Meet Malcolm Havens | Personal Trainer, entrepreneur, life/business coach

We had the good fortune of connecting with Malcolm Havens and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Malcolm, what do you attribute your success to?
As Jackie Robinson said “life isn’t significant accept for its impact on other people”. The most important factor behind my success and in my opinion, success in general, is how are people positively impacted by what you do on a daily basis.

Alright, so for those in our community who might not be familiar with your business, can you tell us more?
My wife and I run a couple businesses. First, we are former gym owners. We had one of the largest privately owned gyms in Colorado for several years. I loved the fitness industry and loved coaching young athletes. Ultimately I was passionate about the way fitness was a gateway into peoples lives where I could help them develop their minds and make them stronger and more emotionally resilient individuals. We sold the gym in December 2018 to move into different business arenas. We own an oil and gas brokerage, and we run an e-commerce business and we help others develop their own e-commerce business and help them build the mindset and skillsets for entrepreneurship. I’m also in the process of starting a mindset and performance coaching program for young athletes and students. My goal with that is to help young people develop the professional skills, leadership skills, and the mindset to allow them to be successful in any arena they choose in life. I would say that what sets us apart from others, and what i’m most proud of, is our relentless drive to impact others and help others live a better life, this is both in our professional lives and our personal lives. Has our path been easy? I wouldn’t say it’s been easy but i know many others have forged an even more difficult path. In the beginning stages of building our gym, we couldn’t afford a house or apartment, so my wife and I slept in hammocks in our gym as newlyweds. As we built our gym to the level that it was at, we had to make a lot of sacrifices to make it succeed. We were happy to make the sacrifices we needed to make to become successful. In order to be successful at anything, you can’t negotiate the cost or the sacrifices. You’ve got to embrace the sacrifices and take pride in the fact that your’e doing what 99.9% of people wouldn’t do. In the last 2 years of running our gym, we were exposed to e-commerce and ended up building an income stream that surpassed what we were making with the gym. We saw an avenue where we could impact more people in a positive way, we could free up more of our time (the gym took 100 hours a week), and the earning potential was far greater than what I could earn with the gym. Thats when we decided to sell the gym.
As we’ve grown, there are a couple lessons that i’ve learned. We all have goals and dream, and we all have a value system. People have career goals, and they have values. A lot of times peoples career goals and values are opposing forces. For example, someones deepest core value might be family and being able to spend quality time with the ones they love. However the corporate system where they work pulls them away from their family more and more. With each promotion comes more responsibilities and more time at the office, further separating them from the ones they love and also taking up more and more of their energy so that when they are home, they have nothing left to give. They start getting depressed because they know deep down inside that something is off. They need to make money and provide, yet they are stuck spending 70-80 hours a week away from those they love. I’ve learned that no matter how passionate you are about your job, career or business, if it doesn’t allow you to live out your value system then your setting yourself up for living a life of quiet desperation. Ive learned the value of coaching and mentorship. As a NCAA and Olympic level wrestler, coaching was everything. I traveled to seek out the best coaching I could find. People understand that in the world of Athletics but people rarely apply that to other arenas in life. If you want a better marriage, get coached by someone with a successful prosperous marriage. If you want to be a great parent and raise good well balanced adults, go to someone who has done that. If you want a successful business without sacrificing your value system, go and find someone who has done that that’s willing to teach you. They’re out there, you just have to find them and be open minded because what they’re going to recommend is probably going to be something that’s contradictory to what the 98% do.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
Wow, that’s a great question. I’m not a big social life person. Most of the things I do are with my family or centered around helping others or getting around others that can help my wife and I grow in our leadership and business skills. If someone came to visit us, there are a few things we would do though. I’d probably take the person hiking to one of the cool destinations in the mountains like hanging lake or the maroon bells. I would take them down to the Olympic training center and see if we could strike up a few conversations with some Olympians or the coaches to talk about what it takes to be extraordinary. Next, I’d schedule a time to get them around my mentors to hear about the fruit of a life of significace and how blessed they are because they’ve spent a good portion of their life helping others build a better life. I love to cook, so we’d spend evenings on the back porch around the grill sharing dreams, goals and how we want to make the world a better place and bounce ideas and plans off of each other.

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
First I would like to thank my incredible wife who pushes me every day to be a better and stronger person. Secondly, I’d like to give a lot of credit for who I am today to my father, Dan Havens. As a kid, he always pushed me to be better. At times, it was to a point that I resented him for it at times, but looking back now, I wouldn’t have it any other way. He held me to a standard, he showed me how pushing the extra mile would separate me from the pack. He always encouraged me to follow through on my word and he always loved me no matter how I performed. Third, I’d like to thank my mentor Howie Danzik for teaching me how to take the qualities that made me a high level wrestler and how to carry those over into other arena’s in life to build a successful business, and to constantly strive to reach my potential as a husband and now a father.

Website: www.malcolmhavens.com