OUR STORY
Founded in Sacramento, California in June 2022. What started as 5 guys in a park has grown into a community of over 170 men.
How it started
Five men in a park.
Travis found his way to men's work the way a lot of men do… through something falling apart.
In the fallout of a seven-year relationship, newly sober and looking for a way forward, he signed up for a three-month men's coaching program. He almost didn't. When he told the program leader "now isn't the right time," the response was simple:
In three months he experienced more growth than in the three years of therapy that came before it. It changed the direction of his life.
It was during this 3 months that Travis took Benett’s yoga class and the two became instant friends. And Less than a year after this friendship formed, Benett traveled to the Pacific Northwest for Sacred Sons' EMX — an immersive men's retreat — and came back a different person himself. It was the first time the two of them realized they'd both been drawn to men's work, separately and for their own reasons.
Sitting in a sauna shortly after, one of them said what if we started our own group? The other said what about next Saturday? And that was it.
In June 2022, five men showed up to a park. Daniel Duffy was one of them. Coming from an extensively religious background he was beginning to move beyond, he understood deeply what makes people feel genuinely connected. He saw the value in what Travis and Benett were building from the very first night and has been an engine of the group ever since.
Three years later the community has grown to over 170 men, built almost entirely through word of mouth.
Creating space for men to be seen, supported, and held accountable
— The HWMG Mission
THE PEOPLE BEHIND IT
Meet the founders
Humble Warrior is led by the community, but at the helm are three men who each found their way to this work through their own path, and who believe that what happens in these meetings matters far beyond the room.
Travis Ambrose
Travis came to men's work the way a lot of men do… through something falling apart.
After a decade of weed addiction and dysfunctional relationship patterns, a seven-year relationship ended and he was left newly sober and out of excuses. A men's coaching program almost didn't happen. "Now isn't the right time," he told the program leader. His response was exactly what he needed to hear: "It sounds like right now might be the perfect time."
In three months he experienced more growth than in the three years of therapy that came before it. Getting sober gave him the clarity to actually receive what was being offered: radical honesty, nervous system regulation, shadow work, and the experience of being genuinely seen by other men. Somewhere in that process he remembered something he'd carried since childhood: he'd always wanted to help people the way a therapist does. This was the full circle moment.
He became a trauma-informed relationship coach, specializing in attachment patterns and the relational healing that actually sticks. He facilitates with warmth, directness, and a deep belief that men change most in the presence of other men they trust.
Co-Founder & Lead Facilitator
Benett Hannan
Benett discovered men’s work not by seeking it out, but by running out of road.
After years of living by someone else's standard of what a man should be, value, and achieve, he found himself at rock bottom, having betrayed the people closest to him and nearly losing everything he actually cared about. Sacred Sons' EMX in the Pacific Northwest was where that changed. Surrounded by men he'd known for less than 48 hours, he admitted his faults and braced for judgment. Instead, a man looked him in the eye, heard his darkest internal monologue, and called him back into integrity without condemnation. It was the first time his raw humanity had been witnessed and accepted.
He brought that experience back to Sacramento and into the foundation of Humble Warrior. As a yoga teacher, his work has always centered on the same thing, helping people get out of their heads and into their bodies, using movement, breathwork, and nervous system awareness to access what the mind alone can't reach. That thread runs through everything HWMG practices.
Co-Founder & Lead Facilitator
Founding Member & OperationsDaniel Duffy
Daniel grew up deeply religious and eventually found his own spiritual path, but what he carried forward was a clear understanding of what makes community real: people showing up for each other, consistently, without requiring everyone to think the same way.
When he came to the first meeting of five men in a park, he felt immediately that something real was happening. He started volunteering, then helping with operations, then becoming essential to how the group functions. What drew him in was the openness, a space for all kinds of men, not tied to one belief system or worldview. Grounded, not performative. Daniel has been the engine keeping HWMG going at times when Benett and Travis were struggling. It wouldn’t be what it is today without him.
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READY WHEN YOU ARE
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