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Master Your Energy
Energy is upstream of every result. The world's highest performers don't manage time first — they steward physiology, nervous system, sleep, and presence.
Founder File · Vol. I
Founder File · Founder & CEO, Happy Life Labs
Helping leaders master their most valuable asset — their energy.
Founder & CEO of Happy Life Labs — serving high-performing entrepreneurs, executives, elite athletes, physicians, and wellness leaders in the pursuit of their fullest potential.
Brett Harmeling · MBA · ERYT-500 · Bestselling Author · Global Speaker · Philanthropist
Brett Harmeling
Philosophy
When people master their energy, they elevate every area of life.
Brett Harmeling helps leaders optimize their most valuable asset: their energy. As the Founder and CEO of Happy Life Labs, he serves high-performing entrepreneurs, executives, elite athletes, physicians, and wellness leaders in the pursuit of their fullest potential.
Through Happy Life Labs, Brett teaches and collaborates with impact-driven entrepreneurs, peak performers, and growth-oriented individuals who want to optimize their energy, lead with purpose, and build a life defined by health, vitality, and meaningful contribution. He curates the world's most effective health optimization products, people, and places — empowering clients to access what he calls their "superhuman potential" from the inside out.
Alongside Strategic Growth Partner Aaron Bare, Brett is architecting the proactive practice — a physician-led model that pairs world-class strategy with a deeply human approach to transformation.
"When people master their energy, they elevate every area of life."
The operating system
Key principles
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Strategy + Soul
With Aaron Bare as Strategic Growth Partner, Brett pairs world-class strategy with a deeply human approach — helping organizations break through to their next level.
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Faith & Family First
Above his titles and accomplishments, Brett identifies first as a man of God, a devoted husband and father, and a servant-leader. The order is the message.
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Teach What You Live
Rice MBA, ERYT-500 Master Yoga Teacher, Notre Dame theology, Carthage B.S. Education, and bestselling author — Brett only teaches what he has stress-tested himself.
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Curate, Don't Sell
57+ countries searching for what actually works — biotech, red light, breathwork, primal remedies, and the restorative power of nature. Happy Life Labs publishes only what moves the needle.
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Service is the Metric
Honored with the President's Lifetime Achievement Award for fighting human trafficking. True success is measured by the lives transformed along the way.
Ch. 01Origin
The injury that became the curriculum
Brett's mission was forged in a defining moment. A traumatic brain injury sustained on the ice playing ice hockey led to years of medication and suppression. In 2012, he made a commitment to take 100% responsibility for his health and share what he learned with the world.
That decision became the foundation of everything Happy Life Labs stands for today — and the start of more than a decade traveling 57+ countries in pursuit of the world's most powerful modalities for human optimization, from cutting-edge biotech and red light therapy to ancient primal remedies and the restorative power of nature.
"In 2012 I took 100% responsibility for my health — and decided to share everything I learned."
Ch. 02The Work
Building the proactive practice
Brett leads Happy Life Labs — a physician-forward platform for the proactive practice — helping individuals and organizations break through the barriers holding them back from their next level, combining world-class strategy with a deeply human approach to transformation.
Beyond the Lab, Brett leads immersive wellness and performance experiences in partnership with prestigious hotels, luxury wellness resorts, Fortune 100 C-suite executives, bestselling authors, and thought leaders.
"World-class strategy, deeply human transformation — that's the standard."
Ch. 03Credentials & Career
A rare polymath across industries
Brett holds an MBA from Rice Business — Jones Graduate School of Business, a 500-hour Master Yoga Teacher certification (ERYT-500), a Leadership Certificate from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a Degree in Theology from Notre Dame University, and a Bachelor of Science in Education from Carthage College.
His career spans Technology Consulting, Real Estate, Cyber Intelligence, and Wellness — a breadth that makes him a rare polymath capable of solving sophisticated challenges across industries. He is the award-winning author of multiple works at the intersection of health, performance, and purposeful living, and has been featured across national and international media.
Ch. 04Recognition & Service
President's Lifetime Achievement Award
Brett was honored with the President's Lifetime Achievement Award — one of America's most prestigious civilian honors — for his dedication to fighting human trafficking and creating lasting positive impact on humanity.
He is a featured member of GoBundance, one of the most elite communities of high-performance men in the world, and an active volunteer with the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo and Hives for Heroes, a national nonprofit serving veterans and first responders through the healing practice of beekeeping.
"True success is measured by the lives you transform along the way."
Ch. 05At His Core
Man of God. Husband. Father. Servant-leader.
Above his titles and accomplishments, Brett identifies first as a man of God, a devoted husband and father, and a servant-leader who believes true success is measured by the lives you transform along the way.
His mission is simple and unwavering — to inspire people to do what inspires them, so that together, we leave an indelible mark on humanity and build a future worthy of the next generation.
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