I’ve spent most of my life building.

My first experience in business started at 13, running my own newspaper route as an independent contractor. I went on to become the first person in my family to graduate from high school and college, built a career in executive leadership, and later owned businesses across fitness, restaurants, finance and wellness. In my 40s, I earned my IFBB Men’s Physique Pro Card while competing against men of all ages.

But some of the most important things I’ve learned came from what I had to rebuild.

My life hasn’t been without loss, failure or trauma. I’ve had experiences that could have shaped the rest of my life in a different, unhealthy direction if I had allowed them to. Instead, learning to face what I carried, reconnect with myself and deepen my spiritual connection changed the way I understand strength, health and healing.

I lost my mortgage business during the 2008 financial crisis and started over. I rebuilt my body, became a personal trainer, began helping other men transform theirs, and eventually built a training business that grew into three fitness clubs.

For nearly 20 years, I’ve coached men. Many originally came to me to build their bodies, but the coaching rarely stayed there. We built confidence, relationships, businesses, careers, purpose, identity and what they wanted from their lives.

Over those years, I learned that some of the strongest and most successful men are still carrying things they’ve never dealt with. I also learned that a man can be thriving in one area of his life while struggling deeply in another.

That’s why I believe real health is bigger than a strong body, and real performance is bigger than a successful career.

Build with Miguel approaches a man’s health through six dimensions: Mental, Physical, Social, Professional, Financial and Spiritual.

I’m not here to tell a man who he should become. I’m here to help him get clear about who he wants to be, challenge what’s holding him back, and build the health, strength and performance to live it.