Becoming The Hero

Welcome back, adventurer. Today I have the awesome opportunity to chat with the founder of Hydroflask, Travis Rosbach.

It's an awesome conversation with a side quest at the end of today's episode.

Welcome, Adventurer to the first episode of Becoming The Hero. I’m Justin Lewis and I’ll be your DM for today. You might think DM means dungeon master as in from Dungeons and Dragons. While I am an excellent Dungeon Master, that’s not what DM stands for on this show. 

No, here DM means development master. I’ll explain more about that later.

If you’re listening to the show for the first time Becoming The Hero is The Personal Development podcast for nerds who see amazing heroes in their books, comics, games, or movies and desperately want to be like their heroes. This is the show to help you become like them. Do you know that feeling you feel when seeing a cool scene in a movie? I want you to have that feeling about yourself. It’s going to take some mental shifts and also some work, but I truly believe that everyone can have lives they feel you can write a book or make a movie about.

So let’s get into it.

You’re probably thinking that now we need to talk about “setting goals” and being “SMART” about it. You’re right…. And you’re wrong.

You don’t need goals. You’ve likely been setting goals your entire life. You’ve probably hit some and missed some. 

You need something more.

You need a personal quest.

Cast your mind. Think about Tolkein’s Lord of The Rings, or Lucas’ Star Wars, or Rowling’s Harry Potter (and yes I know the faux pas I committed in having you compare Tolkein and J.K. Rowling, but just go with it for now). The hero in each of those stories doesn’t set goals. Instead, they set out to accomplish something. 

Frodo set out first to take the ring to Gandalf at the Prancing Pony and then to Rivendel and then to Mordor. 

Luke set out to get off of Tatooine and then to help Princess Leia and then finally to become a Jedi like his father before him.

Harry set out to become a wizard, and then pass his years in school and then fight He Who Must Not Be Named over and over and over again.

I’m not saying that writing down goals isn’t worth your time. You’re going to be doing a lot of writing because you won’t remember everything you think of.

Instead, I’m saying you need to add a little more adventure into your life. Add more excitement and let that help fuel you onto the greatness you so truly desire.

“Oh Great and Wise DM Justin, what kinds of personal quests are there?”

Well, I’ll tell you incredibly handsome and humble inner voice.

In my estimation, there are exactly 4 types of personal quests. Everything else is just specifics.

You can set out to acquire resources.

You can set out to build relationships.

You can set out to develop skills.

And you can set out to further a cause.

If you think of another category, please email me as I’d love to be illuminated.

But seriously, all your personal quests fall into these categories.

“Can I choose all of these quests?”

Of course, you can inner voice, however, I don’t know that I’d recommend it. You see, by choosing the quest, you also indicate exactly what VICTORY looks like. Accomplishing the quest happens in part because of the specificity.

Do you want an example of unspecificity? Think about the movie Forrest Gump.

Forrest is an amazing individual, but at a certain point, he loses all specificity in his life. He decides all he wants to do is run, so he does. He doesn’t have any aim or goal, he just wants to run. That works for him because that’s what he wants. He runs and runs and finally at one point, he decides he doesn’t want to run anymore. His quest was to run. It wasn’t to run any distance or reach any...

Welcome to the last episode of The Hard Thing Podcast.

What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever done? That question has really influenced my life for the past 3 years. I started The Hard Thing Podcast with the idea that the thing that sets the super successful apart from the average is their ability to push through the hard. I wanted to discover exactly how that was done. I set out to ask some of the most successful people I knew that question. I eventually branched out to people I didn’t know. Then people who didn’t know me started reaching out to me. 

The goal of the podcast was to help people improve their lives by teaching them how to do hard things. I would say, that is a terrible goal. It’s not specific at all and therefore not attainable. Or maybe it’s too attainable. The problem is that it’s too specific so we’ll never know. 

I started thinking about this problem. What could I do?

I started a podcast because I believed I had something to share with the world. I wanted to help people. I wanted to really make a difference in people’s lives. But who was I trying to help?

That’s the main reason behind rebranding the podcast: to better focus on a group of people I truly believe I can help. 

The new name of the podcast is Becoming The Hero.

The goal of the show is to help closet nerds become like the heroes they admire. 

Have you ever watched a movie and seen one of the main characters and thought, “Wow, they are so cool! Like everything about them is just awesome!”

Well, the new goal of Becoming The Hero will be to help you become a person so that you think about yourself. Obviously, I don’t want to vaunt anyone up in ego. I just want you to be able to look at your life and feel that you could truly make a movie out of your life. I want you to literally become the hero of your story.

About 8 months ago as a test, I started up a second podcast. It’s called How to Be a Better DM. For those Dungeons and Dragons fans out there, it’s a podcast all about how to be a better Dungeon Master. I like D&D and to be honest, I like a lot of nerdy things. I also believe that we all love stories. We love movies, books, and video games and I think for the most part it’s because it shows us things that we aren’t yet but we’d like to become.

Each of us would like to be more dashing, charming, brave, daring, and overall better. We’d love to be like Indiana Jones, Sam Gamgee, or Paul Atreides. We want to be the hero.

I realized that that is the whole reason I started The Hard Thing Podcast. I wanted to help people feel like that. So now, I’m going to work on getting you to be able to look at yourself and say, “Yeah, my life is freaking awesome!”.

So here’s what you can expect from me.

1. There will continue to be a weekly episode every Monday. These shows will likely become shorter. I’ll sprinkle in a good mix of interviews and solo shows.
2. I will make the bridge between personal development and nerdy stuff.
3. I will do my very best to get you everything you need to level up in real life.

If we can have some laughs along the way, so much the better. 

This is new territory for me. I am putting away some traditions and starting up some new ones. I just want to say thank you for joining me on the journey, and I can’t wait to see what happens next.

Before I let you get back to your regularly scheduled ear-bud programming, let me finish with some important, albeit, boring tidbits.

1. The website will remain thehardthingpodcast.com until such time as I am able to purchase a new domain.
2. My social media handles will change, unless they cannot, in which case they will not change. If you aren’t following me on Instagram, go follow me there and you’ll get all the updates and...

Welcome Back.

Today I finish my conversation with Kiki Magnusson.

We have 2 action items from today's show:

1. Do a 10-minute burpee workout
2. Add 5 minutes of activity to your day.

Thanks for listening to today's show.

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Welcome back to episode245 of Becoming The Hero

Kiki gave us some wonderful action items today as well.

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Welcome back to episode244 of Becoming The Hero

Today I share my conversation with Kiki Magnuson.

She gave us some action items.

1. Write down ways you can better live your brand.
2. Start your self care habits

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Welcome back to episode243 of Becoming The Hero

Today I continue my conversation with David Henzel.

David gave us some great action items from today's show:

1. Practice letting go
2. Evaluate your mindsets
3. Record some of your mindset patterns
4. Journal using directed questions

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Welcome back to episode242 of Becoming The Hero

Today, I share my conversation with David Henzel.

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Welcome back to episode241 of Becoming The Hero

Today, I share my conversation with Darcy Luoma of thoughtfullyfit.com

Here are today's action items:

• Find an adventure buddy
• Write 3 possibilities for what your adventure can be
• Share and commit to one

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Hey, there adventurer!

Welcom back to the Hard Thing Podcast.

Today I talk with Darcy Luoma of thoughfullyfit.com.

Here are today's action items:

1. Choose 1 person and design your alliance with them
2. Figure out your biggest hurdle

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