Hey everyone - Nate the Great! here. Yes… that Nate the Great! The “legend” you never heard of until recently. 😎 I’m honored to be part of this community; which actually functions like, well, a community. Shoutout to @Anthony Sunderland for inviting me. 👏 I’m a 57‑year‑old Christian marketer and transformational writer. I’m also a Type 2 diabetic and a kidney transplant survivor - living proof that resilience, faith and the right words can carry you through the most difficult times of your life. I’m on a lifelong mission of H.O.P.E. - Helping Other People Excel. I use my words, my writing, in particular, to help people excel in all aspects of their lives; including spiritually, personally, professionally, creatively and more - no matter where they’re starting from. My writing is shaped by four giants in my life: God - the source of my strength, my resilience, my identity and every ounce of Greatness I carry. My Dad - a pastor whose life taught me compassion, clarity, conviction and how to serve people with integrity. Dan Kennedy - the legendary copywriter who taught me the power of strategic words and how they can move people to action. Les Brown - the motivational icon who said, “You have greatness in you. You’re here because the world needs you.” His message became the heartbeat of my mission - and the signature truth behind my new Substack, Greater Words, Greater You! Those influences helped me survive some of the most difficult moments of my kidney transplant journey. Words - prayed, spoken, written and repeated - became my lifeline. They helped me endure. They helped me rise. They helped me rebuild. Now, more than ever, I’m all about helping others use better words and simple actions to build a greater life - even if they're starting with absolutely nothing. My new Substack, Greater Words, Greater You! is dedicated to activating your Greatness - not someday, not when everything lines up, but right now, using what you already have.

If you had to start a business with $0 today, what would you do first?

Someone told me i should stop saying that I "should" have done this, so I'll say that I had originally "planned" to have this page ready prior to launch, but anyway... 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘀 and it's so much easier to find the help you need. So go on over the the classroom where you can see our specialist niches and how we can best serve you. Mine's not done yet, but you already know what I do! - I help people start businesses with no money!

𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲! A few days ago, I said that whoever is top of the 7 day leaderboard (excluding our Resident Experts) will win a 1:1 Ask me anything session. And the landscape has changed considerably since... Here's the updated leaderboard with the strongest contenders: 𝗜𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝟰 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀...𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝗻? Just four hours to go before we have a clear winner - Just cheer them all on! 👋😁

Because I’ve got ADHD, my default setting is scattered chaos. I’ve got thousands of new ideas New projects? I want to start all of them, and right NOW! New opportunities? I was already halfway in before I’d finished the last thing. And that’s exactly why I HAD TO MAKE A RULE: I’m only allowed to focus on ONE NEW THINg at a time… and I have to COMMIT to it for a full 90 days. No quitting early. No “this isn’t working.” No jumping ship because something shinier came along. I can tweak. I can improve. I can pivot slightly. But I cannot give up. Why 90 days? Because most things don’t fail… they just don’t get enough time and commitment. This is especially true with anything driven by algorithms, such as social media, Etsy, Amazon, digital sales, content, whatever. These platforms reward consistency, not bursts of enthusiasm. It's like going to the gym. You get far better results scheduling your gym days, and turning up and doing your thing consistently. 💪 In a year you'll see much better results than if you'd gone all in for two weeks then gave up. You don’t get results because you tried once. You get results because you didn’t stop. I’ve seen this play out more times than I can count, in areas that I know would have succeeded. When we first started selling toys online, we got traction pretty quickly. Nothing crazy, but enough to know it worked. My brother-in-law Jamie saw what we were doing… and copied it almost exactly. Same idea. Same products. Same e-commerce platform. Same time. Same opportunity... Fast forward 20 years: We went on to open toy shops. He’s still a bus driver. The ONLY difference ...? He gave up too early. 😖 Same story again… I’ve got a colleague, Barry who makes very similar wooden products to us. I told him years ago to get onto Amazon Handmade. We were doing it. It worked. I sat down and spent an entire day showing him exactly how we do it. Getting his store set up, how the images should be, how to optimise the listings, how to research the right keywords, everything he needed to know to succeed.