Hi There!

So glad you stopped by to read this page. 

My name is Jason, and I'm the creator of Building Powerful Kids©. 

Before you dive in and learn more about my story, I want to tell you that I am taking a little different approach to writing this part of my life story to you. 

Since you, me, and all of us have many stories to tell about ourselves, I thought it would be helpful for you to hear about the story of how BPK came about. It definitely was more or an "ah-ha" moment in life for me. 

I think those are the best kinds of moments. So, let's begin...

The secret to life is much like a superhero's. To find your superpower. And, it took me a long time to figure out that a superpower is much different than what we most likely want it to be. Most of the time we hope it lead to fame or fortune. 

But, happiness and fulfillment rarely are found in those two things. Your true fulfillment in life is when you can figure out what your given talents are and serve the world with them.  

My mission is to empower you, the parent, so you can empower your child. 

This all started for me after seeing thousands of parents sit on the sidelines (in my confidence building martial arts classes) day after day, watching attentively as I build their child. I realized, on one particular day, I needed to begin teaching these tools to the most important person – YOU, the parent.

You see, I have this very deep fundamental belief. It is that you will always be your child's first and last teacher. No matter who is in their life, there is no one who will make a greater impact on their future than you. 

Knowing that, I wanted to share a valuable tool I use as a coach and pass that on to parents who were coming to me to solve their child's low self-confidence, self-esteem, or self-image.

This tool was the proven method and formula I used on thousands of students that empowered them to realize who they can be. 

It builds their confidence, strengthens their focus, increases their belief in themselves, and it pulls them to reach their full potential, without you having to force them.

Ignoring the daily classroom damage I created was like putting a bandaid on a gushing wound. It would only stop the bleeding so long. What I needed was a total repair of the damage and restoring it back to complete health.

I knew right then and there, that if I was to build their confidence and help them believe in themselves again, I needed to take a real hard look at the formula (the basic core principles) I was using to achieve these results.

This is when I started to reflect on my past and realized there were so many critical people in my life, I just thought that was the way you do it. That is the way you teach a child how to be confident, build a better attitude, and inspire them to be their best. Just simply push them and drive them toward excellence. I was just telling them what they were doing wrong all the time in the hopes they would figure out what to do right.

I didn’t really think there was another way. However, when the existing way isn’t getting you to the destination you want, you have to take a serious look at all the parts.

Two of the exact broken pieces can’t make a whole piece. So, that is when I decided to make a change in my philosophy, approach, and way to develop a framework I would use to build powerful kids. 

It was from that day forward that I put a proven method to use on each child I would coach.

It would be a framework of basic fundamentals that would allow for flexibility and adaptation to the uniqueness or challenges of each child that I coached.

Instead of them leaving as fast as they came in, they were staying, growing, and improving in each class.

However, parents trying to do what I was doing would come to me the next day or week and tell me that they tried what I was doing at home and it worked, but they wanted to know more... they wanted to know how to build their child the same way I was building them. 

They wanted to know how to communicate with them in a way that strengthened their relationship together. 

Truthfully, I wasn’t sure how to help the parents. I just knew how to help their child because I could relate to their child, what struggles they were going through, what they were thinking, and how they were feeling. I knew the inner struggle their child was battling, and what it would take to build their confidence, sharpen their focus, and develop a lasting bond. 

I was simply trying to teach them how to be a leader in their life to focus on what they were meant to do.

Unbenounced to myself, I stumbled on a method to teach parents how to do what I did, rather than trying to copy me, while building my coaching staff for my school. 

Now that my classes were growing I needed coaches to help me do what I did on the floor. I wanted to have the very BEST coaches and for that I knew I needed to build them and teach them everything I learned...basically, how to build a child from where they are to where they are meant to be.  

It took me nine years, thousands of hours in trial and error, and eleven coaches over those nine years to pull the method out of my head and develop the framework for new coaches (which actually is used for parent-coaches).

One evening, as I was teaching this to a father of one of my students (Jeff), who was training to become a coach, I gave him a weekend homework assignment. I asked him to go home and use these principles he was learning with his own children to practice becoming a better coach. 

