It started a decade ago, at 18 years old when Zachery failed out of the University of Windsor.

This eventually brought him to Melbourne, Australia as part of a student exchange program. He fell in love with Australia and decided to finish medical school and become a doctor.

“So, January 2020 I started medical school at the University of Sydney,” he says. “Then several weeks in I went through a six year relationship breakup, then two weeks after that I tore my knee and needed surgery so I couldn’t work out or play sports.”

This had happened during the COVID pandemic, leading to isolation from others, Zachery was left alone with no one to lean on. No friends, no outlet, just his thought forming a dark cloud around him.

“I went for a walk and ended up crying hysterically in the middle of this busy Sydney intersection,” he says, “These busy businesspeople were walking by me and at that moment I felt like air, I was invisible to them.”

It got darker. Thoughts of suicide. But he went and sought help. He got told to start journaling his thoughts to work through it.

This led to Zachery making his TikTok account, @MDMotivator, and putting out his first video.