The book that started it all
The Giants and the Smalls
The Adventure of Rimi and Ritt · Nicholas Townsend Smith
Not your typical bedtime story — this is a wake-up call to Giant potential.
Why the Tribe
“I know what to do. I just don’t do it.”
If that sentence is yours, you aren’t missing information. You’re missing the place where knowing turns into becoming. That place is the Tribe.
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Why it hasn’t stuck
You’ve already tried the sensible things.
None of it was wasted. Each one holds a piece of the answer.
- Books and podcastsgive you insight. Insight is cheap. Behavior is not.
- Coursesgive you modules, and the modules wait patiently while your life happens.
- Habit appscount streaks. Miss one day and the streak breaks, along with the story you were telling about yourself.
- A coachcan help a great deal, once a week. The old pattern fires on a Tuesday at 7 a.m.
- Social feedsgive you an audience. Audiences want results, so you end up performing them.
You’re not broken. You’re stuck.
You don’t have a discipline problem. You have an identity problem. Identity doesn’t change on the day you understand something. It changes when you watch yourself do the thing, again and again, until doing it is simply who you are.
What happens here instead
One round, every day, in your real life.
Every morning, two minutes: your body tells you how heavy the day is. Then one real step in your actual life, sized to that day. Straight after, one minute on what it did in you and who that makes you. By evening, people who witness how you showed up. Then you do it again, and the steps become proof, and the proof becomes who you are.
Morning · Align Heavier or lighter?
Your body answers before your words do. Two minutes, and the day has a name.
Seconds later · Align Your page, read back
What your body and words are saying, and one question to carry into tomorrow. Only you ever see it.
During the day · Act One real step
On the bridge between where you are and where you want to be. On a heavier morning, the two-minute version comes first.
Straight after · Learn What did it do in you?
Right before, what the fear said, afterwards — and the line that matters most: “I am someone who…”
By evening · Share Let the Tribe witness it
How you showed up, never the scoreboard. You read it and change anything before it goes.
Then round again. Everything else in the Tribe exists to make that round easier to walk, and harder to quit.
Real screens from the app, shown with a demo member. Your check-ins stay yours. Only you ever see them.
What it leaves behind
Proof, in your own words.
Every “I am someone who…” you write is kept and counted. A line you’ve written four times is an identity forming, and your Evidence File shows it to you, next to what your body did each time you showed up anyway.
I am someone who keeps small promises to myself. × 4
You stop arguing with yourself about whether you’ve changed. You can read it.
The power of the Tribe
Witnessed, never judged.
In a world where answers are free, being seen is the scarce thing. That’s what the Tribe is for.
Share the process, not the trophy
Members post how they showed up: where the resistance lived in the body, and how they moved anyway. Every act counts the same, so there’s nothing to compare.
Nobody posts into silence
The Tribe’s host greets every new arrival and answers first shares, and the people doing the same work are right there: the feed, friends, messages and events.
Kindness is what gets celebrated
Giants on the Rise celebrates the members lifting others, and the highest stage a Giant can grow into is kept for people who reach back.
Bring the people who already help you
Your coach or therapist can walk the journeys with you and sees only what you choose. Certified coaches are there when you want a human.
Being seen is what makes it stick.
What you can’t get anywhere else
Pieces of this exist in other places. The loop doesn’t.
Here is what it adds up to when it all lives in one place and talks to itself.
Your body sets the size of today’s step.
Most tools hand you the same task on your worst day as on your best. Here, a heavier check-in means a two-minute step comes first. Six steps held in a row, and it offers a bigger one. Three of your last five fall, and the next one comes a size smaller.
Falling counts.
A step that didn’t happen isn’t erased. You say what stopped you, the next step is shaped around it, and the fall stays on your record as something it taught you. Falls don’t break it. Quitting does.
Proof, in your own words.
Your Evidence File gathers every line you’ve written about who you’re becoming, counts the ones you keep writing, and shows what your body did each time. You stop arguing with yourself about whether you’ve changed. You can read it.
Witnessed, never judged on results.
Members share the process, not the outcome. Every act counts the same, so there’s nothing to compare. Being seen is what makes it stick.
Change you can see.
Once a week, five minutes to look back and choose one focus, with an if-then to carry it. Once a month, four questions about how life feels. Your change sits side by side: then and now.
It stays built.
When you reach the far shore, the work isn’t over. For eight weeks the Tribe checks in once a week until the new way of living runs on its own, and when you say it does, it’s marked as part of who you are.
A story to walk inside.
Twelve journeys, from Non-Consciousness to Legacy, each led by a character whose story becomes a mirror for yours. Six short sittings each, taught back to Rimi until it’s yours, and a Journey Book of your own words at the end.
Someone beside you at the hard moment.
Rimi, your guide, in chat and out loud, knows all twelve journeys and remembers where you are. The Mirror is a private, body-led room to feel what’s true, and it keeps no transcript.
Private by design.
Your check-ins are yours alone. The Mirror forgets on purpose. If an employer gave you a seat, they see group totals from people who chose to be counted, nothing from a group under five, and never your words.
Change you can see
Measured, not guessed.
Every week, every month, and long after you arrive. The numbers are your own, and only you see them.
Every week Your weekly round
Five minutes on what held, what fell and what it taught — then one focus and an if-then for the week ahead.
Every month How life feels
Four questions the UK’s national statistics office asks the country, read back against last month.
Any day Your change
How life felt then and now, your check-ins week by week, and every journey’s before and after.
After you arrive Part of who you are
Eight weeks of keeping the bridge standing, until you say the new way of living runs on its own.
The books behind it
Before the Tribe, there was a book.
There would be no Tribe, no 12 Journeys and no Wake Up With Giants TV without The Giants and the Smalls. Its companion, The Giant within the Small, walks one man through the twelve journeys home. Both are read inside the Tribe, and both are on Amazon.
