“I didn’t join to be a coach… but Heroic changed everything.” | Elin Gabriel

My name is Ellen Gabriel. I enrolled in Coach Class 8 in January of 2022. And since then I've been all in the whole coach program. And the concept of heroic just made sense to me. This was during the right after the election in the US super polarized. I spent a lot of time watching news and just spiraled down into sort of depression. I've never been a depressed person. I was drinking too much alcohol, I was eating crap food, wasn't exercising, gained weight, you know, all that stuff. So when I took heroic, I was, you know, client zero. I had no interest in coaching. That's not really what I want to do for life pursuit. But because of my personal experience, I feel so strongly about the power of heroic and things it can do to change people's lives that I wanted to teach it to my team, which I have done. I was in the heroic workshop instructors training, which again was fantastic, fabulous, you know, life changing. Of course we inspire each other, which is great. But the real power to me is we hear so many stories from people who are going through challenges and obstacles and either overcoming them or seeing a path suddenly where they can overcome them or at least navigate through them that they never saw before. Everybody, we find, oh, a lot of other people go through the similar things that I'm going through, and that feels very supportive and very safe. The other part of this whole thing is it's a safe space for people to share things. You know, we're all basically supporting each other. It's like a huge infusion of inspiration, energy, focus, resolve. You know, I'm even more resolved than I was before to go back and make a difference. It's like a huge hero bar. This whole weekend has been like a huge hero bar for me.