 Previously on Go Forth, Jesse set his goal to hunt for investment, launched picky drizzle, and began rehab to get back into competition. I'm nearing 40. I'm getting tired and beat up. But Tia started working on his TEDx presentation. He hopes we'll jumpstart his public speaking career and pitch sweet protection for sponsorship at OR. It's not guaranteed, but I have a really good feeling about it. And Lizzie kicked off her goal to double her revenue, started training, and pitched her mentorship program to the North Face. It was great to meet you guys. Great to meet you. Great to meet you. We'll be in touch. There was no solid answers. They only have so much funding to provide, and so they can't say yes, because they don't know what else they're going to see over the next couple of days. It's kind of just like a wait and see. That seemed to be great. Woo! So we are at the booth of Camp USA. We're going to meet with the marketing manager Jesse Mattner. I'm evolving more towards the route of ski-alternism. I need to work with a legit brand that has light, solid gear to be able to climb mountains. How are you, man? Good, man. How are you? Tia, how are you? Tia, how are you? Tia is salty. Salty? Ah! I need to work with a company that helps me save weight, be safe, but also efficient. So that's the whole philosophy now. We can do that. I'll be sick, man. It's an obvious fit, I think. So our contract is basically like all the gear you need. We really don't care. Your job is to use the gear. Give us feedback. Make it visible. Like, that's it. If you're pitching for a sponsorship, especially like Mattias, the best you can do is to align your goals and to make it known that you do believe in their product and your value system is aligned with the company. Wallpire that email over and... Good, man. Game on. Thank you. Step to work with you. Thank you so much. All right, cheers. Man, that was so amazing. We totally aligned. Same number of vision. Same view about the product. Same philosophy. That's it. I just made it on-camp USA team. So successful. Super exciting. And most importantly, I'm going to have the right gear to do the stuff I want to do. So this is really cool. That ending the show on a high note. Back here, I have my pain cave. The thing that's been bothering me, that's the big X factor for my race at the Quadrathlon is the cycling more than anything else. The running is starting to feel okay. My foot's kind of starting to feel okay, but the cycling on my knee has really been bothering me. So I'm going to do a little bit of a tester here. You know, hopefully it feels good, but make some assessments on how everything feels. Sometimes, even if it's nice outside, I'll do this because it's more efficient use of time too. The main thing that's sweet is that I can just do work on this too. If I have like a one to three hour just aerobic ride, I will ride inside because during that one to three hours I might be able to do 30 minutes to two hours of work. Also checking this out. A few weeks away, 40th birthday party. We launched Rizzle last Friday and we were just backed up with orders. You know, my goal was to sell about 1,000 jars in the first month or so. We sold 740 in the first eight hours and now we're up over 2,000 units and are pretty sold to our subscription service, which is awesome. Just non-stop. Lots of stuff going on. Busy. I view work-life balance as things are never actually balanced in the moment. You balance them over macro cycles. If I was just working on picky bars all day and I didn't have some type of athletic goal or some type of exercise outside of that, I think I wouldn't be very happy. Well, as you get more successful, the best thing you can do is prioritize your time and only pick the projects or the goals that will resonate the most. You got to make time for yourself, you got to make time for your family, and that's the bottom line. What is worth your time? I mean, at some point, the only currency you have is your own time. I still want to compete, but I don't want to compete at the sacrifice anymore of my body or of my family or of my business. I really want to do this race. It'd be an awesome challenge, something I've never done, but it's not a world championships. I'm not making a big paycheck from it anymore. I'm not putting food on the table. At what point am I just the value proposition, the cost versus value. It does not make sense anymore. I think I'm going to wrap it up here pretty soon. My knee, unfortunately, honestly isn't feeling that great. It's kind of a bummer. I kind of feel it on both sides. It just feels like it's radiating through the joint significantly below my kneecap. Quick of it is that I've got a knee that looks really aged. Like I've got a 60-year-old knee. That ride that I just did, which is the real indicator of what I'm capable of at this point, just didn't feel that great. I will have to see how it feels over the next couple days, but maybe it'll feel all right, but right now it's not looking that awesome. Everybody says age is just a mentality or whatever. It's all in your head, and I think that might be bullshit. I've dealt with a lot of ups and downs