Timeline of Be Legendary

[TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Container timeline_style=”style4″ animation_trigger=”container-in-view” animation_view3=”ts-viewport-css-fadeIn” animation_name3=”Fade In” title_fontsize=”18″][TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item timeline_style=”style4″ date=”August 2000″ title=”Company Founded” icon=””]Repario Ltd was formed.  Repario is Latin meaning ‘to rediscover or find again’.  Somehow I knew, even then, that I wanted to help bring people our of their shell.[/TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item][TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item timeline_style=”style4″ date=”2001″ title=”9/11 Twin Towers” icon=”fa fa-thermometer-full” icon_color=”#cc0000″ animation_class=”flash” animation_name=”Flash”]Since inception we had focused mainly on large federal organizations, officially landing the company’s first $250,000 executive coaching engagement with the USGS on 9-9-01.  On that day, 9-901, he was pitching SSA in Seattle in the Bank of America building (now the Columbia Center) for the company’s first 7-figure coaching engagement.  We never saw a dime from that first $250k.[/TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item][TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item timeline_style=”style4″ date=”2003″ title=”Internet Bubble Burst” icon=”fa fa-thermometer-full” icon_color=”#cc0000″ animation_class=”flash” animation_name=”Flash”]The company was located in San Francisco so after 9-11, it made sense to go after technology companies.  Once we recovered from 9-11 and changed our marketing, business started booming.  All the internet companies wanted all kinds of support and we were there to provide it.  Until…  the bubble burst and ALL client business was lost, again.[/TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item][TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item timeline_style=”style4″ date=”2004″ title=”Products Launched” icon=””]Recovery was fueled by taking our knowledge, turning it into products and selling it to our clients (about 10% of the cost of hiring us live) as well as other tech clients in the SF Bay area.[/TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item][TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item timeline_style=”style4″ date=”April 2005″ title=”First large bike build” icon=”fa fa-trophy” icon_color=”#e2bd00″]2,400 people building bikes, 400 children receiving bikes in Dallas.  Group was split into 4 separate rooms divided by air-walls.  Reveal of children had to occur at exactly the same moment, so had to sync up 4 live speakers who were not our staff.  This one was TOUGH.[/TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item][TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item timeline_style=”style4″ date=”Summer 2005″ title=”China’s Avian Flu” icon=”fa fa-thermometer-full” icon_color=”#cc0000″ animation_class=”flash” animation_name=”Flash”]Our work in the tech industry caught the attention of a marketing company in China.  We founded a three way partnership with ourselves, the marketing company and a Chinese university with locations in Beijing, Shanghai & Shenzhen.  We would provide our English business coaches, educators and facilitators for Chinese business people.  Two weeks before we were to begin the Avian flu emerged all over East Asia and every class was cancelled.  We did not completely collapse as we had diversified but the vast majority of our energy and focus has not be on marketing and we lost 80% of our staff.[/TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item][TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item timeline_style=”style4″ date=”2007″ title=”Co-authored First Book Contribution, One Great Idea” icon=””]One Great Idea published with a focus on Making Business Personal.[/TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item][TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item timeline_style=”style4″ date=”2008″ title=”Financial Meltdown” icon=”fa fa-thermometer-full” icon_color=”#cc0000″ animation_class=”flash” animation_name=”Flash”]Lost every contract we had, just like many businesses.  I bought out my partner using every dime I had and every nickel in the company bank account.  I was starting over from scratch and NO ONE was spending money.  I had to let my entire staff go and barely made it through.[/TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item][TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item timeline_style=”style4″ date=”2009″ title=”Contest for the Symbol of Be Legendary” icon=””]We held a contest online in 2009, knowing only (for sure) that ‘It takes Courage to Be Legendary’.  We received over 110 designs and almost 100,000 votes on those designs.  The snail symbol you see got almost 83% of the votes cast.  Clearly the winner.  I was devastated!  It took me years to learn to love it.[/TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item][TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item timeline_style=”style4″ date=”Fall 2009″ title=”Co-authored Discover Your Inner Strength with Stephen Covey, Ken Blanchard and Brian Tracy” icon=””]My focus was on emotional strength.  As we were deep in our research of legendary people, I was looking at resilience and strength in all areas of a person’s life.[/TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item][TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item timeline_style=”style4″ date=”January 1, 2010″ title=”Change name to Be Legendary” icon=””]Repario Ltd continues to be our corporate entity but our trade name is now and forever Be Legendary.[/TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item][TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item timeline_style=”style4″ date=”2010″ title=”First Executive Shakubuku Retreat” icon=””]This was HUGE!  Our first ‘extreme’ Shakubuku for a client was in the San Juan mountains in January – COLD but avalanches, snow caves, dog sledding, snow machines – all choreographed into one single transformative experience was a milestone.  We had run elements of extreme retreats prior to this but our first real Shakubuku was an amazing experience for everyone involved.[/TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item][TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item timeline_style=”style4″ date=”2012″ title=”Co-authored Roadmap to Success with Ken Blanchard and Deepak Chopra” icon=””]This was the first time the Mindset of a Legend – Awareness, Beliefs & Courage – was put into writing except for workshop materials.[/TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item][TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item timeline_style=”style4″ date=”Fall 2013″ title=”Company moves to Boulder!” icon=””]After 10 years of searching for a great community, we decided upon Boulder Colorado.  Also in the running was Encinitas, CA, Ventura, CA and Austin, TX.  We loved them all but Boulder was the winner.

We also shut down our Dallas warehouse, our Nevada warehouse, Nevada office, lost our key Operations boss to maternity leave and were booked 100% solid.  It was a VERY busy time.  So busy, I did not realize our website had accidentally deleted from Google.[/TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item][TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item timeline_style=”style4″ date=”Q1 2014″ title=”Marketing Implosion” icon=”fa fa-thermometer-full” icon_color=”#cc0000″ animation_class=”flash” animation_name=”Flash”]Google deleted us from their index.  All our inbound marketing was lost.[/TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item][TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item timeline_style=”style4″ date=”April 2017″ title=”Broke Guinness World Record” icon=”fa fa-trophy” icon_color=”#e2bd00″]Be Legendary worked with 5,000 adults to build bikes and 1,000 children onsite to receive them, in only 60 minutes.  It was also held at 7:00 PM on a school night!  New record is 979 bikes assembled and given away in 60 minutes (21 were unridable without repair).[/TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item][TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item timeline_style=”style4″ date=”December 2017″ title=”James is treated in Germany” icon=””]Hyperthermia treatment in Germany is two weeks long at the Klinik St Georg in a small town called Bad Aibling.

By the time I went to Germany, I was no longer able to read and write.  I could take care of emails and proposals but could not write any of my book and being unable to read was devastating.  That was the main source of my personal growth.  I switched to audio books but found I spent MUCH less time listening than I did actually reading.

After I woke up from my first hyperthermia treatment in Germany until I got home 7 days later, I read 8 books – leadership, organizational development, mindset, etc – and wrote 50,000 words.  Plus, I was still in treatment at the Klinik.  The treatment worked![/TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Item][/TS_VCSC_ProcessLines_Container]