Breakthrough Story day 3(sorry Im late to the party)

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.

There were high highs, penthouses in Dubai, yachts, luxury cars, the illusion of success. I touched millions. And then watched it slip away again and again. The pattern was brutal: win, lose, repeat.

Each time I fell, I told myself to keep going. I became a lone wolf, working from home, grinding through days and nights. I was surrounded by people richer than me, faster than me and I compared constantly. My worth was tied to my balance sheet. My happiness to the charts. My peace to external results.

And yet, something in me kept whispering: There’s more to life than this.

4. Conflict

The real conflict wasn’t with crypto, or money, or failure. It was with myself.The boy who never felt enough was still driving the car.

Depression hit. I faced the darkest thoughts again, moments where I truly questioned if I wanted to live. I remember one night in the car, tears streaming down my face, thinking of writing a goodbye letter to the people I love. That was my bottom... the point where I had nothing left to control, nothing left to prove.

And in that surrender, I felt something bigger, a wave of divine love that cracked my armor. I gave it to GOD. I thanked life for breaking me enough to finally see myself truly. That moment wasn’t the end. It was the beginning of awakening.

From there, I began integrating everything I’d learned... spirituality, discipline, presence. I realized success wasn’t about escaping pain but transforming it. My entire identity began to shift: from hustler to creator, from seeker to teacher.

5. Breakthrough

The breakthrough came when I stopped running from lack and started acting from love.

I stopped chasing money. I stopped comparing. I built from peace, not pressure.And instantly, life began to flow. Business started working....! 10k months, then 20k. Not because I pushed harder, but because I aligned deeper.

I began seeing spirituality not as something separate from business but as its foundation. That realization changed everything. The integration of consciousness and creation became my new way of living.

I started becoming the man I had been searching for: calm, grounded, loyal, present. My relationship deepened my at that time girlfriend. My work became more meaningful. My energy cleaner. My path clearer.

6. After

Now, at 29, I live with purpose! Not pressure....I’m still in crypto, but from a place of vision, helping an AI company grow with branding and innovation. I’m engaged to Anouk since a couple of months, and together we’re preparing to build our cabin in the mountains of Serbia where we will emigrate to next year with a fusion of technology, spirituality, and nature. A home that mirrors what I’ve built within myself: harmony between soul and system.

This next chapter is about service..helping others see that they can transmute their pain into power, their chaos into clarity. To remember that they are not broken; they’re remebering and with that becoming.

My story isn’t about escaping darkness.. no it’s about using it as fuel for light. Because if the boy who once couldn’t hear, speak, or belong can become the man who listens deeply, speaks truth, and leads with love.. then anyone can.

My core message:

Transformation isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about remembering who you were before the world told you who to be.

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