"BAM stands for "By Any Means."
But it's more than a name.
Its a calling.
It's a mission.
A movement carried by a man refined through fire and anchored in purpose.
My name is Joshua Hebert, AKA BAM, and “I AM” the vessel behind BAMCO.
I was born and raised in Lafayette, Louisiana, and came from a fractured family dynamic. Like many, I have made both good choices and destructive ones. However, unlike most, I was never taught who God was or what it meant to walk a spiritual path. At just 9 years old, I had my first run-in with the cops for breaking into a home. With no real guidance or direction, I found myself incarcerated by the time I was 17 and in prison by 19. What followed were years moving through jails, prisons, institutions, and rehabilitation programs.
For a huge portion of my life, I moved through revolving doors of pain, trauma, abandonment, rejection, addiction, betrayal, poverty, adversity, and some real deep inner darkness. I hardly knew who I was. I was literally in survival mode, carrying the weight of what felt like a lifetime of failure while searching for acceptance, love, and someone to truly see and hear me. I wanted to feel valued. I wanted to feel like I belonged somewhere.
Through all of that, there was a flicker of something that I did not understand yet. Then, at one of the lowest points in my life, while homeless, the Great “I AM” found me. When I answered, everything changed.
Today, I stand as a father, author, barber, podcast host, entrepreneur, life coach, mentor, vessel, voice, and living testimony that healing is real and redemption is possible. But none of those titles matter more than being used in service of something much bigger than myself. Everything I have built and am still building is an expression of that calling.
A calling to become more Christ-like in the way I live, love, serve, forgive, understand, and extend grace to others; to recognize the God-given worth in every person; and to encourage others to discover who they are, what they were created for, and what they have within them to give back.
For me, Building a Mansion of Compassion is not simply about becoming better versions of ourselves. It is about becoming better vessels through which God’s love can reach one another.
If you would have told the version of me sitting in a jail cell at 17, or even at 25, that one day I would become the person I am today, think the way I do, or see the world and humanity the way I do now, I probably would have laughed at you and thought you were delusional. As I began tuning into God’s voice, I started realizing that what I once thought was impossible didn’t have to remain that way. Today, visions I once could barely imagine are becoming reality, and through BAMCO, I’ve found purpose in service.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once asked, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” That question has become part of how I try to live. Every day, I ask myself, “What Would Jesus Do?” Then I ask, “What Should I Do?” And I do my best to follow that light.
BAMCO, my books, Patio Perspective Podcast, and the Mansion Builders Foundation are different expressions of the same calling.
BAMCO is more than a brand. It is my mission, a movement, and a Mansion of Compassion built brick by brick from the pieces of a life once shattered. Now, it exists to help others build theirs.
I challenge you to declare with me today:
“I AM becoming 1% better every day.”
LEFT: 19 & in prison
RIGHT: 23 & just released
LEFT: First death of ego
RIGHT: Transition into
business man
"For we are God's masterpiece, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." Ephesians 2:10
