- Shadow grew up in a small town named Columbus, which was the very first town ever named Columbus in the United States.
- Fascinated at a young age by NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, Shadow starting out his racing career in go-karts at the age of 9. He continued his pursuit of racing all the way up to the beginning of 2009 where he ended his auto racing career as a "driver-in-training" for a NASCAR truck series team.
- After a year of battling alcoholism, depression, and suicidal tendencies in 2008, Shadow moved back home to help his Mom take care of his Mimay during her final years (2009-2015). During that time, Shadow tore down his former thoughts, ideas, opinions, and views to restructure his life. At the end of the process, Shadow realized that he needed to change his name to prevent any relapse into his former negative lifestyle. Taking his Mom's maiden name (LaValley) and moving his original first name to his middle name (Christopher), he struggled for a bit to figure out what to have as his first name. As Shadow would say: "I wanted to take a positive piece of my past and implement it into my future. Knowing that I grew up in the country, I had very few opportunities to spend time with kids my own age. I never had a typical childhood growing up like you would see on television or in the movies. On a typical day for me, my sisters would be off playing, my Mom would be taking care of the house, bills, lesson plans, and the like, my Dad would be out and about, so at the end of the day it was just me and the dog Shadow. So I thought, what a beautiful way to honor his memory and that part of my life.".
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