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Bob Reece

Bob Reece

Bob Reece is a Cheyenne, Wyoming-based life coach and clinical counselor who runs Bob Reece Coaching & Counseling (Thin Air Coaching) and has appeared on the Cowboy State Daily Show as a mental health awareness life coach.

Oct 15, 2026

5:21
It's over to you
5:22
... that sounds good.
5:24
All right.
5:24
So well, I, I used to be a, a high school and junior high teacher and coach.
5:29
I spent a lot of my life working with youth, which I enjoyed and loved, but during that time, I had...
5:35
I went through this three-year stretch where I was teaching, I was coaching, but I was also starting and running two businesses on the side, and I'd worked 60 to 70-hour weeks for about three years in a row, and my marriage had started to deteriorate, my health had started to fail, and I didn't pay attention to it.
5:54
I did what I thought I was supposed to be doing as a disciplined man.

10 MINS LATER

16:09
Football.
186:28
Like, we also look at other men in our age group and our peers, and we're like, that could be unhealthy, right?
186:38
Yeah, the comparison culture is so, so real, like you said, in adults, right? Because we see all this stuff from the outside.
186:46
We see what looks like amazing, maybe financial success or the perfect marriage, and we feel like our marriage isn't perfect, right? Or some guys here financially travel and has this car, this house, and we get in this cycle of should, right? We should be here, we should have this, and we should do this.
187:01
And it really takes our focus off of what we do have in our lives.
187:06
And there's this dangerous cycle of when I focus on what I don't have, I start to lose more of what I actually do have, which typically takes us lower and lower.
187:16
And to kind of circle back on what you said earlier in terms of...
187:19
Doing what I thought I should be.
189:26
But what is fly fishing? How do you use it?

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