Listen To What Heroes Programmer Frank Deardurff and Copywriter Craig Perrine Say When They Answer the Heroes Question "Who are the HEROES in your life now?"
Frank Deardurff: I have a couple of sports heroes. How they carried themselves on the field as well as off the field. People like Walter Payton and Mike Singletary. They had a strong faith and believed in what they did on the field.
But I also looked up to people around me, people that I worked with. There are countless. Of course my biggest hero would be my mother.
Craig Perrine: There are quite a few of them in this series you are doing and I have a lot of good friends and I have already heard their wonderful interviews. To mention some there is David Garfinkel, Michael Fortin and Joe Patalli but seriously the list is really much too long to even list here.
I really see a hero in all my friends because I choose people to be around me who are creating and building to help make life better for people. They are often eunterpurners or authors or artist or even any sphere of life. Let’s say that they are really working at becoming the best mother or the best father that they can be. For me that is a hero and I have learned a ton from folks that one might say that there is nothing particularly special about them, but there is.
I will say that in my life I have been so blessed with teachers and parents and friends, particularly friends of my family that have been great role models and have guided me through some pretty tough times.
I went through some pretty tough stuff with a divorce in my family and a lot of chaos and friends and family are really what got me through all of that and to me; I have absorbed so much of what has worked for me from my heroes.
To me a hero is someone who teaches about possibility and the unlimited human potential that we all have, people who overcome challenges and create real value for others in the world.
For me a hero, it isn’t really about money or success although I do admire achievement and excellence so if it is money or sports great but really it has more to do with their heart and their intention and the fact that they are trying to do the best they can in the world.