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Wayne E. Nance, better known as the “Real Life Attitude Guy”, is the well-known developer of the ABCs of getting your life under control. He is founder and CEO of Real Life Management, Inc. With his help, more than 50,000 struggling people have successfully improved their lives and given Wayne credit for helping them do so. Top corporations, the U. S. Army, organizations, and churches throughout the United States also use the Life Management system for the benefit of their employees and leaders. Wayne has been called Dr. Phil Foxworthy, a funny guy with a serious message. 

In 1979, at 318 pounds, an incessant smoker, $40,000 in credit card debt, and his marriage on the rocks, Wayne’s life had spiraled completely out of control. He was a card-carrying workaholic, sacrificing family for fortune. In fact, he was on the ragged edge of physical, financial, emotional, and marital disaster. At the age of twenty-nine, his cardiologist told Wayne he would probably never see forty. 

Hitting bottom, reality finally slapped Wayne in the face and made him acknowledge the truth. So he began doing extensive research on nutrition, finances, and relationships. Soon he recognized that obesity, debt, and crumbling relationships are only visible exhibits of a person’s core attitudes and beliefs. They are interrelated and attitude driven. 

For the next eight years, Wayne did extensive research traveling the country with a clinical stress psychologist, a sports nutritionist, and a personality therapist, studying what motivates people in their physical, financial, and personal choices. Wayne discovered that being overweight, in debt, and in failing relationships is all interrelated and attitude based. 

Based on his research and the changes that followed in his core beliefs and personal habits, Wayne lost more than one hundred pounds, eliminated his financial debt, and has now been happily married to his wife Shannon for more than forty-eight years. 

Starting in 2010, Wayne started a research and training project with the U.S. Army, focusing on Leadership, Suicide, Domestic Violence, and Sexual Assault. His trademark survey has been at the core of this training and research and has led to a special program, called Operation “3” Minutes with the Army. Chaplains and NCO’s around the world have used his copyrighted system for soldiers and their families.