Cody McKibben, the founder of the HERO Foundry, is making waves in the business world with his new accelerator program. Over the past 17 years, McKibben has built three businesses, sold two of them, and helped thousands of entrepreneurs through mentorship and coaching.
The HERO Foundry is a business accelerator program that aims to help entrepreneurs and creators transform their ideas into successful ventures. The program is designed to provide participants with the tools and resources they need to succeed, including access to a network of industry experts, funding opportunities, and personalized coaching and mentorship.
But what sets the HERO Foundry Accelerator apart from other business incubator programs is its focus on cultivating your own mythology for your movement, leveraging powerful storytelling principles, drawing upon your own LIFE story and experience, and crafting the Customer Journey for your people to follow you on.
According to McKibben, mythological stories have the power to inspire and motivate people in a way that traditional business marketing strategies often cannot. By incorporating mythological themes and lessons into the program’s curriculum, the HERO Foundry aims to help participants tap into a deeper level of creativity and PURPOSE.
“We believe that mythological stories have the power to ignite the human spirit and unlock untapped potential,” said McKibben. “That’s why we’ve carefully crafted the HERO Foundry for five years around the idea of using mythological storytelling as a way to help entrepreneurs and companies achieve their goals.”
The HERO Foundry Accelerator program is set to open its doors more publicly later this year, and spots are filling up fast. If you’re an entrepreneur or business owner looking to turn your vision into REALITY, don’t miss this opportunity to join fellow Purpose-Driven Business Owners and Creators on the Entrepreneurial “Hero’s Journey” and become a part of something truly transformative.
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Just a quick message today before I go fire up the grill with my brother-in-law and jump in the pool with my son:
242 years ago, the Second Continental Congress unanimously declared the sovereignty of the thirteen united States of America from the British Empire. The Declaration of Independence, written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, listed colonial grievances against King George III and asserted an individual’s natural rights:
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
Today, I believe that no matter where you come from, you and I are entitled to the same natural rights now more than ever.
Though (some) governments certainly serve a few useful purposes (sometimes), bloated bureaucracies tend to prioritize their own survival above your individual freedoms, no matter what the cost.
When it really comes down to brass tacks, it’s up to you to protect yourself, your family, your empire, and your freedom from those who would try to take them away from you. As history has shown many times, nobody else will hold them sacred for you.
There may come times when you will have to FIGHT for your life, FIGHT for your liberty, and certainly you will have to FIGHT for your own happiness.
Freedom is a paradox, because it comes with RESPONSIBILITY. You are responsible for defending your own life when the rubber hits the road, and you are responsible for the consequences of your chosen pursuits.
So while true freedom is the opportunity to make your own choices, living a truly free life REQUIRES taking full responsibility for your choices, your behaviors, and your results.
And if you don’t like your current results — your current reality — there is nobody to blame but yourself.
This can be a hard pill to swallow. Believe me, I understand.
When my business collapsed and my world came crumbling down, I wanted to blame ISIS. I wanted to blame repugnant sex traffickers and martial law in my wife’s home country. I wanted to blame Homeland Security for insisting that we uproot our family and relocate internationally in order to get travel documents. I wanted to blame the partner who betrayed me and cooked the books.
I wanted to blame my mother for getting cancer. I wanted to blame my wife for giving me a child. I almost wanted to blame my son for scratching my cornea during roughhousing and landing me with an eye infection that took me out of commission for a month.
Hell, I even wanted to blame the flesh eating parasites burrowing intolerably slow and painfully through my feet.
I was laying in the fetal position on the tile floor of my 4-bedroom condo in Chiang Mai, Thailand one night cursing God Himself.
But the Truth was that too much avoiding responsibility caught up with me.
It was me — I had made every choice that got me there on that cold hard floor, pulling my hair out, crying and throwing a tantrum like my toddler.
Declare Your Individual Freedom
I used to think that chasing “freedom” meant running away from responsibility.
For 10 years I wanted nothing but more time freedom, more financial independence, and more freedom of location.
And I got it. For almost a decade, I lived in 8 countries across four continents.
I built and experimented with five small companies. We sold two of them.
I dated women from around the globe, and enjoyed all kinds of travel misadventures across at least 35 countries. But I allowed myself to get too comfortable, I let myself become a “victim” of my own success, and bought into the lie of the “four hour work week”, pleasure seeking, fleeing from commitments, and basically drank and smoked away a literal fortune.
In the pursuit of riches, I wrecked my health, and then I carried on abusing my body probably out of sheer self-hatred.
But it was when I realized my real RESPONSIBILITY to show my son a good example, to do my damnedest to be a good role model, to teach him everything the world will neglect to teach him, to be involved in his life and guide him any way I can, that was when my own results began ever so slowly to turn around.
In order to achieve true freedom, YES, you must cultivate an ability to control your money, control your time, and eliminate the mindset that you are subject to any higher authority (at least not here on earth).
