FREE: Field Guide to your own story

The Hero’s Journey — A Field Guide to Your Own Story (Free Edition)

The complete Hero’s Journey framework — all 18 stages of Joseph Campbell’s monomyth, explained and illustrated, with reflection questions for each one so you can map your own story onto it.Free.Want the real stories behind each stage — mine and 16 real people’s journeys? Grab the Full Edition.

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The Hero's Journey isn't a story about someone else. It's the shape of every life that's ever mattered — yours included. Joseph Campbell spent a lifetime proving the same pattern runs through every myth, every religion, every real transformation a person has ever gone through. Departure. Initiation. Return. You've already lived pieces of it. You just didn't have the map.

That's what this is.

The Hero's Journey — A Field Guide to Your Own Story is a free, 18-stage walkthrough of Campbell's framework, written for people in the middle of something — a job that stopped fitting, a relationship that ended, a version of themselves they're trying to leave behind. Every stage gets a short reflection and a set of questions built to be answered, not just read. Refusal of the Call. Belly of the Whale. The Return Threshold. Eighteen chapters, one per stage, each one a mirror for wherever you actually are right now.

You won't read all 18 and feel the same thing from each one. Some chapters will pass right through you. One or two will stop you cold — because that's the stage you're actually in, whether you've named it yet or not.

Download it. Read it once, straight through. Then keep it — not as a book you finish, but as a guide you come back to.

If it lands, the full edition goes further. Same 18 stages — except this time they're not abstract. They're mine. The blizzard in Fiesole. The one-way ticket to Sydney. The ER, a number on a screen, and a voice saying let go. Phoenix, on a sidewalk in Boston, and a ladybug with six spots. Alongside my story — the moments from the podcast where guests lived these same stages out loud, in their own words. Not just a framework anymore. A map with other people's footprints already on it.

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The Hero’s Journey — A Field Guide to Your Own Story (Full Edition)

The complete 18-stage Hero’s Journey framework — illustrated, mapped stage by stage. Plus my own story and 16 real people’s stories woven directly into it: addiction, immigration, sexual abuse, ICU burnout, ayahuasca, near-fatal accidents, and the ordinary moments that quietly became turning points.The free version gives you the map. This gives you the evidence — real people who lived every stage, in their own words, alongside mine.56 pages. Illustrated. 18 stages. My memoir. 16 guest stories, each mapped to the stage it belongs to. A closing page with every guest’s story and how to hear more of them on the Hero World podcast.

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By just being here, you are a hero. #beyourownhero