Blue Collar Badass exists to build people
Forge the freedom
to choose.
Most people spend their lives building businesses, careers, and responsibilities. Few spend time building themselves. Blue Collar Badass exists to help hardworking people build the freedom to choose how they lead, how they live, and the legacy they leave.
The architecture we build from
Blue Collar Badass
The Forge
The Forge Method™
The Forge Way
Each layer supports the next. Nothing competes. Everything belongs.
The Five Marks
The marks left on people who spend their lives in The Forge.
See the day as given, not owed.
Do what you said you would.
Move before you feel ready.
Stay a student of the work.
Leave people better than you found them.
Who's behind this
Derek Sobek grew up in Kansas and has worked with his hands his whole life.
Every sunrise is another opportunity to intentionally choose who you will become.
Membership
The Member Space is opened by invitation.
Inside: the Daily Forge, Forge Questions and your private answers, sessions, and the people doing the same work. There's no checkout — you ask, we read it, and we open the door.