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Cohort Two · Eight live workshops · Starts September 2026
Bring the one thing you keep restarting. In 8 weeks, finish it.
Eight live 90-minute workshops with Michael Balchan. You bring one goal that actually matters. You score where you're starting, do the highest-leverage work alongside a cohort that holds you to it, and score again in week eight.
Sessions are live every Tuesday at 10:30am CT. Can't make it live? The recording is sent to you.
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The 80/20 of the 80/20 of the 80/20
Knowing is not the problem. Doing is.
You already have more wisdom than you act on. Starting is easy. Finishing is the hard part — and finishing is where the change lives.
What most programs get wrong
- Sixty hours of content you never finish
- Take our word for it that it worked
- Going it alone, fading out by week three
- More to know, and more to be overwhelmed by
What this gets right
- Eight 90-minute sessions you actually complete
- Measure the change in your own numbers
- A live cohort that makes you finish
- The highest-leverage work, and nothing else
What this actually is
Eight live workshops. Not a course you'll never finish.
Every Tuesday for eight weeks you join Michael and your cohort live for ninety minutes. Short instruction, then guided practical exercises and small-group breakouts where you apply it to your own goal — in the room, before you leave. There is not a lot of lecturing.
Practice, not lecture
Teaching is the short part. Most of the session is guided exercises and small-group work on your own goal.
Materials the Sunday before
Workbook, notes and slides arrive the Sunday prior, so you walk in ready instead of catching up.
One goal, all eight weeks
You choose it in week one. Every session gets applied to that one thing.
Bring Your One Thing
You don't leave with notes. You leave with the thing done.
Arrive with one unfinished thing that matters. Over eight weeks, using the same framework and the same cohort, you finish it. These are the answers people actually gave when we asked what they keep restarting.
The Book
The memoir, the manuscript, the thing you've been 'almost done' with for two years.
The Launch
The offer, the site, the initiative that's 80% built and never went live.
The Standard
The way you want to show up as a leader when the week gets hard — not just when it's easy.
The Reset
The weight, the sleep, the finances, the certification finally passed.
Who this is for
Built for the doer who's done collecting.
This is for you if:
- You're a working professional or an emerging leader, and your own development is the thing that keeps getting deprioritized.
- You've read the books and taken the courses — the gap now is doing, not knowing.
- You want change you can measure in your own numbers, not a vague sense of progress.
- You'll protect 90 minutes a week, live, for eight weeks — and do the work in between.
- You want a cohort that holds you to it, not another solo download.
This is not for you if:
- You want passive content to consume whenever, with no live commitment.
- You're after a quick hack or a one-week fix.
- You can't protect 90 minutes a week for the full eight weeks.
- You want a big, dense curriculum. This is deliberately the opposite.
- You'd rather keep learning more than apply what you already know.
The Differentiator
Measurable change, in your own numbers.
Most personal development asks you to take its word for it. This one proves it on you.
- Week 1, you score your flourishing across eight facets of your life.
- Week 8, you score the same eight again — and the change shows up in your own data.
- The instrument is the Diener Flourishing Scale, used in peer-reviewed well-being research.
- It is the only Heroic program built around a measurable before-and-after. Others teach the philosophy and the tools; this one proves the result on the individual.
Your Flourishing Wheel
Watch it move.
Week 1 Week 8
4.5 avg flourishing, wk 1 → wk 8
Illustrative example
Week 1 you score eight facets of flourishing. By week 8 you score them again, and the shift is yours to see. The chart above shows how the wheel moves — Cohort One's measured results publish here once the program closes.
The Eight Weeks
One high-leverage area a week, applied to your one thing.
Ninety minutes a week to change the other 142.5 hours of it. Live every Tuesday at 10:30am CT — and the recording lands the same day if you can't make it.
- 01
Clarify Your Purpose
Get crystal clear on what you want most, and why it matters.
- 02
Build AntiFragility
Grow stronger from challenge instead of being knocked down by it.
- 03
Be Your True Self
Live as the person you are at your best, even under pressure.
- 04
Make Every Day a Masterpiece
Run your best day on autopilot.
- 05
Increase Your Energy
More physical vitality, and the knowledge to protect it.
- 06
Build Rewarding Relationships
Give the people who matter most more of you.
- 07
Lead in Creating the Future
Stop waiting. Start authoring the life and the team you want.
- 08
Make a Difference
Turn outward, serve others, then see your results and plan what's next.
What you get
Everything you need to actually finish. Nothing you don't.
- Eight live 90-minute workshops With Michael and your cohort, Tuesdays at 10:30am CT. Recorded, so one missed week doesn't end your run.
- Your materials the Sunday before Workbook, notes and slides land early — the single change Cohort One asked for most.
- A workbook built for doing Each module is an exercise set you work through, not a reading list you fall behind on.
- Your flourishing scorecard The before-and-after that tells you, in your own numbers, whether this worked.
- A cohort going through it with you The people in the breakouts are the reason you cross the line.
- A weekly planner and habit tracker The rhythm that turns eight weeks into a default you keep.
The Proof
The research is real. So is the method.
23% Rise in reported energy
53% → 70% Percentile of flourishing
30 days How fast it moved
"These are some of the largest effects on energy and flourishing I've measured outside of major life events." — Sonja Lyubomirsky, UC Riverside
From a randomized controlled trial run by Sonja Lyubomirsky, a world-leading positive psychologist at UC Riverside, on the Heroic approach and app. The Accelerator applies that same method, live and in a cohort — these figures are the method's results, not the Accelerator's.
