A community who chooses to embrace life’s adversities and challenges to forge the best version of ourselves through fitness.
What is Forged Passion?
Forged Passion is the strengthening of passion over time for what we believe in and who we want to be. Forged Passion is embracing our individuality created through adversity and challenges we face in life to become what we never imagined we could. Forged Passion is believing in ourselves when others wouldn’t and triumphing when they said we couldn’t. Forged Passion is about becoming the very best version of ourselves. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Forged Passion Philosophy
At our core, IRON COMPANY is the result of facing our own adversity and fears in life, discovering fitness and turning it into the solution for the challenges we faced. Our passion for fitness, Forged Passion as we like to call it, opened up opportunities in life we could have never imagined and brought us success we only dreamed of.
No matter your goals or situation, we strongly believe that there is Forged Passion in everybody waiting to be discovered and utilized for the betterment of ourselves and society. What’s your passion?
Look in the mirror…that’s your competition.
Forged Passion Mission
Creating a platform that brings people together from all walks of life to inspire and energize one another through examples of determination and grit that ultimately lead to success. That is our mission.
Whether you’re a professional athlete, first responder, office worker, teacher, stay at home parent, or one of a million other things, chances are someone or something in your life helped determine the path you would ultimately take. Hopefully, the force that molded you was positive and with love. For many, we are greatly impacted through adversity such as bullying, being born with a disease or being faced with an addiction. It is these things we all experience, good or bad, that establish opportunity in our lives to create a positive outcome for ourselves and others if we only take the time to take recognize and embrace those opportunities we have before us.
STRENGTH is the product of struggle, you must do what others don’t to achieve what others won’t.
Henry Rollins
Forged Passion Changes Lives
Share Your Story!
How has fitness helped you accomplish things in life you never thought were possible? How has fitness not only strengthened your body, but built up your confidence, self-determination and discipline to become a better employee, business owner, parent, or just a better person in general? Join us in celebrating our diversity and providing encouragement for others to learn from and be inspired by.
Together, We are FORGED PASSION
Amanda Burrill I'm Amanda Burrill and a traumatic brain injury changed the trajectory of my life. I was able to adapt and overcome the recovery odds by turning to fitness.
Tyler Brey My name is Tyler Brey and I was born with spina bifida. I have been able to defy the odds in many
areas of my life and it all started with the lessons I learned through fitness.
Zach Even-Esh I’m Zach Even-Esh and through high school
I became obsessed with the gym and getting
stronger which became my remedy of choice for
battling depression.
This is our community. These are the people that set the examples encouraging us to control our own destiny and be what we want to be in life.
Suzi Fevens
Born and raised in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia, Suzi started dancing at a young age and studied tap and clogging for many years. She gave up formal dance lessons in her
Lucie Easterwood lives in a small town of Friendswood, just a South of Houston, Texas with her husband, 2 children and an adorable golden doodle dog. Lucie Easterwood is a Cancer Survivor; she started her journey when she was 30 years old. Lucie shares her story in our Forged Passion series of interviews of strong courageous women.
Has spent most of his life in the gym either training as a boxer/martial artist or bodybuilder. After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2006, he founded The
As an Integrative Health Coach, as well as a Neuromuscular Massage Therapist my goal is to help people understand their unique bio-individuality so that they can better cultivate a healthy lifestyle that is tailored specifically to their needs & goals. Proper care & cultivation of a sustainable, healthy lifestyle is especially crucial for those currently managing &/or recovering from chronic illness such as: cancer, etc…
I’ve always been active my whole life, whether it was playing sports or working out at the gym. I’ve always loved that feeling of being sore and getting stronger. I loved working out so much I became NASM certified at the age of 19.
I will always see myself differently when I look in the mirror, and not because I look different but because I am different -- I'm a fighter, a survivor, I'm stronger, even wiser. So for me, fighting cancer actually gave me more than it took -- it forced me to relinquish control so that God could move, so He could bless me with a new and improved perspective, and so He could heal me in places I never could have reached on my own.
Patrick was born into adversity. At an early age he became a double amputee which kept him from physically keeping up with a lot of the other kids. A few years ago on the advice of some friends, and after he was granted a pair of running legs, Patrick took up running. And run he did.
Today, Neff’s advice from his older self to his younger self is this. “Just don’t give up, use your time wisely, push through, don’t stop!”. Rediscovering life through running, Jiu Jitsu and CrossFit has forever changed Neff’s life vision and purpose.
Merideth finds solace in her faith and fitness as she navigates through an industry that is highly stressful and most often based on your looks alone. Growing up Merideth has always loved sports and being active, her passion is basketball, lifting weights and her most recent hobby of golf.
As a young mother of 26 years old, Erica Lugo found herself at 322 lbs. and without enough energy to play with her son. This was the moment she realized she had to make a change. Through her determination, Erica was able to lose 150 lbs. over 15 months allowing her to become a happier, healthier mom. Erica’s passion for ...
After having her first child, Chady Dunmore found herself over 200 lbs., suffering from severe postpartum depression and struggling to find her identity. She turned to fitness and challenged herself to enter an upcoming bikini competition. She won and now holds multiple ...
Born with Fibular Hemimelia, Calder Hodge had both legs amputated at two years old. Through family, friends and faith, Calder has molded himself into a role model for many and smashes through any barriers placed in front of him. Today he is the quarterback for his high school football team and ...
Strength training has opened up many doors for me. I have been able to travel the world by participating, coaching, and officiating the world’s biggest events in powerlifting, weightlifting, bodybuilding and strongman. Strength training gets in your blood. It is a way of living that helps set the tone for our everyday activities. For me it’s a necessity of life….. like eating and breathing. It’s something I need to do on a regular basis. I will always train….. I’m in it for the long run.