel so regularly, my cycle is not as regular as I would like to not have the IUD, but in the future I can really see that changing and look forward to when I’m not taking in any type of hormone. For the meantime, I enjoy the Mirena IUD the most of any birth control I’ve tried as it does not have any side effects for me and it’s the lowest level of hormones.

15. You talk about your love of acro a lot. What is it and how long have you been doing it?
In this case acro refers to partner acrobatics, one of my favorite activities. You can check out my Instagram account to see pictures and videos of me doing acro. I also recently wrote an article for FruitPowered about Why I Love Acro. I started doing acro in the summer of 2013. You can also check out this video I made about why I love acro!

16. I would love to do acro, but have no experience. Can I do it and where should I start? 
Yes, you can do it! Acro is accessible for people of all levels and movement backgrounds. I would love to teach you, either in a private lesson if we are in the same area, or at a one of the upcoming events I will be teaching at. Also, see if there are meetup groups in your local area or classes (by searching on Google, Meetup, Facebook) that you can link up with. I first started learning on Youtube, and there are lots of great beginner instructional videos, like this series by Yogabatics.

17. Did you go to college? What do you think about traditional schooling?
I did go to college. I attended the University of Rhode Island for 4 years, although I studied abroad in Costa Rica for 2 of them. I earned a Bachelors in Spanish with minors in English and Writing. I talk more about my experience with and thoughts on school in this video.

18. Do you give and receive presents on holidays or birthdays?
I come from a large family and spent a lot of time shopping for presents  while I was growing up. In my later teen years my dad and I decided we no longer wanted to give or receive gifts on holidays and the trend started spreading throughout the family. Now most people in the family only get gifts for the new generation of young kids. I don’t give traditional holiday gifts, but love to gift experiences, spending time with my loved ones and treating us to fun adventures.

19. Do you ever fall in love with a spot and have a really hard time leaving it, or do you stay pretty unattached to your living spaces? Do you think you’ll ever get to a spot and decide to put down roots, or not so much?
I am definitely in love with Chiang Mai, Thailand as I am writing this right now, so I extended my stay. I tend to find myself setting a basic idea of how long I’ll be somewhere and then just being open to however it unfolds, however I feel. What I’ve noticed as an overall trend is that I like to have various hubs and also explore new places. In a sense I feel like I have homes in lots of places in the world, many of which I travel to enjoy the communities in regularly. The idea of having property somewhere with a retreat center and lots of fruit trees sounds really exciting to me and I feel pulled towards investing in a space in this way. I don’t think I would be there full time. Overall, I have a hunch I’m not going to want to be in one space for a long time just by what I’ve seen of myself so far. In the last 4 or so years the longest I’ve been somewhere without travel has been 3 or so months. But mostly I just feel really open to whatever unfolds. Life is always surprising me.

20. What kind of music do you listen to?
I appreciate just about every type of music and love listening to a wide variety, choosing depending on my mood or intention around the type of space I want to create. When I’m playing outside, practicing acrobatics or enjoying other types of movement, I often put on a mix of fast-paced music with a beat that makes you want to dance. Ditto on when I’m dancing. You can see my Spotify playlist for acro here. I love songs with a badass violin track, whether it be rock, classical, traditional Irish, or Harry Potter. I love to listen to the blues with my dad when we play ping pong, to classic rock, Rodrigo y Gabriella’s badass rock/Spanish acoustic guitar duo and to Transiberian Orchestra with my family while we make epic holiday feasts. There’s nothing like a baseline from Tool or Aretha Franklin’s ability to belt out a classic. I could chill with Milky Chance, Nahko Bear, or Led Zeppelin or stretch and give a massage to Enya, and when Major Lazer is Lighting it Up, wherever the heck I am, you know I’m dancing when that song comes on.

21. What are your religious beliefs?
I don’t follow any sort of organized religion, although I can appreciate elements of all of them. I believe in love. I believe in the universe. I believe we are all connected. I believe a lot of beautiful things that feel too real to put into words, but to feel them and know them- that pure, deep truth fills me with such intense love that it spills over, bubbling out of me and eagerly reaching to share it’s power with the other beautiful creatures of this earth.