Meet Bradley Glantz

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Bradley Glantz. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Bradley below.

Hi Bradley, thank you so much for opening up with us about some important, but sometimes personal topics. One that really matters to us is overcoming Imposter Syndrome because we’ve seen how so many people are held back in life because of this and so we’d really appreciate hearing about how you overcame Imposter Syndrome.

At 20 years old, I became a self-development coach and dropped out of university. Most individuals in my personal life not only thought it was insane that I dropped out of school but also threw a lot of criticism about me becoming a coach at my age. At that point, I was decently confident in the work I desired to do and how to help my clients get there. At first, I had no clients, which made it even easier for the sea of criticism to float in, and remember, it wasn’t constructive criticism. “What if it doesn’t work out?” “College is much safer,” “Most businesses fail,” “Do you have a Plan B?” were what I heard on a weekly basis. The constant talk, in combination with my zero clientele, had me questioning in the back of my mind, am I qualified to coach? Do I know anything of value? Then I reminded myself I had completely overcome diagnosed depression by myself and completely transformed my life in every aspect. I further realized that the people criticizing me weren’t so clear on what their life path was, they weren’t happy, and were just “living” life. But the fear of me questioning if I was capable remained in the back of my mind. I signed a few clients on for free to build up my skills, jump into the deep end with 1 on 1 coaching, and then I made my way to creating and facilitating my group coaching program. Originally, the vision was to take on young men around ages 18-24, so I started to work with around 6 clients for free. I had a period of 5 months, during which I signed on 2 additional clients for $25 per month, and I asked myself if it was worth it, if I’d ever figure out a way to effectively grow my group. Eventually, I found an outreach method that worked. My long-distance girlfriend broke up with me, and I dedicated all my time to figuring out coaching. Then, within the next 2 months, I signed over 15 paying clients. And my original vision expanded drastically. I wasn’t just working with men 18-24, I was now working with clients that were 30, 40, 50, and my oldest client is 60. It blew my mind that the community and concepts we talk about within our group sparked such a high interest among men across all age ranges and across the world. We have members in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and more. It then hit me. Not only did men try out the group, but they stayed in it and built the community with me. Because I’m simply the coach and facilitator in our group, the members are the ones who make the group what it is. We’ve created a space where men can focus on self-development, connect with like-minded individuals, improve their relationships, build their confidence, and create the best versions of themselves in every aspect of life. The men in our group constantly express their gratitude for the space we have, for my insights, and the feeling that I may not be a good coach floated away within a month. There are practically zero places on earth where men can come together and genuinely hold space for one another in the difficult times they go through. Helping forge that space has been one of the biggest blessings of my life. Imposter syndrome isn’t beaten by constantly affirming to yourself that you’re great. It’s beaten by taking the action and creating the reality that proves that you are, without even having to open your mouth.

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?

The Mighty Tribe is a group coaching space where we focus on self-development, relationships, and spirituality. We host plenty of Q & A sessions, Masterclasses and Workshops, Lectures, Expert Guest Speaker Sessions, and more. We dive into the deep parts of our soul that most of us spend our entire lives neglecting. We explore concepts on a weekly basis that everybody is afraid to face. We dive into core values and standards to hold in our lives and relationships, what you’re doing wrong in your relationships, unconscious manipulation, the subconscious mind and its effects on your daily life, reframing thinking patterns, integrating your emotions, rewiring your brain, learning about who you truly are so you can express yourself authentically, as opposed to putting on a mask depending on who you’re speaking to, interacting with the deepest, darkest parts of your nature as a human being, interacting with your insecurities, and countless more topics. I’m incredibly passionate about this work because I’m constantly working on these aspects of myself right alongside my clients, and that’s exactly why they resonate with our group. We’re all exceptionally vulnerable with one another, there are no topics off the table, no stupid questions, we’re interacting with absolutely everything here to create the best possible life for ourselves, instead of neglecting your emotions, your internal experience, your insecurities, like most human beings on planet earth are doing every single day. The men that join our group can expect to make exceptional progress within their life, as long as they’re willing to do the internal work required to create their ideal reality. Interacting in our conversations, facing the parts of you that come up that are incredibly uncomfortable, and choosing to interact with them anyway. And most men in our group realize that they’ve been neglecting themselves for their entire lives, and now the journey of healing, growth, strength, honor, compassion, vulnerability, authenticity begins. You can check out my YouTube videos on my channel called Mighty Brad if you’re looking to start to dip your soul into the work we do here.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?

Confrontation is easily the most important skill for us to develop. Confrontation doesn’t mean yelling, building up anger, resentment; it’s, in fact, in opposition of ever allowing your internal experience to reach that boiling point. Anytime you’re unsatisfied with your lack of action, or something you did, or what your romantic partner did or didn’t do, you confront yourself or them. This takes a lot of awareness and accountability to do. Sometimes it looks like, “Hey, you did blank and it made me feel really angry, let’s have a conversation about this.” Other times it requires you to be exceptionally vulnerable and say, “You not doing blank the other day made me feel insecure.” I know what you’re thinking, that’s not what I think confrontation is, and, there’s no shot those words are ever coming out of my mouth to my partner. If you’d like to stop reading because you hold that limiting belief you can do so, but I promise you’ll never have all of your needs fulfilled in your relationships, and you’ll never be satisfied. Everything that goes unaddressed, forms an emotional attachment to the thought and experience, and eventually morphs into resentment. This is the most classic example of self-sabotaging your relationships with others and the relationship with yourself. The sooner you start expressing yourself authentically, the sooner you create a beautiful relationship with the woman/man you desire. For my entire dating career I didn’t do this, all of those relationships failed. In my relationship currently, we both do this, and the level of connection we have together is the most beautiful experience in the entire world.

