Born in Hawaii, raised in Little Havana, Anthony John Toledo is a native Hawaiian and American, amongst many other things. Operation Enduring/Iraqi Freedom (2003), Operation Iraqi Freedom (2010) and Operation Enduring Freedom (2014) were the combat zones deployed too while serving in the U.S. military and working as a contractor. For twenty years Mr. Toledo has served the United States government, in multiple agencies and in multiple roles. Some of these agencies include the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army (U.S. Department of Defense); U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) (U.S. Department of Homeland, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS)-(U.S. Department of Homeland Securtiy); U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (U.S. Department of Justice), and other private companies employed by such. Mr. Toledo served fourteen years in the reserves of the U.S. military and has worked as a Federal Law Enforcement Officer/Agent, Securtiy Officer and EMT-Paramedic for multiple agencies and companies.
Anthony graduate from Miami Dade College in 2006 with an Associate in Science degree in Emergency Medical Services, cum laude, a College Credit Certificate in Paramedic (2005) and a Credit Certificate for Firefighter I & II (2003). In 2001 Mr. Toledo launched his first free website (poetrypoem.com/echoesofthesoul), where he continues to post free poetry he writes until today. In 2017 the second web site was launched (VoyagerTree.com), which was started while he lived and worked in Japan (2017-2019). TheAlchemistWeb.com was launched in 2019 to support the upcoming book, which was published on March 13, 2020 on Amazon and Kindle. That same day, Anthony John Toledo submitted his paperwork for his nonprofit organization (Spiritual Alchemy Foundation of Enlightenment Inc.) The first book is title “The Alchemist Web..a path to Enlightenment...” and covers many philosophies, to include the origin of consciousness, reincarnation and how kindness and self improvement perpetuate life. The app, also titled “The Alchemist Web” was also launched, which is a goal tracker meant to help users track short term, long term and lifelong goals. The app could be found for iOS and Android.
July 30, 2020 the second book was published, “Echoes of the Soul: 25 Years of Poetry”, also available on Amazon and Kindle. This collection was started in 1994, when Mr. Toledo was thirteen years old. The book has over one hundred of personal poems, and give a glimpse into the mind and heart of the author. The third book, an autobiography expected to be released before the end of 2020, will conclude the trilogy of the “Spiritual Alchemy” trilogy, of which the aforementioned two books are a part of. Anthony is an Entrepreneur, Author, Life Coach, Ordained Minister and many other things. As Mr. Toledo says, “Jack of all trades, master of self.”