Exploring Life & Business with David Grange of Live Stellar Coaching

Today we’d like to introduce you to David Grange. 

Hi David, so excited to have you on the platform. So, before we get into questions about your work life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today.
My wife and I graduated from Utah State University. The day after graduating we hopped on a plane headed for Maui, Hawaii where I landed my first job in the luxury hotel business. My wife is a graphic designer and has always had side gigs and hustles in the graphic design space so while she worked from home, I worked 5 days a week at the hotel and two days a week sailing yaughts and taking people on snorkel trips and whale watches. We were dirt bagging it, moving 9 times in 13 months to save money while also living the millionaire lifestyle doing all of the trips around the island for FREE for my job, helicopter tours, zip lines, snorkel trips, luaus, and literally everything on island. It was a dream but lacked upward growth so after a year we moved back to the mainland and we both scored great jobs in Utah. We saved enough to buy our first home, a brick rambler with loads of potential in Cedar Hills. My wife was doing graphic design and I was working as a sales manager for Sundance Mountain Resort. I was the Sundance kid and traveled around the country promoting Robert Redford’s slice of heaven tucked away in the Wasatch Mountains. Two kids, two dogs, and some stellar times later, I accepted a job offer in Sun Valley, Idaho working for the Limelight Hotel with Aspen Skiing Company. 

We put down roots and bought a house in Hailey, a stellar mountain bike town with a ski problem just 9 miles south of Sun Valley. With two young kids, a new job, and new town to explore, Rio, my wife acted on a dream and started her own deign company creating study journals and notebooks to compliment the LDS church conferences that happen twice a year. 

During the first couple conferences we had a picnic table in our living room and pallets of workbooks and notebooks in the garage. Groups of moms would come over and pack them up while I set up obstacle courses and time trials for the 15 kids that would come with their moms haha something had to change… fast. 

We got an office on main street just 3 minutes from our home and kept the good things going. While things were picking up with Rio, I started going back to school to become a performance coach. Dreams of working for myself and my own hours while also helping people to live their best lives and perform at a higher level was rocket fuel to start my own coaching practice. Before my school had ended, I was laid off due to hotel restructuring. By divine design, I already had momentum and jumped two feet into coaching. It has proven to be the greatest life upgrade of my life. 

Fast forward and now my wife is cranking with her business designing gospel-inspired products to help people capture their inspired thoughts. She’s acquired two other companies that align with her company and brand and has 8 ladies around the country working for her. I having a dynamic performance coaching business helping people perform at their highest level while rekindling their wild side. I coach one-on-one and groups, speak and host adventure coaching retreats at a family ranch. We split the week, I work Monday and Wednesday while she works Tuesdays and Thursdays. We have 4 kids under 8 years old, I’m teaching early morning seminary to the high school juniors and seniors, and we get out and adventure with our kids every day. We are living our dream and have plenty of new ideas we can’t wait to keep exploring and creating. 

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Of course, it hasn’t been smooth haha. High highs and low lows. From entrepreneurship challenges of working with international manufacturers, managing teams, gaining and losing clients, financial dips and overextending ourselves, and so much more. At one point in Maui our housing option fell through on the say we were supposed to move in so our only option was to rent a car and live in it for a few days while we found a new option. We were kicked out of a parking lot one night and I have never felt so low. #firstworldproblems but still. 

As much as my wife has her business, it is very much a WE thing as she has navigated the challenges of working with companies overseas such as delayed products, wrong products being shipped or errors found after printing, etc… 

Finances have been challenging at times with products needing to be ordered while mortgages are also needing to be paid and medical bills to be paid. 

We work our butts of though, trust God and things have always turned out for the better. 

Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about Live Stellar Coaching?
Live Stellar Coaching is all about reigniting people’s wild sides and helping them step into their most impactful self. 

Through my adventure-based framework I help people in all aspects of life to create lifestyles of high performance to accelerate their careers, growth their businesses and strengthen their most important relationships all while being world-class parents and spouses. 

I am a sponsored athlete across 3 different industries from pack rafting to mountain biking to fly fishing. As an athlete and adventurer, I tap into many of the powerful lessons learned while adventuring to help my clients see their challenges with a new lens and with new possible solutions to explore. This absolutely sets me apart from other traditional career or leadership coaches. This is also why I started my adventure coaching retreats to help get people outside of their typical routines and behaviors and to give them an experience that they can draw upon, learn from and ignite their wild side. 

One client said it best, “I wish everyone could know about themselves what I know about myself after working with Dave and that is that I can do ANYTHING.” 

I’m in the trenches of raising a young family, growing two businesses, giving my best to my seminary church calling and trying to raise my future adventure buddies and I LOVE it! I’ve studied high performance and seen what few things work the BEST to impact people’s lives the most and I love coaching that, speaking about that and helping people live their wildest, most fulfilling, and adventurous lives. 

We’d love to hear about what you think about risk-taking.
We have definitely taken some risks with investing in ourselves. For me personally, I have invested 10’s of thousands of dollars into coaches, programs, and workshops to help sharpen my sword and grow my business and skills as a coach. Sometimes the money has been very tight, but I felt confident in the program or coach or what I could gain or learn from it. 

Rio has taken risks with hiring coaches, acquiring other businesses, collaborating with larger businesses, etc… Lots of prayer, asking mentors, making lists of pros and cons, etc… 

The biggest thing that has helped both of us to navigate risk is knowing what our VALUES are a person and as a company. It is so much easier to make decisions and calculate risk when we know what we stand for and where we want to stretch and see what’s possible. 

Contact Info:

• Email: Dave@livestellarco.com
• Website: https://www.livestellarco.com/
• Instagram: Live.stellar