208 People enrolled in Cohort One You won't be the first person to try this.
From Cohort One
Real participants, in their own words. Only permission-cleared quotes appear here.
★★★★★
"I'm now super clear that these two habits, or rather my many past failures to install them, are exactly what stand between me and the person I most aspire to be. I've carried them for years, and the thought of eight focused weeks with a cohort holding me to it feels like precisely the structure I've not managed to build for myself."
★★★★★
"I committed to two goals: installing the habit of deep-work blocks without checking email — I've already blocked four on my calendar — and a true 'shutdown-complete' at day's end."
Why Michael leads it
Fifteen years of practice, not theory.
Michael Balchan has practiced the Heroic framework daily for fifteen years and built it shoulder-to-shoulder with founder Brian Johnson. He's spent his career helping high performers close the gap between knowing and doing — because he's walked the exact path you're walking. This isn't theory to him. It's how he runs his week.
Included with enrollment · $551 value
Every one of these is here to make the eight weeks land, not to pad the list.
$153 · Live group coaching
Bring a stuck point to a live coach the same week instead of sitting with it until the next session. Includes the custom AI coach.
$249 · Heroic Basic Training
The foundations, so nothing in the workshops needs explaining twice. Take it at your own pace — there's nothing to finish before week one.
$149 · One year of Heroic OS
The app that keeps the daily practice running long after the eighth session ends.
Enrollment
Be measurably happier, healthier and higher-performing in eight weeks.
Cohort Two · Eight weeks · Starts September 2026 · Live every Tuesday at 10:30am CT
The Leadership Accelerator
$999
$125 a week, for eight weeks.
or 4 payments of $250 · $1,500 value
- Eight live 90-minute workshops + the full framework — $999
- Live group coaching — $153
- Heroic Basic Training — $249
- One year of Heroic OS — $149
- Total value $1,550 — you pay $999
Backed by the Flourishing Guarantee — the details are just below.
A single month of one-on-one executive coaching typically costs more than this. This is eight weeks, live and guided, plus $551 of what you need to make it stick — once.
Enrolling several people from one team? Talk to us about group enrollment →
The Flourishing Guarantee
Do the work. If your numbers don't move, you don't pay.
This program is built on measurement, so the promise is too. Show up, do the work, and if your flourishing score hasn't meaningfully improved from week one to week eight, we'll refund you in full. Meaningful improvement means a real move in at least one area — not a single point on a single spoke, which is just noise.
To qualify, you'll have:
- Scored your Flourishing Wheel in week 1 and again in week 8
- Attended at least 6 of the 8 live sessions, or watched the recordings
- Completed your included 1:1 coaching call, where applicable
- Submitted your request within 7 days of the week 8 session
We can promise this because the work works. The guarantee is for the rare person who genuinely does everything and still doesn't move — it isn't a no-questions-asked exit.
One more thing
AI is here, and it is not going anywhere.
You'll build a personal operating system file that makes AI tools serve your flourishing instead of flattening your voice. The program works completely without it — this is an optional tool, not a requirement. You encode your wisdom. AI serves it. You stay the author.
Questions
What actually happens in a session?
Ninety minutes, live, with Michael and your cohort. Short instruction on that week's area, then guided practical exercises and small-group breakouts where you apply it to your own goal. It is deliberately not a lecture — you do the work during the session, not just after it.
How much time does it really take?
One live 90-minute session a week, plus focused work in between. Eight weeks total. It's built to be the highest-leverage work and nothing else — not another sixty hours you never finish.
Are the sessions actually live?
Yes. Every session is live with Michael and your cohort, Tuesdays at 10:30am CT. That's the part that makes you finish.
What if I miss a session?
The recording is sent to you the same day, so you never fall behind. You'll also have the slides, notes and workbook for every module — they arrive the Sunday before each session.
Is this Heroic Mastery again?
It's Mastery distilled, and that's the point. Mastery is 26 self-paced modules and roughly 52 hours. This is eight live sessions with a cohort and a measured before-and-after. You're paying for less content and more accountability, deliberately — finishing is the hard part, and almost nobody finishes 52 hours alone.
Do I need any prior Heroic experience?
None. Heroic Basic Training and a one-year Heroic OS membership are included, so you start with everything you need — whether this is your first day or your fifth year.
What happens to my access when the program ends?
You keep the Accelerator materials — the notes, workbooks and slides. Your Heroic Basic Training and Heroic OS membership run for one year from enrollment. Live group coaching and the AI coach run for the length of the program and continue with an active membership after that. Ongoing community access is still being finalized and we'll confirm it before your cohort starts.
What's your refund policy?
The Accelerator is backed by the Flourishing Guarantee. Because the program is built on measurement, so is the promise: do the work, and if your flourishing score hasn't meaningfully improved from week one to week eight, we'll refund you in full. To qualify, you'll have scored your Flourishing Wheel in week 1 and week 8, attended or watched at least 6 of the 8 live sessions, completed your included 1:1 coaching call where applicable, and submitted your request within 7 days of the week 8 session.
Cohort Two · Eight live workshops · Starts September 2026
Ninety minutes a week. Eight weeks. A measurably different year.
Bring the one thing you keep restarting. We'll handle the rest.
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