Travis R.

I am a 33 year old sales professional. My work background is in the food business but my passion cars, video games, and psychology. I love talking to people and helping people figure out solutions to their problems or just to offer genuine conversation. My father came from poverty in Puerto Rico and worked his way through life where he will retire in a small mountain town in Colorado. My mother is white and came from an extremely small farming town in Colorado. When they got together my dad had 4 boys, 3 with a Puerto Rican woman and 1 with a white woman, and my mother had a daughter with a black man, then they had me. We are a true Brady Bunch family with extra diversity. Growing up with such diversity in my family I have a very wide perspective of the world and see and understand views from all sides of the conversation. My grandparents on my mother's side were a little bit racist, but hard-working people with old school American values. My sister is half black and we grew up together lower middle class in a mainly white rather wealthy Colorado town, our parents worked all the time, other kids parents worked but had a lot of family money to fall back on which made it hard to relate with the other kids. I have seen real racism through my sisters life, kids would make comments having no idea my sister was one of the only black kids in the school. My older brothers grew up in the city and found crime was the way to go. I had one brothers get sentenced to 34 years in prison, which growing up in a mountain town in Colorado, nobody else I knew could relate to something like that. My father was homeless in Puerto Rico until he was 17 and made his way to the US where he worked his entire life to give his kids opportunities he never had. We would sometimes vacation back to Puerto Rico and visit with his family, dirt floors, bars on the windows, living off 100 dollars (if that) a week. And then we would fly back home to Colorado and I would hang out with friends in multi-million-dollar mansions. I have grandparents that would drop the racial N word in casual conversation and a father that would slap someone across the face if that word was used in front of him. When I say my perspective on the world is wide.....it really is. It made it extremely hard for me to truly relate to any of the other kids growing up. But it made me a very strong person, a very helpful person. I have found through my adult life people tend to feel very comfortable coming to me for advice or just conversation. If you need someone to talk to or pick their brain on a new idea you have reach out and lets get you where you need to be! I am very open about just about anything and everything as well if you have questions about anything in this bio.