Jacob Pacheco, Founder, Prone To Ride

Jacob Pacheco, Founder, Prone To Ride

• Jacob Pacheco is the Founder of Prone to Ride.

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Jacob Pacheco is a content creator, entrepreneur, model, speaker, and professional surfer, and he also adapts to life with Cerebral Palsy. Jacob’s platform often focuses on empowerment and optimization.

Throughout Jacob’s life, he’s faced incredible adversity including bullying due to his disability, medical setbacks, intense surgeries leaving him immobile, abuse, and depression. Despite these challenges, Jacob thrives and even founded Prone To Ride, an apparel company and content platform with the mission of empowering you to discover your best. On the Prone to Ride platform, Jacob shares his empowering message of personal growth, the importance of community, and the reality that each of us can achieve greatness.

00:38- About Jacob Pacheco

• Jacob Pacheco is the Founder of Prone to Ride.
• He speaks on topics like Turning Adversity into Assets.
• He is a content creator, an entrepreneur, a model, a speaker, and a professional surfer.

00:59- About his journey

• One of the things I did when I started this journey was focus on one step at a time.
• I surrounded myself with the right people at an early age.
• You can learn to spend time with the people who support you most and push you to more significant limits, and I was only 8 years old at the time.

03:34- Tell me about your learnings, as you faced your challenges

• The number one lesson that I’ve learned is the management of expectations, the removal of attachment to my actions, and focusing on my intent.
• I knew that if I kept the object of helping one person at a time, then I could create something powerful. And that’s what started Prone to Write.

09:16- About your, Prone To Ride platform and your message of personal growth, the importance of community, and the reality that each of us can achieve greatness.

• It was really about taking a chance to help one person at a time, instead of accepting what was being given to me.
• I really believe in the ability to achieve our own personal standard of greatness, whatever it looks like.
• I think we all seek to have some type of purpose and peace in our lives. I wanted to channel that into building a better community because we’re not here for a long time.

18:37- What does success mean to you?

• Success means, to me, the ability to look myself in the mirror, and be happy with everything that I have done up to this point.
• Also, having the ability to forgive myself for all the mistakes that I have made.

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• Jacob Pacheco is the Founder of Prone to Ride.
• He speaks on topics like Turning Adversity into Assets.
• He is a content creator, an entrepreneur, a model, a speaker, and a professional surfer.