CHAD JORDAN lives in Suttons Bay
Township and is a personal trainer
and a woodworker.

Name: Chad Jordan.

Town or township of residence: Suttons Bay Township.

Resident of county since: 2004.

Birth date and place: March 15, 1973, in Mount Pleasant.

Occupation: Personal trainer and woodworker.

Marital status (include children): “Married to Heather and we have one child, Maximus, who is 41⁄2.”

You live in Leelanau County because: “I live here because of the lifestyle, the people, the scenery – all kinds of reasons.”

Last good movie you saw was: “Madagascar, an animation, with my son.”

Last good book you read was: “Catch a Fire, a book about the life of Bob Marley.”

If you could trade places with one person for a day, that person would be: “Laird Hamilton, a Hawaiian waterman. He’s a surfer, a paddler, and a professional athlete who lives an all natural life on the sea.”

Things important to you that you have accomplished so far: “Being a good father.”

What you hope to be doing in 10 years: “Mountain biking with my family.”

Things you lose sleep over: “I just don’t really stress about much of anything and try to live a stress-free life. See my answer for why I live in Leelanau County.”

If you could change one thing in Leelanau County, it would be: “It would be more conducive to biking, with more bike trails and other alternative means of transportation.”

Favorite dessert is: “My mother-in-law’s dumpcake. It has two sticks of butter in it.”

Are you a coffee drinker? “Oh yeah. I take it any way Starbucks makes it.”

Favorite place in Leelanau County is: “Omena Bay.”

If you had more time, you would: “Play more; and I would play at whatever it is. It doesn’t matter what. I’d just play.”

The words that best describe you are: “A jokester, lighthearted, but a hard worker, too.”