Where Do You Start? The first move after a business, a 28-year marriage and his health went in rapid succession

Rebuilding after simultaneous loss: the order to tackle business collapse, divorce and depression when all three land at once.

Garth Delikan lost his business, a 28-year marriage and his mental health in rapid succession, and had to work out what the first move actually is. The standard advice is to bounce back, which assumes there is something left to bounce back to. He rebuilt in a specific order, starting with kickboxing and personal training, then coaching, NLP and hypnotherapy, and now approaching 70 he still trains, coaches and speaks for a living. He walks through which part he tackled first and why the identity rebuild could not wait until the practical wreckage was cleared. Listeners get a sequence they can follow rather than another story about resilience.

About Garth Delikan

Garth Delikan, podcast guest

Mindset, Resilience and Lifestyle Coach, Author and Speaker

25 years Leading a London advertising agency before his reinvention6-week series Appeared on BBC TV as a lifestyle expert2 books Published on fitness, mindset and wellbeing4 London districts Client practice across Kensington, Chelsea, Mayfair and Knightsbridge

Garth Delikan is a mindset and lifestyle coach, speaker, author and advanced clinical hypnotherapist whose work is rooted in one defining belief: your past may shape you, but it does not have to decide what happens next.

His perspective was forged through experience rather than theory. After reaching the top of a successful career in London advertising, Garth saw his professional life unravel through betrayal, the collapse of his own business and the end of a 28-year marriage in rapid succession. What followed was clinical depression, severe anxiety and a period of rebuilding from the ground up. Rather than return to the life he had lost, Garth began creating a new one, first through kickboxing and personal training, then coaching, NLP, hypnotherapy and public speaking.

That reinvention changed the direction of his life. Working with clients in Kensington, Chelsea, Mayfair and Knightsbridge, Garth quickly discovered that outward success rarely tells the full story. Behind impressive careers, beautiful homes and financial security, he met people struggling with confidence, stress, identity and a profound sense that something was missing. It led him to focus not simply on changing bodies, but on helping people change the thoughts, behaviours and emotional patterns driving their lives.

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