He came back the following week telling me this: “Master Jason! You wouldn’t believe how amazing the principles are and the framework you taught me. We are constantly on the go to get somewhere with our four children. I implemented these principles and I saw AMAZING RESULTS. I have always wanted to have the ability to give my kids wisdom that they can use in life and I finally feel I can. My relationship with my children became stronger. I was able to get through the weekend without arguing, yelling, or fighting to get things done. And, I am notorious for yelling and being the major authority figure. I didn’t have to feel like I was breaking my children anymore. THEN, I used it on my youth religious group on Sunday to better connect with the kids and one of the parents who was watching me came up to me afterwards and asked me how I learned to get those kids to listen, learn, and be better? I told her I learned this from Master Jason. I feel empowered to help build the kids in every situation I encounter. I am a better father, husband, and role model because of this.”

You know those moments you have when the light bulb turns?

Well, that was the moment for me when BPK was born and my story continued to unfold. 

I went off and I began working on Building Powerful Kids© for parents, so you would have the tools and resources to become the ultimate teacher in your child's life.

That's my story and how BPK came to be. 

There was no plotting or planning to create some gigantic company to take over the world. I really was just letting this "thing" unfold as it went.

I just wanted a place to share my experiences with building kids and teens...(and now adults). 

Personally, I think tiny is mighty.

I simply created this little world (thank you for being here) to deliver the best-in-class products and services for parents that would help them impact their child in a way they feel proud of, without feeling like you are breaking them or ruining their lives. 

You aren't.

If you ever read the book, The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, there is one chapter that starts by saying, "All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair."

When I was a child and teen, I thought my parents were destroying my life. It wasn't until I was older (around 27 years old) that I realized all the stuff they were demanding of me was preparing me for life. 

They never shattered my childhood or wrecked my life. That was all in my head, brought about from fear.

Our youth mind doesn't see the usefulness of much the wise elders around us have. But, that doesn't have to be the case. We can still inspire, teach, and build. We don't have to shatter our children, but we still need to be the handlers. 

How we communicate can be challenging, but it can also be rewarding to them in ways they learn to love and grow from.

You get to teach them what you know is best.

The method I'm talking about can help you transform the relationship you have with your child in a way that creates a solid bond and builds them to be powerful individuals who will go after their dreams in life with confidence. 

I am certain you are one of those parents who want to inspire, teach, and build your child to enable them to become whomever they want - or you wouldn’t be reading this far. 

You want to give your child powerful tools to overcome their fears, doubts, and negative attitudes in life.

You want to see them develop the drive, determination, dedication, and discipline. 

You want to NEVER see them feel defeated, unworthy, or bullied in life.

You want to see them feel confident to be social and believe they can do anything. 

And, you want to know they will have the certainty to be themselves, face their challenges, and have the strength to overcome the tough situations in life.

If that's you who I'm talking to you, then keep reading because I am hoping the rest of my story can answer some possible questions you might be having.

Take a chance on faith. I don’t ask anyone to believe me, just to listen for a few moments on what I learned over the last twenty-nine plus years on how to change everything for a young child. 

I've used this on hundreds of children in different age ranges from three years old all the way to seventeen years old. I even do this with adults and it gets the same results and outcomes as it does for a three year old or teen.

These methods work best with children, teens, and even adults, who struggle with confidence, shyness, being timid, have been bullied, don't like trying new things, or have anxiety over making mistakes or stepping outside their comfort zone. It's what I talk about in my Manifesto.

The second group of individuals this works best with are the ones who are struggling with focus, concentration, attention, and listening. These could be called the ADD or ADHD challenged young warriors, but aren’t just that group. And, trust me on this one...I had a lot of focus challenges when I was a child and the things I discovered work just short of miraculous.

I have tested this on students who lacked self-control and it didn’t work exactly the same as it did with the other two groups. I had to modify the formula and framework while building in other elements that would help them. It wasn’t that it didn’t work, but rather a different approach was needed. 

