We recently connected with Glenn Hattem and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Glenn, thanks for joining us today. We’d love to hear about how you went about setting up your own practice and if you have any advice for professionals who might be considering starting their own?

I grew up in an affluent area of the San Francisco Bay, yet with a troubled and unhealthy family dynamic. I was latchkey with self-involved parents in a rocky relationship. I left home as soon as I could and rarely returned. In The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran shares his view that parents are the bow and their children the arrows to be launched onward and upward beyond their limits into worlds they will never explore. I felt like an arrow with a faulty bow.

In my 20s I escaped a near-death car accident, being crushed at 75mph into the center divider by a semi-truck avoiding another accident ahead. In the hospital that evening I witnessed several young people die on the beds beside me. It shook me to the bone. The next morning, I quit my mortgage job and soon took a job at a local gym. In less than a year I became the celebrity fitness authority in the S.F. Bay Area with clients that included Robert Redford, Robert Shaw (Oracle VP), Fingerhut Billionaire, Star Wars producer, Santana, Journey. I was lucky to find such a calling in my 20s.

In my 30s I moved to Boulder, Colorado and continued to coach highly successful business leaders, elite level athletes and military personnel. While I quickly rose to the top of my field, something within me wasn’t right.

In my 40s, the scars from my unsettled, unresolved childhood traumas resurfaced in the forms of overwhelming depression, anxiety, grief, and hopelessness. These feelings were triggered by my Dad’s death from cancer and a difficult break-up from a long-term relationship that had turned toxic. I no longer found joy in coaching and fitness. I battled shame and vulnerability. At best, I coped. At worst, I merely survived. My personal agency and sense of control were all but lost.

Before I learned to AMPLIFY my own life, my bad habits dominated me. Intellectually I knew better, but for some reason I wasn’t doing better. I’d climb halfway out of a hole only to slip back into a deeper rock bottom.

It was only through a period of deep surrender and self-discovery that I found that the sources (and the answers) to my problems were internal. When I took full responsibility for my life and the compounding effects of my choices, good or bad, I began to develop specific skills that reduced the chaos and improved my capacity to face what was next.

At 50 I’m THE highest paid Breakthrough Health & Life Expert, and a consultant with 3 DECADES of experience. I’ve mentored thousands of business men and women, high-achievers and athletes to level up their lives (including: special forces, and the biggest names in business, sports and entertainment). I’ve failed more times than most, and why I can make the complex simple. I’m a compassionate A-hole. We offer you truth, real HOPE and results, a safe space to rethink and restore your vision.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I have led and inspired thousands of high-achieving business leaders to level up their lives. You too can leverage our expert team and proven system to execute proper fitness training, diet and mindset, and achieve EQ, body-rapport, and work-life balance you need. We’ll track progress, drive results, and keep you focused on the high-impact building blocks activities and key life skillsets. Our success formula gets you organized for optimal year-round results. It’s time to recalibrate, multiply your potential, and leave a legacy. Achieve in 90 DAYS what would take you over a year on your own.

With a no-nonsense collaborative/integrative approach, I’ll help you break through limits and achieve the seemingly impossible. Join us to get unstuck, get empowered and Transform your Business, Health, & Relationships and live a purposeful, fulfilling life that impacts lives. Seek freedom, explore, evolve, and elevate into harmony with your highest self and deepen your connections. Don’t take your greatest to the graveyard. Re-organize and make this next chapter the best so far!

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

I switched from a mortgage job to working at a local gym in my youth and became a well-known fitness authority in the S.F. Bay Area in less than a year, with clients like Robert Redford and others. Later, I moved to Boulder, Colorado, where I continued coaching successful individuals.

However, in my 40s, childhood traumas resurfaced, leading to depression, anxiety, and more, triggered by my dad’s death and a toxic breakup. I lost joy in my work and struggled with shame and vulnerability.

Through self-discovery and surrender, I realized that my problems were internal, and taking responsibility for my life allowed me to develop skills to reduce chaos. Today, with three decades of experience, I’m a highly paid Breakthrough Health and life Expert, mentoring thousands to improve their lives, offering truth, hope, and results in a compassionate yet direct manner.

How about pivoting – can you share the story of a time you’ve had to pivot?

With the dawn of technologically-savvy generations and the change that the online world has brought to my profession, my team and I have had to adapt and overcome technological challenges throughout the decades. We’ve gone from fully in-person training and real-life, hold-in-your-hand books to fitness apps, online curriculums, video coaching calls, and electronic resources.

These opportunities have enabled my team and I to coach clients all over the nation, and sometimes all over the world. We are able to provide cutting-edge, luxury coaching services to clients no matter where they are; they can meet with their coach just by tapping a button on their phones. These changes haven’t limited my coaching services, however. I can still train clients in-person to go hand-in-hand with any digital resources that they are using.

The advancement of technology could have been a hurdle for the coaching industry, but my team and I were able to adapt over the years to provide continuously updated resources for my clients day-in and day-out.

Contact Info:

• Website: coloradolifecoaching.com
• Instagram: @glenn.hattem
• Facebook: facebook.com/coach.glenn.h
• Youtube: @GlennHattem