We recently connected with Michael DeSanti and have shared our conversation below.

Michael, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Let’s start with the story of your mission. What should we know?

Chasing only success has its price. Often times, men sacrifice their health and relationships to reach an external achievement or proverbial mountaintop. My mission is to help men have it all! We can generate success while at the same time produce optimum health, thriving marriages and financial abundance.

To live a fulfilling life requires that all the domains in our life receive the appropriate amount of love and attention. My mission as a Men’s Transformational Coach is to assist in proving awareness and action steps to lay the foundation for a rich and meaningful life.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I started my company, Authentic Self Healing, in 2010 after a challenging time in my life where I was feeling extremely lost. At the time I was working in the corporate world and lived with a constant nagging that there was more to life than deadlines and climbing the corporate ladder. I was always passionate about inspiring and influencing others to live more meaningful and impactful lives and I felt I was completely out of alignment with what my heart genuinely desired.

So in 2010, I cut the cord to a steady paycheck and took a risk that I have never regretted. I attended a nutrition and coaching school called The Institute for Integrative Nutrition and began coaching people on healthy lifestyle changes that could improve their lives. However, over the years I began to notice that many people actually knew “what to do” to make their health better but simply weren’t doing it. That is when I began taking a deeper dive into mindset and habit behavior because there was something under the surface that kept people from living their optimum lives.

Now, thousands of clients later, I have built a meaningful and impactful practice that helps growth-minded men access the greater version of themselves in health, relationships and business.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

When I started my business I was close to flat broke. I remember at one point my bank account going all the way down to $1.11 total. I had all the fears and stresses that come with “not making it” or being a failure and broke. So many people thought I was crazy to leave my secure job that paid me well and had potential and certainty. But I knew deep down that I wasn’t making any real difference in peoples lives and that was the driving force for me to continue to put one foot in front of the other and dig myself out of a financial hole. I focused on creating value for people and inspiring them to small changes that would make a great impact, similar to what I was doing in my personal life at the time.

Choice after choice, action after action led to year after year. And the breakthrough moment for me came when I finally realized that my dream life was far more than sustainable. Now I work less hours than I ever have, make far more than I ever did in corporate job and positively impact men’s lives on daily basis.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

Like I mentioned before, there is a lot that is “under the hood” of people’s behaviors and habits. I am no different. I had a lot of limiting beliefs and narratives around finances and relationships. Growing up, my family struggled a lot financially and it became a huge reason for my parents divorce when I was young. Later in life, I found myself playing out similar actions and patterns of my parents that were ingrained in me from when I was young. Like my parents, I was always living with the stress of paycheck to paycheck no matter how much my pay increased. It wasn’t healthy, but it was familiar. I never learned how to save, invest and have my finances grow and work for me. I had narratives and stories around money, people with money and whether deep down I really believed I deserved to be one of them. Humans don’t always default to what is healthy, we default to what is familiar. And not having money was really familiar to me.

Another lesson that I truly needed to unlearn was the way I interacted in my relationships. I was the man who would get out a relationship and into a new relationship but with the same familiar problems and challenges as the last relationship. At a certain point, I needed to be incredibly honest with myself that I was the common denominator in all of them. I had tendencies to people please, sugar coat things and withhold my authenticity so that I could keep the peace, be liked and not rock the boat. These were all behaviors that I learned from when I was really young. And they would constantly backfire in my most intimate relationships.

It took a lot of work and some deep soul searching to break free from these old patterns. But the work was worth it. I now live a meaningful life with a thriving business and a marriage that I could have never dreamed of. And I completely admit that none of it would be possible if I remained stuck in the old former patterns that I used to have.

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• Website: www.michaeldesanti.com
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