Hustle with Heart: Unlocking Self-Worth Through Personal Trust Communities
Do you consider where you’ve been, and where you want to go? And who do you call on for guidance? After learning he was adopted out of the blue, Mike Thorne struggled to find his place in the world, plagued by perfectionism and fears of abandonment that followed him into adulthood.
But he identified a path for himself through sports, along with two key concepts that helped him transform a better way forward: that we need to Build, Belong, and Believe to make progress effectively, and that we must have others on our journey. People we can rely on to hold us accountable and for support-a Personal Trust Community. With his story, Mike teaches readers of all ages how to learn from his experiences and reach their North Star by employing the tools he built along the way. He’s proof that by hustling with heart on the field and beyond, we can transform and thrive at home and work.
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Excerpt from the Book
Page 1, Chapter 1
Excerpt: “Hi, I started “my name is Mike Thorne, and I believe Alice is my mother. I’m calling her to thank her for what she did”. In that moment, I felt the weight of everything I’d been carrying dissipate. There, I said it. I thought. It didn’t matter what happened next. The hardest part of my job was done. I’d found my biological mother, reached out to her, and offered up the one message I knew I needed to share.
About the Author, Mike Thorne
When I was nine, my parents told me I was adopted, and it shattered my sense of identity and belonging. 
After that point, I believed being “perfect” was the only way to avoid rejection and abandonment. For years, I chose to trust only myself. It was only through finding the people I felt I belonged with and could trust, through sports, work, friends, and family, that I was able to build my confidence and truly believe in my ultimate success. I call this group of people your personal trust community.
In my own, my wife supports my emotional and social well-being. Father John supports my spiritual well-being. My personal trainer, Suzan, supports my physical well-being. They, along with several others, have helped me unleash my own greatness. Seeing my own transformation using the help of my personal trust community spurred me to want to help others find their personal trust communities too.
I now help executives and individuals determine what’s holding them back, restore their dignity, and build personal trust communities in their lives and organizations to unleash their own greatness and achieve their goals.
