I was born and raised in Moultrie, Georgia and graduated from Colquitt County Highschool in 1995. During my high school years, I worked in agriculture hanging tobacco, at a peanut buying point, and as a welder at a machine fabrication company in Moultrie. Those work experiences taught me lifelong lessons and I always enjoyed the people I met in those jobs. Those were real people who got out there and did what mattered each day for their families even if it meant fighting the heat and getting dirty.