Olivier Semenjuk my breakthrough story 1. Before I grew up in Amsterdam, half Dutch, half Serbian, born with a sickness that almost took my life before it began, and with ears that barely worked. Silence was my first teacher. For years, I lived behind a fog of muffled sound, watching the world move while feeling separate from it. When my hearing returned around age four, I could finally listen, but I still struggled to be heard. School became the next battlefield. Teachers said I wasn’t smart. Kids didn’t understand me. I felt like I was always two steps behind everyone else, trying to find where I fit in. When one teacher told me, “One day it will click,” those words became my first seed of faith. By my teens, I found escape through gaming, a world where I could build my own reality. For the first time, I was good at something. I started making money selling digital coins for bitcoin and living online. But alongside that digital escape came the underground world of techno parties loud, fast, numbing. I got lost in the lights, in the drugs, in trying to belong. On the surface, I was living. Inside, I was disappearing. 2. Crisis At 18, the noise finally broke me open.I quit the drugs, walked away from the parties, and watched nearly all my friends vanish overnight. The silence returned, but this time it wasn’t from broken ears. It was from loneliness..... In that stillness, I remembered what my dad taught me years before: to meditate, to look within, to realize that the outer world mirrors the inner one. I began asking myself.... What am I really chasing? That question cracked something open. I dropped out of school, left the only life I knew, and decided to bet everything on myself. I wanted freedom.. financial, emotional, spiritual. Crypto became my vehicle. I thought if I could just make enough money, I’d finally feel safe, finally feel enough. 3. Chase The next years were pure fire. I dove deep into trading, e-commerce, and every digital hustle I could find. I failed, learned, built, lost, and rebuilt. I became obsessed with the chase money, validation, recognition.