As the author of two books from major publishers and a writing coach and editor with 30 years of experience, I'd love to guide you to get your memoir or nonfiction "big ideas" book out of your head and into your reader's hands. The world needs your stories, wisdom...your book.
When my clients publish a book, they get more opportunities to make impact on the world. I know. My life transformed when I wrote and published my memoir, Into the Soul of the World: My Journey to Healing. Here’s what best-selling author Hampton Sides wrote about my book:
“Brad Wetzler has led the very definition of an adventurous life, but in Into the Soul of the World, he gives an unflinching account of his interior adventures. Wetzler’s soulful quest, by turns anguished and transcendent, will resonate with readers around the world who struggle to find purpose and a sense of the holy in the ambient jitter of the digital age.”
— Hampton Sides, New York Times Best-selling author of Ghost Soldiers
**Join Brad Wetzler, acclaimed journalist and author of "Into the Soul of the World," in this deeply immersive five-week course to explore the art and heart of memoir writing.**
Each week features interactive workshops, in-depth analyses, and personal writing assignments, drawing primarily from the themes and techniques used in “Into the Soul of the World,” with additional guidance from other celebrated memoirs.
21 March, 2023
We parked the Land Rovers at the bottom of the mountain. It took an hour to hike up to the cave, which was located near the top of a jungle-covered foothill…..
18 March, 2023
On a childhood canoe trip, 12-year-old Brad Wetzler and his dad were thrown from their boat into a raging Arkansas river. Wetzler’s father swam to safetybut his son was swept away. When Brad got stuck on a submerged tree…
17 March, 2023
When I was a kid, our house flooded. Twice. During heavy summer rains, water from the creek in our front yard flooded the basement and then the first floor, ruining almost everything we owned…..
I’m Brad Wetzler, award-winning author, editor, and memoir writing coach.
I help successful, inspiring, big-hearted people like you change their lives by writing and publishing memoirs and nonfiction books.
And I’m also the author of the acclaimed memoir, “Into the Soul of the World: My Journey to Healing.” As an experienced memoir and nonfiction book writing coach and publishing consultant, I help new and experienced, best-selling authors realize their dreams and finally write and publish their books.
So, are you a big-hearted human with stories to tell and wisdom to share?
Are you a progressive businessperson, thought leader, wellness coach, or therapist? Or perhaps you’re an everyday, hard-working mom, dad, or businessperson with a story to tell, one that can change the world for the better.
If you really want to write a memoir or nonfiction book, then you’ve arrived at the right place. Because I’m a compassionate, experienced book writing coach, and I specialize in helping people write memoir and nonfiction books that help other people grow and transform their lives.
I will guide you to write with power, courage, and heart so you finally write and publish your book.
I didn’t become the most experienced writing coach over night. I’ve been working as a professional editor and writer for the past thirty years. During this times, I’ve developed a sophisticated, compassionate, comprehensive method for supporting writers so that they do their very best work. I help beginning writers as well as New York Times best-selling authors.
I offer:
Bottom Line: Bottom Line: Bottom Line: You won’t find a more experienced and creative coach, editor, or book proposal ghostwriter.
If you’re ready to start, so am I. And you don’t merely get a coach. I will also serve as your confidante, accountability partner, editor, and cheerleader, too.
I’m in this with you from first word to last.
When my clients write their books, they heal, grow, and transform. When they publish their books, they get more income, more leads, and more opportunity to make impact in the world.
Here’s what’s also true: I’m the most experienced writing coach in the business. In addition to coaching hundreds of authors to write and publish their books, I’ve spent the past 30 years working as a professional editor and writer at the highest levels of publishing. I’ve also written and published two books, including a memoir, Into the Soul of the World: My Journey to Healing, which was published by Hachette Book Group, one of the Big Five traditional publishers.
Who benefits from all this real-world experience? You and your book.
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The reviews of my memoir, Into the Soul of the World: My Journey to Healing, have been overwhelmingly positive.
Here’s what some of the U.S.’s best-loved authors had to say about it.
Brad Wetzler has led the very definition of an adventurous life, but in Into the Soul of the World, he gives an unflinching account of his interior adventures. Wetzler’s soulful quest, by turns anguished and transcendent, will resonate with readers around the world who struggle to find purpose and a sense of the holy in the ambient jitter of the digital age.
