I've known Cole since 2012, as a colleague first and a friend for most of the years since. In that time, I have watched him show up with consistency, heart, and skill, for his clients, for his community, and for everyone lucky enough to be in his corner. What I know about Cole is this: he has spent his entire career making sure other people have space to heal. He deserves the same.

In 2024, a botched colonoscopy left Cole septic. He nearly died. He spent two and a half weeks hospitalized, had two feet of his colon removed, and faced a long recovery. In the current six-month window alone, December 2025 through July 2026, he has faced eight surgical procedures, five of them compressed into an eight-week stretch.

Each time he has a procedure, he returns to work within the week. Not because he's healed, but because there's no other option. Medically, this is catching up with him. The cumulative weight of trauma on a body is real: every surgery makes the next recovery harder.

He hates asking- anyone who knows him knows it's true. He is the person who asks you how you're doing. He is the one holding space for some of the most vulnerable people in our community, often at reduced rates, because access matters to him more than his bottom line.

Right now, we get to hold some space for him.

Any contribution, truly any amount, helps Cole: