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Directors. VPs. Executives.
Ready to go Corporate → Founder in ONE Year?

This is the smart path out — without blowing up your life.

We help corporate veterans turn their employer into an investor, compress their job by 50%, and launch a 1-of-1 premium business.

Corporate becomes a short-term asset — not a lifelong trap.

The system is called Corporate Graduation™.
And it works.

You’ve built a strong corporate life. But you’re likely facing 2+ of these:

1) Your time isn’t yours.
2) Work consumes everything.
3) Family & health get leftovers.
4) You’re just going through motions.
5) You know you’re meant for more — but have no idea what.

It’s costing you — emotionally, physically, financially.
You feel stuck. Fading.

That was me.
Divorced. Burnt out.
Later — remarried, rebuilt, and free.

I made my employer my investor.
Cut hours in half.
Launched a business around my genius.
Graduated corporate life — forever.

Now I help others do the same.

Corporate Graduation™ is the system.
165+ have used it to:

✅ Compress their job into 20 hours/week
✅ Exit with runway, not regret
✅ Build a premium service business that reflects who they are
✅ Create leverage through proprietary IP, not more hours

This is how you build your founder future — without burning bridges.

This isn’t about dabbling.
It’s about reclaiming your life.
For your family. Your future self. Those you’re meant to serve.

No “passive income” BS.
Just active transformation — with revenue, clarity, and agency.

Ready to graduate?

👉 DM me “GRADUATE.”

Matt Doan

I left corporate 4 years ago.

Here’s what actually changed:

1) Mondays have energy again.
I wake up early because I want to. Not out of discipline or obligation, but out of genuine excitement for the week ahead. That feeling was gone for years in corporate. Now it’s normal.

2) The Sunday dread disappeared.
That quiet weight that used to settle in by Sunday afternoon — the sense of re-entering a system that didn’t fit — lifted once I started building something I actually owned.

3) My wife became my partner — in a new way.
Cecilia and I now talk about clients, strategy, and impact together. We’re building something side by side. Corporate never could have offered that, and it’s deepened our marriage in ways I didn’t anticipate.

4) My kids see a different version of me.
They see energy instead of depletion. Engagement instead of exhaustion. They’re watching what it looks like to build something you care about... not just talk about it.

5) My health followed my work.
When work creates energy instead of consuming it, everything else responds. Sleep improved. Stress dropped. At 41, I have more capacity than I did at 35.

6) I’m building skills that compound.
Psychology. Sales. Marketing. Persuasion. Category design. These aren’t corporate skills. They’re human skills. They don’t expire when roles or markets change.

7) I finally understand who I am.
Not my title. Not my employer. Me. The founder path forced me to confront things I could avoid for years in corporate. On the other side was clarity I never found climbing the ladder.

This isn’t about hating corporate.

Corporate gave me my Career Capital:
judgment, pattern recognition, credibility.

But it couldn’t give me ownership.

That required a different structure.

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For those who've outgrown their container.
Jan 19 → https://lnkd.in/esvq8nuY

I messed up a lot in 2025.

9 mistakes shaping everything in 2026:

It's been four years since I left BCG. Four years building Corporate Graduation™. This year made one thing clear: being a founder isn't a career — it's a complete reconstruction of how you live.

Here's my honest accounting:

IDENTITY MISTAKES

1) Positioning to be the authority instead of being it.
I kept "getting ready." Waiting for permission that was never coming. Authority isn't granted — it's declared. In 2026, I'm done preparing. I AM the authority in my space.

2) Tolerating small stages and obscurity.
I've been playing too small. Nothing remarkable is done alone — I need multiplier partners. Stages that reach millions, not hundreds. I've talked about "going big" but haven't truly lived it. Obscurity isn't noble — it's a bottleneck.


FOCUS & ENERGY MISTAKES

3) Saying yes to too many things.
Scattered focus = scattered results. I know this. I teach this. I still violated it. Every diluted yes was a no to what actually mattered.

4) Being distracted around my family.
My wife and four kids deserve my presence, not just my proximity. Too often I was physically there, mentally elsewhere. Unfinished tasks follow you into the evening. In 2026: fewer priorities, cleaner endings, real presence.


RESOURCE MISTAKES

5) Not asking enough of my team, coaches, mentors.
I invested tens of thousands in people who could help me — but didn't nearly extract the full value. I made too many excuses to myself.

6) Over-investing but under-implementing.
I was a collector of insights instead of an executor. The gap between what I know and what I do became too wide. In 2026, implementation is what matters.

7) Being too ad hoc with AI.
Random prompts. No system. I treated AI like a convenience instead of infrastructure. This year, I'm architecting it into how I think, create, and operate.


LEADERSHIP MISTAKES

8) Not pushing my clients hard enough.
They didn't join the Corporate Graduation™ program for slow and incremental. They came to compress a decade into a year. My job is to install new fire — and make them feel the cost of not showing up powerfully.

9) Not being bold enough in what I said.
I softened hard truths. Hedged when I should have declared. Here's what I held back: The work world is being restructured. AI is here. The old playbook is dead. Corporate is a burning platform. I'm done holding that back.

---

These mistakes cost me time, money, energy, presence.

But they gave me clarity.

My "hard lines" for 2026: 
Stop preparing. Start declaring.
Stop tolerating small. Start building big.
Stop over-investing. Start implementing.
Stop holding back. Start saying what must be said.

Which mistake hits home for you?

---

PS - Corporate → Founder this year? 
matthewdoan.com/2026

Monday, your Career Capital starts compounding.

Or it doesn't.

One-time, special event:
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Here's what most people miss about workshops like this:

It's not information.
It's decision-making.

You slow down and show up.
You become a captive audience — to yourself.
You stop scrolling. Stop reacting. Stop drifting.

And for the first time in months (maybe years), 
you do the actual work:

1) You stop making excuses for your delay
2) You uncover your Career Capital
3) You decide how to deploy it
4) You see what's possible beyond the role
5) You start forging a path no employer could match

That's not just inspiration.
That's the compound effect, taking hold.

Imagine where you'll be 90 days from now.

Not just "thinking about it."
Not merely "planning to start."

Actually in motion.

Energy returning.
Clarity sharpening.
Your family feels the new you.

This is what Corporate Graduation™ looks like.

Those who've already committed to Monday aren't hoping for answers. They're giving themselves permission to move.

One decision.
One workshop.
A new trajectory.

The Career Capitalist™
Monday, January 19
$50: Live + Recording + Assets

One time only.
See you inside.

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PS - Registrants get the IP Builder GPT, Corporate Graduation Readiness Scorecard, category design tools, case studies, and a private 1:1 Founder Game Plan call. Recording included.

The moment I knew corporate couldn’t hold me.

5 lessons it took too long to learn:

For a long time, I couldn’t name what was wrong.

I was progressing.
Respected.
Trusted.

But every time my thinking stretched a little too far — every time I tried to hold a bigger picture — it was quietly contained.

Not shut down.
Just… redirected.

That’s when the tension started.
Not dramatic.
Just constant.

Here’s what I eventually learned.

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1) Big thinking can be praised and still be unwelcome.

I’d offer a strategic view and hear, “That sounds good.”

Then came the quiet clause:
“But we’re not taking that outside.”

I wasn’t wrong.
My imagination just didn’t fit the system’s design.

---

2) Being valued doesn’t mean being usable.

I was told my work mattered.

But my judgment had nowhere real to land.

When your best thinking can’t move anything, it doesn’t disappear. It withers.

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3) Side outlets are signals, not solutions.

Publishing in HBR.
MIT Sloan.
The Atlantic.
Think tanks. External channels.

Those weren’t mistakes. They were proof I was trying to breathe outside the box.

What I didn’t see at the time:
External validation was a symptom, not a cure.

Every byline was evidence of capacity the system couldn’t absorb. I kept finding outlets because the main channel was blocked.

Useful moves.
Never satisfying.

---

4) Breakthroughs aren’t about talent. They’re about ownership of environment.

Everything clicked when I sat in a room full of founders.

They had Career Capital too. Decades of it.

The difference was simple:
They didn’t need permission to create.

They built conditions where judgment could compound.
They said yes to themselves.

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5) Staying longer has quiet, compounding costs.

The financial ceiling was obvious.

The real toll was energy.
Family.
Self-trust.

Saying yes to work that wasn’t me.
Knowing I could be far more impactful — and accepting I wasn’t.

---

That’s when I stopped asking how to optimize my role.

And started asking a harder question:

Where does my Career Capital actually belong?

That question led me out of corporate.

Four years later, I’m a founder.
Still answering it.
On my own terms.

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PS - If you’re standing at the edge of that question, don't miss what's unfolding here: https://lnkd.in/eDEkDVb2

If corporate feels a bit "too small" lately, 
you're not imagining it.

That feeling usually shows up when your Career Capital has outgrown the container it's in.

Most people respond the same way.

They start with business logic.
Offer. Niche. Monetization.

Or they quietly reach for passive income.

Passive income won't solve under-leverage.
Only owned Career Capital does.

That's why so many smart exits stall.

The real issue isn't effort.
It's missing conditions.

You can't access, package, and deploy Career Capital into founder leverage if you don't first create:

Space.
Then Self.
Then System.

A recent client — VP in ops — followed this sequence. It changed everything:

1) Compressed his corporate load by ~50%
No drama. No bridges burned. No reputational cost.

2) Reclaimed control of time
Now works 3–4 focused hours/day. Deliberate. Surgical.

3) Restored personal leverage
Energy returned. Health improved. Relationships at home strengthened.

Only then did the founder work begin.

He codified his Career Capital into language, frameworks, and IP.
He clarified category direction.
He ran his first program and delivered real results.

Corporate became optional because leverage was no longer trapped inside the role.

That's real Corporate Graduation.
Not escape. Not dependency.

Leverage.

---

If you want to do this work in the right order, I'm running a live, private, one-time workshop:

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁™
Monday, January 19
$50 (Live + Recording + Assets)

Included with registration:

• IP Builder GPT (to structure your Career Capital)
• Corporate Graduation™ Readiness Scorecard
• Category-claiming exercises you can reuse
• Case study pack + common traps guide
• Private 1:1 Founder Game Plan call

See you on the inside:
https://lnkd.in/esvq8nuY

Has work stopped creating energy for you?
This isn’t burnout.
It’s worse.

Most senior pros describe something quieter.

Disinterest. Going through the motions. Sitting in meetings you've sat in a hundred times, solving problems you solved three years ago. Doing "good work" without feeling engaged by any of it.

(After 15 years, this is how I felt about cybersecurity.)

Work used to create energy. It used to sharpen you. Stretch you. Feed the rest of your life.

At some point, that flipped.

Now it drains energy — and nothing meaningful is replacing it.

That state is not neutral.

When work consumes energy instead of creating it, the deficit shows up everywhere. In patience at home. In health. In imagination. In your sense of building toward a future that's actually yours.

What's really happening underneath is simpler (and more damaging) than most people want to admit:

Your Career Capital — years of judgment, experience, pattern recognition, and hard-earned capability — is going undeployed.

Not unused. Undeployed.

You're applying a fraction of what you've built inside a system that can't fully use it. And when Career Capital isn't exercised meaningfully, it doesn't just sit idle.

It decays.

The most dangerous response here is waiting. Waiting for a reorg. Waiting for renewed motivation. Waiting for something external to force clarity.

Energy doesn't come back on its own.

If work no longer creates it, you have a responsibility to create conditions where it can.

That doesn't require a drastic leap. 

But it does require an environment where your thinking actually matters again — and people who understand what you're navigating.

I'm hosting a private workshop next week for people who recognize this moment and want to think clearly about what to do with the Career Capital they've built.

Details: https://lnkd.in/esvq8nuY

The cost of waiting is quiet. 
But it compounds quickly.

I didn’t know how valuable I was until I stepped outside the corporate system.

Not because I lacked confidence inside.

But because the environment couldn’t show me.

That’s why I built The Career Capitalist™:
https://lnkd.in/esvq8nuY

Happening Monday. A live, private workshop designed to surface, package, and deploy your Career Capital into founder leverage.

Inside corporate, your value gets filtered.

Your judgment gets diluted by consensus.
Your instincts get buried in approval chains.
Your best ideas get spent in meetings that go nowhere.

You’re performing.
Contributing.
Delivering.

But not seeing the full picture of what you’ve built.

It took stepping outside for me to realize:

Every story I lived through → raw material
Every pattern I recognized → deployable insight
Every hard-won lesson → Career Capital to be claimed

And it’s why I hear this constantly from clients once the conditions change:

“Corporate feels simple now. Almost optional.”
“I finally feel in control of my days.”
“I didn’t know I had this much to offer.”

That last one makes me so proud.

Because most people don’t lack value.
They lack the conditions to see it clearly.

Corporate systems are too constraining to reveal what you’ve actually accumulated.

You have to put yourself in founder conditions.
Where your thinking is deployed on your terms.

That’s when Career Capital stops being theoretical.

And starts compounding.

---

Details for The Career Capitalist™
Monday, January 19
$50 (Live + Recording)

Included:
• IP Builder GPT
• Corporate Graduation™ Readiness Scorecard
• Category-claiming exercises
• Case study pack + common traps guide
• Private 1:1 Founder Game Plan call

https://lnkd.in/esvq8nuY

This is a one-time, private event for people who are done playing small inside a big system.

Burnout isn't the real problem.

You've reached a structural mismatch.

After years in the arena, you've built something substantial.

Pattern recognition.
Lived experience.
Relationships.
Reputation.
Judgment.
Talent.

Taken together, this is your Career Capital.

It's stacked. It's real. And it's valuable.

The problem is that the system you're in can only use a tiny fraction of it.

Not because you're capped.
Because the environment is.

Corporate systems are designed for efficiency, predictability, and control. They define a role, reward you for staying inside the lines, and call it success.

Over time, that role becomes a box.
And then a box within a box.

No matter how much Career Capital you accumulate, the system can't meaningfully expand to meet it.

Even changing teams.
Even changing companies.
Even "one more promotion."

The system is the system.

So while your Career Capital keeps compounding, its expression gets constrained.

Your best ideas die in approval chains.
You're solving problems you solved three years ago.
Work that energized you now = going through motions.

That's when the tension starts.

Not because you're ungrateful.
Not because you've lost motivation.
And certainly not from a lack of ambition.

But because you've outgrown the container—which will never change enough to hold who you're becoming.

This might be your first quiet signal that something else is required.

Not a better role.
But a different relationship with corporate altogether.

And a deliberate decision about where your Career Capital will compound.

---

PS - I'm writing deeply about Career Capital this month. The first long-form essay drops on Substack this Saturday — it's about the hidden tax you pay by staying put and what happens when you stop tolerating it.

Subscribe: https://lnkd.in/eDEkDVb2

Career Capital doesn’t sit idle.

It either compounds — or quietly decays.

Inside corporate, decay is the default.

Not because you’re underperforming.
Because the system is designed to consume judgment, not multiply it.

Your experience gets spent in meetings.
Your insight gets diluted by consensus.
Your best instincts get buried under endless “alignment.”

Over time, something subtle but costly happens.

You’re still “successful,” but your optionality shrinks.
Your leverage flattens.
The work takes more energy and gives less back.

That’s not burnout.

That’s Career Capital being used up instead of built on.

Here’s the distinction most people never make:

Most professionals let their Career Capital decay inside systems they don’t own.

Founders decide — deliberately — where it compounds.

Not louder.
Not riskier.
More intentional.

They choose where their judgment is deployed — and who benefits from it.

At some point, the question stops being:
“How do I make this role better?”

And becomes:
“Where does my Career Capital actually belong?”

That question changes everything.

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PS - I’m writing deeply about Career Capital this month. Saturday’s Corporate Graduation essay breaks down the hidden math of staying put — and what most pros never calculate.

https://lnkd.in/eDEkDVb2

The quiet frustration you feel isn't burnout.

It's trapped leverage.

Your career capital is decaying right now.

Not because you're losing skill.
Because you're not deploying it.

Yesterday I ran The Career Capitalist™ workshop.

Here are the five ideas that hit hardest.


1) Career capital is stored energy.

Years of judgment, pressure, and decision-making accumulate as untapped power. But stored energy doesn't stay neutral. If it isn't released into the right environment, it implodes.

Career capital needs motion, leverage, and somewhere to be used (hint: someone else's system won't do.)


2) Career capital must become a compounding asset.

Your career capital can only compound when converted into something you own. Left unconverted, they get spent linearly through effort.

Ownership is the difference between earning repeatedly and compounding over time.


3) Labels suffocate career capital.

SVP. Director. Consultant. Coach. Speaker.

These are pre-priced containers with fixed ceilings. The market decides what they're worth.

Labels come with limits. Founders build the room.


4) Career capital has a window.

Experience is sharpest when it's recent, relevant, and energized. Delay too long, and it decays.

Not from lack of ability. But from missing your window of opportunity.


5) You must intentionally package and deploy it.

Unpackaged career capital goes to waste. If you don't turn it into assets — frameworks, language, IP, owned systems — it never compounds.

It just leaks out through time, effort, and obligation.

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This is what I wish I understood five years ago.

Career capital isn't something you simply have.

It's something you either convert and compound.
Or you quietly lose it.

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PS - If this resonates, doors are open for the February cohort of our Corporate Graduation™ program. DM me "LEVERAGE" for details.

Your career capital has a shelf life.

If you don’t claim it, it dies.

Most people assume experience compounds automatically and forever.

That once you’ve earned judgment, pattern recognition, and credibility, it stays available, waiting patiently for whenever you’re “ready.”

That’s not how it works.

Career Capital behaves like any other form of capital.

If it isn’t surfaced, packaged, and deployed while the window is open, it decays.

Corporate environments are very good at using your best thinking. They are terrible at helping you own it.

So the decay is quiet.

Your instincts sharpen, but only inside meetings.
Your judgment matures, but stays behind the logo.
Your leverage increases, but never sees daylight.

Over time, a dangerous gap opens.

You are highly capable.
And increasingly under-deployed.

Directors, VPs, and executives feel this most.

Not because they lack opportunity.
But because they’ve outgrown permissioned contribution and haven’t yet claimed authority.

The people who notice this early make a different move.

They don’t rush.
They don’t panic.
They don’t freelance their way out.

They slow down long enough to extract what they’ve actually earned.

They turn experience into language.
Judgment into frameworks.
Reputation into owned direction.

They understand one simple truth.

Capital that isn’t claimed gets spent by someone else.

That’s why I built The Career Capitalist™.

A one-time, live workshop for Directors, VPs, and execs who know they’re sitting on real leverage and refuse to let it expire unused.

This isn’t about quitting faster.
It’s about learning how to own what you already have before the window closes.

The Career Capitalist™
Private workshop + recording + working tools
Monday, January 19

Secure your spot: https://lnkd.in/esvq8nuY

This experience is built to create motion, not inspiration.

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If this resonates, trust the signal.

Hidden Career Capital doesn’t unleash itself.
It gets claimed — or it withers.

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In 2017, my life changed forever – I lost my job due to a freak fire.

And that wasn't even the worst part:

• I was working at a job I hated
• My network was filled with losers
• I was living a terribly unhealthy lifestyle

Of course, I didn't know things were all that bad – until I found myself on unemployment.

The next morning, after I let the dust settle a bit, I told myself that I was going to write for 30 days, no matter what.

30 days turned into over 100 fast.

100 days turned into 5+ years.

And now here I am:

• 7,400+ newsletter subscribers
• 50,000 follower audience on Twitter
• 22,000 follower audience on Medium

And a profitable creator business as a result.

Now – the last thing I'll ever tell you is that it was easy – because it wasn't (and still isn't).

But I'll tell you this: it was simple.

Or – at least it's simple when you understand the:

• Strategies
• Patterns
• Tactics

That help you save time, money, and unwanted headaches.

And that's why I'm here.

I want to teach you what I know. From:

• Copywriting
• Offer creation
• Effective writing
• Audience Building
• Digital monetization

And everything in between.

I can't wait to go on this journey with you.

I'll see you in the timeline & in the comments.

Keep building.

✌️ Jon

Jon Brosio

Everyone wants the "one secret" to online success.

Here it is: 

There isn't one.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but:

• I only made $13.50 online in my 1st year
• I was fired from 3 freelance clients
• My mom was my first email sub
• My first post was about wine

"Shortcuts" are a myth.

The internet sold you a lie...

That there's a:

• A hack
• A trick
• A system 

That skips the hard part.

That someone cracked the code and you can just copy-paste their success.

Bull

Success isn't a download.

It's an upload.

You upload:

• Hours of work when you don't feel like it
• Emails to lists of 12 people
• Content that gets 3 likes
• Offers that get rejected

For months.
Sometimes years.

Until something clicks.

Not because you found the secret.

But because you became the person who deserves the success.

Skills compound
Reputation compounds
Relationships compound

But only if you stick around long enough for the compound interest to kick in.

Most people quit during the "boring middle."

Don't be most people.

Put your head down.

Grind.

And never give up.

It will come.

—

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I helped a student gain 6.9M+ views & 4.3k followers (in 30 days)

And now I'm sharing the exact system we used

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I'm about to say something unpopular.

But by someone desperately needs to...

Don't start a business if you're not willing to:

• Work weekends while others binge Netflix
• Work for free in the beginning (often for 6+ months)
• Invest money into yourself when you're already tight
• Sacrifice time with friends & family who don't get it

Plain and simple...

This isn't motivational fluff.

It's the entrance fee.

I remember my first year clearly.

• Friday nights writing sales pages
• Nights out canceled to hop on client calls
• Vacation money spent on business courses
• Sundays learning Facebook ads (that failed)

My social life became a casualty...

My comfort zone became extinct.

My old identity? Gone.

People started treating me differently.

• "Why can't you just relax?"
• "All you talk about is business."
• "Remember when you used to be fun?"

I couldn't explain it then.

I was building something they couldn't see.

A bridge from who I was to who I needed to become.

• Every dollar invested was a nail
• Every weekend worked was a plank
• Every relationship strain was the price of crossing over

Here's what I discovered on the other side:

If you can push through that season of sacrifice—

You don't just get a business.

𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙖 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙗𝙨𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝.

• Work that energizes you
• Time that belongs to you
• Purpose that feels like play
• Money that serves your mission

The irony?

Once you build it, those same people ask:

"How do you make it look so easy?"

Because they only see the destination.

Not the journey.

Most want the reward.

Few will pay the price.

—

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The $100K blueprint everyone ignores (but shouldn't)

It's not:

• Sexy
• Scalable
• Automated

(at least yet...)

But it works every single time.

Here it is:

1. Choose a niche
2. Craft a clear offer
3. Give to 10 people for free
4. Collect testimonials like they're GOLD
5. Convert your next client via content
6. Raise your price by 25%

Rinse and repeat steps 4-6.

(Like... damn near religiously...)

I've watched a thousand creators skip this formula.

They want the advanced stuff:

• Automated funnels
• Course platforms  
• Membership sites
• Digital product empires

Meanwhile, simple service providers are quietly hitting $100K.

Because they understand something crucial:

Your average client value matters more than your client count.

10 clients at $10,000 = $100K
100 clients at $1,000 = $100K
1,000 clients at $100 = $100K

Guess which one is easier to manage?
Guess which one has higher profit margins?
Guess which one doesn't require a massive audience?

The ascending price model is your secret weapon:

Every "yes" at your new price builds confidence
Every client success raises your market value
Every testimonial justifies higher rates

Start at $500.
Move to $625.
Then $780.
Then $975.

By client #50, you're charging $1,500+ for the same service you started at $500.

(and mind you -  25% is just a suggestion - you can always go higher the more comfortable and systematized you get)

Same expertise. 
Same deliverable. 

Different positioning.

Because here's the thing about pricing:

It's not about what you think you're worth.

It's about what the market will pay for transformation.

(Read that again)

(And then again...)

And the market will pay more as you prove your value.

Stop looking for the complex solution

Start executing the simple one

---

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Most creators are one decision away from six figures.

That decision?

Commit to boring.

Everyone wants the six-figure business.

Nobody wants to:

• Post daily for 6 months
• Say no to shiny objects
• Stick with one offer

Which is exactly why most people never get there.

The barrier isn't knowledge.

It's consistency and belief.

I see it every day in my DMs:

• "What about TikTok?"
• "Should I start a newsletter?"
• "I have this new course idea..."

They're asking the wrong questions.

The right question is:

"𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘐 𝘥𝘰 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦?"

Because the creators making money aren't doing more.

They're doing the same thing.

Over and over.

Until it works.

Then they keep doing it.

Boring = Profitable.
Exciting = Broke.

Choose boring.

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My nephew asked me what I do for work yesterday.

I said: 

"I help people talk to money."

He looked confused...

So I explained it like this:

"Imagine money has ears. Most people are shouting the wrong words, in the wrong places, to the wrong ears, at the wrong time.

I teach them how to whisper the right things."

He nodded like that made perfect sense.

He's six...

Kids get it. 

Adults overcomplicate it.

Here's the simple truth:

Money has four ears:

Copywriting = knowing what to say
Marketing = knowing where to say it
Positioning = knowing who to say it to  
Sales = knowing how to say it

Together...

They make money listen.

Most creators are still shouting:

• "BUY MY THING!"
• "FOLLOW ME!"
• "I'M THE BEST!"

Money doesn't respond to shouting.

Money responds to whispers.

The right message (copywriting) delivered in the right place (marketing) to the right person (positioning) at the right moment (sales).

That's when money leans in.

That's when money says yes.

That's when your wildest dreams come true.

Stop shouting at money.

Start whispering to it.

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You’re generating leads. You’re closing sales.

But at some point—

Whether it’s $10K/month or $20K/month—you hit a wall.

Things stall.

And when that happens, the instinct is to think you need more content.

• More posts. 
• More visibility. 
• More engagement.

But the real shift that moves the needle isn’t about more.

It’s about making a fundamental change in how you communicate.

Because there’s a difference between content that generates attention and content that creates conversions.

And that difference comes down to this shift...

From:

• “this is who I am” → to “this is your problem.”
• “this is what I do” → to “this is why your problem sucks.”
• “this is why it’s cool” → to “this is what you should try instead.”

If your content is mostly talking about what you do, you’re making it harder to attract clients.

Your dream clients don’t care about your story until they see themselves in it.

Your audience is already having a conversation in their head.

They wake up thinking about their frustrations, their struggles, and the outcomes they want.

They’re not looking for another expert talking about their credentials.

They’re looking for someone who understands their experience better than they do.

This is why you need to start with your offer.

Because when you deeply understand:

• Who you help
• What you help them achieve

Then you can reverse-engineer your content to meet them exactly where they are.

You’ll start uncovering the stories they’re already telling themselves about:

Their pains
Their desires
Their obstacles
Their frustrations

And when your content enters their world instead of forcing them into yours—

You become the no-brainer choice to solve their problem.

This shift isn’t just about making tweaks to your content.

It’s about rethinking your entire approach so that every post, email, and message serves as a stepping stone toward working with you.

When you stop making content about you—and start making it about them—

Everything changes.

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The biggest lie in business:

(It's complete and utter garbage - makes me sick...)

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That you need to be the smartest person in the room.

I know people making $50K/month who barely graduated high school.

And PhD's who can't sell a $97 course.

Here's what actually matters:

• Who you are
• Who you want to help

That's it.

Nothing else.

Who you are = What your offer says about you

Your offer creates your identity:

• Sell productivity systems → You're the efficiency expert
• Sell relationship advice → You're the connection coach
• Sell financial planning → You're the money mentor

Your positioning doesn't come from your resume.

It comes from the problem you solve.

Who you serve = The specific outcome they want

This isn't about age, gender, or income.

It's about the transformation:

• Stressed entrepreneurs who want systems
• Lonely professionals who want connection
• Broke millennials who want wealth

When you know these two things, everything else becomes simple.

Your content writes itself.

Because you're not trying to impress everyone.

You're solving one problem for one person.

The gurus want you to think it's complicated.

That you need:

• Complex funnels
• Multiple revenue streams
• Years of "authority building"

Lies.

Simple beats sophisticated.

Clear beats clever.

Every damn time.

If you think success is about being the best—this will change your mind.

Because here’s what actually creates momentum:

Effort.
Consistency.
And the willingness to look a little stupid for a while.

Over time, that combo beats genius almost every time.

Everyone’s chasing the perfect strategy.

The brilliant idea.

The overnight win.

But most people don’t need a breakthrough.

They need movement.

Reps.
Feedback.
Refinement.

That’s how progress is made—especially when it’s quiet and invisible.

You don’t need more ideas.

You need action.

→ Action that looks boring
→ Action that feels uncomfortable
→ Action that makes you cringe, because you’re figuring it out

But that’s the exact action that builds confidence.

And credibility.

And eventually—results.

Here’s the truth:

→ The consultant who closes $10k clients? She used to flinch every time she pitched.

→ The coach with the waitlist? He made 6 offers before anyone said yes.

→ The creator with momentum? Her first 90 days were pure trial and error.

They didn’t wait to feel qualified.

They just kept going.

If you’re building a solo business, this is what it actually looks like:

→ One clear offer
→ Targeted content that starts real conversations
→ Simple, repeatable actions—done consistently

You don’t need to be a genius.

You need to keep going longer than most people are willing to look unsure.

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Most people overcomplicate getting to $10K/month.

They think they need: 

• Complex funnels
• MASSIVE audiences
• Completely unique offers

But I've watched dozens of clients hit $10K with something much simpler:

1. Get one client

Stop building the "perfect" offer. 

Start with one person who has a problem you can solve. 

Even if it's messy. Even if it's not "scalable"

(Yet...)

2. Do a great job

Over-deliver on everything. 
Show up early, stay late, anticipate their needs. 

This client becomes your case study for the next one.

3. Charge more (to get another client)

Double your price. Seriously. 
Your first client proved the value exists. 

Your second client should pay for that proof.

4. Deliver an even better result

You learned from client #1. 

Apply those lessons to client #2. 

Better systems, clearer communication, faster results.

5. Repeat until you make $10K/month

Keep raising prices as you get better. 

$500 becomes $1000. 
$1000 becomes $2000. 
$2000 becomes $5000.

Most people want the complex strategy.

But the simple path works faster.

One client at a time.
One great result at a time.
One price increase at a time.

Until you're making more money than most people with "big" businesses.

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Most creators will stay broke...

I'm talking about the creators who:

• Never share their wins
• Rarely talk about their offers
• Hide behind "let the work speak for itself"

They think humility is a business strategy.

It's not.

It's a poverty strategy.

Because the future belongs to those unafraid to self-promote.

They'll:

• Create better content (they know their story matters)
• Make a better offer (not embarrassed by their prices)
• Get more attention (not waiting to be discovered)

And they'll win.

Here's the truth nobody wants to hear:

Your 

• Best work means nothing if nobody knows about it
• Perfect offer means nothing if nobody hears about it
• Expertise means nothing if you keep it to yourself

I used to think differently.

I thought quality would eventually rise to the top.

That customers would somehow find me.

That word-of-mouth would magically scale my business.

I was wrong.

Dead wrong.

The market doesn't reward the best.
It rewards the best-known.

(Double click on that, homie...)

And "best-known" requires one thing:

Showing up
Speaking up
Promoting up

Confidently
Consistently
Unapologetically

Your competition isn't more talented.

They're just more visible.

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This system helped me made $18k in one month

(After being stuck at countless $2k - $5k months...)

Most creators think $10K months require:

• 100K followers
• Viral content
• Complex funnels
• 20 different revenue streams

Not eeeeeeeeeeeeven.

Here's what actually works:

One offer.

• Solves one specific problem
• For one specific person
• At one specific price point

One system.

• Content that attracts
• Process that converts
• Delivery that delights

One post per day.

• Speaks to their pain
• Shows your solution
• Invites them in

That's the entire business.

I learned this the hard way.

Spent 2 years creating:

• 3 different courses
• 9 different price points
• Content for everyone (and no one)

Result? $2,800 in total revenue.

Then I simplified:

• One coaching offer
• One sales process
• One post daily
• One email

Result? $18K in month one.

The lesson?

Depth beats breadth.
Clarity beats cleverness.
Focus beats everything.

Your audience doesn't want options.

They want THE solution.

Give them one clear path to their desired outcome.

Then watch them sprint toward it.

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Everyone's looking for the $100K secret.

Here it is:

Stop selling what you know.

Start selling what they want.

(Read that again, baby!)

I see creators all day building products around their expertise instead of their market's desperation.

• "I know marketing, so I'll sell marketing courses"
• "I'm good at graphic design, so I'll teach design"
• "I know productivity, so I'll create productivity systems"

That's expertise-first thinking...

And it keeps you broke.

$10K thinking works in reverse:

• What's keeping your ideal client awake at 3 AM?
• What transformation would change their life?
• What would they pay anything to fix?

Then—and only then—do you ask:

"𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰 𝘐 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸?"

WhAt'S tHe DifFeReNcE?

𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗲-𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗯𝘂𝘆.

Booyah-kasha!

(I hope that send chills down your spine...)

Market-thinking creates offers people throw money at.

I learned this the hard way...

My first offer was "Content Strategy for Creators."

Sounds impressive, right?

I made about $1500 in 3 months.

Then I talked to my market.

They didn't want "strategy."

They wanted to stop feeling like frauds charging for their work.

Same expertise. Different angle.

"Create a One Page Offer™ and validate it with 3 clients" 

was born.

$40K+ in the first 90 days...

Same knowledge
Same person
Same skills

Different offer.

Because I stopped leading with what I wanted to teach.

And started with what they desperately wanted to learn.

Your expertise is the vehicle.

Their transformation is the destination.

Get that backwards, and you'll stay stuck explaining why your knowledge is valuable.

Get it right, and they'll be asking how fast they can start.

If you've been told to "find your niche" and felt paralyzed, this will change everything...

Most creators think a niche is:

• An industry ("fitness")
• A platform ("LinkedIn creators")
• A demographic ("millennial women")

That's not a niche.

That's a category.

A $100k niche is a group with a problem.

Not just any problem.

A problem that:

• They can't solve alone
• Keeps them up at night
• Costs them money daily
• They'll pay premium to fix

When you speak to the problem, the right people immediately think:

• "Holy ravioli, that's me."
• "How did they know?"
• "I need this now."

My student learned this the hard way...

For months, he called himself a "career coach for programmers"

Crickets.

Then she shifted:

"I help programmers stuck in application hell get recruiters to reach out to them with their dream job and salary in hand"

Same skills. Same person. 
Completely different response.

6 new clients within the first month working together...

Because he stopped describing what he did and started describing the hell her clients were living in.

The magic isn't in the solution.
It's in how precisely you can articulate the problem.

Most creators get this backwards...

Here's how to find your $100k niche:

1. List every problem you've personally solved
2. Identify which ones people regularly ask you about
3. Find the intersection of "urgent" and "expensive"
4. Test your language with real humans

Don't ask 

"What's my niche?"

Ask 

"Whose problem am I uniquely positioned to solve?"

The money follows the problem.

The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.

Stop being a generalist hoping someone needs everything.

Start being the specialist people desperately need for one thing.

Picture this scenario:

Two coaches launch the exact same program. 

• Same offer
• Same price point
• Same audience size

Coach A makes $3,000
Coach B makes $15,000

The difference isn't their expertise
It's not their audience 

It's frame control

Coach A: The Commodity Approach

Sends an email: 

"Hey everyone, I'm opening enrollment for my coaching program next Tuesday. Here are the details, here are the benefits, here's the price."

Tuesday comes. Doors open. Then they wait.

The response is crickets.

 By Thursday, panic sets in. 

They send another email with the same details. 

They're begging people to buy. 

Result: $3,000 and a bruised ego.

Coach B: The Authority Approach

Takes a completely different path.

Sends a thoughtful email about a conversation they had with a struggling client. 

• Real problem
• Real insight
• Real value

No pitch. Just genuine help.

And a "P.S."

P.S. "This conversation inspired me to create something that solves this exact problem. Reply 'INTERESTED' if this would help you too."

60 replies flood their inbox.

Two days later: 

"I got an overwhelming response to Tuesday's email. This inspired me to put together something even bigger than I originally planned. I'm creating a pre-registration list. As a bonus, pre-registered people get an extra one-on-one call with me."

100 people pre-register.

Final email: 

"Due to the response, I'm limiting this to 10 spots only. Pre-registered people get first access Monday morning - with their bonus. Everyone else gets access Tuesday - without the bonus."


