About me
Learn, adapt and evolve.
I am a full-time father of two young children, I am often an athlete who likes to dabble in all kinds of activities and sometimes, I am an entrepreneur who likes to build projects that are close to my heart. These three facets of my life have in common change, adaptation and new challenges.
Becoming a parent pushes us to give the best of ourselves and to constantly evolve as a person. It’s exactly the same thing that drives me when I play outside. Indeed, varying the sports that I practice pushes me to explore, to learn new movements and pushes my body to easily adapt to different environments or stimuli. It becomes an outlet that clears my thoughts and gives me energy. Even more so if these sports are practiced in nature and with family or accompanied by friends! All these benefits are transposed into my everyday life and I have a real desire to help my patients benefit from all these beautiful things.
The course of my career
My professional life is also infused with a similar philosophy. It was in 2009 that I obtained my diploma as a podiatrist and in 2011 that I set up my own podiatric clinic in the Montreal area, a practice that could be described as standard. Over time, I have constantly worked to improve the services offered. Whether it is the addition of more innovative technologies, collaboration with other health professionals, my participation in a research and development project for plantar orthotics, I have always been keen to offer a service beyond standard.
In fact, these values of loyalty and pride in providing the best possible service come from my greatest role model; my grandfather Raymond who was himself an entrepreneur. In fact, I spent every weekend of my childhood at his cottage in Bromont, skiing for the competition team. We can say that it is partly thanks to him that we now live in Bromont and that we opened an innovative podiatric clinic which offers services specifically geared towards athletes.
Finally, we can now practice more the sports we love while helping people do their favorite activities in comfort. What I find the most rewarding in my work is knowing that my collaboration allows patients to return to an activity that they thought they would have to forget and practice it for a very long time. Playing outside, always playing outside!
The benefits of sport
Snowboarding, split boarding, downhill skiing, trail running, cycling in all its forms, hiking, cross-fit, basketball, kitesurfing... Are all great excuses to go have fun, improve my physical abilities and try to surpass myself . These activities bring me very effectively back into the present moment (like avoiding running into a tree for example!), in a state of “flow” that some describe. In my opinion, this is how I benefit from both the physical and mental benefits of sport.
It is for all these reasons that I have the utopia that everyone must find different activities that allow them to move with pleasure so that they can not only benefit from the joy that it provides but also give them confidence in their abilities when it is time to overcome the various stresses and obstacles of life.
This is actually the main reason which motivated our desire to settle in Bromont and offer an incredible environment for our children to grow up in. This healthy environment not only promotes the joy of playing outside but also gives way to the discovery of a multitude of activities.