Jamie Leibert - Captain Manicorn
Jamie Leibert
aka Captain Manicorn
Jamie Leibert did not come from a background that should have produced an adventure athlete, a nonprofit founder, or a filmmaker. He came from group homes. He came from the streets. He spent 13 years moving through a system that rarely expects much from the people inside it.
He was deep in a meth addiction when he was arrested. He spent four years in federal prison. When he got out, he had no obvious reason to believe things could be different. Most people in that position do not get a second act.
Jamie got his through movement.
He discovered adventure sports - BASE jumping, wingsuit flying, paragliding - and found in them the same daily discipline that prison had stripped away. The monster did not disappear. He just learned a different relationship with it. Show up. Struggle. Suck less. Repeat.
He took that framework and built a mission around it. If extreme movement could rebuild him, maybe it could help others. That idea became Battling Monsters. That mission became Just Care More, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2015.
Today Jamie is an adventure athlete and filmmaker who has climbed and flown in more than 80 countries, most recently commissioned by National Geographic (Disney) for a wingsuit segment over the Swiss Alps. He took bronze at Norway's 2016 Extreme Games in Voss, the only non-Norwegian to place, and jumped the world's highest bridge at China's 2025 invitational, coverage that ran on Xinhua, China Daily, and Global Times as news. With his wife Sandra Zinovyev as director of photography and editor, he runs Just Care More Media House, a film studio whose films have earned 500 million+ lifetime views - his next production, El Monstruo, is an attempt at a world first in Patagonia. He speaks to audiences about mental health, addiction recovery, and what it actually takes to face the hardest version of yourself.
He manages his meth addiction every day. That is not a past chapter. It is the ongoing work. And it is exactly why he can stand in front of someone who is suffering and say: I know what this is. And I know you can face it.
The Battling Monsters daily mantra.
