"Heroic Changed My Life—And It’s for Everyone | Jake Beeman"

What's unique about heroic is just how accessible it is that we have. The population that came this weekend is just so diverse. We have people from so many different countries, but not just that is, like, what everyone's doing in their lives. I'm a trainer and a teacher. We have doctors, we have librarians, we have CEOs. And this information and these tools and this wisdom is valuable for everyone. So my name is Jake Beeman, and I found Brian Johnson, like, 10 years ago, a decade ago, And I've been involved with heroic. I was in coach class one. I was always a basketball player, and I wanted to become a basketball trainer. And I knew the skill side of basketball. But what I thought a lot of my players were missing was all the other stuff that I didn't have words for yet. But when I found heroic and all the fundamentals and all the tools and the books and the wisdom being accessible, I felt like it gave me this whole new aspect of not only how I can grow as a person, as a dad, as a coach, as a trainer, but also how I could help my players, my athletes, my students, grow as well. Heroic makes it easy to identify on where a player, but maybe more importantly, where a person can grow. And a lot of times I'm working with students, and they might be worried about if they can shoot three pointers or their dribbling skills or handle or something. But having the heroic language gives us a place to talk about all the other things that the player knows. And I know is, like, where we need to start as far as, like, mindset or fundamentals. How to eat, how to sleep, what to think. So it's given us this shared knowledge, these shared tools that in the past has just been harder to find or harder to relate. I'm a trainer, and I have a nonprofit, so I have to drive a lot, and I'm in the barrier. So a lot of that wisdom I was able to take in on my drives. And then later, when I got home or early in the morning, I would kind of journal and figure out how I can put that into practice. It was one of the first programs that actually encouraged you to take action and for you to instill the wisdom yourself and really pushed you on that and to get out of your comfort zone and to always find your next level and not just teach that to other people. Yeah, I thought the workshop was incredible. Not only do you get to see expert facilitators run it, but the small breakout rooms is. I learned so much from the other people in the room. We had teachers, we had businessmen, we had a doctor, we had moms killing it as a stay at home mom. We had so many different perspectives. So not only did I see an expert facilitator, we all practiced together. And I got to learn from everyone in the room to kind of sharpen my own facilitating and think about things in new ways. I would just say heroic changed my life and what I found so powerful, it's not only me, but it's people from kind of different countries, but all walks of life, professions, family lives, whatever. And I remember a decade ago, there was a journaling exercise. It was like, because I was lost, got my degree, I got my graduate degree. I had worked in the jobs I thought I wanted to work on, but I still felt like, what was the point of all this? I felt like I didn't know what I was doing. And he was the first person that kind of gave me the tools and made it easy to learn. And there was a journaling exercise of like, who do you want to be in five years? If you could pay someone to do something for a profession, like you would pay to do it. That's how much fun and how much you would enjoy, what would you do? So I wrote that down, and it was to work in underserved communities for a nonprofit and be a basketball trainer as well. And now, you know, 10 years later, I have those things in my life. And the family life I talked about, I have those things. And it wasn't easy. It was like the tools and the discipline and all that and the heroic framework kind of helped me find that and get to this point where I'm at now.