No Barrier
"Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind." – Jackie Joyner-Kersee I just left a phone message with my business partner, because focusing on athletes and…
Towards The Light
Be an opener of doors. -Ralph Waldo Emerson We want to open more doors in our work relationships through Groundwork. Paul and I had a business meeting today, and we…
Reaching The Soul
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul. -B.K.S. Iyengar This is what I want to do, in the next phase of my life. "Use…
"The Self-Creation Process is about revelations, personal revelations. It’s about welcoming new challenges, and also creating our own personalized challenges. We tailor things to help us create ourselves into the people we want to be. We have a vision of ourselves, of what we want, of what we want to accomplish, and then we set our lives up for it. We align ourselves to our goals and we eliminate distractions."
-Stephanie Stean
New Challenges Reveal Us
New challenges have a way of revealing us....Our work ethic. Our mindset. Our health. Our discipline. All of it speaks. And all of it carries over, shaping how we show…
Training For Fearlessness
I always say, I should have been born near the water. I love the water and unfortunately, lived most of my life away from it. I did not realize how…
First Introduction To Competitive Jiu-Jitsu
Right after we moved to the city, we started working with fitness and combat. We started photographing and covering competitive jiu-jitsu around 2013-14. We admired these athletes and the work…
Seeing Yourself On Film
I asked Paul Holze, the President of Groundwork Promotions, what is the difference between what he feels when he sees someone else on film versus when he sees himself on…
This Is Our Job
What does it mean to make your body, part of your professional life? With Groundwork Promotions, I have been writing a great deal about the Self-Creation Process, especially for athletes…
Private Space For Groundwork Promotions
We changed our decision this weekend and instead of having me own the corporate house, we are allowing Groundwork Promotions LLC to be in charge of the house. I am…
Creating What We Want
What does it mean to stay true to your path? How do we stay true to what we want, when there are so many distractions? Right now, is the first…
Nothing You Can’t Do
Trust your instincts. How do you do that? At first, you are a small business owner and you have more control over the location. You can see everything, you are…
Never Stop Investing Ourselves
We work with many people who spend hours putting work into their lives and what they want to create for themselves. It’s hard, investing yourself each day, sometimes for hours,…
Conversations On Mastery
I developed Sage Warrior Master, to be honest, for my own benefit. It was a meditation on mastery, a symbol of the importance of primal in enlightenment, especially when facing…
Life Devoted To Mastery
I wrote extensively during the pandemic lockdown, about mastery and I used martial arts, warrior training, and sports as symbolic mechanisms for communicating the ideas and visually capturing the feelings…
Juvenile Delinquent
My best friend and business partner came to visit this week, and he was my first guest in our corporate house. We are not finished painting yet, but most other…
Promoting Their Personality
"But what makes our photos and process unique? We’re listening, observing, and capturing the heart of the subject...This is what I value most. The relationship to who an athlete…
Yoga And The Body
I had a serious situation happen to me these past several years, and one of the things taken from me was yoga. You do not realize how important yoga is…
True Self-Creation
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“If there were no uncertainty, there would be no true creation. It would be replication, not discovery. To create something new is to step willingly into the unknown, and that is its kind of power.” -Paul Holze, President of Groundwork Promotions
Love Of Fitness
My business partner and I were talking about the Self-Creation Process today. He is visiting from out of town, and we were catching up about everything that has happened over…
Training Our Bodies To The Fullest Capacity
I remember being in my early 20s and training as a competitive athlete, and then again in my early 40s. It was so freeing to my body and mind.…
Self-Creation Through Yoga
We have been working with professional and serious-minded athletes for several years, as well as representing businesses in the fitness industry. We have photos of so many types of sports,…
There is something very intimate when practicing combat sports. It’s a comradery, a solidarity, a kinship with each other because you come head-to-head in a physical way with people, face-to-face and you fight for dominance, and then afterwards, you are friends again. Maybe even closer friends. It's a bonding that is unknown in most other sports. -Stephanie Stean
Bonding Through Combat
I loved being part of the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu programs when we first started representing people in fitness in 2012-2013. We began with MMA gyms and fighters, and then we started…
When Training Is Part of Your Brand
How much work does it take to train to be a professional athlete? How much time goes into workouts, training, eating, and anything related to the mind and preparation for…