THINK AND GROW RICH WORKED FOR ME. THEN I WALKED AWAY. 🔑

I built a virtual 7-figure sales agency starting in 2012 using LinkedIn.

By 2020, I handed it off to my head of sales to run without my involvement. It kept paying me — healthcare, office, and funding my next company: Solopreneur Inc.

🔍Throughout 2020 - 2022, I was all in:

Law of Attraction

Daily visualization

Mental Council work

Written goals — exactly as Napoleon Hill taught

Mindset work from the best coaches

High-powered elite network formed

Big LinkedIn build

Daily content creation

Massive networking

Collaborative partner building

👥 My council was real: Napoleon Hill, Bob Proctor, Bruce Lee.

They weren’t metaphors — they were coaches. I could feel them.

This was early days.

I had no idea what was coming.

Think and Grow Rich is real.

It was just not what I thought.

It was not in reality how it was taught.

There was so much more behind the door.

The veil was getting thin but still blocked the view.

And I was ready. I’d trained for years in Yang Family Tai Chi.

That got me to bringing Bruce Lee's water methods directly into my body.

I felt like Neo in The Matrix learning Kung Fu a year later as it clicked.

I'd been in most of the Top Voice Content Creator groups on LinkedIn.

I knew the Top Voices. They were in my inner-circle network. Many spoke at my events. They were in my groups. We would grow together. My invincible life was right around the corner. The launch was 2023.🔥

I’d absorbed and tested every major framework out there:

✅ Funnels (Brunson)

✅ Course models (Ovens)

✅ Offers (Hormozi)

✅ Launches (Jeff Walker)

✅ Storytelling (Donald Miller)

✅ Coaching business (Rich Litvin)

✅ Unique mechanism (Todd Brown)

And I went further — into the source code:

🔍 Positioning – Trout & Ries

🔍 Hero and the Outlaw – brand archetypes

🔍 Eugene Schwartz – market sophistication

🔍 Dan Kennedy (funny, honest but not my style)

🔍 Jay Abraham — deep strategy, actually useful

I had the map. And it worked.

In January 2023, everything was moving:

• Skool Campus, brand, and courses active

• Signature Stage sold out weekly

• Tens of thousands of followers

• High-level Summit Club mastermind

• Partners with big networks showing up

On a NYC vacation my Family Matters First lifestyle approach was in shambles.

My spouse made it clear. This is not working for us.

"You are not here. You are physically present. You are mentally gone!

We have your time.

You don't work a lot of hours.

But you are not present emotionally.

You already have a company. Why are you doing this?

This is totally insane. You lost us millions.

Go back and work with Glen.

You don't need this coaching business.”

🔥 I walked away. Not for family. Not for her. For my destiny.

It turned out Solopreneur Inc. was a learning experience on a much wider path.

Kelli was against it but knew that something would work out in the end.

I negotiated with Glen.

He would get more equity.

I would not return to the business.

It was an old sales lead generation model.

He did not agree.

We would sell it for millions in a few years.

My passive income would be reduced.

My family would pay our own expenses.

Loans, lines of credit, and home equity if needed.

Glen would pay my business line.

He would pay me some income.

That ended late last year.

We would no longer treat the company like my cash cow prize.

ORIGINAL CREATION BEGINS

On February 23, 2023 the First Phases of the Red Pill Pathway Frameworks began.

It was a confusing mess.

Nobody knew what it meant.

Nobody could help me.

The only answer was to keep going.

It was hard to pay attention on Valentine's Day.

My imagination highjacked me all the time.

Despite having all the time in the world.

It was hard to stay tethered.

My field was not reality distorted.

The world was confused.

Don't give up!

It took from March to September to get through the Beta.

We had a decent sign-up with a few paying early clients.

Andrea, a friend from LinkedIn, got a real result.

She quit because the energy of the group felt misaligned.

Some of the others got their money back.

Rob got $1K back, “This is like a firehose. I don’t get it.”

I gave $4K back to Alicia after she expressed her frustration.

Sharon loved it but struggled to do what I suggested.

The others came in and out and didn't care as much as me.

I got deeper into wisdom training.

The Gita, Yogananda, Diamond Sutra.

No more Dan Kennedy.

No more habit books.

It was a diet of Buddha, Christ Consciousness, and David Hawkins.

Byron Katie replaced productivity methods!

SEPTEMBER 2023 → THE RED PILL PATHWAY PILOT 🟢

The Pilot Group joined.

Nobody paid.

Napoleon tricked me again.

Where was the money I had written down on all those pieces of paper for so many years!

Brian, Florian, Gail, Sharon, and me.

That was it at the beginning.

More joined. Many left. Some angrily.

My house attacked me.

Vintage costs money.

New roof, new windows, new siding, new plumbing, new appliances, new furnace.

Camps, dance fees, ice skating, pet surgery, more taxes, and an endless pile of bills.

My feeling that I didn't have enough money gave way to abundant prosperity as debt expanded.

Napoleon Hill taught that.

That got missed by the Manifestation Coaching Crowd!!!

Neville Goddard, Bashar, and Bruce Lee got me squarely into reality.

YouTube coaches had been turned off years earlier.

We met weekly for the Summit Club.

The Welo Campus opened as Cliff the Founder let me into his early Pilot group.

It was Apple, ADT, and the corporate crowd along with me and a few other pirates.

Discord happened then.

We migrated the business to HighLevel.

This was just the beginning.

Now it's going from insecure Google to secure Microsoft.

The platform matters.

AI?

It's baked into the Content Machine, Coaching Methods, and Operations Structures!

Now, I'm getting ahead of myself.

Let's go back to 2023 - 2024.

One core insight hit:

❗What if writing down what I wanted… was pushing it away?

I kept trying to manifest the money despite having everything running like a well-tuned clock.

But something was off.

My YouTube channel was cancelled.

Google didn't agree that "Everything that We Were Taught is Wrong."

My list vanished.

The Signature Stage, network, and partners crumbled.

I stopped running The Intellectual and the Outlaw with a networking partner.

I no longer attended any events, took meetings, or tried to get clients.

The Gene Keys, Brian's daily Dojo, and Welo became like sanctuary.

My people showed up quickly.

Many left. Some in anger. Then immediately replaced.

The Sufis taught me the world is a song.

Islam paved the way to know surrender.

Kabbalah got me insight into what can't be known.

That prepared me for a bigger opening.

Brian discovered Richard Rudd.

The best treasure map created since the iChing.

Michael Singer taught me surrender.

He sold his company for a billion.

Nobody knows him for that massive accomplishment.

He's the Surrender Experiment to the World.

That led to the idea for the Entrepreneur Experiments.

Can I create a movement?

My basement flooded in February. The private equity and online brand popular bad plumber led to a local Skokie/Evanston Home Chapter concept. Fifteen community leaders agreed to join in a month.

Can regular people take our money back from the Big Tech companies?

Will the Global Economy come together without paying Upwork?

What about winning against Google?

Can we beat Amazon?

Is this all really possible?

Yes.

Bruce Lee, Napoleon Hill, and Bob Proctor paved the way.

My council meetings ended.

The Think and Grow Rich Work is Done.

The more I tried, the more I resisted what was actually trying to come through.

So I stopped. And then it came. I own Napoleon a debt of gratitude. He helped a lot.

2024 - 2025 → THE ENTREPRENEUR EXPERIENCE 🟢