Having worked as a DJ and news director at Lansing radio stations from 1968 to 1978, Hartmann started a radio show in February 2003 on a local station in Vermont a month later it was picked up on the I.E. Hartmann doing his radio show, The Thom Hartmann Program, in 2004 at Santa Fe, New Mexico He sold his interest in that company in 1996, and re-retired to Vermont. In the late 1970s, he was a trainer in advertising and marketing for The American Marketing Centers (now defunct), and in 1987, after returning from Germany, founded the Atlanta advertising agency Chandler, MacDonald, Stout, Schneiderman & Poe, Inc., doing business as The Newsletter Factory. He sold his share in the business in 1986, and retired with his family to Germany to work with the international relief organization Salem International. According to their website, Sprayberry Travel was lauded by the Wall Street Journal in 1984 as one of the early adopters of frequent travel programs analogous to the recent frequent flyer programs of the airline industry. Hartmann founded International Wholesale Travel and its retail subsidiary Sprayberry Travel in Atlanta in 1983, a business which in the intervening years generated over a quarter of a billion dollars in revenue. NESCT's child-care model was based on the German Salem International organization, and through his affiliation with that group, he helped start international relief programs in Uganda, Colombia, Russia, Israel, India, Australia, and several other countries between 1979 and today. He was its Executive Director for five years, and on the board of directors for more than 25 years. Hartmann moved to New Hampshire to start The New England Salem Children's Village, which still operates in Rumney, New Hampshire. During this time, Hartmann obtained three degrees in herbology and homeopathic medicine. Woodley Herber sold herbal products, potpourris and teas, and operated until 1978. Hartmann began his business career in the early 1970s while in his 20s, co-founding The Woodley Herber Company.
In 1973, Hartmann returned to Detroit to work as an engineer with RCA. He has been a keynote speaker at many Coptic Conferences nationally. In 1971 he was ordained as a Minister with Coptic Fellowship International. During that year, he met the head of the Coptic Center, Master Stanley. Hartmann had been interested in consciousness and spirituality since childhood, and by 1969 his interest evolved from hippie subculture to Christian mysticism.
With Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Hartmann protested against the Vietnam War. In 1968, Hartmann opened his first business, a repair shop named "The Electronics Joint" located next to Michigan State University and became a part-time disc jockey at local country music station WITL-FM. Hartmann enrolled at Lansing Community College and transferred to Michigan State University, majoring in electrical engineering. Although a "gifted" student, Hartmann was expelled from high school during tenth grade for starting a paper that protested the Vietnam War.
He campaigned with his staunch-Republican father for Barry Goldwater during the 1964 presidential election when he was thirteen. Interested in politics from a young age, he was raised in a conservative, Midwestern household with a right-wing point of view. He lived in Detroit at age two, and later grew up in Lansing, Michigan. His paternal grandparents were from Norway, and his other ancestry includes Welsh and English. Hartmann was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, one of four children of Jean and Carl Thomas Hartmann. 7 Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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