As an award-winning certified LGBTBE® business leader and notable pioneer of the Mental Fitness Movement, I began my focus on mental fitness in 2016 after decades in business leadership.After years of research and development, I launched 4D Fit Mental Fitness to proactively promote healthful mental function, motivation, and achievement by focusing on what drives it all --- our human brains and nervous systems.Throughout my career, I have been thankful for the opportunities to combine my knowledge, experience, and abilities in applied psychology, communications, creativity, and leadership to influence, educate, and empower diverse people in healthful and sustainable ways. Through it all, what I found most lacking was practical information, awareness, and education about how our human brains and nervous systems operate.In 2021, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I wrote and published 'MY BRAIN CAN’T POOP: A mental fitness guide for humans' to raise awareness about the many critical factors of human achievement and well-being based on neuroscience.What I didn't expect from this experience was how the compounded stress of this tumultuous time would impact me not only mentally but physically as well --- resulting in an acute stress-induced episode of anaphylactic shock the weekend after I published.After this unexpected stress related health scare, my determination to raise awareness about the critical importance of understanding and caring for our diverse brains and nervous systems was multiplied. I now use this very real example of the mind-body connection to reinforce the very real interconnected nature of our neurology and physiology, and how ignoring our unconscious stress response as a matter of "willpower" is not just a detriment to our own health and well-being but the health and wellness of society as a whole.This is why, in 2023, I founded MentalFitness4All as a 501(c)3 partner program to increase equity, access, and affordability of mental fitness training and education by providing reduced-cost tools and resources.