About Jason Freeman

Jason Freeman is a professional writer, and a one-of-a-kind public speaker. He is the founder and CEO of Heroic Yes! Productions. As a result of a birth injury, Jason developed a pronounced speech impediment and some gross and fine motor coordination difficulties. He knows the pain of perceiving one’s life through a lens of limitation and also the thrill of moving beyond that mindset. Jason has a Masters of Fine Arts in Poetry from the University of Nebraska, as well as undergraduate degrees in English and Social Work. Jason has authored an E-book, now featured on his website entitled, “Who’s the CEO of Your Life.” Jason has presented to a variety of organizations and conferences. He is a Certified Laughter Life Coach trained by The Levity Institute and a Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher trained by Dr. Madan Kataria. Jason is very grateful to all the people whose words, stories, and laughter have breathed life into him and empowered him to be a writer and inspirational speaker.

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Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone

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What if You Take Steps Outside Your Front Door?

In this Friday One Minute of Excitement video, Jason talks about getting out of your daily routine and familiar spaces.  It’s easy to just draw the curtains and stay where we are.  If we get ourselves inspired we can take steps and gain momentum and then we are in a whole different world.  Take a look at how expansive your world can be, just right outside your front door, right outside of your comfort zone.

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Jason Freeman is a professional writer, and a one-of-a-kind motivational inspirational speaker.  He is the founder and CEO of Heroic Yes! Productions and has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Nebraska.  Jason knows the pain of perceiving one’s life through a lens of limitation and also the thrill of moving beyond that mindset.  For more information on Jason’s powerful message and event speaker topics (employee motivation, team building skills, overcoming adversity and more) or to book him as a conference speaker for your organization, go to http://heroicyesproductions.com/speaking-keynotes/.

Jason is a gifted school speaker and motivational youth speaker.  His inspiring presentation has moved many to tears and always leaves his audiences feeling uplifted and motivated to take action in their lives.

 

Turning Our Least Favorite Things Into Opportunities For Happiness

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Siri

Sometimes, our least favorite things can be an opportunity for humor and even downright fun.

For example, I have a pronounced speech impediment as a result of a birth injury.  One of the unusual things about having a speech impediment is that sometimes I get so used to it I forget I have it.

That is until I hear a recording of my own voice.  Then it is, yet again, very clear to me that I do indeed have a speech impediment.  I remember as a little kid anytime I heard a recording of my voice, I would cringe because it was apparent to me how different I sounded from other people and I equated “different” with “not good.”

So one of my LEAST favorite things became listening to the sound of my voice played back to me.

Then a few months ago, I upgraded to an iPhone.  One of the features of an iPhone is that it has voice recognition software called “Siri.”  Siri speaks in a female voice that is very clear, deliberate and precise.

Recently, my friend Kris encouraged me to attempt to use Siri.  He said that Siri makes texting much faster.

I have always assumed that voice recognition software and my voice wouldn’t get along very well, so I have avoided this technology like I avoid bee hives.  However, this time the idea of faster texting lured me in.

Since that conversation, Siri and I have been slowly getting to know each other and the results have often been downright hilarious.

For instance, when I asked Siri, “Siri, what should I write in this blog?”

Siri typed my question as she heard it, “What should BaileyAna sponsoring.”

To me, I spoke clearly.  But Siri heard, “BaileyAna sponsoring.”

Siri is not making fun of me, just calling it exactly as she sees it.

For kicks, I just asked “Siri, do you want a rutabaga?”  She typed, “Silkyrider rutabaga.”

I could be devastated by this reflection of my voice and choose to avoid Siri like I avoid skydiving.  In the past, I would have done this by convincing myself that Siri is just evidence that the world is getting too advanced for its own good.  I would have felt righteous and skirted “a crazy, new technology.”

But I’ve decided to give Siri a chance.

The more I talk to Siri the more I think she might be just the speech therapist I need at this point in my life.  When I speak to her, Siri is not considering my facial expressions.  She isn’t considering the context around my words.  She is just typing exactly what she hears me say.  From this exact reflection, I can practice speaking in a way that is more understandable to Siri.

In just a few weeks time, I’ve already learned to speak so that Siri understands much more of what I say than she used to.  And when she doesn’t understand, the results are simply cause for laughter.

Do you have any Siri’s in your life, who are just waiting to help you have fun and heal?