Confidence in your individuality and authenticity is essential to live a fulfilling life. Most of us have never asked ourselves what we truly stand for, what values we hold in our heart, and why we believe what we believe. Most of our personalities are being run by our conditioning, programming, and past experiences. We tell ourselves, “I’m just an introvert, I can’t talk to people.” “I’m not good enough, I can’t enter a fulfilling relationship.” Most of our day-to-day lives thoughts are run by negativity and we don’t even know why. Here’s where truly connecting to yourself and developing a deeper relationship with you comes into play. Every human being desires to be respected. But people don’t respect those who can’t stand up for themselves and express themselves authentically, they may pretend that they respect you because you’re in a leadership or managerial role at your job, but they don’t. If others don’t believe you’re worthy, ask yourself if you believe you’re worthy. You’ll often come to the conclusion that most of your interactions with other people and their reactions are really a reflection of what’s going on internally within you. The cool thing is, even if people don’t agree with you, or even like you, they can still respect you because you’re comfortable expressing yourself authentically. What this looks like is when 5 of your friends or coworkers are making a point about a topic and it goes completely against your value system, you don’t sit there, nod your head and pretend you agree. You immediately voice your opinion and beliefs and have an open discussion about it. That is if your friends are mature enough to do that without shaming you for what you believe in since it’s different than their beliefs. Another added benefit of this inner confidence is you no longer try to qualify to be in people’s lives. You present yourself, and if they accept you, awesome. If they don’t, you simply acknowledge you don’t have a place in each other’s lives and never speak again. You start qualifying people. Instead of, “I wonder if they’ll like me” you say, “I wonder if I’ll like them.” But if you have a deep wound and insecurity around who you are as an individual, it’s worth investigating that. “Why don’t I believe I’m enough?” “Why do people not like me?” “Why do I not like me?” Once you get to the root, you can pull it out and plant a new seed to grow in your mind, one of confidence and prosperity. Learn to be comfortable and confident within yourself, it’ll save you a lot of misery and grant you a lot more happiness.

Grounding your soul in this present moment is one of the most enlightening experiences to have and will save you from a lot of overthinking. Most of the time our mind and life is on autopilot. Wake up, immediately start thinking about what you need to get done today, get ready, go to work/school, come home, relax, do it all over again. There’s no space for reflection, for improvement, for growth, to experience the fullness of life which is beyond just what you do for work, even if you absolutely love it. Taking a few moments to disconnect from society and reconnect with reality, which is simply being aware of this moment you are in now, and how you will never experience this exact second as it is ever again. It leaves and never returns. So the question is, are you ever really present in your life? Or are you just doing “stuff” unconsciously? Walking and sitting in nature can help manifest this inner peace and appreciation for this moment. Watching the wind blow in the trees, paying attention to how it feels when you take a deep breath and let go of all of your future worries, because they don’t exist right now. They only exist once you get to that moment, and they’re usually never as a bad as you think they’ll be. Tomorrow when you wake up, take a few minutes to reflect on how you feel, and be grateful you woke up today, a lot of people didn’t. I’ve noticed this lowers my anxiety drastically and increases my ability to be present in that moment, and in other crucial points throughout the day when I feel my stress levels rising. Once they’re rising, you ground yourself. You can do this for yourself, and if you’re in a romantic relationship, you and your partner can ground each other. The other day I was rushing around before I had a group call with my clients, unnecessarily stressing myself out getting minor tasks done. My girlfriend noticed and she asked me to walk over to her. She pushed her face close to mine and said, “take a breath.” She interrupted the pattern, and I was able to calm down. I used to feel shame for desiring someone to help me hold myself accountable, now I understand having individuals in our lives like that are an incredible blessing.

We’ve all got limited resources, time, energy, focus etc – so if you had to choose between going all in on your strengths or working on areas where you aren’t as strong, what would you choose?

If you only focus on your current strengths, you neglect your humanity, your overall contentment with yourself and who you are, and you can say goodbye to any fulfilling romantic partnerships. You can constantly tell yourself that you’re great at what you’re passionate about and spend all your time pouring into that while simultaneously destroying every relationship you have because you’re inept at communicating with the people in your life. You can cover it up and pretend everything is okay because you’re great at working hard on your passions. Full integration of our mind, body and spirit bridges the gap in all areas of our lives. If you notice an area that is lacking and is causing any sort of dissatisfaction in your life, it needs to be addressed. If it’s not, resentment builds up for the people in your life and even worse, resentment for yourself and your inaction. Sometimes, we can use positive outlets in our lives and unconsciously morph them into negative ones because we’re using them to escape from an area in which we’re struggling in. You can neglect parts of yourself and your life in the short term with minimal consequences, and then all of a sudden one year in, everything collapses because you didn’t pay attention to the small things. It’s the small things that ruin your day or make it a great one, it’s the small things that make or break a relationship. When your partner is having a difficult day and you don’t hold the space for them, you’re deteriorating your partnership. When you have a bad day, and it’s the same bad day every day, and you go to the gym to make yourself feel better, you think you’re bettering yourself, when you’re really neglecting the core reason as to why you feel this in the first place. The gym then becomes a coping mechanism. All of that being said, you can still lean into advancing the craft that you specialize in simultaneously, and that will be essential if you’re looking to make immense progress within the area of your strengths to make them even stronger. Just remember to love every part of yourself. You do that by accepting and interacting with every part of you that you experience emotionally.

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