Story time! I grew up in a fairly small desert town in central California called Ridgecrest, CA. About 20,000 people. And if you were a kid growing up there your main goal in life was to escape it! 115°F in the summer. High winds. And nothing to do in town except go to the bowling alley and hangout at Denny’s. As you approach the town on the main highway there is a giant billboard welcoming you to the town. One of the big draws to the town is that it’s on the way to Death Valley, a beautiful national park. So the capitalize on this, the giant billboard read: RIDGECREST “Gateway to Death Valley” So of course some clever kid drove out to the sign. Climbed it and crossed out “Valley”, so it had more accurate slogan: I’ll never forget driving home being welcome by: “Gateway to Death” 😆 Got a hometown story to share?

What do you want 2026 to look like, for real? Not the perfect “New Year’s resolution” list. Just the one thing you actually want to commit to, even if it’s messy, even if you’re still figuring it out. Could be health, money, confidence, relationships, your Skool, your work, your peace of mind. Anything. Use the comments like a little brain dump you’d send to a friend. I’m going to read every one, and then I’ll share mine after. What’s yours?

@Laura Wallace we are so happy to have you with us in The Skoolyard. We hope you are enjoying reading your Romance Novels under the trees in our playground.

click to return to the classroom 👉 #Plot twist When I first wrote my origin story here, I said I was building a Skool community that promotes 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱, talks openly about mental health (esp. for young men), and helps you build a profitable Skool on the weekend. I talked about my 6-month depression, my ACL tear, my agency failing, and how I never wanted anyone in here to get to the point where I was. That post was me kind of bleeding on the page so the Yard could exist. Lately I realized something deeper about what I’m 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 building… and I wanted to share it with you guys first. --- #Plot twist 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐘𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚 “𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬” 𝐈’𝐦 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 I thought my superpower was “systems, Skool tactics, DM flows, prompts, bla bla.” But looking back at that post, and at all the comments from you guys… I see it now: > I’m not really building a business. > I’m secretly building a 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 for the version of me that got crushed by hustle culture. The Yard is my way of saying to that kid: “hey man, you don’t have to be perfect, or rich, or ‘crushing it’ to be allowed to build something cool. you’re already enough. let’s just play with this and see what happens.” And I think a lot of you are here for that exact reason too, even if we don’t say it out loud. --- 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐘𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 (𝐈 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬) The Skoolyard isn’t a course, it’s a playground for builders, dreamers and meme-makers. We don’t climb ladders, we build swings. We’re anti-guru, anti-grind, pro-recess. But under all the juice boxes and memes, there’s this deeper thing: * It’s for people who tried “make money online” stuff and felt dumb or broken when it didn’t work * It’s for people who’ve been depressed, burnt out, or just quietly disappointed in themselves * It’s for people who want to build something real **without** having to pretend to be a hustle robot

@Gary Lee is #2 out of 1000 for 2026 HOLY COW LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SO PROUD OF YOU LET'S KEEP KICKING BUTT!