Manalizing 42 Glenn Lovelace - Heal the Boy, Forge the Man. Brotherhood, Brokenness and the Will to Rise

He lost a home, broke his body, and nearly ended his life — but somewhere in the wreckage, he found God, purpose, and a new definition of being a man.

Glenn Loveless has lived a life most men couldn’t survive.

He’s a husband of 21 years, father of seven, former bodybuilder, and founder of Your Wingman Coaching.

He’s also a man who has known pain — from losing a home in a lawsuit, to surviving a mountain bike crash that nearly killed him, to facing the moment he held a gun to his own head.

In this conversation, Glenn opens up about what happens when everything you thought made you a man — work, strength, achievement — is suddenly stripped away. He talks about failure, faith, and learning to rebuild when all that’s left is the will to keep breathing.

We explore what it means to heal the boy inside us, and how to forge the man we were meant to become — one scar, one lesson, and one act of courage at a time.

This episode is a raw and redemptive look at what it really takes to grow through pain, not just past it.

⚠️ Content Warnings

Suicidal ideation, accident trauma, faith discussion, family conflict.

🧭 Highlights

• Losing everything — and learning to start again
• The mountain bike crash that changed his life
• “I had a gun in my hand on Christmas Eve” — how emotion suppression nearly killed him
• The truth about men, emotion, and real stoicism
• What his broken body taught him about identity
• How pain refines a man instead of defining him
• Fatherhood, faith, and asking for help when you never have before
• The story behind Heal the Boy, Forge the Man
• “Every man breaks. What matters is how we rebuild.”
• “I’d never been a man before — of course I was going to screw it up.”
• “The more fractures you have, the more valuable you become once you’re whole again.”
• “The Lord left me in the fire long enough not to be destroyed.”
• “When you share your mess, it becomes your message.”
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Glenn Loveless, Your Wingman Coaching, Heal the Boy Forge the Man, men’s mental health, suicide prevention, masculinity, stoicism, vulnerability, faith, fatherhood, trauma recovery, emotional intelligence, Garth Haslem, Manalizing podcast

🧠 Resources Mentioned

• Heal the Boy, Forge the Man — by Glenn Loveless
• Your Wingman Coaching — yourwingmancoach.com
• Promise to Live / I Love You Bro Project
• 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (U.S.) — dial 988
• Manalizing.com — where men talk about what men don’t talk about

If Glenn’s story speaks to you — if you’ve been through the fire, or you’re still in it — share this episode with a man who needs to hear that healing is possible.

Then visit Manalizing.com and find your brothers.

You don’t have to rebuild alone.

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