Growth Ghost

Growth Ghost: the leading coaching program for aspiring freelancer writers, 9-to-5ers, and digital writers. Teaching writers how to land high paying clients, scale their online ghostwriting business, and build a life they no longer feel the need to escape from.

50+ students served. Multi 7 figures in revenue generated for students. 

https://www.growthghost.com/optin1736208224612

Partner

Ghostlii Inc

The leading ghostwriting agency for founders, coaches, and personal brands.
50+ clients served. 200,000,000+ total impressions. 7 figures of revenue generated through social media content.
https://ghostlii.com/

Co-Founder

Centre for Arts and Technology

College Instructor

College teacher turned ghostwriter | Scaling founders, coaches, and consultants to $100K+ /mo | Writing to build wealth and better self | 98,000 on Twitter (X)

Taylin John Simmonds

My first ghostwriting client made me rich. Not with the money they paid me. But with the mindset shift they created in me.

When I first started, I’d see other ghostwriters online landing clients and think:

"Good for them. But could that ever be me?"

I acted on blind faith that if they could do it, so could I.

(Some Tony Robbin's sh*t, you know?)

But for six months, nothing happened.

No clients.
No money.

No proof it would work for me.

It made it hard to keep going when the only evidence I had what that it was possible for someone else.

But then, I landed my first client!

$0.50 per follower, which came out to about $3,000 a month.

That small win radically shifted my mindset.

I was no longer acting on possibility.
I was acting on probability.

A week later, I signed another client.

Within a few months, I was making over $10K a month from ghostwriting.

Looking back, this shift wasn’t just financial.

it was psychological.

Because when you get your first “yes,” everything you once doubted about yourself disappears.

You realize this isn’t just possible for others.

It’s possible for you.

That’s the moment your life changes.

Not because of the money but because you're no longer held back by disbelief.

—Taylin

♻️ Repost. Follow Taylin John Simmonds for more on how to earn as an AI assisted ghostwriter without sacrificing income or your love of hard shell tacos.

College teacher turned AI assisted ghostwriter | Helping writers, creatives, and storytellers earn on the internet | 2 billion impressions | $4,000,000+ revenue generated | All in on Substack

In the last 60 days, I've gained 943 newsletter subs from organic content on Substack. No lead magnets. No trendjacking. Here's how I did it:

Most people on LinkedIn have no idea how f*cking incredible Substack is right now.

It's like LinkedIn 2023, only better because you attract subscribers instead of followers.

Imagine this:

You write a short social post—just like you would on LinkedIn—and it gets you 500 newsletter subscribers.

No lead magnet.
No DMs.
No funnels.

You write a newsletter that goes semi-viral, and it brings you new 80 subscribers, $1,000 in customer sales, and 2 podcast invites.

All from a newsletter that went viral on a social media timeline.

Then you launch a paid newsletter, where people happily pay you for your deepest work, and suddenly you’re earning $100 per day from content you’re already writing.

This isn’t theoretical.

Those are all real wins from my Substack.

I’m growing faster on Substack than I ever did on LinkedIn—just by repurposing my old content and adapting it to Substack’s culture.

My newsletters are going viral.

They’re attracting new clients, podcast invites, and collaborations every week.

My paid newsletter alone is on track to gross $4,000 this month.

This is insane.

If you’re a business owner, get on Substack.
If you’re a creator, get on Substack.
If you’re selling courses or digital products, get on Substack.

This platform is insane and it’s still early.

If you’re thinking about migrating, but aren't sure how Substack works, just comment "Substack" below.

I'll shoot over my free growth guide so you can make the most of Substack while it's easy.

Because once everyone figures it out, the easy growth window closes.

—Taylin

I didn’t start believing in myself because I had results. I started believing in myself because I ran out of reasons not to try.

Back in 2022, all I wanted was to make a living as a creative writer.

Not a novelist or a journalist.

Just someone who could write online and get paid for it (if it was even possible).

But everyone around me was saying the same thing:

"Writers don’t make real money."

Still, I kept seeing people on Twitter doing it, and a small part of me hoped that if they could pull it off, maybe I could too.

So I gave myself permission to write for one year straight.