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Jason Freeman is a professional writer, and a one-of-a-kind motivational inspirational speaker.  He is the founder and CEO of Heroic Yes! Productions and has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Nebraska.  Jason knows the pain of perceiving one’s life through a lens of limitation and also the thrill of moving beyond that mindset.  For more information on Jason’s powerful message and event speaker topics (employee motivation, team building skills, overcoming adversity and more) or to book him as a conference speaker for your organization, go to http://heroicyesproductions.com/speaking-keynotes/.

Jason is a gifted school speaker and motivational youth speaker.  His inspiring presentation has moved many to tears and always leaves his audiences feeling uplifted and motivated to take action in their lives.

How Much Should You Charge?

By Jason Freeman in Self Esteem, Success No Comments Tags: , , ,

What Am I Worth?

In this Friday One Minute of Excitement video, Jason speaks about declaring what we are worth.  We have an obligation to ourselves and to our clients to declare what we are worth.  Our customers want services that they deem are valuable.  We have services that are valuable.  We do ourselves a service by declaring what we are worth.

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Jason Freeman is a professional writer, and a one-of-a-kind motivational inspirational speaker.  He is the founder and CEO of Heroic Yes! Productions and has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Nebraska.  Jason knows the pain of perceiving one’s life through a lens of limitation and also the thrill of moving beyond that mindset.  For more information on Jason’s powerful message and event speaker topics (employee motivation, team building skills, overcoming adversity and more) or to book him as a conference speaker for your organization, go to http://heroicyesproductions.com/speaking-keynotes/.

Jason is a gifted school speaker and motivational youth speaker.  His inspiring presentation has moved many to tears and always leaves his audiences feeling uplifted and motivated to take action in their lives.

 

Have You Ever Been In the Middle of One Meal and Already Worried About the Next?

By Jason Freeman in The Present Moment No Comments Tags: , , , ,

Pizza

This question is at the heart of so much of life.  We often feel pulled, sometimes painfully, between savoring the moment and planning for the future. As I coach people on savoring the moment, and at the same time creating their dreams, I’m still learning my own lessons on the subject.  Often these lessons come from seemingly small, comical events in my day that make good stories.

For example, my favorite grocery store has a juice bar with tables around the corner and out of sight of the juice bar.  A few weeks ago, I ordered a natural, organic juice.  This juice is the best!  I can decide what produce I want in it.  Then juice is blended right on the spot.  This is my current pinnacle of healthy eating.

After I ordered the juice, I purchased two slices of pizza from the store’s deli.  (Hey, I never claimed to be a nutrition guru!)  Then I went back to check on my juice.  The juice guy said he was working on it and would bring it out to me while I sat at the tables around the corner.

What happened after that was totally incredible!

All the while I was eating my two slices of pizza, I was wondering where my juice was.  MY MIND WAS ON THE VEGETABLE JUICE I DIDN’T HAVE, INSTEAD OF THE SCRUMPTIOUS PIZZA I WAS EATING.

Absolutely crazy!  We are talking PIZZA here.

When I get the craving to be in some future moment instead of the moment I’m currently in, all havoc is liable to break loose.  Even the taste of two slices of pizza can be dulled or ruined.  PIZZA!!!

Craving after the taste of an unknown future can destroy the sustenance of anything we might be doing in this moment, no matter how good this moment is.

And YES!  This is a lesson I seem to have to keep learning over and over again.

The complex part of this truth is that we often do need to plan for the future.  I did need to order my juice to expect to receive it.  The Juice Genie hasn’t yet read my mind and suddenly whisked me a juice right when I want it.

So I let myself get torn between PRESENT PIZZA and concern about making my future healthy and nourishing.

Do you ever feel torn in these two directions?

Maybe part of the solution, is to use some of your present moments to plan so that your future will have some order.  Then after you make your plan for your healthy and nourishing future, to return your attention fully to whatever you are presently doing, with faith that your plan will come to be.

This is sometimes easier said than done.

I’ve often done just the opposite, made a plan and then tried to worry the plan into being.  At some moments, I imagine I could write a book, “Ten Steps to Constantly Worrying About Your Future.”

It is so abundant to fully savor the moment while in the moment.

When I finished fretting my way through my pizza, I walked over to the juice bar and my juice was chock full of countless blended veggies and waiting for me.  Just as planned.

I might as well have relished the moment and the pizza.

How can you more fully be nourished by your moments and yet at the same time plan for the future?

As a coach, I help you come up with the answers to this important question that work for you.