The novel of the 12 Journeys
The Giant within the Small
A Story of the Twelve Journeys Home to Yourself · Nicholas Townsend Smith
He carried the number for six years. The morning he lost everything, he finally called it.
A story to walk inside
Twelve journeys. Your life is the curriculum.
Each journey is led by a character whose story becomes a mirror for yours, grouped into three seasons of growth. Six short sittings each, taught back to Rimi, with a Deep Dive for the curious.
Roots · Find solid ground
Shoots · Grow toward the light
Fruit · Live it, leave it
Rimi walks it with you.
Bring him the thing you keep circling, at any hour, in chat or out loud. He knows the twelve journeys and remembers where you are. When you finish one, you teach it back to him, because explaining something is how it becomes yours.
The growth
Every Giant was born a Small.
Your Giant grows with what you actually do — check-ins, planks laid, words shared, lessons learned. Six stages: the Five Laws of Giant Growth, one at a time, and a sixth for reaching back. Not a badge for signing up: a road, and you can see how far you've walked it.
- SmallEvery Giant was born a Small. You've begun.Law 1 · Every Giant Was Born a Small
- OutgrowingThe old house is getting tight. That's growth, not failure.Law 2 · You Will Outgrow Your House Before You're Ready
- Far-SeerFrom higher up, you catch what you used to miss.Law 3 · Giants See What Smalls Miss
- UnshrinkingFear still knocks. You stay your full size.Law 4 · Fear Makes You Shrink
- GiantYou grew by doing. You stand where you once felt small.Law 5 · Giants Grow by Doing, Not by Knowing
- Gentle GiantYou lift Smalls onto your shoulders, the way Rimi lifted Ritt.Rimi's way · A Giant reaches back
The Gentle Giant is kept for people who lift others as they climb, the way Rimi lifted Ritt — strength alone was never the point.
Why it’s built this way
Every piece answers to the research.
We come to know who we are partly by watching what we do.
Self-perception theory · Bem, 1972
So here: every step ends with one minute on what you just did and who that makes you.
Plans phrased as “when this happens, I will do that” had a medium-to-large average effect on reaching goals, across 94 studies.
Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006
So here: the weekly round ends with an if-then, and so does every journey’s plank.
In one careful study, new daily habits took a median of 66 days to become automatic, anywhere from 18 to 254, and missing a single day didn’t derail them.
Lally, van Jaarsveld, Potts & Wardle, 2010
So here: a fall is never the end, and the Tribe keeps checking for eight weeks after you arrive.
Explaining what you’ve learned to someone else helps it last.
Fiorella & Mayer, 2013
So here: you teach each journey back to Rimi, in your own words.
And we hold ourselves to the same standard. All 406 claims in the Deep Dives carry a grade, so you always know which is which.
157strong evidence
140mixed or debated
50a model, not a measurement
59a theory: a lens, not an experiment
What we won’t tell you
Plain about what this is, and what it isn’t.
- That you’ll be a new person in thirty days.Nobody honest sells that.
- That we’ll fix you.The work is yours. We walk beside you; we don’t carry you.
- That thousands already swear by it.The Tribe is young, so you won’t find a wall of before-and-after stories here. You’ll find your own, because the measuring is built in from your first week.
- That it replaces therapy.The Tribe is coaching, not therapy. It can sit alongside therapy, and your therapist can see whatever you choose to share.
The Tribe is for you if…
- You've caught yourself asking the quiet question — “is this all there is?”
- You've done the books and podcasts, and you're ready to practice instead of collect
- You're willing to look at yourself honestly — even when it's tender
- You want people walking beside you, not an audience watching you
It’s not for you if…
- You want a quick miracle — we don't sell those, and nobody honest does
- You want someone to fix you — the work is yours; we walk beside you, we don't carry you
- You're collecting another course to leave unfinished
- You need certainty before the first step — the first step is how you get certainty
If the second list brought relief, you don’t need us, and that’s a good answer. If the first one brought a little heat you can’t quite place, that heat is information.
What it costs
Join free, for life. Keep All-Access if it’s working.
Free, for lifeYour account: the community, Journey 1, the daily Giant Quest and your first crossing. No card, nothing to cancel.
Your first 30 daysAll-Access too, free: all 12 journeys, Rimi, the Mirror, the whole game, full check-ins and the Giant Library.
After thatKeep All-Access for $19 a month or $149 a year — only if you want it. Your free account carries on either way.
Staying stuck has a price too. It gets paid one Tuesday at a time.
Every Giant was born a Small.
You don’t need a better plan.
You need the next plank.
The pattern doesn’t break on the day you understand it. It breaks on the day you start.
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The Tribe of Giants is coaching, not therapy. If you’re in danger or thinking about harming yourself: in the US, call or text 988, any hour. Anywhere else, findahelpline.com.
Sources
- Bem, D. J. (1972). Self-perception theory. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 6, 1–62.
- Gollwitzer, P. M., & Sheeran, P. (2006). Implementation intentions and goal achievement: A meta-analysis of effects and processes. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 69–119.
- Lally, P., van Jaarsveld, C. H. M., Potts, H. W. W., & Wardle, J. (2010). How are habits formed: Modelling habit formation in the real world. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40(6), 998–1009.
- Fiorella, L., & Mayer, R. E. (2013). The relative benefits of learning by teaching and teaching expectancy. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 38(4), 281–288.
- Office for National Statistics — personal well-being questions, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. ONS does not endorse the Tribe.
- Gardner, B., Abraham, C., Lally, P., & de Bruijn, G.-J. (2012). Towards parsimony in habit measurement. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 9, 102. Open access, CC BY 2.0.