Who is Brian Germain?

Fear Specialist Brian Germain is an acclaimed author, speaker, inventor, test pilot, personal coach, radio personality and world-renowned skydiving instructor. Brian launched this fascinating career on April 13, 1986, the day he first jumped out of an airplane. A psychology student at the time, Brian’s skydiving experiences inspired his ongoing research on the topic of fear. More than 20 years later, Brian is still studying fear and now focuses his attention toward helping others to rise above it. His fascinating keynote presentation about fear and its remedies is a “must-do” for any business or organization.

Brian Germain has dedicated his life to the study of fear and its effects, but what has distinguished him from others on similar paths is his unique ability to tell the story in a way that we can hear it. His unusually animated expression of this aspect of the human condition is both disarming and profound, and very, very funny. His natural ability to paint the picture of this journey that we all share has been fostered by many years of compassionate skydiving instruction.

Brian’s entrepreneurial career began early. At the age of 25, Brian founded Vermont Skydiving Adventures parachute school, which he operated for several years. After narrowly surviving a tragic parachute collapse, however, he sold his highly-praised skydiving school in order to focus his efforts on the healing process. As part of his path to recovery, Brian set his sights on preventing the same tragedy from befalling other parachutists. He returned to the sky to test his own collapse-resistant “Airlock” prototypes, and founded his parachute design company BIG AIR Sportz. His innovative work earned him a Patent for “Valved Apparatus for Ram-Air Canopies” (US Patent #5,573,207), and he continues to design and test parachutes in order to improve safety and efficiency. After writing the definitive book on parachute aerodynamics, The Parachute and its Pilot, Brian created his “Canopy Flight Course”, an advanced training workshop, and continues to tour the world promoting parachuting safety. He is also the host of the very popular radio show entitled “Safety First with Brian Germain”.

Ignoring the doctors’ proclamation that he would never jump again, Brian not only emerged from his wheelchair to continue skydiving, but a mere four years later became the ESPN X-Games World Champion in Freefly Skydiving. Now with more than 14,000 jumps and four X-Games medals, Brian has become one of the most respected skydivers in the world, frequently training the nation’s Armed Forces as a civilian expert. He has lectured at the U.S. Air Force Academy, and provides advanced training to the U.S. Navy Seals Teams and various other Special Forces Units in addition to literally hundreds of civilian venues. In 2008, Brian was awarded an honorary Special Forces Coin for his transcending fear work with the Navy’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal Units.

Following his X-Games victories and success in the fields of parachute design and instruction, Brian resumed his formal study of the psychology of fear by returning to graduate school for Clinical Psychotherapy at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. Since then he has written numerous books and articles about overcoming fear, including his best-selling book Transcending Fear and his inspiring smash-hit Greenlight Your Life. Brian’s passion for the topic of transcending fear has led to numerous interviews with the media, as well as hosting his own internet TV series, Transcending Fear with Brian Germain.

Brian is on a mission. His goal is to tell the truth about fear, and the means to work with this powerful and potentially dangerous emotional response. Brian’s observation is that fear diminishes our ability to think clearly and act wisely. It obscures our compassion and our ability to look beyond our own selfish needs to see the big picture. This is why every pilot, soldier and citizen must learn the nature of our primal defense mechanisms, as well as the most powerful tools for handling prolonged stress.

In an age of terrorism, disease and genuine economic concerns, our ability to work with our fear has become paramount for our survival as a species. If we do not understand what is occurring within us, we will be unable to change the current trend toward escalation. If we continue down this path, humanity will inevitably experience more war, illness and unhappiness. If, however, we are able to learn how to control our emotional response to the world, there is the certainty of a better future.

“When we look beyond our fear, we see only solutions.”
-Brian Germain

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