@Ryan Bakke, CPA continues his talk on Skool Domination... Thank you @Oscar Setiawan for filming and hosting this event!

Wow what a night!! @Ryan Bakke, CPA had our heads spinning on ways to explode our Skool and @Krista Brea showed us how literally anyone including kids can make real passive income on Amazon KDP. Full presentation videos coming soon 🔥 We had a lot of new faces and made some great connections that are going to huge for our upcoming events - we're going to be making rugs, eating chocolate and filming dope podcasts soon 💥 On that note, special shout out to @Oscar Setiawan for hosting at his soon to be named incredible podcast studio. This place is unreal! 🎥 Check out everyone's sweet Skool Groups here: Ryans = Lower Taxes w/ Ryan Krista's = KDP Publishing Oscar and @Grace Plata = Real Estate BFF @MJ Berst = Everyday Rockstars @Jeff Baer = EZ Profile Builder @Kenneth Richardson = @Timothy Raap = Raap Tech @Muffadal Saylawala = Oro @Carnell Pickett = Music Production Skool Love how dynamic our Chicago community is becoming, so fired up for 2026! 🚀

💥 2025 is almost in the books but we're just getting warmed up! ✅ In 2026 we'll be aiming to have official IRL with Presenters every month giving killer talks like the ones @Ryan Bakke, CPA and @Krista Brea gave (Part 2 of their videos coming this later this week). 📆 No official date yet but roughly mid-January and will feature a talk from Real Estate expert @Oscar Setiawan, owner of the killer (Soon to Be Officially Named) podcast studio. Did we mention he owns the whole building, complete with rental and air BnB units? The man knows his Real Estate 🔥 We're also going to be doing as many less formal fun hangouts as we can: ☃️ NEXT HANGOUT JANUARY 2nd, 8pm-10pm Ice Skating at Maggie Daly Park Reserve Your Spot Here 👋 After that we are looking for hosts to add events to the calendar. @Kenneth Richardson has already volunteered to host a rug making workshop and we can't wait! If you have ideas for events and are willing to help host them, comment below or send me a DM. 🎉 Happy New Year!! 🎉

Despite having one of the most challenging days of his business ever, @Ryan Bakke, CPA still took an hour and a half of his time to deliver absolute GOLD on how to crush our Skool for 2026. The video was so big I had to break into 3 parts, which I will be posting over the coming days. Shoutout to @Oscar Setiawan for filming this! Here is Part 1...

Kevin Cook here and I'm really excited about this IRL community for Chicago. I attended UIC ages ago, was head bartender at the Dearborn Social Club (the off-Rush hideout for other bartenders and waitstaff), and made a career in financial markets after walking on to the trading floors of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in the mid-90s. Other odd claim to fame: I attended the very first Cubs night game in 1988 ⚾ I'm in the Northwoods of Wisconsin now where I have a cottage (2hrs NW of Green Bay). BIG GAME TODAY 🏈 We were Bears fans for a long time, but living in Wisco now I love watching the Pack too, so today's going to be lit with Caleb Williams leading like a Gladiator and Micah Parsons crushing QBs with arms bigger than my legs! I'll be in Kenosha (main home/farm) weekend of 12/19 for my daughter's figure skating events and really going to try and make it for Sunday IRL. Any figure skating fans here? Anyone in this group a trader or have a community that is investing-based? Would be cool to meet and share notes. Also looking for potential speakers at my first live Skool events in Q1. I just saw what Ryan Bakke did (12 hours straight!) and sounds like this platform has really taken its game to a new level! @Steve Gast pointed to me to @Kyle Henris and he looks to be killing it here. Also connected with @Ryan Bakke, CPA about doing live and recorded events using the Skool video app. Anyone else have experience with it? Go Bears!