For 30 years, I led a business focused on providing technology, payments and membership management services for the commercial fitness industry.

ABC provides these various services to over 10,000 facilities in North America. I have personally visited five thousand plus health clubs over the past 30 years and have developed both professional and personal relationships with many of our club owner operators! One, in particular, I would like to share my experiences with you is Gary Patti.

Gary has been a customer, friend, and spiritual mentor for me over 25 years! From the first day I met Gary and heard his personal story, I have been impressed, inspired, and drawn to his kindness and good heart. After meeting Gary and understanding all that he overcame in his early life and then to know he went on to become a highly successful athlete and ultimately own his own health club for over 40 years, it stands as proof of the great miracles and blessings that God can do for anyone in their lives!

Gary’s Unbreakable Hope Platform is serving many to receive the word of God from someone who inspires hope, faith, and love for all those who meet him. I am proud to call Gary my friend and brother in Christ.

It would be difficult to describe the impact Gary has had on my life in just a few short paragraphs. I have been working with Gary on and off for the past twenty years and I couldn’t ask for a better coach or teacher. I have been faced with many challenges through the years: a horrible divorce from an abusive alcoholic, major career difficulties and breast cancer. He has coached me through it all with his customary combination of logical thinking coupled with a sense of humor. Gary always points me to the best version of myself – the one that I didn’t realize was “in there”.

When faced with a problem that I can’t seem to think through or solve on my own, I turn to Gary. It seems like the harder the issue, the more emotional I become. Gary has always been there to talk through it with me; we examine the issue from all perspectives, holding it up to the light to see every aspect of the problem. Then with Gary’s coaching, we work together from a logical perspective to address each area of the problem. I am left with a very clear understanding of how to address it, and even better – what I can learn from it.

Gary has a unique style; his coaching is logical, thorough and simultaneously inspiring. I would not be where I am today without him, and for that, I am eternally grateful. Thank you Gary!

Sincerely,

Gary Patti, is a man I have the deepest respect, and love him like a brother.

I've dealt with people at the Enterprise level, all the way down to self-motivated and driven sole proprietors.

Gary has a level of intensity and grit which inspire a great deal of respect.

The things he has overcome!

His breadth of experience in industry and plain-old life is equally impressive.

My family and I founded The Edge Fitness clubs in 1988.

We led the business from one small family run gym to a 43 club chain operating in 9 states and growing. Together we found a way to build what today is known as the HVLP segment of the fitness industry. We have sewed seeds of friendship and collaboration with gym owners around the country to help build a new powerful segment of the industry. That segment provides affordable high quality gyms to members all around the country.

One, friend and fellow gym owner we met over the years is Gary Patti. We stayed friends over the years but God brought us closer together during a personal storm in my life. Gary’s kindness and love of our lord poured into me during the toughest days of my life. Gary’s friendship and ministry are a blessing to us and an inspiration to what God can do in our lives.

I have known Gary Patti for almost forty years. You do not meet Gary without soon after knowing you have just made a forever friend.
A motivational speaker, Gary’s positive message transcends generations and engenders an unbreakable hope to so many broken around us. Gary always comes through with a strength forged in his own experience of victories championed by never giving up. So this Gary Patti, my friend, one who was born for this, yes this one is “but for the glory of God.”