Two decades, one question.
Hi, I'm Marc Champagne.
I study, write, and speak about mental fitness. But that's the short answer, and I do a lot of things in service of one idea — that our minds should be working for us. So let me give you the fuller picture.
For the last two decades I've been studying a single question: how do we train the mind to work for us instead of against us?
I spent years in the healthcare industry, doing well by every measure the corporate world uses. Top in the country in sales, then a strategist leading hundred-million-dollar brands, then up the ladder from there. Most of that success I credit to a few intentional minutes each morning — not hours — learning from the best thinkers in the world and training my mind consistently.
I kept coming back to the same question: why doesn't everyone know about this?
So I left to study how the best thinkers consistently train their minds. Because I believe our ultimate competitive advantage — individually and as an organization — is a clear, focused, thriving mind.
That led to co-founding one of the first mental fitness apps, which reached 86.9 million people. Around the same time, I started the podcast. Well over 500 conversations later with founders, CEOs, Olympians, artists, and thinkers, asking each of them the same underlying thing: what actually happens in your head when the pressure is on, and what do you do about it? It's called Behind the Human with Marc Champagne [Apple | Spotify], it ranks around the world, and it's the closest thing I have to a weekly research lab. If you want a steady input of mental nutrition, subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.
The journey also led to my first book. Personal Socrates: Better Questions, Better Life which is a bestseller on Amazon and collects the questions that shaped the lives of people like Kobe Bryant, Maya Angelou, and Marcus Aurelius. I found the same pattern everywhere: the people who navigate hard things well aren't asking harder questions. They're asking better ones, more often, and protecting the time to think about them.
My second book comes out November 10, 2026. It's called You're Invited, and it sets a table for a life-changing conversation with fourteen of history's greatest thinkers. It's a book about the space between — where what worked before no longer does, and what comes next hasn't arrived yet. You can pre-order it here.
I'm often asked back into the very corporate world I left to study this space.
I spend a lot of my time inside high-performing teams — at Google, LinkedIn, KPMG, Pfizer, P&G — keynote speaking and integrating mental fitness into how they operate. Not as a wellness moment, but as actual infrastructure. A team that thinks clearly under pressure makes better decisions than one that doesn't. They also outthink and outperform their competition. If you'd like to bring this work to your organization, start here: keynotes and consulting.
After hearing the same question in the Q&A after nearly every keynote — how do I make these practices stick? — I built the Mental Fitness Blueprint. It shows you how your particular mind operates and gives you a plan to work with it instead of against it. It takes about fifteen minutes to generate.
Here's to thriving minds, and to showing up thinking, feeling, and performing at our best more days than not.
— Marc