Ep. 47: Glenn Proctor on never giving up
Foster child. Alcoholic. Marine. Vietnam War vet. Cancer survivor. Glenn Proctor has packed a lot of lives into one life. How did he survive it all? Grace, gratitude and grit.
The author of five books, Glenn became a writer at age 8. His poetry was his lifeline until he started drinking at 12. He joined the Marine Corps, served a year in Vietnam, came home and was in the next room when he heard the shot. The grandpa who had raised him took his own life.
Glenn got sober in 1984, worked in journalism for four decades then became a lifeline for others. He offers life coaching, mental health first aid and suicide prevention guidance. He shares how to never, ever, give up.
Tips and Takeaways:
Believe and love the face in the mirror.
Never, ever, give up.
Accept your life story and move on, or remain stuck in first gear.
When you fall, don’t get up. Jump up.
Bio:
Glenn Proctor retired as the executive editor and vice president of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, ending a journalism career spanning 40 years. He shared in the Pulitzer Prize at the Akron Beacon Journal, judged Pulitzer Prizes five times and taught journalism and media at Kent State University and Washington and Lee University and media leadership as executive residence for the Maynard Journalism Program at Northwestern University.
A former Marine Corps gunnery sergeant and Vietnam veteran, Glenn is a peer support advocate and trainer being certified in peer support (w/veterans designation), suicide prevention, mental health first aid, grief support and as a life coach.
He is the author of five books, including a poetry trilogy. Glenn teaches and trains from lived experience - foster kid, single parent, alcoholic and cancer survivor.
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