Hey 3XF Fam! We just launched what I think will be one of the top AI courses on Udemy. I have a link that’ll get you the course for FREE but in exchange I’m asking for an honest review. We need to boost our stat rating! Here’s the course: https://www.udemy.com/course/ai-ready-professional-certification/ Comment below if you’re interested and I’ll have the link DM’d to you. We’ve capped the free courses at 100 and Nuno and Ivan are also offering them to their communities so when they’re gone they’re gone. Thank you 🙏 Kasim

Hello I started my first venture 2 decades ago - government accredited training and competency assessment, course design and development and performance coaching. I built this business to 7 figures while learning front-end webdev on the side. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) the accredited education landscape in South Africa has sufficiently changed to warrant an urgent pivot. I am here to learn as much as quickly as possible in order to pull me up by my bootstraps by consolidating my existing skills (instructional design, front-end dev, copywriting, coaching) to create and deliver value to OPCs and solopreneurs. I'm currently working through "The AEO Blueprint" as part of my preparatory exploration of viable AI-assisted business ventures. I look forward to learn here, and to give back by virtue of relevant experience and insights gained in the trenches. (Just need to identify the right trench, first.) I'd love your experienced-based opinions.

It is often said that we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. While I’ve abandoned the exercise of solving problems (decolonizing my engineering training here), there IS the fact that we have global chaos to navigate. My system prefers optimism to dread… how about yours? If we agree that we would prefer to move through our current global metacrisis with optimism, then we can proceed to a different thinking / worldview that will create different circumstances. The Story of Separation (SOS) / Material Consciousness Charles Eisenstein coined the term “The Story of Separation” and the mantra of this story is: “we’re on our own, and if you can’t see it, touch it and measure it, it doesn’t exist.” The Story of Interbeing (SOI) / Planetary Consciousness Also coined by Charles Eisenstein, this story / way of thinking acknowledges that we are all interconnected, and that the choices we make not only matter, but influence others in immeasurable and intangible ways that cannot be neatly mapped in a linear way. I will contrast just three ‘business as usual’ modern teachings based in the SOS with a few emerging teachings rooted in the SOI, and let you be the judge of what feels more supportive of life. SOS: “Set healthy boundaries, and enforce them.” Challenge: Boundaries are limitations. Setting them thus becomes restrictive to both parties. Further, en-force-ing them requires some level of psychological (or even physical) violence. SOI: Honor your natural boundaries, by listening to your body’s ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ responses, and then communicate from that centered space in a way that is respectful of all involved. When I started doing this, entire conversations shifted – from resentment to clarity. Fewer decisions required recovery afterward. SOS: “Instead of restricting your spending, make more money.” Challenge: Restricting your spending maintains a scarcity mindset, true. Making more money for the ungrounded purpose of being able to spend more creates a way of being that is disconnected from the way that money is made, and who had to pay for that.

Your virtual event ends. The tech worked. The chat was alive. The content landed. And two hours later you’re staring at your screen like someone unplugged your operating system. You’re not sick. You’re not sad. You’re just… wrecked. Most hosts interpret this as a motivation issue. Or a discipline issue. Or a “why can’t I just push through?” issue. It’s none of those. What you’re experiencing is a post-event emotional hangover - and it has a physiological basis. When you host a virtual event, your body treats it just like a performance. Adrenaline rises. Cortisol rises. Focus sharpens. Reaction time increases. You handle tech fires in minute 37 without blinking. You read the room. You adapt. You make dozens (sometimes hundreds) of micro-decisions in real time. Your system goes into performance mode. When the event ends, the stimulus disappears - but the hormonal and cognitive load doesn’t instantly reset. Research in occupational health shows that recovery from cognitively and emotionally demanding tasks can take up to 48 hours, sometimes longer. Adrenaline drops. Cortisol shifts. Cognitive resources are depleted. This bill doesn’t arrive all at once. It arrives in waves. Here’s where it gets interesting: the higher the charge during the event, the deeper the crash afterward. The energy spike and the crash aren’t separate experiences. They’re the same curve. If you run hot during events - if you feel lit up, sharp, energized - that doesn’t mean you’re immune to the crash. It often means you borrowed more energy in the moment. And repayment is non-negotiable. Solo hosts feel this acutely because there’s no distributed load. Every decision lands on one nervous system. There’s no debrief partner. No cognitive handoff. When the room goes quiet, it goes quiet completely. Teams feel it too - just distributed across roles. The facilitator crashes differently than the tech producer. The coordinator crashes differently than the engagement lead. But the pattern doesn’t disappear at scale.

My name is Penny and nice to meet all of you. What makes you awesome? I've been quietly working on building my product for my e-commerce brand. It's been such a tough journey with ups and downs that no one sees but me. Even though there are obstacles, I'm still moving forward to the next step. Action and speed will be my ultimate goals for 2026. What are your goals? The goal is to hit at least $1 million in revenue by December 31, 2026. I wrote that date down, and I am committed to making it happen. My next goal is to launch a manufac directory list at the end of this month and go on a trip to film a bunch of content of some of the sites. I'm still on a journey of healing myself from trauma and toxic people. I will have to move away to denoise all toxicity and find some peace. Another goal is to learn new skills in music production and videography. I believe having passionate side hobbies for fun does relieve my brain from life. What’s keeping you from your goals? I think clarity and real discipline are keeping me from my goals. Sometimes it's hard to function and focus, so I take supplements and energy drinks to boost my mood. It does help, but I feel like it's only a temporary help. I really like Neuro Gum, V8, and Celsius. If y'all have any recommendations for drinks and supplements, please let me know so I can try them.