I have also tested this on students who were challenged with respect or being disrespectful toward their parents. Again, I found this approach didn’t work well with them and they required a completely different set of methods and understanding to help a child become more respectful. 

So, I don’t have a false illusion that it works on every child. It does work BEST for children and teens faced with low self-confidence, being bullied, are timid or shy, have a hard time trying new things, feel socially awkward, have social anxiety, or have focus challenges. Maybe even those children that parents would say are on the sensitive side.  

If that is your child, then keep reading…

Again, anything is possible. They might find a path that helps them build their confidence...or they might not.

However, do you want to wait until they are eighteen or thirty in the hopes they will grow out of this phase or somehow stumble upon the confidence skills on their own? 

I don’t think you do. If you are reading this, I don’t think you want to leave that to hope. I think you want to take control of this and inspire, teach, and build them into powerful adults. 

I think you want to pass along valuable lessons that will give them a head start and a better life. 

I just think it has been very challenging up to this point and it seems like things won’t get better unless you do something about it. This is where you have to give faith a chance.

However, you might feel like you are losing the battle.

I know you can be the master builder in their life because I know they listen to you. They repeat things to you that you said months or even years ago. Statements you completely forgot about until they said it to you or someone else. 

Some of it terrifies you that they remember. 

Don’t feel like you are losing though because you have the power to build them, teach them, and inspire them to be who they want to be. You just have to learn how to craft the message a little differently, and most importantly, the delivery of that message. 

You can guide them to overcome their fears, doubts, and anxiety to grow and become stronger in the mind, body, and will.

You don’t have to wait and hope this is just some phase they are going through. You can take control of this and get the tools to help drive the change you desire.

You don't need to watch the whole video (even though I totally recommend that you do), but jump to the end 24:24 if you want to hear just the Faith vs. Hope part. You'll get the message I agree with.

Everything has its place and time. Just like having them go to school, clean their room, do their homework, and the countless other tasks you have them doing there is a reason for it. 

Taking them to see a counselor has its reason and place. If that is what is needed, then do so!

Just like counseling or enrolling them in my classes and programs it is still going to be a job that is undertaken by you, the parent, to continue to build them. Passing off the responsibility to someone else to build them isn’t what I think you are trying to do. 

I believe you are trying to find the right partners to help build your child. I believe you are searching for a way to help them become more receptive to what you are trying to teach them. What you want them to learn and grow with.

And, I believe with every molecule in my body that you can help them, teach them, and give them what will be the defining lessons that set them for their future. 

That is possible. 

You can teach them and build them to be whoever they want to become no matter the situation you face.

First, I don’t like it when my time is wasted and I would venture to think that you don’t either.

No one does!

But, if you are that parent who genuinely wants to build your child then finding the time will be something you will do. 

I’m not going to sit here and tell you that it won’t take time.

However, I do know that you are busy and there are MANY things that need to be done. 

Building a child doesn’t have to require hours and hours in a day. For example, my classes are only thirty to forty-five minute long group class. Each student gets approximately fifteen to twenty minutes of that time from a coach. Maybe even a little shorter. 

That isn’t a long time and if you were the one spending one-on-one time with them, then they would be getting say ten or fifteen minutes of your personal attention. This is HUGE...and that is enough to build them. They have to figure out the rest on their own and solve this themselves just like you did when you were a child. We can't do it all for them.

Imagine the relationship you would build with them in that time.

Imagine the respect they would have for you if you are teaching them life lessons in a fun and exciting way. 

Imagine the lifetime bond you would develop in those personal times together.

Think of the trust and love that would be created between you.

The life skills you teach them will make them strong, confident, and sure of who they are and what they can go out in this world and be. They can stand on their own two feet without you worrying the world will break them.

Plus, you can use these skills anytime, anywhere, anyplace to help them feel good about who they are. You can use them whenever you are talking to them - the many drives in the car for instance. 

Consistency is the key to unlock change.

I learned this from my parents (along with many other things). If there was one thing that my mother and father were doing besides making sure we had a roof over our head it was consistently instilling life lessons we could use all our life.

