Name: Brother Jason

First beard grown at age: 18

How long have you had your current beard? My beard has always existed. It chose me when I was ready to learn the way of the beard.  I experimented with goatees, fu man chus, but you can’t blame me, I was young and silly.  Its current and most eternal state came about 2 1/2 years ago.  I realized it was time to be a man and grow the full beard.  Once you see the light you realize full beard is the only
way to go.

Why do you wear a beard? That is like asking “Why do the birds sing, why is the sky blue?”  These things just are, Adam.

What do you like best about being bearded? It gives me a sense of pride.

Briefly tell your favorite beard-related story. The picture of the beard full o flowers that I would like to use as my profile pic…  That is the most photographed beard at the Rothbury music festival, summer ‘09.

What is your best advice for guys who are currently trying to grow their first beard? With a great beard comes great responsibility.

Think you have a great beard and/or moustache?  Prove it!

My new friends at Misprint Magazine are hosting their fourth annual beard contest at The Mohawk in Austin, TX, on February 19, 2010.

I have been assured by the creators of Misprint that this thing has a huge awesomeness factor. Be forewarned, it is by no means a serious beard competition…. more like a reason to get together, have some drinks, hear some music, and be astounded by how many amazing beards there are out there.

I have a feeling this picture sums up the night pretty well.

Triumphant rejoicing? Check. PBR? Check. DJ with fuzzy animal ears? Mega-Check.

If you’ll have a beard by the 19th and can get to Austin by any means possible, you need to do this.

Let me extend a belated wish for happiness in 2010, dear beard aficionado. I’ve just wrapped up a nice visit back home for the holidays, and I am truly excited for what the first full calendar year of existence holds for The Beard Coach. Let the call to beardedness ring far and wide!

Let me guess your main new year’s resolution… to grow an amazifying beard of glory! I know that I’m right because I’ve already received a couple emails from other readers expressing their excitement for their beard-to-be.

If you’re on the fence about whether you should make 2010 a beard year, let me give you a friendly, yet forceful, shove to the “yes” side. First reason for your beard: it’s winter and it somehow seems okay to mainstream society to grow a beard during this season. Second reason for your beard: you’re bored of the same old baby-faced look. Third reason for your beard: the twenty-teens may just come to be known as the decade that the beard officially came back. You want to be a pioneer on that frontier, don’t you?

Just go ahead and start my original coaching course right now using the sign up form at the bottom of this very page.  By the end of the year, you’ll be as bearded as Father Time!

Hooray for social media!

If you are a Facebook fan like millions of other people in the world (me included), you need to log in right now and express your love for the beard by becoming a fan of The Beard Coach.  I think it will be a great way to keep in touch with you and share some brief anecdotes and photos that I wouldn’t feel compelled to share here.  I’ve already uploaded some pictures of me and my beard (some folks have complained about a lack of such things here).  Don’t forget to post a link to this site on your wall to show some love…

Go ahead and click the image above to be whisked away to the Official Beard Coach Facebook Page!

Whaaaa?!?!?  The sexiest man alive has a beard?

Believe it!

Johnny Depp has been sporting that closely-trimmed musketeer for years now… and apparently the ladies are diggin’ it.  I think Johnny is a great beard ambassador, and it’s not just because he and the Beard Coach are both Kentucky-born gentlemen.  The man is famous for doing his own thing, popularity be damned, and guess what… it’s only made him more popular.  Why more men aren’t following his lead, I can’t presume to know.  Take this to heart, boys… you can be yourself, grow your beard, and get the girl.

Another thing that stands out to me is this.  Johnny Depp’s beard isn’t that impressive.  If you look closely, it’s kind of patchy. His moustache doesn’t connect to his goatee.   Men who are afraid to grow out a less-than-perfect beard take note.  You can grow your beard and look good after all.  Just follow Johnny’s lead.  I’d bet dollars to dimes that the rest of his beard looks even more patchy, and that’s why he has chosen to wear the musketeer style.  However, he had the wisdom to grow it where it wants to grow, and you should too.  He said, “It’s okay that I can’t grow a full beard.  I’ll grow what I can and be confident in the results.”

And that’s the real lesson here, guys.  You can do whatever the hell you want to with your face as long as you do it with confience.  That’s what is sexy to women.  If you keep your confidence level bigger than your beard… if you wear that thing with pride and approach a woman knowing that she’s going to dig your originality, I guarantee that you will find yourself a good woman.  It may not happen on the first, second, or even tenth woman you talk to, but if you keep confidence in the good person that you are, you will eventually strike gold.  Hell, you may even win over the world.  Just ask Johnny Depp.