Meet Brent Haydey

How I Got Here

One Wave Life didn't begin as a business idea. It grew from my own experience of trying to build a good life while also building a career, a business and a family.

I began to understand that success in one area of life doesn't mean much if the rest of life is being sacrificed to create it.

 My background is in exercise science and kinesiology, so health, movement and human performance have been part of my world for decades. But over the years, my understanding of living well expanded far beyond physical health. I became increasingly interested in the bigger picture: how we use our time, the work we choose, the people we share life with, what gives us meaning, and whether the way we're living actually reflects what matters most to us.

I've also spent much of my career working with business owners and professionals. I've seen how easy it is to become successful at building a business while gradually becoming less successful at living the life that business was supposed to support.

I've experienced some of that tension myself.

There have been times when I was focused on doing more, achieving more and moving things forward, only to realize that progress in one area could come at the expense of another. Health, relationships, time, energy and simply having the freedom to enjoy life can all get pushed aside when we're constantly focused on the next thing.

Over time, I began to see that the answer wasn't necessarily to work harder, become more productive or find another system.

Sometimes the answer was to step back.

To get clear about what actually matters. To look honestly at where time and energy were going. To make different choices. And then to keep adjusting as life changed.

That became the foundation for One Wave Life.

The name came from something much more personal: my lifelong connection with water. I've always loved being in it — scuba diving, surfing, paddleboarding, canoeing, kayaking, swimming. Growing up far from the ocean made that connection even more meaningful.

Water also became a useful metaphor for life.

Sometimes the water is calm. Sometimes the waves are bigger than we expected. We can't control the ocean, but we can learn how to read it, respond to it and find our way through it.

That's how I see life.

We're all going to encounter changing conditions, unexpected waves and different seasons. The goal isn't to eliminate them. It's to develop the awareness, health, perspective and support to navigate them well — and, when we can, to use those waves to move toward something that matters.

Today, that's what One Wave Life represents for me.

Not a formula for a perfect life. Not a promise to fix everything.

A way of approaching life with greater intention, perspective and purpose — while staying healthy, active, connected and engaged along the way.

And I'm still learning how to do that myself.