Reading Brad Wetzler’s Into the Soul of the World is like embarking on a thrilling, dangerous journey—rivering straight into the heart of what matters most—to find yourself transformed. Ever the seeker, Wetzler wrestles with dark family secrets and triggered trauma, redefining what it means to be a man and spiritual being living in the twilight of our hyper-American materialism. If Into the Soul of the World belongs on a shelf next to Eat, Pray, Love, what lingers is Wetzler’s relentless audacity to try to tell the truth, however uncomfortable—about families and lovers and our times—In hopes of setting himself, and us, free.
In the age of toxic masculinity, Brad Wetzler’s Into the Soul of the World offers a powerful, profound, and deeply personal road map for actively cultivating a different kind of manhood. Through energetic and lively prose, Wetzler takes us inside the heart and mind of a man who refuses to conform to society’s restrictive notion of manhood and instead presents a new path for men to walk. This is not an easy path, Wetzler is clear, but we’ve never needed it more.
Are you hesitant to commit to one-on-one coaching, but still eager to kickstart your memoir writing journey? Look no further. Join my 5-week beginner’s memoir class, titled ‘The Soul of Your Story: A Five-Week Memoir Writing Intensive‘.
In this engaging and interactive course conducted through live online Zoom sessions, I will lead you through the process of planning, drafting, and completing your memoir or nonfiction self-help book.
Whether you’re a beginner or have some writing experience, this class is designed to help you make significant progress in your writing goals. My expertise and guidance will provide the support and motivation you need to reach your desired destination with your writing.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to ignite your passion for writing. Sign up today for ‘The Soul of Your Story: A Five-Week Memoir Writing Intensive,’ and let Brad be the writing coach who helps you achieve your writing aspirations.
Brad Wetzler’s memoir, Into the Soul of the World, was published by the Hachette Book Group in March, 2023.
This powerful memoir shares an adventure journalist’s story of a decade-long, round-the-world quest to overcome his drug addiction and to understand and heal from past traumas.
Suffering from PTSD and severe depression from past trauma, battling an addiction to overprescribed psychiatric medication, and at the rock bottom of his career, journalist Brad Wetzler had nowhere to go. So he set out on a journey to wander and hopefully find himself—and the world—again.
Into the Soul of the World is Wetzler’s thrilling, impactful, and heartrending memoir of healing—physically, emotionally, and spiritually. An adventure journalist at heart, Wetzler mixes travelogue with empowering insights about his inner journey to better care for his own mental health. Journey with him as he travels across Israel and the West Bank, before moving on to India, a candle-lit cave on a mountaintop in the Himalayan foothills, and a life-changing encounter with a 100-year-old yogi.
Wetzler’s writing is full of the poignant, amusing, and occasionally heart‑breaking situations that unfold when we finally decide to confront depression (or any mental health struggle) and declare ourselves ready to heal: How do we heal our past and thrive again? What does it mean to live a good life? How can we transform our suffering and serve others? His answer: live to tell the story and find the humility and courage to be the best human you can be.
In the age of toxic masculinity and “mansplaining;” in a country in which most violent crimes are committed by men, Brad Wetzler’s Adventures in Healing offers a powerful, profound, and deeply personal road map for actively cultivating a different kind of manhood. As a young journalist in the 90s, Wetzler had it all: an amazing, enviable job as a travel and adventure journalist that sent him all over the world on assignments; a home in beautiful Santa Fe; a loving marriage. At the height of magazine journalism, Wetzler’s passport was littered with stamps, and he edited and wrote features for high-profile magazines like the New York Times, George, National Geographic, and many others. He commissioned Jon Krakauer’s piece about the lost climbers of Mt. Everest that later became the international bestselling book and hit movie, Into Thin Air.
But then the demons and trauma from his childhood caught up with him, and he sunk into a depression that increasing amounts of prescription drugs could not solve, and soon found himself divorced, essentially house-bound, and physically unhealthy.
He hit rock bottom when a friend – who was on a similar cocktail of medications — died by suicide. Adventures in Healing traces his road to recovery, from a checkpoint in Palestine to the cave of a 100-year-old yogi in India. He kicks the drugs, finds yoga, moves to Colorado, and learns — through the love of friends, animals, and a hard-won spiritual awakening that can’t be put into any particular dogmatic box — to be a man that is not celebrated often enough. A man of wisdom, kindness, insight, tenderness, and sensitivity.
Through energetic and lively prose, Wetzler takes us inside the heart and mind of a man who refuses to conform to society’s restrictive notion of manhood, and instead presents a new path for men to walk. This is not an easy path, Wetzler is clear, but we’ve never needed it more.
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