About The Vital Guide
It started with a shared idea.
What began as a conversation about health, growth, and living better gradually became something broader. Over time, the focus moved beyond workshops and coaching toward the outdoors, shared experiences, and the kind of days that have a way of changing how life feels.
That evolution became The Vital Guide.
The Founders
Michael DeSanti
Michael’s connection to the outdoors took root early, during a cross-country trip through Montana and a first glimpse of Glacier National Park that stayed with him. After years in the corporate world, he moved into coaching, where his work continued to center on growth, perspective, and living with more intention. At The Vital Guide, he brings that background into the way the brand thinks about people, challenge, and the experiences that bring them together.
Pablo Garcia
Pablo’s relationship with the outdoors began with the ocean. Growing up in Cuba and later in Miami, he spent years snorkeling, spearfishing, surfing, and fishing before a move to the Northeast opened up a new world of forests, mountains, and colder terrain. At The Vital Guide, he brings that lifelong connection to the outdoors into the brand’s creative direction, photography, storytelling, and experiences.
The idea is bigger now.
The Vital Guide is growing beyond a single trip or destination. We’re building a broader outdoor brand around the places, people, experiences, skills, and stories that make us want to spend more of our lives outside. Montana remains part of that story, but the vision reaches much further.