Author: John K

Everything has been a blur since NP Summit 4.0. One of the things that came out of summit was that each tribe was assigned a sister tribe for the next 6 months. What does that mean? We’re not sure right now but we do know that #NP_KC got the luck of the draw with the MOTHERSHIP, NP Boston. Tomorrow we will be dropping a box full of goodies (see a preview above), thanks to some of our AWESOMELY WONDERFUL tribe members, in the mail that represent our wonderful city. When those items arrive the leaders of Boston (Emily Saul, Chris Payne, Chris Capozzi) will decide where those fantastic products go. Maybe they’ll keep it all, maybe they’ll give it all away, maybe they’ll make their tribe members work for it. That is the beauty of being a co-leader, they get to decide. What we encourage you to do during these 6 months is to get to know the tribe over social media. Stalk the leaders, stalk tribe members, and if you feel so inclined send them a hello video. This next half of the year is going to be a blast! read more

Despite the rumors,we did not pay people to #justshowup to our workout this week. Well, maybe we did but there was a catch. Thanks to a generous donor we thought we’d spread some #NP_KC love and handout $5 to each tribe member after this week’s workout. The money was definitely “earned,” with temps in the lower twenties it was the first time we tested the definition of November Project #weatherproof. In fact, the stairs at Liberty Memorial were so icy that Tanya had to alter our workout a bit. She’s pretty bad ass so that wasn’t an issue. After a nice circuit workout consisting of mountain climbers, lunges, squats, jumping jacks, and star jumps we lined up for our weekly group pic. Afterwards we handed $5 to each member and explained the only rule: You had to spend it on a complete stranger without anything in return. Our hope is that this creates a little bit of a ripple effect. Brighten someone’s day. Create a smile. Instigate a positive interaction between two people that may have not otherwise happened. To show our tribe members that a small deed can go a long way. read more

For our English only speaking friends “Nuestra Casa Es Su Casa” is Spanish for our home is your home. Since the beginning we’ve been fortunate to have tribe members join us from other NP cities across the country. J. Grubbs, Caitlin, and Emma just to name a few, have been coming to our workouts as either transplants from other NP cities, or as visitors who work in KC M-Fri. This past week we had some visitors from NP members who had been traveling the country, and at the same time hitting up workouts as they passed through NP cities. One of those members, Jen, from Madison, WI was on her way from NP Denver on Tuesday when she got stuck in the middle of a blizzard in Goodland, KS and couldn’t make it. The other was Dustin Renwick from NP DC. He’s been traveling across the United States and Canada, and writing a great blog, while hitting up NP workouts across North America (read about his adventure here http://www.operationmonarch.com). Being his last stop we thought we’d give him a little taste of home. Thanks to Steve Christensen, an NP DC co-leader, we threw in some tennis balls and did a little McEnroe workout. We had a blast and hopefully so did he! read more