Co-founder & CEO of Gynergy
Garin Heslop
Garin Heslop is the co-founder and CEO of Gynergy, the company behind LVL 5 Men and the GYNERGY Foundation. A serial entrepreneur who has built over $40 million in revenue across two prior companies, he is a transformational coach, championship athlete, and creator of the 5 Pillars Framework for holistic life integration. Based in San Diego, California.
8-Figure Entrepreneur • Championship Athlete • Podcast Host • San Diego, CA
At a Glance
Serial Founder
Real estate, Medcare Farms, now Gynergy. $40M+ built across the two prior companies.
Real Estate, End-to-End
Land development, new construction, residential resale. Millionaire by 21, started at 19.
Top-10 Retail · Top-20 CPG in CA
Medcare Farms: vertically integrated cannabis, $14M/year, 100+ employees.
Championship Athlete
Wrestling at the highest level. Discipline forged on the mat.
200+ Leaders Coached
CEOs, founders, and athletes worldwide.
Mission by 2035
1,000 homes for families in need, 100 learning centers, 1 million lives moved.
The Journey
How did Garin Heslop start?
Garin Heslop is a builder. He sees problems and builds solutions to them, and only spends his time on the ones he truly believes in. Raised by his single father, he learned to work for what he had before he learned what he wanted; the operating instinct started young, the purpose came later. He went into real estate at nineteen and was a self-made millionaire by twenty-one, running an end-to-end operation that guided builders and developers through land development, new construction, and residential resale, with a team behind him. At twenty-four, a near-fatal motorcycle accident cut that company short. His own recovery showed him the trap on the other side of pain: an opioid epidemic hollowing out his community with no safe natural alternative. So he built one. Medcare Farms grew into a vertically integrated cannabis operation spanning cultivation, distribution, retail and delivery, that crossed $14 million a year and 100+ employees, ranking top-10 retail and top-20 CPG in California. Forbes profiled the company; Garin was selected from the San Diego chapter to keynote EO Alchemy Regional West Coast on the same arc.
Why did Garin Heslop create LVL 5 Men?
In 2022, while leading more than a hundred employees through the back half of a pandemic, an eight-month stretch took his father, his grandmother, his marriage, and the business that depended on all of them. It almost ended him. The companies were healthy. Life was not. What he was reborn into wasn't another business. It was a mission. He co-founded GYNERGY with Yesenia Magaña and built LVL 5 Men himself on a single operating principle: until you rebuild the operator, the company you build will keep getting taken from you. He teaches leaders to do it before life forces them to.
What is Garin Heslop known for?
Garin Heslop is known for the 5 Pillars Framework, the life integration methodology he started drawing the winter most of his life had been packed away. Health, Relationships, Mindset, Wealth, Legacy. One column for every part of his life that still owed him work. Most of the past year he has been building the AI coaching infrastructure underneath: GYNERGY.AI and ARIA. He is also known for leading LVL 5 Men, Gynergy's twelve-month program for men who built the business, and for GYNERGY's mission to build 1,000 homes for families in need, 100 learning centers, and move 1 million lives by 2035 through the GYNERGY Foundation.
Timeline
Born. Raised by his single father.
Started in real estate at 19.
Self-made millionaire by 21, running an end-to-end operation across land development, new construction, and residential resale.
Near-fatal motorcycle accident at 24. Recovery showed him the opioid epidemic with no safe natural alternative.
Founded Medcare Farms: vertically integrated cannabis, cultivation to delivery.
Medcare ranking top-10 retail and top-20 CPG in California. 100+ employees, $14M a year.
Eight months took his father, his grandmother, his marriage, and the business. It almost ended him.
Co-founded GYNERGY with Yesenia Magaña, on a morning that didn't owe him a third chance.
Launched the LVL 5 Men program and the Gynergy platform.
Built GYNERGY.AI + ARIA: AI coaching infrastructure underneath the framework. GYNERGY's service retreats begin building homes in Ensenada, Mexico.
Target: 1,000 homes for families in need, 100 learning centers, 1 million lives moved.
The Work
Garin Heslop has personally helped build homes for families in need. GYNERGY does not stop at raising the money: its service retreats take members to Ensenada, Mexico, for three days to build a home for a family, side by side.
GYNERGY also visits orphanages. The homes so far were funded by the program and by fundraisers; GYNERGY is pre-profit, so the Foundation's pledge has not paid out yet. The goal by 2035 is 1,000 homes, 100 learning centers, and 1 million lives.
Organizations Founded
Co-founder & CEO
Gynergy
The transformation operating system: LIFE OS for people, BUSINESS OS for companies, with ARIA, a personal board of five specialized AI coaches covering all five pillars.
Leads the program
LVL 5 Men
Gynergy's twelve-month program for men who built the business. Fifty-two weekly calls, four quarterly offsites, one service retreat, and ARIA, across the five pillars. By application.
Founder
GYNERGY Foundation
Building homes for families in need. A tiered pledge on GYNERGY's net profit (up to 12.5% as it scales) will fund the mission to build 1,000 homes by 2035; homes so far have been funded by the program and fundraisers.
“I don't coach because I have all the answers. I coach because I know what it costs to find them alone, and no one should have to.”
— Garin Heslop
Work With Garin
Whether through the LVL 5 Men program or private 1-on-1 coaching, Garin works with leaders who are ready to transform every pillar of their life.