After work.
On weekends.
After eight-hour days teaching college classes.

And I did all of that without earning a single dollar for 6 months.

No clients.
No validation.
Not even much traction on my posts.

Just a lot of self-doubt, 5-9 exhaustion, and the constant fear that I was wasting my time.

Then another ghostwriter referred me a client (thank god).

On the call, the client agreed to pay me fifty cents per follower.

When the Stripe invoice came through for $3,000, it pretty much broke my mind.
It was more than I made in a month as a teacher.

And that moment was all it took...

I finally had proof this path could work (for me).

Within 30 days, I landed two more clients and hit around $10K per month.

Looking back, the biggest shift wasn’t the money.

It was realizing that when you don’t have evidence something will work for you, you have to borrow evidence from people it already worked for.

That borrowed belief keeps you going long enough to get your own proof.

And once you get your first yes, it gets a lot harder to quit.

—Taylin

♻️ Repost. Follow Taylin John Simmonds for more on how to earn as an AI assisted ghostwriter without sacrificing income or your love of hard shell tacos.

Many of LinkedIn’s biggest creators just joined Substack.

Are you going to join them or get left behind?

Whenever a new social platform is easy to grow on, the big creators quietly migrate there first.

They don’t talk about it.

Because they want to grow fast while the growth is easy.

Right now, Substack is that platform.

But why is it easy to grow on?

It's easy to grow on because there is more attention than quality content.

That means when you post something, it gets shown to more people and it stays visible for far longer.

On LinkedIn, my posts last roughly 3-7 day.
On Substack, my posts go viral for up to 40 days.

But how long will this easy growth last?

6 to 12 months (max).

Recently, Justin Welsh joined Substack.
Dan Koe joined Substack.
Dan Go joined Substack.
Naomi Kins joined Substack.

And if I had to guess, Lara Acosta will join soon too because she just launched a newsletter course. Which makes sense for her to sell on the platform.

It’s no coincidence.

All the big creators are moving quietly to Substack because it’s easier to grow and easier to go viral.

I’ve personally gained 1,000+ newsletter subscribers in the past 60 days from short Notes that take me two minutes to write.
I've landed 3 podcast appearances with top Substack creators.
I've gotten more inbound leads from Substack than LinkedIn.

Can a new creator easily do this on LinkedIn without jacking trends?

Not in 2025.
And it won't happen in 2026.

So you have a choice:

Wait around debating whether to join or make the move while growth is still easy.

I missed the early growth window on LinkedIn because I was too focused on X.

I’m not making that mistake again.

That’s why I’m all in on Substack.

P.S. I’m putting together a free Substack Growth Course that breaks down how I'm growing on the platform (because it is different from LinkedIn).

I'll be publishing it only on Substack, so if you want access when it drops, you can subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/gb6dr2mF

—Taylin

How to grow fast on LinkedIn. Don't. Just write on Substack instead. In 30 days, I gained 729 newsletter subs + $3,000 with a paid newsletter.

It got harder to grow fast on LinkedIn over the past year.

So I ran a five-month experiment to see what would happen if I went all-in on Substack, tried to grow, and launched a paid newsletter.

What happened surprised me.

Once I figured out how the platform worked, I started gaining 500–700 newsletter subscribers per month organically.

Think about that.

When was the last time you pulled 500+ newsletter subscribers on LinkedIn without a viral lead magnet or trendjacking?

This was all organic.
No lead magnets.

Just repurposed content from LinkedIn & X.

My most viral Substack post was literally a LinkedIn post I copied over. 
It brought in around 100 subscribers by itself.

If you’re already writing LinkedIn posts, there’s zero reason not to post them there and let the platform hand you free subscribers.

Then I launched a paid newsletter.

In 30 days, 48 people subscribed.

The dashboard says $6,260 annualized, and the actual cash received was around $2,000 USD.

But here’s the wild part:

People started DMing me asking for other things they could buy.

Now they want me to start a writing community.
I sold $1,000 worth of ghostwriting courses I don’t even have publicly available.
I booked 2 consulting calls worth $3,000–$5,000 each.

So in one month of a paid newsletter, I’ll probably end up with $3,000–$7,000 of additional revenue—completely outside of LinkedIn.

