Message Hero HQ and say hello, hero

Sgt. Peck opens the Trading Post for the first time, and the first card on the table belongs to Uncle Jamie: How to Start a Morning Routine.

Yesterday your hero met the boy who was hopeless at mornings. Today Uncle Jamie gives them the rest of it: the whole skill in three steps. Pick your three. Same three, same order, every morning, so one job pulls the next along like a little train. Lay out your armour the night before. And if the train comes off the rails, that is not a fail. That is finding out which morning is the hard one.

Then the table. Uncle Jamie's Common card faces Auntie Ellie's Legendary in a one-round duel, played exactly the way you play it at home, and the shiny card loses. Rarity makes a card more wanted, never stronger. Auntie Ellie explains why the number is only ever about who did the work.

Pvt. Ace brings the Ace Mode version. Same mission. Your way.

Your mission today: ages 4 to 6, do your one small job, then one more thing straight after it. Ages 7 and up, write your three down tonight, in order, and run them for three mornings.

Mission done? Tick Tuesday's box on your Squad Mission Chart, free at scrubbingsquadpodcast.com

Message Hero HQ and say hello, hero

Origin Stories: Uncle Jamie and the One Small Job

How did Hero HQ begin? With lost socks, unbrushed teeth, and a gran who knew the secret.

In the very first Origin Story, Uncle Jamie tells heroes how his mornings used to lose before he was out of bed, how his gran fixed it with one small job, and how a rulebook thick enough to stand on taught him the biggest lesson of all: small missions, done every day, beat big plans done never.

Tonight's mission: choose ONE small job for tomorrow morning and tell a grown-up what it is. When it's done, tick Monday's box on your Squad Mission Chart, and tick Uncle Jamie on your Squad Roster, because today you met your first member.

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Little missions. Big heroes. Heroes start here.

Message Hero HQ and say hello, hero

Fall in, heroes: your first mission starts here. Meet the Squad, Uncle Jamie at Hero HQ, Sgt. Peck at the Trading Post, Cpt. JT Peg and the Squad Diaries, Sgt. Rose with the camp missions, Sgt. Vest on the training ground, and Auntie Ellie waiting to turn the lights down low on Sunday night.

A new mission every single day:

• Origin Stories: how every Squad member found their way here, failures and all
• The Trading Post: Sgt. Peck puts a new card on the table
• Squad Diaries: true stories from the Squad's travels, checked word by word
• Camp Missions: Friday at camp: Discovery, Recharge, Refresh and Guardian Camp
• Hero Training: do-along drills, the show you don't listen to: the show you DO
• Lights Out: a whispered wind-down on Sunday night

And every mission comes with the Ace Mode version. Same mission. Your way.

Follow free wherever you listen, and print your free Squad Mission Chart at scrubbingsquadpodcast.com - one tick a day, hero, and watch what you become.

Little missions. Big heroes. Heroes start here.