with my body, and my body definitely feels different. This is the Black Diamond booth, and they're super important to Schema's Mountains because, one, they give us all the gear for all of our clinics, and they're coming to cosponsor the biggest event we're hosting, which is opening weekend at the last weekend of March. They're going to bring some of their athletes, and now I'm just going to go check in and see what they're doing, so I can find my contact just and go from there. Our opening weekend is going to be incredibly different than it has been in the past. We changed venues. We went from hosting it at a hostel to a really nice, trendy hotel. We are going to have Black Diamond here with athletes. We rented out the Tower Theater, which is the biggest theater in Bend, Oregon, to bring the film pretty strong. The first all-women's climbing film, we also increased the price by, I think, 15 to 20%. You're trying to convince 32 people that what you've created is worth spending nearly $600 to come to. On top of that, I'm trying to, like, stay strong and train for this climate I want to do in Zion, and it's just so much to do. It feels, like, quite overwhelming. I think the first sign of someone that will be successful is that they continue to challenge themselves no matter how far they get. Stay the course. Put in the work. Little by little. Baby steps. So I practiced my presentation in the closet because this is what it sounds like outside. Oh! And this is what it sounds like inside. So pretty much when you are speaking at the TEDx events, I see it as almost a job interview that showcases your work and your personality to the whole world. Moonshaw, small steps to giant leaps. Hopping your dues eventually leads to escaping an avalanche by base jumping of a 600-foot cliff with a pair of skis. Like anything in life, when the challenge is scary, that means that you have to take it on. It absolutely is terrifying to try something new. In any nature. If you're outside your comfort zone, you're fully laid bare. In an example, like Matias, who has done some of the most brave stunts and he wants to do a TEDx talk, and that is frightening to him. And so a lot of people think, well, you guys are crazy. Why would that scare you? It's a totally different skill set. It's a totally different frame of mind. Five minutes work for your rehearsal. None of the speakers have been able to do their whole presentation. It's going to be more like blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Would you like to just focus on the right then for what's currently playing? Okay. And the light is going to be about like that tomorrow when we're presenting? Okay. Because otherwise, I don't know if people might hear what I'm saying or not. A little bigger than I expected for sure. I think I didn't expect the third row up there. I think I expected something a little more intimate. It's intimidating. I like it. All great things in life are intimidating. The more I'm going to spend time here, the more I'm going to psych myself out. It's almost like walking on the edge of a cliff too much. Kind of to check it out and then know the variables what you have to look for and then just walk away. That's probably one of the worst rehearsal I've ever done and obviously it's the night before the event. What's happening right now is that stress is getting to me. That's when you got to dig deep in terms of finding confidence elsewhere. And I think that Matthias knows time has come. Step up. So I don't want to get hung up on just delivering the perfect words but he actually kills the vibe and the flow of this thing. I got to get amped a little bit. After weeks of training, Lizzie is finally ready for her big climb in Zion. Yeah, I've really tried to keep the nerves down but just everything is happening now and it definitely feel really nervous. It's time to go. Zion, here we come. My van is a home to me and it's been the most consistent thing in my life over the last like four or five years and so I love getting to go back to life on the road. Soon after getting on the road, Lizzie received a call back from the North Face with an answer about her pitch for funding. I'm grateful to have had the call just in time a little bummed because we aren't going to get funding for the mentorship program from them. I still feel really passionately about it. I'm gonna have to pay for the beginning of the program for sure like the training for them. I did that last year as well and it doesn't really feel like a loss. It just feels like a new challenge to be honest. As an entrepreneur, you have to have perseverance and determination because you're gonna get a lot of rejection and you're going to endure a lot of failure but if you're willing to keep going something's gonna work. Back in Bend, Jesse has been trying to recover from his knee injury for the Mt. Taylor quad so he's out for a long distance training ride to see how his knee would hold up for the bike portion of the race. It wasn't everything I'd hoped for. Most of my body feels alright but my knee is still really bugging me. Every few minutes it's just like a really sharp pain. I just don't know if it's a good idea to do that Mt. Taylor race. You know, I spent the last 10 years sacrificing my body for racing and I think as I enter this next phase that's probably not something I need to be doing anymore. It's not the Ironman World Championships anymore. Well, Jesse's had an amazing career as a pro athlete but that kind of career doesn't last very long and you can't keep it going forever so as soon as you recognize that you had that success and that you may be able to parlay that into something else, the better. With his knee causing him continued trouble, Jesse has made the tough decision that he won't be competing in the Mt. Taylor quad. The auditorium is supposed to be close to full today which is close to 2,000 people. It's pretty exciting. 