ABOUT JOEY DONOVAN GUIDO
Joey’s road to being a life coach and facilitating GUTS programs began with his own self-care journey, when he nearly died from a condition called Crohn’s disease in 1998.
Since then, he has been practicing mindfulness, meditation, and is a long-time student on the subjects of self-care, neuroplasticity, trauma, psychology, spirituality, goals, and relationships.
These studies have drastically improved the quality of Joey’s life and overall health, making it possible for him to manage his Crohn’s disease without the use of medication. Joey’s studies also include Native American spirituality, Buddhism, and the teachings of Ram Das and Eckhart Tolle. He is currently a student in Eckhart Tolle’s School of Awakening program, working on his Becoming a Teacher of Presence certificate.
In 2017, Joey’s desire to dig deeper into these practices increased when his wife became sick with a severe case of fibromyalgia. In a very short time, work and home life were turned upside down, and the importance of self-care once again became increasingly clear.
As anxiety, fear, worry and exhaustion began to engulf him, Joey was experiencing high levels of stress, burnout — and was beginning to fall apart taking care of everyone except for himself. In a defining moment (which he talks about in his programs), Joey realized that self-care is not selfish — it’s a necessity in order to maintain one’s mental, physical, emotional and spiritual health — and effectively serve others.
These experiences led Joey to become a life coach and create the GUTS program for individuals and groups — all of which focus on mindfulness, meditation, self-care, and relationships, including the relationship we have with ourselves.
BEYOND HIS PROFESSIONAL HISTORY, WHO IS THIS GUY?
Joey is the dad of two awesome boys, and happily married since 1997. He’s a big fan of Eckhart Tolle, Ram Daas, Zig Ziglar, Dieter Rams, Kenya Hara, mindfulness, meditation, essentialism, Field Notes notebooks, Blackwing pencils, vinyl records, family time, geeky tech stuff — and coffee!
As mentioned earlier, in 1998, Joey suffered from a condition called Crohn’s disease that nearly killed him. It turned out to be one of the greatest gifts of his life because it was a tremendous wake-up call that set him on a course of transformation, self-discovery — and sparked his interest to help others with life coaching and GUTS programs.
Note: Although Joey’s kids are now teenagers, and both nearly 6 feet tall, he loves these coffee pics too much to update them …
