MEET THE FOUNDERS
The Two Who Lit the Fire
Two men, one road, and the brotherhood that became a Guild.
BEGINING IN 2018
Jason McCombs and Jeff Deehan rode the Monkey Run across Peru together: a thousand kilometers of bad roads, worse weather, and small machines never built for the task. They came from different worlds and disagreed about plenty. By the end, none of that mattered. Hardship has a way of stripping a thing down to what it actually is, and what was left between them was simple. Trust. Two men who had learned to rely on each other completely. They came home brothers.
What they noticed back home was an absence. Men today have nowhere consistent to do what the two of them had just done: to gather, to be tested, to speak openly and honestly in a room where the trust is already high. Masculinity itself had become an argument, a thing to be debated and litigated rather than simply practiced well. So they built the room themselves.
The Adventureman's Guild is that room. A place for men to come from anywhere, learn hard skills, take on real adventure, and become better, side by side. Different backgrounds, different views, one brotherhood. That is the whole idea, and it started on a minibike in the mountains of Peru.
Jason McCombs
Cofounder · Heart & Engine of the Guild
Detroit, Michigan
Jason is the backbone of the Guild and the one who carries it day to day. An artist, builder, showman, and incredible organizer out of Detroit, with roots in the city's legendary Theatre Bizarre, he is the face members meet, the voice they hear, and the hand behind the badges, the lore, the look, and the language.
He thinks in atmosphere, ritual, and craft: hand-aged paper, wax seals, struck coins, things built to be held, earned, and kept. Where the modern world ships everything fast and disposable, Jason makes things slowly and on purpose. More than anyone, he is the reason the Guild feels like a world instead of a website, and the reason it keeps running.
Jeff Deehan
Cofounder
Lansing, Michigan
Jeff is Jason's partner in the Guild and a Lansing developer and entrepreneur who helps with the structure and the long-game planning behind the scenes. He grew up in the Boy Scouts and credits much of what he has built to the skills and the brotherhood he found there: the merit-badge ethic of learning a hard thing, doing it well, then teaching the next man.
The Guild is, in large part, his attempt to give grown men what Scouting gave boys: a reason to keep leveling up, and people to do it with.