This is why I’m posting about Substack so aggressively.

It’s one of the best attention arbitrage opportunities on the internet right now.

It feels like early Twitter.
It feels like early LinkedIn.
And people on LinkedIn are completely sleeping on it.

They’re not growing on Substack.
They’re not using a paid newsletter as an intro product to sell courses, coaching, or services.

It’s insane.

And the excuse is always:

“I don’t have time. I’m focused on LinkedIn.”

That’s exactly what I used to say—right before LinkedIn got hard.

I’m not making that mistake again.

If you try Substack for 30 days, you’ll be shocked at how much faster you grow your audience and your business.

I put together a free Substack growth guide—you shouldn’t have to pay for the basics. 
I’ll link it at the bottom of this post.

I’m going to keep FOMO’ing you into existence until you finally get on this platform and take advantage of it.

You probably have 6–12 months.

Stop grinding on LinkedIn for 100 followers a month.
At least give Substack a shot.

Free Substack growth guide: https://lnkd.in/gffnDFcD

—Taylin

I’m building my paid Substack newsletter to 500 subs in public. I launched 7(ish) days ago. The update: Paid subs: 24; Revenue: $1,079.25

I looked at the market—most people price their paid tier at $5/month.

Then I asked myself:

“What would I need to offer to price mine 4x higher?”

My answer came in two parts:

1) Value proposition

Help new writers earn $1,000+/month writing online

2) Deliverables

* Weekly custom GPTs & prompt flows (the same ones I’m using now)
* Biweekly manifestos (more in-depth than most people’s courses)
* AI-assisted writing manifestos
* Monetization roadmaps on money models, offer stacks, and marketing ecosystems
* Monthly live Q&A calls (no selling, just having fun and shooting the shit)

With this setup, I can grow revenue 4x faster per subscriber.

That’s what I recommend to new writers with smaller audiences—you don’t need a ton of subs, just high trust per sub. (More on that another time.)

This week’s marketing breakdown (rough numbers):

I built no hype. Did no prelaunch.

Just woke up, decided to launch a paid tier. And launched it by end of day (my attempt at not overthinking it haha).

* One scrappy launch newsletter → 4 subs
* One email to previous buyers → 7 subs
* One email to subscribers with 4–5 star activity scores → 5 subs
* Two paid newsletters with paywalls → ~5 subs
* One Substack Live with Landon Poburan → ? subs

Hard to track where the rest came from.

Next steps:

1. Finish the new AI workflow for writing long form content (relevant to LinkedIn as well)

2. Release the next roadmap: *How to get 100 paid subscribers on Substack in 3–6 months*

3. Host one Substack Live per week to build trust faster (some fun collabs coming up)

That’s it.

If you found this valuable, let me know. It helps me decide whether to keep doing this series weekly.

PS - Substack feels like early Twitter with a newsletter option. It's an arbitrage opportunity for the right creators/founders who get in early. 

We're looking for a few founders or coaches who want us to grow their presence on Substack. Done-for-you content creation and lead generation. Send me a message if that's you.

—Taylin

I just learned this crazy idea from a Harvard Psychiatrist: It’s called Cognitive Drain. And it’s why most people are exhausted 24/7.

Every single:

* Undone task
* Unrealized goal
* Unfinished project

Is causing your brain to leak mental energy.

Basically, your brain is a dusty PC running Windows 99 with 100 tabs open.

No wonder most people are so burnt out.

They're not tired because of working too much.

You’re tired because of *thinking* about too much.

Psychiatrist, Dr. K says there are only two ways to get your energy back:

1) Relieve - finish, delegate, or delete a task

2) Grieve - accept you'll never do it and let it go (goodbye my dream of being a famous DJ)

Grieving might sound dramatic, but it's what unburdens your mind.

If you’re still clinging to a version of yourself who “should” have achieved something by now, that’s energy trapped in a closed loop.

If you're still day dreaming about a goal you haven't worked towards in years, that's wasted focus and mental bandwidth.

Exhaustion doesn’t only come from doing too much.

It comes from carrying too much sh*t in your head.

You might not need to rest more.

Just try thinking less. Committing less. And grieving more (I recommend a weekly journaling practice).

