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Glen Hicks

Founder of Digital Independent Life and USTATION; former IT executive who left corporate career at 48 after heart attack at 34; author of "Rewired, Not Retired"

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Jul 3, 2026

169: Rewired Before It's Too Late with Glen Hicks

Jul 3 · 47m

Maurice PhilogeneHOST

5:38

You had a lot, but what really hit me about that passage was you saying I was a family man who hardly saw his family, right?

Glen HicksGUEST

5:46

Yeah, absolutely.

Glen HicksGUEST

5:49

And so that event was me having a massive heart attack at 34.

Glen HicksGUEST

5:57

So prior to that, I was in IT.

Glen HicksGUEST

6:03

I had been promoted to a very senior role, 200 people reporting to me before I was 30 years old.

Glen HicksGUEST

6:12

And I was, well, I am a workaholic.

Glen HicksGUEST

6:16

I guess that's something you never really recover from.

30 MINS LATER

Maurice PhilogeneHOST

36:33

or did you get it sold to a publisher and they took care of it? You self-published.