My mother and father were on the same page about everything. If my mother said no, then my father was a no as well. And, vice versa.

The one major life lesson they continued to build in us was the lesson about earning what you get in life. 

I think every parent out there wants their child to know they will have to earn the respect they will get, earn the things they want, and earn the love they deserve because that is what you had to do, right?

In order for my parents to have built that lesson they had to be consistent day after day, week after week, month after month, and year after year. I remember they didn’t budge on this lesson. 

My brother, sister, and I had to earn everything we got. If we wanted it we had to earn it and it wasn’t just in a days time. It was something we had to work toward. 

We didn't know how it was going to come, but we knew that if we wanted it we had to put some effort in. You have to give something to get something.

Lasting change comes through consistency. We put the work in and it changed us. We learned how to earn. 

If you want to build your child it will become a habit of consistency and sticking to the course. 

If you have the commitment to yourself to build your child and you know you can be consistent, then lasting change will happen.  

Let me share a quick story with you about this...In 2011, a family came to see me about their son, David - 4 years old at the time, who was struggling with confidence and focus (more focus and concentration than anything).

He was a great young little warrior. He tried hard all the time. Had a great attitude, but got down on himself and was challenged to stay focused for longer than five seconds on a task. 

There were times David wanted to quit and I suggested (to the parents) that they stay the course because it will all pay off. They knew if they went back to the "old" ways it was only a matter of time before David will begin going backwards. They continued and stuck to building him. 

It was in the fall of 2018 (7 years later) that David walked into the school and told me, “Master Jason, I realize now all the things you have been saying to me over these years. It all makes sense!” 

Now, it wasn’t just me. His parents were saying the same things at home. They get more credit than I do. David just thought it was only me. They used the tools they learned and it paid off. David is driven, determined, and disciplined. He is growing in a positive direction forward and upward in life. 

Will he make mistakes? Yes. Will he fail? Yes. But, don't we all fail and make mistakes? Yes, I think we do, but he now has the tools to know "failing isn't fatal." 

I think that is something every parent wants. 

The moral is, if you stick the course and you continue to work on delivering the message I assure you will get the credit you deserve. 

I know my parents sure deserve it for all the things they taught me. I tell them as many times as I can.

Thank you for your attention and taking the time to read more about my story of BPK and how it came to be. 

If you want to learn more, just scroll down a bit here and subscribe to the email list and I will share more with you on this journey.

It is NEVER to late to change course, set a different path, and make a difference in the lives of others.

I have what I call The Five Anchors I teach to all the students. It is a foundation piece for them to begin to create a compass of sorts for them to stand upon when they are faced with a challenge, decision, or tough task in life.

One of the anchors is number three: NEVER GIVE UP.

It is never to late to make a change in how you build your child. It may seem like you are failing or that everything you do is putting pressure on them and breaking them. It will seem like life is spiraling down when you don't have the solution to the problem you are faced with.

There were many times I felt like giving up, just throwing in the towel, and moving on to go do something else because it didn't seem like I was good enough to teach or influence change in children. 

As a parent, you don't have the luxury. You are in this to the end. However, we do find ourselves giving up in the moments, and sometimes, continuing to fuel the flames of resentment and anxiety in our children.

This can take a different course if you find yourself now in a place of desiring to drive change in the relationship you share with your child. It isn't just them understanding you, it is you both understand each other.

First, it has to start with you willingly to NEVER GIVE UP on yourself, your growth, and your improvement. You have to take control of this and make the changes for your family. You child wants a relationship with you that is filled with joy, happiness, trust, and respect. But all that is earned and not given, expected, or entitled.

They share this life with us.

In my programs  you get the opportunity to learn these relationship building skills that create the bond you are looking to have.

You will go from a position of parent to the ultimate teacher in their life, they will see how to respect you with love, and give you the certainty that they will continue to believe in themselves through all of life's journeys.

Be part of this movement changing the lives of families all over the world and make the impact in your families life that changes the course and writes a new story filled with all of what you dream.

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