The Marksman

I didn't set out to work with men in midlife. I set out to understand why I kept getting in my own way.

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For most of my adult life I thought the answer was the next thing. The next degree. The next certification. The next country. I got a master's in health coaching. Trained as a yoga instructor in the Himalayas. Taught biomechanics at a university. Spent six years in Europe checking things off a list.

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And I was still eating my feelings in Germany, drinking too much beer, heavier than I'd ever been, wondering why none of it was working.

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The answer wasn't in another credential. It was in what I'd been avoiding my whole life. My own body. My own signals. The quiet underneath all the noise I'd been using to drown it out.

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It took a long time to start listening. When I did, I reversed prediabetes, rebuilt my relationship with food after fourteen years as a vegan who'd lost his way, and found more clarity at fifty than I had at thirty-five.

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That gap between knowing and living is where I do my work. Most men who come to me already know what they should be doing. The problem is they've stopped trusting the man who's supposed to do it. That's what I work on.

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The men I work with are capable and tired in equal measure. They've built something real. A career, a family, a life that looks right from the outside. But somewhere along the way they started managing everything, including themselves, and they can't remember the last time they felt like they were actually choosing.

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The Marksman Newsletter is where this work lives week to week. Each issue goes deeper into how a man actually rebuilds that trust, in his body, his decisions, and the life he's still building. If something in this page stopped you, that's probably reason enough to be here.

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Spencer Mark is an NBHWC-certified health coach, Metabolic Health Coach, PN1 nutrition coach, and E-RYT 200 yoga instructor. He holds a master's degree in Health and Wellness Coaching.