about GUY
After having lost their first child, Guy Massi was born to a middle-class husband and wife (Everett and Frances Massi) amidst the highly affluent community of Rye, New York. As an overweight child, Guy was shy and only suffered further challenges when his father passed while he was only eleven years old.
Guy was driven into employment by the time he was eleven years old working at a local grocery store, and summers with his family of painters. Despite his challenges, Guy remained very active in athletics playing football, baseball and ice hockey, as well as performing in a local band that went on to become regionally popular. In commenting on a pivotal opportunity in his life, Guy states, “The New York Rangers saved my life!” Shortly after the passing of his father, he became a practice assistant with the New York Rangers professional ice hockey team.
Not too long after, Guy was introduced to the Rangers’ new head coach, Herb Brooks. A man of few words (mostly important ones), Herb began to forge a very private relationship with Guy that influenced many of his life’s decisions. Guy recollects that he became enamored with the Russian physical training systems mostly because of Herb’s interests, and he learned more energy system conditioning theories from Herb, then probably anyone else. It was the eventual evolution of these interests that lead Guy to begin boxing and martial arts in addition to the other sports, as a means of weight loss and physical development. Additionally, he played short stints of ice hockey within various professional ice hockey leagues.
Guy received his first strength and conditioning certification at eighteen years old and attended SUNY Westchester and SUNY Cortland for undergraduate studies. He continued to develop a career path providing fitness and athletic development coaching to work-force and athlete clientele, while working as an expediter in the aerospace industry, attending massage therapy courses, and serving as a part-time reserve police officer.
Around the age of eighteen, Guy was struck by the loss of his mother and the ensuing unfortunate battle by a family member to take his family house and inheritance away from him. Sleeping in his car some nights, Guy was moved by an “entrepreneurial spirit” that fostered his building a very lucrative fitness coaching and organizational development business. Yet, it was at the urging of a close police officer friend that he took the police test in an effort to demonstrate a more easily translatable and apparently more sustainable career path. After being hired by a fairly busy Westchester County, NY municipal department, he entered into another decade of his exposure to law enforcement, while enjoying a highly decorated career in foot, bicycle, and vehicular patrol.
He was then promoted to the rank of Sergeant, supervising police personnel some five years after his initial hire. During this time Guy maintained and complimented his strength and conditioning as well as business development knowledge – operating both his fitness/athletic development training, and canine equipment supply businesses as side jobs.
A police officer serving during the 9/11 era, he was unfortunately injured in the line-of-duty during a completely unrelated incident. After enduring a bitter battle for both his rights and benefits, he separated from service and segued into a completely civilian life. Jumping into what he already knew best, Guy immersed himself, joined forces with some industry friends, and re-branded his fitness training and athletic performance business to focus on developing everyone from youth to professional athletes, military and emergency service personnel, as well as civilian work-force, and home-force clients.
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Nowadays he presents both nationally and internationally on the subjects of strength and conditioning, athletic development, safety, mindfulness, and
business/personal development – with the ultimate goal of impacting personal and professional growth through sustainable change. His company has developed athletes from practically every sport within the youth, high school, collegiate, Olympic, and professional levels while currently maintaining board seats within industry relevant groups in order to compliment the development and evolution
of related industries, and himself. By his own admission, he never feels content with his level of development and perpetually immerses himself in means that are meant to positively affect his own personal growth. One of these means is his persistent obsession to positively impact others by delivering a message intended to deter or arrest a path of destructive personal, financial, career and relationship decisions.
This book is truly a parallel chronicle of sorts to his own challenges to discover
truly positive role models and encouragers in his life. This book is a personal letter of warning, enlightenment, and hope to the reader.