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Our Team - What The Forge Means to Us
Todd Adamson
The woods across the street from my childhood home were my playground. For the neighborhood kids, it was where we ran wild and explored — building forts, catching minnows in the creek, climbing trees. The smell of dirt, sunlight filtering through tall pines, the trails we carved out ourselves. Nature as a first teacher.
My running life began the same way: instinctive, unscripted. A "fun run" mile race at ten years old. I didn't know what I was doing, but I trained and I won. The feeling was immediate and full, “I like this!” From that moment, I began learning the language of training, discipline, focus, and performance. High school track and cross country. Friends and a way of life built around that framework. Then college. The same rhythm, deeper roots. A life defined by being outside, connecting with people who shared the same hunger, and pushing toward growth.
Later, that same thread wove into a career, integrating psychology, mental health, and performance. Anchoring it all in values and meaning. And eventually, sharing it with others through The Forge.
Randy Vane
A well-traveled uncle and a grandmother's library stacked with National Geographics lit something in me early — a hunger for what lay just beyond reach.
Like most of us, I spent my youth inside the guardrails: school schedules, team sports, routines that kept the world predictable. But underneath, the pull toward something bigger never left. I needed to find my own way in the world.
Study abroad broke it open. What started as a semester became a backpacking trip, which became a life shaped by surf, culture, and curiosity — adventures across continents, deep dives into how different people live, move, and connect.
That question — how do we actually live well? — became the one I couldn't stop chasing.
The Forge is my answer. A place to connect with others who are still chasing it too, to pursue experiences that push past comfortable, and to build the mental and physical foundation that makes every day feel like it's lived on purpose.
Christopher McDonald
I grew up constantly moving—new places, new people, new environments. But one thing was always consistent: being active. Sports, workouts, hiking—movement wasn’t just physical, it was how I stayed grounded, how I connected, how I processed life.
As life got busier, that started to slip. The movement slowed, the community faded, and I felt the gap—mentally as much as physically.
The Forge is my way back to that. A return to challenge, to community, to being fully engaged in life. It’s about getting uncomfortable again, showing up for each other, and rebuilding the kind of connection that’s easy to lose but essential to who we are.
Ryan Gentry
As a young boy growing up in New England, I stared at snowflakes falling outside my window and dreamed of faraway mountains, of trekking across vast unknown landscapes, chasing some impossible quest with a fellowship of adventurers.
My vision always gravitated toward something deeper than adrenaline: camaraderie, teamwork, and the bond forged by facing insurmountable odds together. Sitting around a table after an epic journey with my team, reveling in what we accomplished. The laughter, the stories, the tears, the hardship. All of it.
After three decades as a trainer and adventure guide, I've learned those moments don't happen by accident. They require a shared dream, a committed team, and the discipline to show up, especially when the mountain is metaphorical and the task is just being present.
That's why The Forge exists for me.