A LETTER FROM JOHN

Most people who find their way to Live Long Private aren't here because everything is fine. They're here because something isn't working and probably hasn't been working for a long time. Maybe the doctor visits are getting more frequent. Maybe the prescriptions are multiplying. Maybe you've spent years taking care of everyone else — your spouse, your kids, your parents, your career — and somewhere along the way, you lost yourself.

Maybe it happened gradually. Maybe you know exactly when it started. Either way, you're here now — frustrated, uncomfortable in your own body, and if you're being completely honest in those quiet moments, very sad about it all. Maybe you've even given up on the idea that things could ever be different.

I built this practice for you.

Let me tell you who I am because in a coaching relationship, that matters.

I spent 37 years in the securities industry, ultimately serving as managing director of a nationwide division of 950 financial advisors. Before retiring at 61, I was also slowly destroying myself. Significantly overweight. Chronically sleep-deprived. Regularly working 50 to 70-hour weeks. Traveling constantly. Never exercising. Eating whatever and whenever it was convenient. I developed multiple chronic diseases — every one of them preventable, every one of them a direct result of how I had chosen to live.

I should be dead. For some reason, though, I'm not.

I finally began focusing on my health twelve years ago. It’s obvious that I'm not a coach who has lived a perfectly healthy life. I'm a coach who was seriously unhealthy for a long time, who knows precisely the consequences of that lifestyle, and who has now spent years rebuilding. Methodically, deliberately, with intention. Not perfectly, not linearly, and not without setbacks. But completely.

Whatever you share with me, I won't be surprised and I certainly won't judge you. I've likely carried the same burdens and I know exactly the costs — mentally, emotionally, socially, and physically. What you'll get from me, above everything else, is complete honesty, complete transparency, and complete empathy. Those three things, in my experience, are rarer than any credential, and critically important if we work together.

I retired early. I could be on a golf course or fishing — two things I love. I chose this instead because there is nothing more worthwhile I can think to do with whatever time I have and knowledge I've accumulated than to experience the privilege of helping someone get their life back, one they thought might be gone forever.

There is no one who will want your success more than I will. No one.

If any of this resonates, I'd love to talk. Click the contact link and we'll set something up. No pressure, no pitch. Just an honest conversation about where you are, where you want to go, and whether this feels like a good fit.

If you're interested in having me speak to your group, same link.

John