Jamie Leibert, known as Captain Manicorn, speaks about managing the monster we all fight, using adventure and extreme sports as the tool to fight for mental health.
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Jamie Leibert is an adventure athlete and filmmaker most recently commissioned by National Geographic (Disney) for a wingsuit segment over the Swiss Alps. He has climbed and flown in more than 80 countries, took bronze at Norway's 2016 Extreme Games in Voss, and jumped the world's highest bridge at China's 2025 invitational. He spent about 13 years in the system, four of them in federal prison, and manages PTSD, OCD, a meth addiction, and a criminal mindset every single day.
He speaks because the fight is universal, and honesty about it is what helps. Not polish. Not a hero story. A real account of what it takes to keep going when the monster is loud.
Through Just Care More, his stories become programs. Programs become change.
A real, unvarnished story that does not sanitize or soften. The kind that makes people feel less alone in their own hard chapters.
A daily framework for managing hard things: show up, struggle, suck less, repeat. Simple. Repeatable. Real.
And proof, through action and story, that your past does not get the final say.
Jamie brings the Battling Monsters message to audiences where it matters most.
Each talk draws from the same lived experience, shaped for the room it's walking into.
For people who have been inside, or who work alongside them. Honest, direct, and grounded in what actually helps when you are starting over with nothing.
The same framework that gets a person through federal prison and a meth addiction applies to a team facing pressure, failure, and hard pivots. Practical and real.
How pushing into extreme terrain teaches you to manage the inner terrain. For audiences who connect through movement, challenge, and doing hard things on purpose.
As a professional adventure athlete and speaker, Jamie Leibert talks about mental health, addiction recovery, resilience, and the Battling Monsters movement - drawing directly from his experience of 13 years in the system, four years in federal prison, a meth addiction he still manages every day, and over 80 countries of adventure.
Jamie's keynotes connect with corporate audiences working on resilience and mental wellness, healthcare and recovery organizations, universities and youth programs, reentry recovery and criminal justice reform conferences, and adventure sports communities.
Contact Jamie directly at hello@justcaremore.org. All speaking engagements are a mission activity of Just Care More, Inc. - a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Proceeds support mental-health and reentry programs.
Yes. Jamie is available for both in-person and virtual keynote engagements. Reach out to hello@justcaremore.org to discuss format, availability, and topic alignment for your event.
Jamie Leibert has been featured by BBC Sport, Fox 32 Chicago, Global Times, and Backcountry Manifesto, among others. His story spans adventure, mental health, addiction recovery, and reentry advocacy.
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