50% of me is really chill and 50% is really, really anxious but while anxiety is uncomfortable it's really important I think to put things to click in in the moment so I'm just like a baser I'm just trying not to overthink it I'm trying to feel it all. Speaker hurls himself down mountains and off cliffs on purpose. So please join me in welcoming the daring Matthias Draub. Moonshot from small steps to giant leaps. How pain you do eventually leads to escaping an avalanche with a parachute and a pair of skis. I know it's a ridiculous way to make a living but I can assure you it's been a rational and intentional journey every step of the way. I didn't commit to my goals until a traumatic event. The suicide of my sister. 18 years old at the time legally an adult I took the responsibility to give the news to my sisters and on the way back from her funeral I had a realization she didn't have something to live for past her suffering nothing existed beyond her misery no existential quest recovering from any reconstruction at the time in addition to using my sister I pictured myself base jumping while rehabbing every day I mean these goals may seem completely trivial but they represented goals past my suffering goals that involved emotional mental and physical commitment so my new vision combined alpinism Steve skiing and maloneering in true alpine style I wanted to earn the descent by climbing to the top of the mountain with all my gear first the ultimate goal being to climb and ski base jump from the summit of Mont Blanc the rooftop of Europe the crown jewel my first application to my vision was a complete total dramatic failure I slimmed back in the cliff four times and I managed to turn around but then I passed out in the parachute I flew 4,000 feet unconscious and I crashed landed in a forest fell another 50 feet on two dirt I was rescued by helicopter spent three days in a coma suffered a double fracture on my left femur and a brain hemorrhage and to top it all off that happened three weeks before the birth of my son five years later after the accident on the way back from the skate park it told me papa when you'll be old I'll teach you how to skateboard and when you'll die I'll bury you with your skis and your skateboard because my heart knows your heart the fear is the greatest emotion in my opinion because it's the only emotion that will help you tap into your full potential after eight years of preparation and applying these principles I could finally combine alpinism big mount skiing and base jumping all at once and on June 24th, 2019 I climbed to the summit of Mont Blanc with 45 pounds of gear and ski base jump from the summit closing the trilogy Iger, Matterhorn Mont Blanc and also setting a world record in the process first ski base from the summit of Mont Blanc let's have the courage to honor our passions be there for the people we love and always always stick our landing thank you very much for your attention tear it up, thank you appreciate it thanks guys, appreciate it do you want some soup? some soup good enough? is that what you were hoping for? absolutely, sweet thanks man when I walked off stage I knew it was I knew I had nailed it it felt like an A plus I think the main lesson that I learned through this whole process is to not doubt your skills actually and what you've learned and your competence you have a unique set of skills and that you have to trust having the confidence and the adrenaline of doing something you've never done and then getting it done there's nothing like it ultimately when you know you're capable of such things that maybe you doubted in your past that's what it takes and that's probably the most rewarding thank you so much I appreciate it thanks for listening to the talk I appreciate it coming up on Go 4th Jesse has to answer some tough questions from potential investors so you gave away 13,000? we didn't give away anything Matias sets out on a training mission for his upcoming ski based projects in France in between all this you have to find the time to train not just go to the gym but actually go and spend a few hours eating in the mountains and climbing while Lizzie takes on the toughest climb of her life and they all get some news that changes everything it's been the biggest event I've ever tried planning it's like everything I've worked for it's a lot of memories in this place this is pretty much the worst case scenario