enesis 50:20 — "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done." Whatever was meant to destroy you became the qualification for your calling. The diagnosis qualified you. The bankruptcy qualified you. The broken marriage qualified you. The addiction you came out of qualified you. God wastes nothing. Not one day of your pain. Now go build something with it.

Do not skip this one. Write the first paragraph of your book this weekend. Not the whole chapter. Not the outline. Just the first paragraph. Start with the moment everything changed. Put yourself back in that room, that hospital, that car, that conversation. Describe what you saw. What you felt. What you thought was about to happen. That paragraph is the door your reader walks through. Make it real. Post it here when you write it. Even a rough draft. The community will celebrate it with you.

I died on a table. They brought me back. And when I woke up, God did not say rest. He said build. If God brought you through something — a diagnosis, a loss, a failure, a dark season — He did not do it just for you. He did it so you could reach back and pull someone else through. That is what AUTONATE is. A community of people who stopped letting their pain sit idle and started letting it produce. Welcome to the family. Let's get to work.

Here is what I want you to do today. Open a notes app. Voice memo. Napkin. Whatever you have. Write down the hardest thing you have ever been through. One sentence. Just the facts. Now write down what you learned from it. One sentence. Now write down who needs to hear that lesson. One sentence. That is your book. That is your business. That is your testimony in three sentences. You just did more work than most people do in a year. Now let's build on it.

I went blind. My kidneys failed. I was on dialysis three times a week. Most people in my life thought I was done. I went back to college anyway — blind — and graduated cum laude. Before I walked across that stage, my sight came back. I went from collecting a Social Security check to working for the Social Security Administration. From the poor house to leading a national task force at our nation's capital. And through all of it, not one person in my church taught me how to make money. That is why Autonate exists. This is not a motivational page. This is not a church service. This is a community where believers learn to turn their pain into purpose and their purpose into provision. We do that with practical tools, real coaching, and faith as the foundation. Here is what you have access to inside this community: A complete system to write and publish your book using the Penvera app — your story, in your voice, on Amazon, in hours not years. Weekly group coaching with me personally. E-commerce training from my wife who built a real online business while I was on dialysis. AI and automation tools to grow your income without burning out. And a community of believers who are done surviving and ready to build. The church taught us to give. Nobody taught us to make. That changes right here. NOW LET'S GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER. Drop your introduction in the comments below and tell us three things: 1. Where in the world are you joining us from? 2. A photo of your workspace — whether that is a kitchen table, a home office, or a phone in your lap. No judgment here. We started somewhere too. 3. One thing you enjoy doing outside of work or ministry. We are whole people, not just hustlers. Then do this — read two other introductions and reply to them. Encourage somebody today. That is the culture of this community from day one. We do not just receive here. We give. YOUR FIRST STEP after introducing yourself: Head to the Classroom and start with Course 1 — Start Here. Watch the welcome video. Everything you need begins there.