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Jason Freeman is a professional writer, and a one-of-a-kind motivational inspirational speaker.  He is the founder and CEO of Heroic Yes! Productions and has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Nebraska.  Jason knows the pain of perceiving one’s life through a lens of limitation and also the thrill of moving beyond that mindset.  For more information on Jason’s powerful message and event speaker topics (employee motivation, team building skills, overcoming adversity and more) or to book him as a conference speaker for your organization, go to http://heroicyesproductions.com/speaking-keynotes/.

Jason is a gifted school speaker and motivational youth speaker.  His inspiring presentation has moved many to tears and always leaves his audiences feeling uplifted and motivated to take action in their lives.

Do You Feel Overwhelmed By Your Dreams?

By Jason Freeman in Following Your Dreams No Comments Tags: , , ,

Are You Going for Your Dreams, but Are Daunted by Where You Are?

In this Friday One Minute of Excitement video, Jason speaks about being daunted by how much is still ahead of you when you are following your dreams.  Maybe things aren’t going as planned, or there’s so much work involved.  Three years ago Jason filmed his first video on this same beach as a visitor before he moved to San Diego from Sioux Falls, SD.  His dreams of moving to California and starting his new career seemed so daunting.  But he did it, he took action, and he created it.  If you have a dream and are living from your heart and are taking the steps, don’t give up, just keep going.  Have the vision and know that your efforts will pay off.

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Jason Freeman is a professional writer, and a one-of-a-kind motivational inspirational speaker.  He is the founder and CEO of Heroic Yes! Productions and has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Nebraska.  Jason knows the pain of perceiving one’s life through a lens of limitation and also the thrill of moving beyond that mindset.  For more information on Jason’s powerful message and event speaker topics (employee motivation, team building skills, overcoming adversity and more) or to book him as a conference speaker for your organization, go to http://heroicyesproductions.com/speaking-keynotes/.

Jason is a gifted school speaker and motivational youth speaker.  His inspiring presentation has moved many to tears and always leaves his audiences feeling uplifted and motivated to take action in their lives.

 

If You Could Get Rid of All Your Limitations, Would You?

By Jason Freeman in Choices, Self Esteem 2 Comments Tags: , , ,

Coca Cola

I’m thinking about this question especially, in relation to the things about ourselves that we perceive as limitations.

At first brush, it seems that the answer to the title question would be an exceedingly clear and simple, “HECK YES!  I want to heal from all of my limitations.”  After all, what fun is it to have limitations?

I have a speech impediment as a result of a birth injury.  Through years of practice, the quality of my speech has improved dramatically.  But I still have a noticeable impediment.

A few weeks ago, I posted on Facebook, “I’m contemplating the question, ‘If tomorrow I could completely heal from the speech impediment I’ve had my whole life, would I want to?”

How do you decide what to change about yourself and what to leave as is because it is a defining and lovable part of who you are?

Just to be clear, I currently know of no way to completely heal from my speech impediment.  However, it’s within the realm of possibility that tomorrow I could meet a therapist or doctor, who says, “I have just the cure for you.”

From wonderful Facebook friends, I received many comments reminding me that my voice is part of what makes me me, that my voice makes me distinctive, that people love me (my voice and all), and that it’s important and beautiful to accept my voice as it is.

These comments moved me deeply.

Increasingly, I value the sound of my voice as something almost akin to a pheromone that attracts all the right people into my life.

So just like Coke wouldn’t suddenly make their label lime green, why should I mess with The Real Thing?

Yet so much of the life I now live is based on changes I made to overcome limitations that I once simply accepted as fact.  For example, in grade school and high school, I had accepted that I couldn’t write more than a few sentences at a time longhand, because I wrote slower than molasses.  So I typed out my school work or my amazing Mom took dictation for me.

Then, in college, I was on a trip to Europe and didn’t have a computer or my Mom with me, so I started journaling in a notebook and filled up page after page.  Since then I have filled countless notebooks with writing.  My “fact” that I couldn’t write more than a few sentences longhand, turned out not to be much of a fact after all.

Can you think of a limitation you once experienced that you assumed was fact, until you overcame it?

So is my speech impediment a limitation that is so a part of who I am that it is like the red on the Coca-Cola label?   Or is it like my block around handwriting, a limitation that once removed enhances my life?

I don’t know my answer to this question yet.

How do you decide what to change about yourself and what to leave as is because it is a defining and lovable part of who you are?

