Today we’d like to introduce you to Jonathan May.
Thanks for sharing your story with us Jonathan. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
I grew up in a small town called Decatur, Illinois. I grew up playing sports and competing every day. I went to the University of Illinois for my undergraduate education. I tried to play for the university football team but I was unsuccessful and they offered for me a volunteer coaching opportunity. The coach I ended up working with, Scott Shafer, became well known and respected in college football.
Many coaches and players that I worked with found great success in the NFL and college. While coaching, I loved the competitiveness of it and decided to pursue coaching as a career rather than becoming a doctor as I had originally planned. I changed my major from medicine to communications and directed my whole life towards coaching.
Coaching brought me to the University of Miami after I graduated from Illinois and I sought a master’s degree and to volunteer for the University of Miami football team. It was a great opportunity and I worked under head coach Larry Coker. I was positioned for a job in recruitment while assisting the Defensive Coordinator until Coach Coker was fired by the university, which had a great impact on my coaching career. A highlight of my coaching career was scheduling an interview with the Miami Dolphins. My career ascended so quickly but fell just as quickly. The interview with the Dolphins never materialized because they hired one of the first people that they interviewed. I learned a strong lesson to always seek the earliest slot in an interview process or you may lose your opportunity to make a great impression.
I then went to FIU to volunteer as a coach and didn’t find fulfillment with FIU under Mario Cristobal because I was excluded from the football strategy and day to day operations decision making process. These frustrations lead me to coach high school football. I coached at Miami Beach High School. I am very proud of that team because we went from zero wins to winning half of the games. You could feel an extreme change in culture while coaching there and one of my players there is now a wide receiver with the Cleveland Browns, Ricardo Louis. He had a successful career at Auburn and made one of the most famous plays of this decade when catching a long pass to win a big game. From Miami Beach, I went to Palmetto High School for a brief period and one of the players I coached there also is playing in the NFL on the Los Angeles Rams, Randall Evans. Coaching football did not pay well enough so I was forced to take a job as a communications professor with Keiser University and my classes conflicted with football practices so I had to stop coaching. In retrospect, I continue to see so many people that I trained reach success that I feel a sense of pride in their accomplishments.
I shifted my life’s focus towards being a professor. Within a year, I had reached the pinnacle of my expected maximum income as a professor. I taught for four universities as an adjunct instructor and taught from early morning to late evening. To date, I have taught with sixteen schools, have taught hundreds of classes and tens of thousands of students in communications. However, I decided I needed to continue to push myself after a year of teaching and a friend of mine convinced me to pursuit a career as a lawyer with him. He called me one night to convince me to go to law school with him and I signed up for the LSAT examination immediately after. We decided to approach law school as an adventure. However, it was a lot more difficult than I expected. I barely survived law school courses without any setbacks. I always had a long term business focus, so while studying law, I sought out opportunities to network and build relationships with other professionals. I volunteered with the student body associations for pharmacy, law, medicine and dentistry.
During law school, I created a business called Supreme Bliss with a partner. Supreme Bliss has adapted greatly over time as we faced business challenges.
It started out as a business to sell hookah products, but it transformed into a lifestyle, event, entertainment guide, investment and artist support business.
We had a lot of fun setting up party buses and other events for student body associations. I loved Miami since arriving here and wanted to educate people on opportunities to see attractions and enjoy the unique attractions in Miami. Creating Supreme Bliss helped facilitate that dream. Also, I knew a lot of talented musicians, artists, painters, dancers, DJs and singers. I knew that I am not talented like they are, but I also realized that I can be apart of their art by providing business skills, including marketing, branding and sales. Thus, I started offering consulting services for artists. I maintain a sense of pride, because I feel like I contribute to their art. It has been an adventure thus far running Supreme Bliss. There are so many projects that I would love to complete. There are so many artists that I would love to help succeed.
Our goal is improve at helping artists succeed, to help people in general improve in fitness, their finances and relationships. Sometimes it has been challenging to narrow our services for clients, but we refuse to narrow our services because we see each area of our lives as intertwined with the other areas. If you don’t exercise, it’s hard to focus at work. If you don’t eat well, your energy level will suffer. We seek to improve in all of these areas so our clients can reach their potential. One of our slogans is “The Best Is Yet To Come” and we truly believe that we can all improve.
Upon graduation from law school, I have been devoted strongly to my responsibilities as an attorney. I started The Lions’ Den, Attorneys at Law and it is like my second child. Unfortunately, Supreme Bliss has taken a temporary backseat, but one day I will be able to focus much more on Supreme Bliss.
We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
I am lucky to have a strong support group from my friends, parents and my brother. I have always seen my strength as being a people person and truly loving people, no matter who they are or how our relationship is. I am blessed with a lot of friends but having friends comes with responsibilities, which can be difficult to maintain. However, when I experience difficulties, friends have always been there to assist me in times of need. The greatest challenges that I face now are finding ways to help Supreme Bliss and The Lions’ Den thrive. It takes creativity, research, discipline, and hard work to acquire customer satisfaction. Fortunately, The Lions’ Den has over sixty-five “five star” ratings on different webpages and no ratings below five stars. However, maintaining positive ratings has been one of the greatest challenges of my life because attorneys and their client’s won’t always see eye to eye. I do my best and I am genuine in my desire to do great work and to achieve my client’s goals. My personal challenge for improvement is to have greater energy throughout the day by continuing to exercise and eating healthy. I am in the process of getting in better shape but it is hard to balance less sleep and more work while maintaining or improving focus at work. I have found that taking time for my religion (Christian) has helped, eating light meals comprised mostly of vegetables, and exercising everyday helps increase my energy levels and focus. I even started a boot camp class as a part of Supreme Bliss ranging from five to seven AM in the morning, three days a week, in order to force myself to exercise regularly.
So, as you know, we’re impressed with Supreme Bliss and The Lions’ Den, Attorneys at Law – tell our readers more, for example what you’re most proud of as a company and what sets you apart from others.
Supreme Bliss is an entertainment guide that offers services in business consulting, investment, communications education, exercise and artist consulting. The goal is to help people achieve their potential using the resources that they may not be aware of. There are so many talented people in our network that specialize in specific services that really help individuals and businesses in so many ways. We link clients with service providers and act as neutral third parties to help transactions succeed.
The Lions’ Den, Attorneys at Law provides services as business general counsel, in contract law, family law, civil litigation, real estate and employment law. We mostly do contract creation and disputes, divorce, custody, child support, tax, entity formation, deposit disputes, employment discrimination, etc.
So, what’s next? Any big plans?
We want to continue to offer better services with Supreme Bliss and to create bigger events that impact more people. With The Lions’ Den, we plan to grow by offering additional legal service areas over time. Our firm is currently trending towards servicing large businesses rather than individuals, but we still support the clients that have been loyal to us.
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