The Bold Life Brotherhood™ started in the joint imagination of Adam Gilad and Mariela Castillo. Both had been long passionate about men’s and women’s growth, human transformation, advanced emotional and life skills and creative expression. Both had been long involved as leaders in personal development and training - as well as in film, dance, theater and the visual arts. 

Since 2005 Adam has been leading men and women around the world into intentional living- and-love-as-a-practice through his Bold Life Academy transformational workshops and retreats. He partnered with David Deida from 2007-2009 to build out the impact of David’s teaching globally.  

Through his early work in teaching The Boldness Code workshops for dating and relationship skills, he became convinced him that what men really needed was to live with both external and internal boldness. To face dragons. To be in action. And to live as bold, inspired and free as humanly possible. Not only to attract and inspire partners - but because hell, if you’re going to have life, you might as well turn it into something you enjoy and can be proud of! That takes both inner and outer work - and inner and outer play. Done boldly. Consistently. And with accountability from brothers.   

Meanwhile, Mariela had opened a healing center in the Carribean called GaiaTree - an oasis of human development in a bustling city. She not only led courses but created a vibrant community of learning around connection and growth through coaching, women’s circles, yoga, meditation and a variety of transformational workshops.  

Both were enjoying their work, the experience and the impact they were having.  

But while thousands passed through Mariela’s GaiaTree and Adam’s student community reached 70,000, both realized in 2019 that there is so much healing to be done in the world and we could share our tools with men to build their own growth communities in their hometowns - and create a real and viable business while they were at it. We realized that the practices we had created could serve hundreds of thousands if we allied ourselves with men who would like to step up their leadership game - and who could put our curriculum and marketing expertise to work locally to create more impact and build their own local transformational communities and businesses. 

This is why we decided to create this “done-for-you” platform that brings men into personal transformation work through the “easy doorway” of the Action Circles. We made sure to bring a spirit of creative fun - because people are magnetized to fun, and also, on principle, so much personal development work is so serious and stuffy and often feels like a “burden.”  

We all forget life is a big game that we are all playing as best we can and that we often have the power to change the rules and play creatively!  

So we switched the emphasis from the seriousness of “inner work” to “inner play” as much as possible. Engaged play. Infinite play. Intentional play. Not frivolous at all.

The kind of play that awakens our spirits from slumber.

Our plan is to launch a sister version for women in late 2020.

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The Bold Life Tribe™ started in the imaginations of Adam Gilad and Mariela Castillo. Both have long been passionate leaders of men’s and women’s growth, human transformation and creative expression. Both had been long involved as leaders in personal development - as well as in film, dance, theater and the visual arts.

Since 2005 Adam has been leading men and women around the world into intentional living- and-love-as-a-practice through his Bold Life Academy transformational workshops and retreats. He partnered with David Deida from 2007-2009 to build out the impact of David’s teaching globally.

Through his early work in teaching The Boldness Code workshops for dating and relationship skills, he became convinced him that what both men and women really needed was to live with both external and internal boldness. To face dragons. To be in action. To ask cleanly for what they wanted in the world. And to live bold, inspired and free. Inner and outer work. Inner and outer play.

Meanwhile, Mariela opened a healing center in the Carribean called GaiaTree - an oasis of human development in a bustling city. She not only led courses but created a vibrant community of learning around connection and growth through coaching, women’s circles, yoga, meditation and a variety of transformational workshops.

Both were enjoying their work, the experience and the impact they were having.

But while thousands passed through Mariela’s GaiaTree and Adam’s student community reached 70,000, both realized in 2019 that there is so much healing to be done in the world that we could share our tools with men to build their own growth communities - and create a real and viable business while they were at it.

We realized that the practices we had created could serve hundreds of thousands if we allied ourselves with men and women who were ready to step up their leadership game - and who could put our curriculum and marketing expertise to work to create more impact and build their own transformational communities and businesses.

This is why we decided to create the Tribe platform and Action Circles. We made sure to bring a spirit of creative fun - because people are magnetized to fun, and also, on principle, so much personal development work is so serious and stuffy and often feels like a “burden.”

We all forget life is a big game that we are all playing as best we can and that we often have the power to change the rules and play creatively!

So we switched the emphasis from the seriousness of “inner work” to “inner play” as much as possible. Engaged play. Infinite play. Intentional play. Not frivolous at all.

The kind of play that awakens our spirits from slumber.