Meet Our Team
More Than Our Story is a health-focused lifestyle website that shares people’s stories to inspire and promote healthy, positive, and aspirational change. Meet the team:
Daniel Hight
Founder
Cancer survivor, father, IRONMAN, and an inspired chef. He founded More Than Our Story to share his story and inspire others to greatness.
Denise Hight
Contributor
Denise is rarely without a huge smile on her face. She is energetic and passionate, balancing a professional agency life with family life while finding time to live her best life. Her passions include cooking, snowboarding, swimming, and spending time with her family and friends.
Carey Copeling
Contributor
Husband, father, and fiercely loyal, Carey would give you the shirt off his back. His skills are seemingly endless; he is a publisher, author, painter, writer, and consultant. If there's something you need, he can get it for you.
Joe Tolles
Contributor
Joe Tolles is a semi-retired professional hockey player, CrossFit gym owner and operator, and organ donor. He's down-to-earth, and his work ethic and motivation are infectious.
Jillian Best
Contributor
Jillian Best is a liver transplant recipient, a world-record-holding swimmer, and the first transplant recipient to swim across Lake Ontario. She is also the founder of the Move For Life Foundation, which is devoted to reducing transplant wait times.
Eric Duplain
Contributor
Eric Duplain embodies generosity, kindness, and selflessness, and possesses the determination and talent to master whatever he sets his mind to.
Stephen Glaus
Contributor
Stephen is a devoted husband and father and the epitome of grit and determination. He tirelessly advocates for multiple sclerosis and shares his own journey with MS. He is also a three-time IRONMAN and a Les Mills U.S. BodyPump Trainer & Presenter.
Jerry Dunn
Contributor
Jerry Dunn's prolific running career began in 1975. Over the past 50 years, he has broken world records, pioneered ultrarunning, and founded nationally acclaimed races, earning himself the nickname ‘America's Marathon Man.’
Aja Chavez
Contributor
Aja Chavez, LMFT, LPCC, serves as Vice President of Adolescent Services at Mission Prep Healthcare. With more than a decade of clinical and leadership experience, she specializes in trauma-informed care and adolescent mental health.
Teamwork Makes The Dream Work
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Email us at inquiries@morethanourstory.com, or send a letter to:
More Than Our Story Inc.
Attn: Founder
498 Rosedale Crescent,
Burlington, ON L7N 2S8