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Portrait of Garin Heslop in a dark jacket and open-collared shirt, smiling

Co-founder & CEO, GYNERGY

Meet Garin.

Raised by his single father. A self-made millionaire by twenty-three. Built $40M+ across two prior companies, lost everything twice, and co-founded GYNERGY in 2024.

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200+ leaders coachedSan Diego, California

His story

From the inside out.

  • 19Into real estate, end to end
  • 23Self-made millionaire
  • $40M+Across two prior companies
  • 100+Employees at Medcare Farms
  • 2×Lost everything, and rebuilt
  • 200+Leaders coached

Garin Heslop is a builder. He sees problems and builds solutions to them. He only spends his time on the ones he truly believes in. Raised by his single father, he learned to work for what he had before he learned what he wanted; the operating instinct started young, the purpose came later. He went into real estate at nineteen and was a self-made millionaire by twenty-three. The company ran end-to-end across land development, new construction and residential resale; he guided builders and developers through the entire process, from raw land to a buyer holding the keys, with a team behind him.

At twenty-five, a near-fatal motorcycle accident cut that company short. His own recovery from it showed him the trap waiting on the other side of pain: an opioid epidemic hollowing out his community with no safe natural alternative. So he built one. Medcare Farms grew into a fully vertically integrated cannabis operation, spanning cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, retail and delivery, that crossed $14 million a year and more than a hundred employees. At its peak it ranked among the top ten cannabis retailers in California and the top twenty CPG brands in the state, solving the two problems his recovery had named: awareness of natural medicine as a better alternative, and safe access to it.

Then 2022 ended the second company for reasons outside it. He was leading more than a hundred employees through the back half of a pandemic when an eight-month stretch took his father, his grandmother, his marriage, and the business that depended on all of them. He had built and rebuilt past $40 million in cumulative revenue across two companies, and learned, twice, that the operator is the company's most fragile asset. The companies were healthy. Life was not. It almost ended him.

What he was reborn into wasn't another business. It was a mission. GYNERGY is the third, but for the first time it didn't come from spotting a problem in the world. It came from putting himself back together. He co-founded it in 2024, on a morning that didn't owe him a third chance. It rests on a framework he had started drawing the winter before, after most of his life had been packed away, one column for every part of his life that still owed him work. Health. Relationships. Mindset. Wealth. Legacy.

Most of the last year Garin has spent on the technology underneath: GYNERGY.AI and ARIA, the AI coaching infrastructure he built on a single observation. Frameworks don't change anyone's life when there's no operating system around them. Two hundred-plus leaders coached so far. He has also personally helped build close to a dozen homes for families in need, three of them through GYNERGY's service retreats in Ensenada, and visits orphanages. The mission is larger than the company. By 2035: a thousand homes built for families in need, a hundred learning centers, a million lives moved. Most coaches teach what they've read. Garin builds what he had to put back together himself, one column at a time.

“I built the first two from the outside in. The third I'm building from the inside out.”

Garin Heslop

Where he does the work

The room, the men, the build.

Garin Heslop standing at the head of a table, mid-sentence, talking with a small group of seated founders
Leading a founders' table.
A room of men after an LVL 5 group workout, flexing and laughing, with Garin Heslop kneeling at the center holding up a black LVL 5 T-shirt
LVL 5 Men, after a group workout.
Garin Heslop, from behind in a Mexico Service Retreat shirt, with his arm around a woman from the family at their home build, volunteers on the roof
A home build at the Mexico Service Retreat, May 2025.

The name and the mission

Master the self to serve the world.

GYNERGY is Garin, plus Yesi Magaña, Co-founder, plus Energy. Founded in 2024, in San Diego.

A tiered share of net profit (up to 12.5% as we scale) is pledged to homes and learning centers for families in need. We are pre-profit today.

The build crew in black GYNERGY In Action shirts with the family, holding their baby, in front of the light-green home they built, behind a GYNERGY In Action banner
The crew and the family at the finished home, Mexico Service Retreat.

From the rooms he runs

In their own words.

From across Gynergy

“Anytime you can eliminate stress, anytime you can make yourself a more resilient, happier person, you're winning… my health got better, my decisions got better, my business improved.”

Chris Sands

Date Zero graduate

“The Gynergy Effect is about creating ripples in our world… taking our energy and helping others feel our positive energy.”

Matthew Zuraw

Entrepreneur in tech · LVL 5 member

Work with Garin this season

Sixty days is enough time.

Close The Year: four live Wednesdays with Garin, ten seats, by application. It is not enough time to drift and then fix it in December.

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$2,997 · 10 seats · every dollar back through Nov 10