Community Highlights: Meet Christian Hemminger of Coaching With Hemmi

Today we’d like to introduce you to Christian Hemminger.

Hi Christian, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
The last eight years I spent working in a corporate sales environment. This environment was highly charged and high performance was a requirement. I had a lot of success and even worked my way through several leadership positions. The more success the further I started to get from fulfilling, what I believed, was my purpose in life. I still had this dream of creating something more.

Over the course of the last three years I really started to dig into working on my own personal development. My goal has been to develop confidence and empowering myself to live intentionally with purpose. While working on myself, I started to put small goals in front of me. Two of my biggest goals were to build a business through personal training and to foster children. I want to make impact on as many lives as I can, in hopes of creating a chain of reactions that goes on for generations after me.

So while continuing to work my corporate job, I started small and trained clients through a gym before and after work. During this time I also started the process in getting my fostering license. Both goals were demanding but so full of purpose that most of the time it felt as if I was living intentionally toward my main goals.

In August 2024 I successfully received my fostering license. In September of 2024 I received my first foster child placements. There I was a single dad fostering two little girls, adding to my family of my son and me. Life got full fast but so rewarding. My fist placement was able to be reunited with her family successfully. My second placement stole my heart from the day I brought her home from the hospital. Now we are almost two years into her being with me and we recently have started the adoption process.

In January of 2026 I transitioned from my corporate job to my biggest business pillar in personal training coaching for amateur bodybuilders and lifestyle clients looking to crush their fitness goals. I’ve been able to create a community and an environment that my clients can connect, not only with me, as their coach, but my other clients a well. Fitness can bring people together and it is its own ecosystem of support, I want my clients to see that collectively they are all working toward the same goal; to change their life through fitness and live with intention.

I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
While rewarding the road has had some struggles. During the time I was working on my personal development I had to take a leave of absence from work to work on my mental health. I worked with my care providers to create an environment that aligned with my goals.

I went through a cognitive behavioral therapy program that proved to be quite successful, it has equipped me with several tools and coping theories that I still use today to stay mentally healthy and professionally successful.

I know mental health can get a bad rap sometimes, but I am here to say that it is and can be life changing when you apply yourself and stay accountable to yourself to seek and get help and support.

As you know, we’re big fans of Coaching With Hemmi. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about the brand?
I’m an ISSA-certified personal trainer with a deep passion for helping people transform their lives through fitness.

What I love most about being a trainer is witnessing my clients’ growth—both physically and mentally. The physical changes are incredible, but it’s the mindset shifts that truly inspire me. Watching someone gain confidence, resilience, and a new perspective on what they’re capable of—that’s what drives me every day.

Wellness and fitness have played a major role in my own journey, and I’ve experienced firsthand the powerful impact they can have. I believe fitness doesn’t just change bodies—it changes lives. My goal is to coach you through your unique journey and help you become the strongest version of yourself, inside and out.

I specialize in both amateur bodybuilders and lifestyle clients. Regardless if you want to take your talents to a stage or live with more intention with your fitness journey, I can coach you to those goals. I offer in person coaching out Old School Iron gym in Brookpark, Ohio and I also take on remote or online clients.

I am proud of my brand because it signifies what I set out to build across the last tree years and that is to have impact on as many lives as I can.

What’s next?
Coaching With Hemmi is currently taking on new clients for personal training. The next step for Coaching With Hemmi is to begin life-coaching clients in their own personal development, confidence and empowerment. The dream has and will always be to impact as many lives as possible. Life Coaching is the second pillar to Coaching With Hemmi.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://coachhemmi.my.canva.site/
• Instagram: @hemmi_lifting