Meet Anthony Bowling
Founder & Owner of MyGuyFrom a Minivan to MyGuy
Anthony spent his early childhood near Clintonville before moving to Obetz in sixth grade. Columbus has always been home.
Before founding MyGuy, Anthony worked as a project manager for a roofing and construction company. He initially began taking on work of his own to manage the unpredictable nature of project-based employment and because he genuinely enjoyed working with his hands.
The name came from a conversation most homeowners have probably experienced. Anthony needed a recommendation for a project at his own home. The person he asked paused and said, “Wait a minute—let me call my guy.”
That simple phrase described exactly what Anthony wanted to build: a company people could call when they needed someone capable, trustworthy, and ready to take responsibility.
“Wait a minute—let me call my guy.”
MyGuy began as a couch-delivery service operating from Anthony’s mother’s 2008 Honda Odyssey.
The company’s first storage space was one small portion of his grandmother’s already-crowded garage.
MyGuy began as a couch-delivery service operating from Anthony’s mother’s 2008 Honda Odyssey. It also handled furniture assembly, television mounting, lawn mowing, moving help, and other projects. The company’s first storage space was one small portion of his grandmother’s already-crowded garage.
TaskRabbit helped connect Anthony with some of his earliest customers. Soon, the work carried him into neighborhoods throughout Columbus—including frequent trips to New Albany in that well-used minivan. What began as Anthony running around the city completing individual jobs gradually developed its own reputation, customer relationships, and identity.
When the side work grew beyond the project-based work it had originally been intended to supplement, Anthony hired his first full-time team member. That was when the business became something larger than himself.
“It became bigger than me the moment someone else’s livelihood depended on what I was building. Once another person—and eventually their family—could rely on this company, I knew there was no going back.”
What MyGuy Stands For
For Anthony, everything begins with trust and competence.
“If I wouldn’t trust someone alone in my own home, I will not send them into yours. That means trusting their ability, their judgment, their honesty, and their character.”
Customers should not have to supervise the people they hired, repeatedly explain the same instructions, or worry that an unprepared crew will arrive. When MyGuy commits to being somewhere, Anthony wants customers to feel confident making real plans around that commitment.
But following a procedure is only the starting point. MyGuy makes a habit of asking customers:
“What would make this a 10-out-of-10 move for you?”
One customer may want regular updates and a carefully explained plan. Another may want the experience completed quickly and quietly. Someone moving after a death or divorce may need patience and discretion, while a first-time homeowner may want the crew to share in the excitement.
The standard remains consistent, but the experience should respond to the person.
More Than Moving Belongings
Anthony has watched customers move into their first homes, make room for growing families, leave relationships, manage financial hardship, help aging parents, begin college, and rebuild after losing someone they loved.
He has also helped families move onto large rural properties—including one memorable job that involved helping baby goats and emus reach their new pens.
One move permanently changed his understanding of the work. An elderly woman with little personal support needed to leave housing she could no longer afford. She could not physically manage the move and did not have the resources for a traditional service. MyGuy found a way to provide an affordable move without lowering the quality of care.
Anthony watched the atmosphere change from fear and desperation to relief.
“Moving is a transition by definition. The reason may be joyful, ordinary, or painful, but a page is turning either way. We have an opportunity to make a good experience even better—or give someone a silver lining during a difficult one.”
“You can see the tension begin to leave. Their real personality starts coming through because they no longer feel like they have to watch everything or protect themselves from the crew. By the time the last box is placed, I want them to feel like they gained a friend or a trusted ally in MyGuy.”
Leadership Through Accountability
Anthony currently divides his time among training, team development, administration, sales, quality standards, and company growth.
He also continues working beside the crews regularly, giving him firsthand opportunities to coach employees and understand what customers experience in the field.
He takes a personal interest in the development of every person working at MyGuy.
“The younger version of me needed guidance, mentorship, and a clearer road toward professional and personal growth. I try to help provide that road for the people working beside me today.”
Anthony’s leadership philosophy is built around relentless accountability. When something goes wrong, he does not stop after identifying the person who made the immediate mistake.
“I ask what we could have changed in our training, procedures, preparation, or leadership to prevent it. The farther we move away from winging jobs, the more consistently our moves succeed.”
That accountability also applies to pricing. During one job, a nervous customer reserved four movers for six hours because she feared there would not be enough time to load her container. The job required only the two-hour minimum. MyGuy charged her for the minimum instead of taking advantage of what she had expected to spend, saving her approximately two-thirds of the anticipated cost.
“Being the owner does not mean I get to sit back. It means I am accountable for what happens before the truck arrives, while the move is underway, and after the crew leaves.”
Built in Columbus
MyGuy did not learn Columbus from a list of search terms. Anthony learned it one customer, neighborhood, doorway, and difficult staircase at a time.
That means understanding the tight entrances and historic homes of German Village, the access challenges surrounding Downtown apartments, transitions into senior communities, college moves, suburban family homes, and moving days that continue through subzero cold and triple-digit heat.
Local People
Being local means employing people from the communities MyGuy serves and developing young workers who need meaningful opportunities.
Community Support
MyGuy supports other community organizations and reserves limited capacity for reduced-cost or charitable moves involving exceptional hardship.
Giving Back
Being local also means contributing more than a Columbus address and leaving the communities MyGuy serves better because the company was there.
“Being local means giving back instead of extracting everything you can from the community. Wherever MyGuy is allowed to operate, I want that community to be better because we were there.”
Building the Future of MyGuy
Anthony’s long-term vision is to build a moving company with specialized local, commercial, and long-distance divisions throughout Ohio and eventually in selected markets beyond the state.
Future capabilities may include company-provided transportation, packing, storage, specialized moving, and a more seamless estimating and booking experience as each operation is properly developed.
The problem he most wants MyGuy to confront is dishonesty in the moving industry: misleading estimates, inadequate inspections, surprise charges, poor communication, and situations where customers feel powerless once their belongings have been loaded.
He wants arranging a professional move to become considerably simpler without pretending that every move is simple. That means thorough intake procedures, transparent pricing, properly prepared crews, and estimates based on the actual details of the job.
Growth, however, is not the ultimate measurement of success.
Success means MyGuy can operate without depending on Anthony to extinguish every daily fire while continuing to deliver consistent quality. It means reliable paychecks, meaningful benefits, leading professional training, personal-development opportunities, and employees who know they are seen.
“If MyGuy becomes large but loses sight of the fact that every individual customer matters as much as the company as a whole, then we have failed.”
Ten years from now, Anthony wants customers to describe MyGuy as a company that provides a standardized professional experience with a personal touch on every move.
He wants employees to say they were never treated like cogs in a machine. He wants them to remember that their work mattered, that they received individual attention, and that they helped build something larger than themselves without becoming invisible inside it.
Outside of MyGuy
Outside the company, Anthony loves motorcycles, bicycles, and nearly anything else with two wheels. He has introduced several members of the team to motorcycling and regularly rides with them. When he is not riding, he enjoys working on and upgrading the bikes.
He also values time with his family—especially his elders—and has developed a deeper appreciation for the limited time people have with those who helped raise them.
“Someone they can count on.”
The people closest to Anthony would describe him simply:
Someone they can count on.That is also what MyGuy is ultimately meant to become for every customer it serves.
“We’re not only moving belongings. We’re helping make the first day of someone’s next chapter feel like a good one.”