If you're feeling stuck — or you're ready to break through to your next level—  you're in the right place.

Saturday, May 3, 2025
9:30am - 12:30pm
at The Gaia Center in West Nashville

in-person only; 95 White Bridge Rd, Suite 403 (37205)

During this 3-hour hands-on, transformational experience, you will get clarity on your goals, increase your confidence, and accelerate your personal and professional growth—learning and leveraging some of the same tools that Heroic uses to support elite performance at the highest levels of collegiate and professional athletics, the U.S. Military, Fortune 100 companies, and everyday heroes around the world. Come as you are. No prior experience is necessary. 


Goals & Expected Outcomes:

  • Gain clarity on your most important goals for the next six to twelve months, as well as a vision for the future you're excited to move towards.
     
  • Develop a personal protocol and process to achieve those goals, with easily accomplishable daily steps.
     
  • Gain greater confidence in your capacity to move through challenges, do hard things, and be who you're capable of being.
     
  • Know who you are at your best, the qualities that the best version of yourself embodies, and—most importantly—how to express that best version of yourself more consistently every day.
     
  • Cultivate the ability to respond intentionally to life with a simple, repeatable process: stepping into the gap between stimulus and response and closing the gap between who you're capable of being and who you're actually being.
     
  • Create a valuable collection of prior successes, and learn how to leverage your prior successes as fuel to create a better future.
     
  • Know what it means to flourish, and how to live with more wisdom, discipline, courage, love, gratitude, hope, curiosity, and zest.
     
  • Connect with your local Heroic community and other people committed to being the best versions of themselves, in service of something bigger.

Spots are limited!

me with Brian Johnson, Founder & CEO of Heroic (a Public Benefit Corporation 🤘) 

Hey, I'm Valerie— and I've been obsessed with personal development for as long as I can remember. I also used to live in the dark side of that world, expecting way too much of myself and giving myself very little grace. These days, I love working with other high achievers on how to honor your ambition without letting it consume you. I also love working with folks who are newer to personal + professional development to distill the best-of-the-best strategies and save them years of doing things the hard way!

Fancy Credentials:

  • LCSW psychotherapist with 13 years of experience
  • Founder + Clinical Director of The Gaia Center in Nashville
  • Certified Heroic Coach + Workshop Instructor
  • Certified High Performance Coach
  • Experienced yoga teacher (RYT-500)
  • Long-time podcaster (currently co-hosting But For Real)

FAQ

The 3-hour workshop is $175. All materials (and refreshments!) will be provided by your facilitator, including over $200 worth of bonus resources for each participant: a hardcover copy of "Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential" by Brian Johnson (Reg. $29.99), one Areté Virtue Medallion (Reg. $24.99), and a one-year Heroic Premium Membership (Reg $149.99).

We'll have a max of 14 participants, inside our large room, The Oasis. I'll guide the group through some learning and a LOT of hands-on interactive work, which means you'll leave with a really strong action plan to move forward with. How much and what you share with other participants will be totally up to you. Previous participants in my Heroic workshops have said it was a powerful, memorable experience, and many of them are still using the plan and tools they created during the workshop.

I'd love you to hear it directly from the founder himself, so if you're curious, watch this brief YouTube video linked below!

Spots are limited!

With my Heroic workshop instructor training crew, at our hotel in Athens, Greece— love y'all, Team Shine! ✨