• Monday morning: 6 spots gone in 3 hours
• Thursday: Remaining 4 spots filled
• Friday: 3 more people wanting in

Coach B lets them in at 10% higher price.

Result: $15,000 and a waitlist for the next round.

Here's the lesson:

Stop launching like you're applying for permission. 

Start creating demand before revealing the offer.

Your audience doesn't want another program. 

They want to be part of something exclusive. 
They want to feel chosen.

That's the difference between begging and building

Between commodity and authority. 

Between $3K months and $15K months.

The money isn't in what you're selling. 

It's in how you position yourself before anyone knows what you're selling.

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Most solopreneurs are sabotaging their own income.

Without realizing it. They make two critical mistakes:

They:

1. Don't ask existing clients for more
2. Chase one-time payments instead of recurring revenue

I learned this the hard way.

67% of my income came from people who already knew me.

Yet I was spending 80% of my time chasing new prospects.

Backwards.

Completely bass-ackwards.

Here's what I discovered:

When someone buys from you once, they're 7x more likely to buy again.

When they:

• Get results, they want more results
• Trust your process, they want deeper access
• See transformation, they want acceleration

But most solopreneurs deliver value and disappear.

No next step
No follow-up offer
No ongoing relationship

They treat business like speed dating instead of marriage.

Meanwhile, their best clients are asking:

"What else can you help me with?"

(Even if it's not out loud...)

And getting crickets.

So they find someone else.

Now I design every offer with three things:

• Recurring component for ongoing value
• Clear next step for ready clients
• Natural upsell pathway built in

Result?

I haven't "hunted" for a client in 8 months.

And I help my clients do the same.

Because we built businesses that grow themselves

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Too many solopreneurs are afraid of the wrong thing.

They worry about:

• "I need to be original!"
• "I can’t launch until it's perfect!"
• "What if someone steals my idea?"

But these fears don’t kill businesses. What does?

• Waiting too long to launch
• Obsessing over originality instead of execution
• Sitting on an idea instead of testing it in the market

The truth is, your idea isn’t what makes you successful. 

It’s your execution.

Some of the most successful businesses didn’t create something entirely new. 

They took something that already existed and improved it.

• Facebook wasn’t the first social network.
• Google wasn’t the first search engine.
• Apple didn’t invent the smartphone.

They just executed better than their competition.

If you want to build a successful business, your focus should be on:

• A proven offer – Something people already want.
• A proven lead funnel – A system that attracts leads.
• A proven method to convert leads – A way to convert them.

The market doesn’t care about how unique or clever your idea is. 

It only cares about:

• Does this solve my problem?
• Is it better than what I have now?
• Can I trust that it will work for me?

If you have something new, your first job isn’t to protect it. 

It’s to test it.

The Real Business Killer: Inaction

The best businesses aren’t the most original. 

They are the ones that:

• Take existing ideas and improve them.
• Focus on execution rather than perfection.
• Test, iterate, and refine until they get it right.

The biggest risk isn’t someone copying your idea. 

It’s you never acting on it.

Everyone's looking for a complex marketing funnel.

Meanwhile...

The richest solo creators and coaches I know use one step that leads to another:

Reader → Lead → Customer → Recurring → High-ticket

That's it.

No fancy automation.
No 47-step sequences.
No AI-powered chatbots.

Just crystal clear progression:

I call it One Step Marketing™

It's what I use for my own multi-six figure solo business.

And what I teach my clients:

• Reader finds your content (content)
• Lead opts in for deeper value (free)
• Customer buys entry offer ($)
• Returns for recurring solution ($$)
• Graduates to premium service ($$$)

But here's what makes it work:

Each step solves ONE problem.
Leads to ONE outcome.
Makes ONE promise.

(Hence the name "One Step Marketing™")

The magic isn't in complexity.

It's in clarity.

Knowing exactly:

• Who you serve
• What they need
• How you help
• What's next

That's how you build $10k months.

And $20k

And $30k...

Not by adding more steps.

By making each step count.

Here's the difference between a $10K and a $100K niche:

$10K niche: 
"I help marketing agencies"

$100K niche: 
"I help marketing agencies whose clients keep asking for discounts"

$10K niche: 
"I serve real estate agents"

$100K niche: 
"I serve real estate agents who generate leads but can't convert them to closings"

$10K niche: 
"I work with freelance writers"

$100K niche: 
"I work with freelance writers who have decent online audiences but are still broke"

Notice the pattern?

The money isn't in the demographic.

It's in the desperation.

People don't pay for solutions to problems they might have someday.

They pay for solutions to problems that are costing them money, sleep, or sanity RIGHT NOW.

When I was selling wine, I didn't approach every table the same way.

• The anniversary couple? Different conversation
• The business meeting? Different approach
• The first date trying to impress? 

Say it with me...

Completely 👏 different 👏 strategy.

• Same people
• Different situations
• Different problems to solve

Your niche works the same way.

Stop thinking "who do I serve?"

Start thinking 

"𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮 𝘢𝘮 𝘐 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘥 𝘱𝘢𝘺 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘹 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺?"

That's not a demographic.

That's a goldmine.

Julius Brown III

Sales happen before you ever talk to someone.

They happen in... 

Your content

Most creators use content to show expertise.
Smart creators use content to eliminate objections.

There's a massive difference.

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