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Jason Freeman is a professional writer, and a one-of-a-kind motivational inspirational speaker.  He is the founder and CEO of Heroic Yes! Productions and has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Nebraska.  Jason knows the pain of perceiving one’s life through a lens of limitation and also the thrill of moving beyond that mindset.  For more information on Jason’s powerful message and event speaker topics (employee motivation, team building skills, overcoming adversity and more) or to book him as a conference speaker for your organization, go to http://heroicyesproductions.com/speaking-keynotes/.

Jason is a gifted school speaker and motivational youth speaker.  His inspiring presentation has moved many to tears and always leaves his audiences feeling uplifted and motivated to take action in their lives.

Being Proud of Who You Are

By Jason Freeman in Self Esteem No Comments Tags: , , ,

Welcome to a Tour of Jason’s Apartment!

In this Friday One Minute of Excitement video, Jason invites you into his apartment.  He talks about being proud of where you live and what you do.  Acknowledge who you actually are, what you actually have, and OWN it.  Be proud of your space and what you do!

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Jason Freeman is a professional writer, and a one-of-a-kind motivational inspirational speaker.  He is the founder and CEO of Heroic Yes! Productions and has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Nebraska.  Jason knows the pain of perceiving one’s life through a lens of limitation and also the thrill of moving beyond that mindset.  For more information on Jason’s powerful message and event speaker topics (employee motivation, team building skills, overcoming adversity and more) or to book him as a conference speaker for your organization, go to http://heroicyesproductions.com/speaking-keynotes/.

Jason is a gifted school speaker and motivational youth speaker.  His inspiring presentation has moved many to tears and always leaves his audiences feeling uplifted and motivated to take action in their lives.

Why Do We DIS Our Ease?

By Jason Freeman in Joyful Living, Powerful Questions, Uncategorized No Comments Tags: , , , ,

San Diego

I’ve discovered from a lifetime of experience that the mind is capable of putting DIS in front of just about any ease we might be experiencing.

Yesterday morning, I woke up worried about whether I would have enough to do this weekend or if I would be bored and lonely.  I began to make myself uneasy.

Amazing!  Let’s think about this one:

* Saturday and Sunday= the ease days of the week.

* I live in San Diego with ocean, beaches, flowers, mountains, good weather = an ease place to live.

* I have friends all over this city = ease of community.

* I love yoga, so this weekend I will go to yoga classes at a studio I love = equals the ease of enjoying one of my favorite activities.

* I will have time to relax = just plain ease.

Wow!  I just made a whole Ease List!  So why the heck was I putting DIS in front of my ease?

Now there’re probably many reasons going back to the time when our ancestors slept on the stony floors of caves, as to why our minds love to DIS our ease.

Yesterday morning, I found the important thing, however, was not understanding exactly why my mind was putting DIS in front of my ease, but to notice what was happening.

Then as I typed my Ease List, I became more aware of just how out of place this DIS was.

With new awareness, I chose to focus on the ease I wanted, instead of the DIS, which was threatening to make my weekend a real party-pooper.

Now I’m sure that my mind will attempt to sneak some DIS in front of my ease many more times between now and Sunday.  Fortunately, if I’m aware of this mind trick, I can keep choosing to return to the ease I want from my weekend.

When your mind tries to put DIS in front of your ease, I encourage you to make an Ease List and choose to refocus your attention on the ease you want.

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Jason Freeman is a professional writer, and a one-of-a-kind motivational inspirational speaker.  He is the founder and CEO of Heroic Yes! Productions and has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Nebraska.  Jason knows the pain of perceiving one’s life through a lens of limitation and also the thrill of moving beyond that mindset.  For more information on Jason’s powerful message and event speaker topics (employee motivation, team building skills, overcoming adversity and more) or to book him as a conference speaker for your organization, go to http://heroicyesproductions.com/speaking-keynotes/.

Jason is a gifted school speaker and motivational youth speaker.  His inspiring presentation has moved many to tears and always leaves his audiences feeling uplifted and motivated to take action in their lives.

Loving Acceptance vs Healing

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Are You Ready to Accept Yourself Right Where You Are?

In this Friday One Minute of Excitement video, Jason speaks about loving acceptance vs healing.  If you accept yourself and your perceived ‘disabilities’ and love all of it, you open yourself up to miraculous possibilities.   Lovingly accept who you are today, but also be open to your life changing and expanding.

