​TRAVEL

Honolulu, Hawaii

Joel is on a constant search to quench his wanderlust. Since he was born to an Austrian mother, he spent most of his youth shuttling between the U.S. and Europe. His obsession with road trips clicked in high school when he would take every chance he got to hit the open road with friends and explore what New Mexico (his home state) and surrounding states had to offer.
Though he still has 5 states to visit and too many countries to list, his backpack is always within reach...

In college at Pepperdine University, he was lucky to be chosen to participate with his theatre department in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. Traveling by plain, train, bus and shuttle from Paris to Amsterdam to London to Edinburgh made it stick: There's was so much world to see, so many new experiences to have, and so many new cultures to ingrain yourself in to. His wanderlust constantly burns and he's always looking for a reason to pack his car, his backpack or his luggage and see what this globe has to offer.

Raffles Hotel, Singapore

Helsinki, Finland

Maui, HI

Bonnaroo Music Festival, Manchester, TN

Life is Beautiful Festival, Las Vegas, NV

Paris, France

Galaxy’s Edge, Disneyland, CA

Mammoth Mountain, CA

Chernobyl, Ukraine

Lake Havasu, AZ

Lightning in a Bottle Festival, CA

Boston, MA

Chicago, IL

Kris Kringle Markt, Austria

Piccadilly Circus, London, England

Austin, TX

St. Petersburg, Russia

Kartchner Caverns, AZ

Athens, Greece

South China Sea

Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Moscow, Russia

Coachella Music Festival, CA

Navy Pier, Chicago, IL

Sarawak Village, Malaysia

Providence, RI

Burning Man, Black Rock City, NV

Mt. Rushmore, SD

Salt Lake City, UT

Kabul, Afghanistan

Cabazon Dinosaurs, CA

Watts Towers, Los Angeles, CA

Aspen, CO

BurgTheatre, Vienna, Austria

Vienna, Austria

Istanbul, Turkey

Route 66

Super Bowl 49, Glendale, AZ

Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Africa

Cu Chi Tunnels, Vietnam

Pripyat, Ukraine

MeowWolf, Santa Fe, NM

Twin Falls, MT

Stearns Ranch, MT

Las Vegas, NV

New York St., Paramount Studios, CA

Salvation Mountain, Salton Sea, CA

Minneapolis, MN

Kiev, Ukraine

Super Bowl 48, Miami, FL

Dubai, U.A.E.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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​FITNESS / RACING

Joel has been into fitness ever since he first stepped into a gym in high school to join the football and wrestling teams. He's never been far from a weight room or yoga studio but discovered a new-found passion for competition and pushing yourself when he joined the Team 2 End AIDS to raise money for AIDS Project Los Angeles by running the 2011 LA Marathon. Finishing in just over 4 hours, this only motivated him to jump into more races, and eventually break a 4-hour marathon...

His reawakened competitive spirit has led him to take up Mud Runs and Obstacle Racing.  He's earned 2 Spartan Trifecta Medals, qualified for the World Championship of Obstacle Course racing twice, was the overall winner in the inaugural Escape Race, consulted on Laird Hamilton's new endurance race series, and competes regularly in whatever race he can find that involves running, jumping, swimming, climbing, throwing, scaling, lifting and a free beer coupon.

Since then, Joel has gone back and run the LA Marathon 2 more times, the NY Marathon and, most recently, ran the Athens Authentic Marathon (the reason Marathons are, well, called marathons). With "T2," he's also competed in the Malibu Triathlon, Concrete Hero and Camp Pendleton Mud Run, all while raising money to help those living with HIV/AIDS. It's become such a passion for him, he currently coaches a Boot Camp with T2 to prep people to race in the Camp Pendleton Mud Run.