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JourneylabEtch-o-Sketching Dragons with Shane Tomes | Ep. 8Shane Tomes is a level 2 Heroic coach and a behavioral technician specialised in neurodivergent youth. His goal is to become a radiant exemplar and to prolifically give to his two young sons, his students, and his community. He uses play as a tool to engage with those around him and to reconnect to his own inner child. Play also enables him to approach challenges with a willingness to see their transience and sometimes comical absurdity. Like many on the journey, Shane has wrestled with dragons big and small. Wielding heroic tools and practicing playfulness have all enabled him to w...2025-04-1644 minJourneylabRadiantly Authentic with Isaiah Jacob | Ep.7Isaiah Jacob is a Heroic Dharma coach who discovered a higher path towards his authentic self after years of failing to find his unique place in the world. Naturally, his pursuit of meaning and the desire for connection was unrequited in a society that predominantly values soul-free achievements. Taking society’s cue, he sought validation and meaning by attaining great success according to the world’s standards. While appreciating the education he received at prestigious institutions such as UPenn, London School of Economics and Berkeley School of Law, he nevertheless felt a profound sense of unfulfillment. Climbing atop society’s apex...2023-09-2025 minJourneylabEmbracing our Shadows with Frank Chang | Ep. 6Frank Chang is a video game addiction coach and certified Heroic coach. He views game addiction as a mask for the breakdown of relationships-from our loved ones, our environment and most importantly, ourselves. When we are broken, we seek fulfillment in all the wrong places and desperately try to be someone other than ourselves. As a result, we sacrifice our authenticity for complacency. Chang’s rallying cry is to embrace our shadows and fiercely defend our intergrated being by “loving what is” without shame or blame and accepting the whole self with all its paradoxes. Only then will the star q...2023-07-2839 minJourneylabCyberpunk Gaming for Therapy with Dan Kimball | Ep.5Dan Kimball is a licensed counselor trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and a Heroic coach who is on a quest to put the “psych” (soul) back into psychology. His experiences with shamanism, positive psychology and the Heroic platform, inspired him to build a cyberpunk styled game called “The Journey of Self Discovery”. The game utilizes AI generated characters to embody VIA character strengths so that the player can practice embodying and cultivating the virtues that they themselves possess. His target audience is gamers and the IT community who are typically men and who typically do not seek out therapy. Instead o...2023-06-2920 minJourneylabHealing the Body through Heartset with Dan Hegerich | Ep.4Dan Hegerich is igniting the inner warrior within those who are experiencing cancer or chronic illness. He himself is a 6 times cancer survivor who refers to his experience with cancer as “a gift” that enabled him to reassess his life and embark on his soul’s evolution. This hero heard many “Calls to Adventure”, but it was the question posed to him by his doctor after his diagnosis that forced him completely out of his known world. Answering that question led him to a deep inquiry into the heart of who he was and who he wanted to become. His journey...2023-06-1624 minJourneylabRaising Heroes through Soccer with Coach Rick | Ep.3Richard Ashley Reed Senior (Coach Rick), feels most alive when coaching kids life skills while playing soccer.. He coaches children to shift from a victim to a creator mindset so that they can win on the field and off. He himself is a role model for exemplifying the qualities of a hero as can be witnessed by how he turned his turbulent and challenging childhood into his life's purpose. Coach Rick has experience raising young heroes on the soccer field as well as tending to wounds of soldiers on the battlefield. He spent over 11 years of active service in...2023-05-3129 minJourneylabSleeping Soundly with Michael Hildebrandt | Ep.2Michael Hildebrandt is on a mission to improve your sleep. Because when you sleep better, your energy levels skyrocket. You can attend to the wisdom of your dreams so that you may wake up to actually follow your dreams. The simplicity of this equation wasn't clear to Michael at first. As a high performance coach, he thought sleeping less would help him perform better. It took this hero a journey through immeasureable pain in the form of a slipped disc and the subsequent onslaught of sleepless nights, to fully appreciate the value of a good night's rest. His quest t...2023-05-2625 min
JourneylabWalking the Camino with Jo Newman | Ep.1My guest today is Jo Newman. Like most heroes, her journey begins by crossing the threshold from the known to the unknown. From what is familiar and safe to what is new and adventurous. Usually, some form of adversity shakes us up out of our complacency and we are called upon to act. Do we hear the call? Do we answer only to refuse? In Jo's story, her initial refusal to listen to the signs was met with an even louder call. Her mentor came in the shape of a natural terrain, a pilgrimage called the Camino de Santiago. A...2023-05-1935 min