But avoiding responsibility, perhaps counterintuitively, will ensure your failure. It will ensure that your health and vitality go down the drain. It will ensure that you create strained, stressed, and broken relationships. It will ensure you create chaos all around you.
You must take RESPONSIBILITY for your Mindset, your Health, your Wealth, and your Relationships.
This Fourth of July, take stock of where you’re at, appreciate what you have, and accept radical responsibility for your current situation. Some things will be great. Others may be a trainwreck.
This is not about guilt or shame. We are all screwups.
For my fellow Americans, be grateful that you ARE the privileged 1% of the world. The USA is an imperfect mess, but it’s one of the safest, most functional places in the world. For my Canadian friends to the north, happy belated Canada Day to you!
Wherever you are, I invite you to accept the challenge to take responsibility for cleaning up whatever areas of your life that are lacking, to realize the necessity for balance in your life, and how your mental health, your fitness, your finances, your spirituality and your connections with people around you are all interconnected.
If you go through life on autopilot, chances are you are going to let at least one of these dimensions of your life completely deteriorate.
So take responsibility to give each of these areas of your life attention, to go through your life consciously, to craft a plan for how you can maintain balance in your life, and always be vigilant looking for opportunities where you can seize MORE responsibility for things around you.
Declare YOUR personal freedom from the mistakes you have made in the past, from your baggage, from your stories, and FIGHT for your life like the men who built America had to.
Declare your freedom from the TYRANNY of victimhood. Choose not to accept the role of “victim” in this life. There is nobody holding you down. Choose to rewrite those negative stories. Trust me.
It is Time for You to Choose FREEDOM, Sovereignty, and Personal Responsibility.
If you are ready to commit yourself to a higher purpose, to double down on yourself, and have accountability, systems, and structure to help you find balance across your Mindset, Health, Wealth, and Relationships, join us as we embark upon a 12-week Dragon-slaying challenge inside the Foundry accelerator this month to turboboost your progress toward your dream goals in Q3.
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Anyone motivated to be successful—to really make an impact with your life—has a list of important things they want to do. Things to have, things to be. Places they want to go, people they’d love to meet.
You may not have a list of life goals all written down on paper. You probably keep an immediate to-do list, you might have some of your long-term life goals written down on scraps of paper or word doc lists on your computer here and there, but you know at the very least you have those things somewhere in the back of your mind.
I’ve challenged myself with yearly goals in the last couple years, and I’ve mapped out plans for my businesses and different projects. I don’t frequently achieve everything on my lists, but as my friend Ramit Sethi once told me, if you’re not failing at a couple things each month, you’re not trying hard enough.
And I’ve found that sharing those goals publicly gives me additional motivation and accountability to follow through, and sometimes friends and readers can offer words of advice, help, or partnership on some goals.
I’ve had some pieces of the puzzle in the works for a long time, but I hadn’t put together a comprehensive “bucket list” of things I want to do before I die until recently. It wasn’t until Sean Ogle recently wrote about bucket lists, and how to identify the most important life goals that will enable you to achieve the other items on your list—the travel goals, the possessions, the fun stuff—that I finally got motivated to really solidify my whole life list and put it out here to share with the world.
Severalfriends and bloggers have compiled greatbucketlists that have helped inspire some of the things I decided to put on my list. There’s a mix of places I’d love to jet set, landmarks I’d like to see, adventures I’d like to have, experiences I hope to share with specific friends and family, and of course I immediately took Sean’s advice and prioritized the importance of the enabling goals that will make everything else possible.
So without further ado, here’s my bucket list—or, 84 adventures you can follow me on here at Thrilling Heroics:
Enabling Goals
Develop an online business that earns over $3000/month in passive income.
Build a blog with 10,000+ subscribers.
Write an ebook or launch a digital product that earns $6,000+.
Publish a best-selling book.
Achieve 100% freedom from all debt.
Get an article published in the print edition of Esquire, GQ, Wired, Details, or Maxim magazine.
Go to a shooting range and fire off a Kalashnikov rifle and a Desert Eagle .50 Action Express. More importantly, learn to disassemble & reassemble them.
You’ll notice I’ve included a few things I’ve already accomplished (plus I come back to update this list every few months, so things are continually getting crossed off).
I’ve also taken Sean’s advice to have a few things that will be easier to achieve, and a few goals I can obtain in the very near future.
I think when you make your own list it’s important to recognize the big things you’ve already done that you’d always dreamed of, and include a few “gimme” goals so you can start off strong and stay motivated.
Of course I expect that my feelings about some items on the list may change throughout the course of my life. I may not achieve everything, some of my goals will change, or I may add new items to the list. But, it’s a starting point and it’s something I can always refer back to to remind me what I want to accomplish.
Of course if there’s anything you can help me achieve, or something you want to join in on, leave a shout out and we’ll talk!
If you have a bucket list already, share it. If not, take a look at the above articles and get on it! Your time here is short, so remember to value every day you have and make the most of it.
