I talk about digital writing & personal progress

Here's a quick rundown of how I've spent my last 5 years:

1. Studied math and played football at Princeton. I graduated in 2018 with a degree in financial engineering and played center for the Tigers. In college, I was a 280-pound offensive lineman, so for the last 5 years, I've had to completely rewrite my personal operating system on the health & fitness front. I currently weigh 185 pounds and have learned a lot along the way!

2. Graduated and immediately started working for BlackRock in New York City. I worked as a junior hedge fund trader for 4 years, focusing on global macro markets. This was my dream job and the only corporate job I've ever had. In fact, it's the only job *interview* I've ever had (since I interned there as a junior in college).

3. Realized working for someone else was not going to be the long-term path for me. 12 months into working on Wall Street, I saw someone in their mid-40s ask their boss for permission to go to their son's Little League game. At that moment I realized I wasn't cut out to take directions or instructions from other people for very long.

4. Started to write on my old blog, then on Twitter. Rather than quit immediately, I started to passively explore other opportunities by writing online, starting out on my old blog (which no one knew existed), then transitioning to Twitter in July of 2020.

5. Changed my trajectory with a 30-day writing challenge, which led me to start Ship 30 for 30. In September 2020 I was ready to give up writing entirely. But I gave it one more shot, this time moving from a weekly blog post to a daily Twitter thread. The challenge was a huge success. It took me 9 months to reach 100 followers and 1 month to go from 100 to 2,000. And that personal writing challenge turned into the foundation of Ship 30 for 30, which started as nothing but a Slack accountability group to help people publish consistently.

6. Scaled Ship 30 while working remotely for all of 2021. I built and scaled Ship 30 with Nicolas Cole to over 2,000 students in 2021—all while continuing to work full-time (remotely) for BlackRock. But towards the end of 2021, Ship 30 hit an inflection point and it no longer made financial sense for me to continue working on Wall Street.

7. Left BlackRock in March of 2022 to write and build on my own. After weeks of weighing the pros and cons and trying to project my path forward, I made the decision to leave BlackRock and chart my own path. 15 months into making that decision and I'm confident it's the best one I've ever made.

Dickie Bush 🚢

This writer posted on LinkedIn about quitting his job.

And from that ONE post he got some epic results:

Booked 5 sales calls.
And closed a $1,000/month consulting deal.

Insane.

Especially since Stefan didn't:

• Go viral
• Use some secret LinkedIn hack
• Or do anything anyone else couldn't

All he did was:

• Say what he does
• For who
• And how he helps them

Now, this doesn’t mean if you just hit publish you'll book a bunch of sales calls (or any at all).

But every single LinkedIn post you publish is a lottery ticket.

Some will flop.
Others will only get you views.

And then sometimes, you get lucky and the right kind of high-paying clients resonate with your content.

Which is why you should be publishing consistently on LinkedIn.

It's an easy way to land high-paying clients & make 6+ figures as a ghostwriter.

But first?

You need to:

• Find your own lucrative niche
• Create an Irresistible Ghostwriting Offer
• Learn the secret to charging premium prices

So, I put together a 5-day crash course with everything you need to start making money ghostwriting on LinkedIn in 2026.

Click here to get instant access (for free): https://lnkd.in/ekBqPdQQ

Reminder to self:

You can focus on no more than 3 things:

• 3 habits
• 3 values
• 3 goals

And you can only do this over a 3-month time horizon.

I had to learn this painful lesson the hard way:

Every year, I would sit down and write out 10 goals for the coming year (like I was building some grand master plan).

Felt incredible in the moment.

Made me feel:

• Organized
• Ambitious
• Like I had my life together

But then I'd find that list 3 months later and realize I couldn't even remember what I'd written down.

Let alone tell you if I actually achieved any of it.

The truth is:

Any time I have ever made a plan beyond 3 months, it was basically a useless exercise.

It didn't change my behavior.
It didn't keep me accountable.
It just made me feel good for about 20 minutes.

Here's what actually works.

You can focus on no more than 3 things.

If you can't rattle off the three things you're most focused on right now without pausing to think, then you're unfocused.

Make them something you can actually track and measure.

And then ignore everything else until those 3 are handled.

You'll get further with 3 clear priorities than you ever will with 10 vague ones.

Y.I.E.L.D. Today With Dallin Candland

I talk about my self-improvement journey and share personal stories to empower others. I also have interviews with people who've learned a lot on their personal growth journeys and in their businesses. 

• Over 15k Downloads Since Launch!
• Listeners in Over 75 Countries!
• 400 Episodes and Counting!

Podcaster / Video Creator

Deseret Industries Thrift Store And Donation Center

I help with organizing product and helping out customers.

Sales Associate

Brigham Young University

FSY is a conference put on by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to lift up and strengthen youth. My role as a counselor was to be there to assist, strengthen and help the youth have an uplifting experience.

•	Led with love and sought to build up all of those who were around me
•	Stayed upbeat even though I was in a wheelchair for a few of the weeks
•	Wrote and gave 140+ personal notes - one for each individual youth

FSY Counselor

Stukent

Stukent, Inc. offers higher education institutions real-world internet marketing simulations and courseware. I work to contribute to the high growth atmosphere and culture that is there and be a good liaison for the brand to our potential customers. I call, send emails, and reach out to professors who are in need of updated materials for their classes.

I also help Stukent out with building their Prep Period podcast, by providing prospective and help with strategy.

Course Specialist

Pizza Hut

Delivery Driver

Research and Business Development Center

Working with a team of students to create new video content and improve the tutorial videos strategy for the company, Allucent.

Main responsibilities include:

Providing voice overs that convey the vibe that Allucent would like their customers to feel.
Writing engaging video scripts that meet the goals of the client and the needs of their customers to work the Allucent software.
Reviewing video scripts from my team to ensure accuracy and client expectations
Optimizing work flows to improve the process of delivering and analyzing content created.

Content Producer

Zoomin' YouTube Workshop

Helping people start and grow YouTube channels from scratch. Teaching the basics and some of the mindsets for YouTube and using it as a vehicle to impact the lives of others and their own for good.

I helped five channels launch.

Founder / Consultant

Outdoorish

Student-run business for college credit. 

Led a sales training about sales tactics and customer relationships that led to 15% improvement in sales within the company.

Coordinated frequently with leadership in the company to help overall company morale.

Produced brochures and other content to help promote business.

Sales Specialist

BYU-Pathway Worldwide

I answered questions for students, potential students, and others so they had the information they needed to move forward and help others move forward in the Pathway program.

Support Staff Team Member

Writer, Poet, 🎤 Host of the YIELD Today Podcast⛏️

I am an ADHD Self-Development Junkie and Podcast Host - Graduate of BYU Idaho. I believe in helping others become a better version of themselves through creative thinking, self-discipline, and applied learning. I have seen my ideas make a difference in peoples' lives and I want to see that help me grow into a future career. I am interested in online marketing, public speaking, and online video. 

I enjoy recording my weekly podcast called YIELD Today. On there I share experiences from my life with students and visionaries alike about learning to develop habits, become the best version of themselves, and become loving participants in helping out others. This has helped me to grow my ideas and build up my own ideas and that of others. I'm thankful for the opportunities that this has brought me to learn more about other people and their individual journeys of life. We all can learn so much just from talking for a few minutes with each other about our lives and our dreams.

I believe in lifting up the team around me and in leaving things better than I found them. Working on the Allucent team for my internship helped me see how I enjoy providing solutions through written and audio content. I have proven that I can work effectively with others in both individual, online, and team settings.

My Clifton Strengths: Input. Belief. Activator. Learner. Intellection.

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