Today we’d like to introduce you to Raj Harvey.
Raj, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
My name is Raj Harvey, but most people know me as Coach Raj. I was born in Jamaica, and later migrated to Toronto, before finally planting my roots in Conyers, GA . My story is one of humble beginnings, painful lessons, and divine transformation — proof that no matter how far you fall, you can always rise again.
I started from the bottom, driven by big dreams and a burning desire to create something of my own. Eventually, I launched my first company in Toronto, and from there, I went on to build several other businesses. For a while, things were looking up. But life has a way of testing your strength when you least expect it.
One day, a business partner someone I trusted decided to walk away and take everything with them. Overnight, I lost it all. Every dollar, every ounce of stability, every bit of confidence I had built. I was left standing in the ruins of what used to be my dream.
I won’t lie it broke me.
I lost my peace.
I lost my identity.
I lost my relationship.
And at one point, I almost lost my will to fight.
I felt like the modern-day Job — stripped of everything I thought defined me. But it was in those dark, quiet, and lonely moments that I realized something powerful: there was something greater waiting for me on the other side of my pain.
I had two choices — stay buried or rise.
I chose to rise.
Through sleepless nights and deep soul work, I began to rebuild myself from the inside out. I learned the art of stillness how to sit with my pain until it became my teacher. I turned my problems into passions and my pain into power. What once felt like the end became the beginning of a new version of me — stronger, wiser, and more intentional than ever before.
I stopped waiting for someone to save me and I became the rescue.
That shift changed everything. Through self-education, self-improvement, and a deep connection with God, I found my true calling. I became a Certified Life and Relationship Coach, not because I had it all figured out, but because I had lived it, learned from it, and came out on the other side with purpose.
Today, I stand as living proof that the comeback is always stronger than the setback but only if you’re willing to do the work. My mission now is to help others rise, rebuild, and rediscover their strength because if I can overcome it, so can you.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
No, it definitely hasn’t been a smooth road. My journey has been filled with challenges that tested everything inside of me my faith, my patience, my character, and even my sense of identity.
There were moments when life hit so hard that I questioned whether I would ever recover. Losing my business after a trusted partner walked away with everything was one of the hardest blows I’ve ever faced. Overnight, everything I had built crumbled the money, the reputation, the stability, the dream. I went from being a business owner to starting over from nothing, carrying only my pain and a few lessons I didn’t yet understand.
Beyond the financial losses came the emotional ones. I battled heartbreak, betrayal, loneliness, and moments of deep self-doubt. I had to face the reality that not everyone who starts with you is meant to finish with you and that sometimes God allows you to lose everything so you can find yourself.
There were nights I couldn’t sleep, days I couldn’t focus, and seasons where I didn’t recognize the man in the mirror. I felt stripped, broken, and forgotten. But through it all, I realized that every loss was a lesson and every setback was preparing me for a greater comeback.
Those struggles taught me resilience, discipline, and humility. They forced me to do the inner work to heal, to grow, and to let God rebuild me into the man I was meant to be. It wasn’t easy, but it was necessary. And now, when I look back, I can honestly say that the pain had purpose.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
I am a certified life coach who specializes in heartbreak recovery, but the label only scratches the surface. My work is not a set of techniques pulled from a textbook it is the distillation of my life. I have lived the grief I help others navigate; I have felt the betrayal, the emptiness, the nights when hope seemed like a foreign language. That reality gives my work a depth and an urgency that theory alone cannot reach. When someone sits across from me and says, “I don’t know how to breathe after this,” I don’t answer with abstraction I answer with the roadmap I used to teach myself how to breathe again.
Heartbreak is not a single event; it’s a series of small deaths. It kills routines, it fractures trust, it rewires how you see yourself. My approach begins with radical acceptance naming the loss instead of dressing it up or rushing past it. I teach clients to hold their pain with curiosity and compassion so it can become a teacher instead of a trap. That means creating space for the full range of emotion: sorrow, anger, shame, relief. We unpack what each feeling is trying to tell us about unmet needs, childhood wounds, and the stories we’ve been telling ourselves. From there, we rebuild intentionally.
Practically, my work blends breathwork and stillness practices with cognitive and narrative tools. I anchor clients in the present through simple breath exercises that calm the nervous system, then use guided reflection to examine the narratives that keep them stuck the “I am broken” or “I’ll never be loved again” loops. We replace those narratives with evidence-based reframes that are honest, not Pollyanna: small truths that can be lived and repeated until they become felt. I help people practice self-boundaries, ritualize small acts of self-care, and design micro-commitments that restore agency the tiny, daily choices that say, “I am reclaiming my life.”
What sets my work apart is not just that I hold these tools it’s that I’ve tested them in the worst-case scenario. I lost businesses, relationships, identity, and peace. I stood in that ruin and chose to excavate meaning from it. That process taught me crucial lessons I now teach others: how to steward grief instead of denying it; how to translate humiliation into humility that produces wisdom; how to transform scarcity thinking into a resilient expectancy. My certifications gave me language and structure; my lived experience gave me the map.
I am also intentional about the spiritual dimension of recovery. For many people, heartbreak creates an existential vacuum. I sit with clients in that silence and, if they want, I guide them toward practices that reconnect them to something greater whether that’s God, a creative calling, or a deeper sense of self. This is not proselytizing; it’s about restoring meaning. When a client reclaims a sense of destiny, the work shifts from mere repair to radical reclamation.
The results are rarely Hollywood-style dramatic instant fixes. Real recovery looks like a person who can sit with a painful memory without disintegrating; who can greet a new day with curiosity instead of dread; who can set a boundary without apologizing for it. Over time I’ve seen clients go from hollow survival to wholehearted living they start businesses, re-enter relationships with healthier standards, and rediscover passions they had shelved. Those outcomes are my daily measurement of success.
Finally, I lead from testimony, not theory. I don’t offer platitudes; I offer earned strategies and an honest witness who has walked the same ground. My invitation to anyone who’s hurting is straightforward: bring your rawness, your questions, and your willingness to do the work. I will meet you there with the tools I’ve refined in my own life and the fierce belief that your comeback can be mightier than your setback. If I can rise from the ruins, you can too and I will walk beside you until you recognize the strength that was always inside you.
Do you have recommendations for books, apps, blogs, etc?
The Subtle Heart of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
The Four-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
The Daily Stoke by Ryan Holiday
48 Laws of Power by Robert Green
Finding My Way by Cathy Benson
Life of a Hustler: The Awakening by Raj Harvey
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.chancesmakechampions.com
- Instagram: RajHarveyOfficial
- Facebook: Raj Harvey
- Youtube: RajHarveyOfficial
