We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Joshua Haag a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Joshua , we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.
This is something i struggled for a long time with! Ive held many careers at this point from chef to working on wall street. When i moved to Los Angeles i struggled for a few years. I did the traditional thing of waiting tables and seeing what the city had to offer. By sheer luck, i was working out with my brother in a 24 hour fitness, when people started naturally asking me questions. From there, over time, the management offered me a training position, since it would make sense to get paid for helping all these people!
At that point, the rest is history and has just been a snowball effect! I found true passion and purpose in helping take peoples pain away, and educating them on how to live a healthier and happier life. I have a high level sports background, coupled with therapy and movement specialties, so my net is pretty large in who i can help!
Over time i have just doubled down on that feeling of waking up excited and happy each day! If something doesn’t feel right, i am learning to just let it go and move on to the next incredible idea, always falling back to healing, helping, and teaching!
Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?
Born and raised in Bethlehem, Pa, it has been a journey to creating multiple companies now in Los Angeles, Ca. My time has been spent following a path of multiple careers. From a chef, to Wall Street trader, as well as a trainer to professional football player, i have learned and studied under some of the most encompassing and incredible minds this country can offer!
Through my journey, I have found my calling. I Utilize my prior training to create what i see to be one of the most unique, high level, and practical applications of health/wellness/ and mindset. It has become my goal, and the goal of Heroic as a whole, to try and assist each of our people in reaching a life where they are living as the “Best Versions of Themselves”!
My world revolves around Heroic and helping grow my now staff of 8 with 2 interns! It is incredible to see their successes no matter how large or small, each and every day! When it comes to a professional setting, it is my dream to see Heroic recognized as a national brand of high level, result and data driven health and wellness! I want our little company to blaze new trails both in the industry as well as our clients lives!
When it comes to new things in the future! I recently partnered with my Director of nutrition on creating a holistic nootropics company! We focus on sleep, energy, focus, and brain function. Utilizing mushrooms and our supplemental knowledge, we create holistic solutions to your daily problems! Our aim is to provide you with both a natural and delicious solution each and every day! Check us out… www.mushroomwarriors.net
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
1) Grit- It is believed that amongst the worlds top performers, the navy seals are some of the best. Across the board they are put through rigorous testing to see if the “make it”. When the instructors are asked what is the determining factor, surprisingly it is not endurance, muscles, or athletic ability. They unanimously say… Grit
I believe this beyond all else is what has gotten me to where i am today. This in my definition is what drives you when everything else has fallen apart. Its easy to be successful when things go well, but how do you handle yourself when the chips are down!
To cultivate this, and grow it in new entrepreneurs, i then add my second two qualities!
2)Belief- Belief in the future, Belief in the process, Belief in ones self! While easily said this is the driving factor in my eyes behind grit! Most of the time, things will be hard. The path forward will be unclear. Realistically, it will be a gamble untill one day it isnt. But if you are smart, and never give up, the belief that you are worth something and will make it will allow you to succeed.
So my challenge to new entrepreneurs is to find something in yourself, or a calling, that you believe so fiercely in, you would do anything to defend it. The rest will then be easy!
3)Courage- Last but certainly not least! People, especially those closest to you, will try to knock you down. They say the bigger you get, the more people want to knock you down. And i believe this is true. To have grit, and believe in what you do is scary. There are absolutely nights where i lay in bed second guessing some decisions i made, or how i handled a situation. But all that matters is that i am brave enough, and have the courage to face the moment when the time comes!
One of our goals is to help like-minded folks with similar goals connect and so before we go we want to ask if you are looking to partner or collab with others – and if so, what would make the ideal collaborator or partner?
I absolutely am always looking for a great network of knowledgeable, holistic providers to better the lives of our clients! I believe in tools in the tool belt. I believe not one person holds the keys to every problem!
As i am growing, i am always trying to put together a super team of practitioners to be able to provide the best service this city has to offer!
I would love to find intelligent, data driven, certified, practitioners of any and every methodology.
So if you are reading this, and i spark your interest, reach out and lets have coffee.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.heroicperformance.net
- Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/heroic_performance
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/joshua-haag.378
- Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-haag
- Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/@heroicperformancebyjoshuah5295
Image Credits
Aaron Catling Greg Begoodenough