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Jason Freeman is a professional writer, and a one-of-a-kind motivational inspirational speaker.  He is the founder and CEO of Heroic Yes! Productions and has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Nebraska.  Jason knows the pain of perceiving one’s life through a lens of limitation and also the thrill of moving beyond that mindset.  For more information on Jason’s powerful message and event speaker topics (employee motivation, team building skills, overcoming adversity and more) or to book him as a conference speaker for your organization, go to http://heroicyesproductions.com/speaking-keynotes/.

Jason is a gifted school speaker and motivational youth speaker.  His inspiring presentation has moved many to tears and always leaves his audiences feeling uplifted and motivated to take action in their lives.

The Perfects and Staying With Success

By Jason Freeman in Following Your Dreams, Success 3 Comments Tags: , , ,

Picture a small fictional island in the Pacific, hundreds of miles west of Los Angeles.  Now this island is a successful community of about a few thousand inhabitants.  The weather and soil are ideal for growing crops and raising animals, and the fishing is abundant, so the people on this island always have enough to eat.  Life is good on the island, but very primitive because the people didn’t have modern technology.  In their language, the islanders call their island, Perfect.  And they call themselves the Perfects.

Strangely enough the world as we know it never comes to the island.  Ships pass.  Planes fly over.   But nobody is ever curious enough to stop.

Life begins to change one day when a few kids in LA are standing on the Santa Monica Pier trying to think of something to do.  They come up with the idea of buying some postcards of Downtown LA, Beverly Hills, and the OC.  The kids stick the postcards in a bottle with a map of the Pacific Ocean and a big X over LA.  They dream of pirates on the high seas discovering the bottle and sailing in on a pirate ship to play with them.

Instead, the bottle reaches the island of Perfect.  The Perfects are divided in their reaction to the contents of the bottle.  Some are so alarmed by the postcards, they quickly push them out of their minds.  Others are interested in the postcards, but not fascinated enough to take any action.

There is a third small group of a few men and women who have a deep desire to find the place they see on the postcards.

Well, it takes this small group three years and virtually endless trial and error, but eventually they figure out how to build a boat capable of withstanding the ocean and gain enough understanding of the map to voyage to Los Angeles.  As to how the Perfects manage to accomplish these amazing feats, let your imagination run wild.  (This is not the point of the story.)

Now focus on thinking about the Perfects’ experience when they reach LA.  What do they discover?   They behold a really big city as we know really big cities.  But to them, it’s scary, awesome, mind-boggling wonder after scary, awesome, mind-boggling wonder.

Just by figuring out the map, building a vessel to make the voyage and surviving the voyage, the Perfects’ world has opened up exponentially.

Opportunity is pounding like a jack hammer for these islanders.

Landing in Los Angeles is success for them and if they embrace the opportunities before them, success beyond their craziest dreams is yet to come.  This is the best day of their lives.

Along with this opportunity, as you can imagine comes SUCCESS DISORIENTATION.  The Perfects know nothing of the many languages, the many cultures, the architecture, not to mention all the technology in LA.

Like the Perfects, when we reach new levels of success, it can be the best day of our lives.  However, we can also encounter Success Disorientation.

It can be sorely tempting to jump back into the boat and set sail for our old normal, which in so many ways was perfect.  (And may look all the more perfect, now that we are facing Success Disorientation.)

However, if you instead decide to take up residence in your success, you can learn more about your new world each day.  Then one day you will wake up a LOCAL TO YOUR SUCCESS.

I shouldn’t fail to mention that the small group of Perfects decided to stay in Los Angeles.  They eventually, through trial and error, found their way to Hollywood where their story became the biggest blockbuster since Karate Kid.  Now they are out on speaking tours earning hundreds of thousands a gig as they inspire millions.  There slogan is, “Become a Local to Your Success.  If We Perfects Can Do It, So Can You for You are PERFECT!”

Yes! It’s kind of a cheesy.  But it works for the Perfects!

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Jason Freeman is a professional writer, and a one-of-a-kind motivational inspirational speaker.  He is the founder and CEO of Heroic Yes! Productions and has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Nebraska.  Jason knows the pain of perceiving one’s life through a lens of limitation and also the thrill of moving beyond that mindset.  For more information on Jason’s powerful message and event speaker topics (employee motivation, team building skills, overcoming adversity and more) or to book him as a conference speaker for your organization, go to http://heroicyesproductions.com/speaking-keynotes/.

Jason is a gifted school speaker and motivational youth speaker.  His inspiring presentation has moved many to tears and always leaves his audiences feeling uplifted and motivated to take action in their lives.



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