BEING A YOUNG MAN RIGHT NOW IS HARDER THAN ANYONE ADMITS.
No one teaches you how to handle it, the pressure, the confusion, the feeling that everyone else has it figured out but you. Become Club gives young men aged 14–18 what most never get: real mentorship, genuine community, and a structured path toward confidence, fulfillment, and direction.
Based in Waterdown, ON - Founding Cohort Now Open.
WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS HERE
Become Club meets three times a week at our venue in Waterdown:
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 5:00–6:30PM.
Monday - Train Together Bodyweight workouts, outdoor runs, and group physical challenges done together. There's a reason the strongest bonds in the world are forged through shared effort when you suffer alongside someone, something real gets built. This is where the brotherhood starts.
Wednesday - The Circle
The most important session of the week. Members sit together and speak honestly about what's going on in their lives: identity, relationships, challenges, and everything in between. No lectures, no agenda. Just real conversation in a confidential space built on mutual trust. What's said in the room stays in the room. Parents receive general progress updates while the integrity of that trust is always protected.
Friday - Do Something Real Hikes, sports, team challenges, new skills, and genuine community service. This is where meaning gets built - not through conversation, but through doing something meaningful alongside people who show up every week. Teamwork, shared purpose, and the kind of friendships that actually last.
Every session is led by Josh Waldron. Ages 14–18. Waterdown, ON.
This is for the young man who knows something is missing but hasn't been able to name it yet.
Maybe he's doing fine on the surface. Maybe he isn't. Either way, he's looking for something more than what he currently has. A real community. A sense of direction. Someone who takes his development seriously and people to grow alongside.
He doesn't need to have it figured out. He just needs to be ready to show up consistently.
This is also for the parent who sees that in their son, the potential, the restlessness, the quiet search for something worth belonging to, and wants to give him an environment that meets him where he is and helps him Become who he's capable of being.
If that sounds like your family, Become Club was built for you.
Who This is For
WHO RUNS THIS AND WHY IT EXISTS
From the outside, things looked fine.
I was playing quarterback, keeping my grades up, surrounded by friends. By most measures there was nothing wrong. But inside I was a lost, deeply insecure kid who had no idea who he was or who he was supposed to Become. That insecurity trickled into every area of my life how I showed up in relationships, how I saw myself, how I moved through the world. I felt like everyone around me had something figured out that I didn't, and I had no idea what it was.
Eventually that insecurity caught up with me. A major falling out with nearly everyone close to me. A deep, isolating depression that I didn't talk about and didn't know how to navigate. There was a point where I wasn't sure I wanted to keep going. But before I gave up I made one decision.
I was going to try.
One more time. I was going to find out what was missing, and see if things could be different.
That decision changed my life.
What followed was years of obsessive searching. Over 50 books across self-help, philosophy, and social psychology. Hundreds of hours of podcasts and lectures. Deep study of human behaviour, Stoicism, Zen philosophy, Mindfulness, Meditation, Fulfillment, Purpose, and the Social world. That search took me to Queens University where I studied Social Psychology, Philosophy, and Religious studies. Then to Texas to the TEEX Paramilitary Fire College, the same institution David Goggins trained at, where I graduated Valedictorian and tested everything I had built mentally against real physical and psychological pressure. After graduating I realized my real calling wasn't firefighting, it was teaching. Passing on what I had learned to the next generation. This year I summited Mount Kilimanjaro, I have coached youth football, I have spent years studying what makes people thrive.
I don't claim to have it all figured out.
I still face the same challenges everyone does, doubt, insecurity, hard days. But I have built a life I'm genuinely proud of. A great relationship with the people close to me, work that actually means something, and a growing understanding of who I am and where I'm going. I show up every day committed to learning, growing, and getting better, and that's exactly what I'll ask of every member who walks through the door.
I didn't build Become Club because I had an easy path. I built it because I had a hard one and I did most of it alone.
When I look back at my teens, I had more than most, including a mentor who believed in me, and that mattered more than I can put into words. But I never had people to share the journey with. No community of guys who wanted to grow, who cared about the same things, who made the path feel less isolating.
Become Club exists to give young men both. Real mentorship from someone close enough to remember exactly how this feels, and a community of people walking the same path so nobody has to do it alone.
I'm 22. Close enough to remember. Far enough to have something real to teach.
I won't give you theory, I'll give you the roadmap I had to build myself, and the people to build it with.
Josh Waldron, Founder — Become Club
