Jeff Onyx

I grew up homeless. From the age of 5 to 13, I lived in a car, storage shed, on the streets or in the wilderness. I spent many summers in the wilderness of West Texas entirely alone.

I wasn’t a boy scout and didn’t learn my survival skills while I was in the Army. I learned a few things from my grandfather who was Iroquois. By the age of 5 I was catching food, building shelter, making fire and finding water.

I’ve experienced hunger. I’ve survived flood, drought, earthquake, tornado, blizzard and fire.
I’ve survived the wilderness of West Texas and at the age of 14 moved to the streets of Southern California.

I now teach survival and preparedness. The one thing that helped me survive is what my dad told me. He said, “As long as you have breath in your body, tomorrow can be better than today. Don’t give up.”