I named myself the Dragon Slayer. Then I had to become it.

I gave myself the name on Survivor twenty years ago, voting out a man I'd called The Dragon. I half-meant it as a joke and half-meant it as a dare to myself. The audience loved it. Most of my tribemates hated it. I spent the next decade trying to outrun it.

Eventually I stopped running.

The name was telling me something. Not about Survivor. About the rest of my life. The orchestra I conducted. The kayak record I held, longest solo ocean kayak expedition in history. The college athletes I coached to national championships. Four seasons of Survivor and four times I came back. The times I got it wrong on national television and had to face people the next morning anyway. Every one of them was the same job. Stand up. Face the thing. Don't flee.

The Dragon Slayer Tribe is for people doing that same work in their own lives. The Warrior Code is the spine. The gear is the reminder. I'm not here to motivate you. I'm here because I'm doing the same thing you are.

Coach Ben Wade