It's the only way to free up bandwidth for what truly matters.

—Taylin

♻️ Repost. Follow Taylin John Simmonds for more on how to earn as an AI assisted ghostwriter without sacrificing income or your love of hard shell tacos.

I have 37,892 LinkedIn followers. I earn more per month from my 5,724 subs on Substack.

What? How?!

Too many people still believe the “big audience = big income” myth.

I did too.

I optimized for LinkedIn virality earlier this year.
I wrote posts I didn’t like.
I told myself the money would show up once the numbers got big enough.

Spoiler:
It never did.

I didn't realize what actually happens when you chase audience size:

You create content for dopamine, not depth.
You grow followers, not trust.

You’re “known,” but not believed.

And without belief, nobody buys.
Nobody invests.

Nobody respects you as an authority.

So I decided to try a different strategy on Substack and this is what I learned:

You don’t need a big audience.
You need high trust per follower.

Because one person who trusts you is worth more than a hundred who barely register your existence.

I have 100,000 followers on X. 
37,892 on LinkedIn.

I have 5,724 subscribers on Substack.

Guess where most of my money comes from?

Substack.

Because that’s where I write what I actually care about:
Creating your life's work.

That’s where I build trust instead of reach:
Publishing hour long podcasts (you might like them).

And trust converts at a level many “big audience” people never experience.

When someone trusts you, they buy the expensive thing.

They tell their friends.
They get excited to work with you.

You don’t need thousands of customers.
You need a few hundred believers.

Stop trying to get famous.
Start trying to get trusted.

That's the real game where you can actually win.

PS. In the past 30 days, I got 700 new newsletter subscribers from organic content on Substack.

If you don't want to miss out, here's a free guide on how to do the same:
https://lnkd.in/gffnDFcD

—Taylin

Alex Wisch

Wisch Coaching

Offering Executive Peak Performance Coaching, to help leaders optimize their productivity, leadership skills, mindset, purpose, and overall health to achieve their greatest goals. With all clients we focus on sustainable results and burnout prevention.

Seeing each client as unique and find individualized solutions. We work with several clients where “traditional” executive coaching has fallen short.  

Veiwing the client the client through a 360 degree lens. Exploring everything from bloodwork, health, mindset, environment, limiting beliefs, leadership style, bio-hacking, daily habits, and more.

We pride ourselves off our defining ability to see each client as unique and find individualized solutions. We have worked with several leaders where “traditional” executive coaching has fallen short of expectations and ambitious leaders want the best results.

Other services offered: Public Speaking, Company Workshops, Webinars, 3 Day Breakthrough Event, and Team Coaching.

For interested clients we offer a 20 min breakthrough session. *Press “schedule an appointment”.

Or call us at ‪(508) 250-0559‬.

Executive Peak Performance Coach

Entrepreneur Media

Partnered with Entrepreneur Media and Entrepreneur Ventures to launch the podcast, “My Biggest Failure”. 

We explore successful leaders, entrepreneurs, and creators who share their greatest setbacks in their career, how they overcame them, and lessons learned.

Podcast Co-Host

Social Networth

Chief Executive Office of Social Networth; We optimize your social media presence, with assisting in a unique and viral strategy (content, engagement, targeting audience, thought leadership). *We guarantee 1 million impressions per month and over 20 qualified leads. More importantly our content is original, in your voice, and focuses on targeted engagement.

Co-Founder / CEO

Creatorland

Advisory Board

Orbiiit

Building strategic partnerships to launch the world's largest modeling and influencer online competitions. Consulting on business development with a focus on maximizing revenue and margins.

Advisor and Consultant

The London Fund

Executive Coach & Public Relations

Konnected, LLC

KONNECTED is a transatlantic venture capital firm set on creating a new vision of wealth built on the collective networks of influence and capital. Our focus on impact investments and alternative finance solutions pave the way to a brighter future for companies ranging from seed to venture across various disruptive industries including RE, Technology,  and Web3 with focused ESG priorities. The ability to connect capital demand to robust specialty financing opportunities sets a higher benchmark for returns with flexible terms.

General Partner

Wisch Investments LP

General partner and founder where we invest capital into diagnostics, with a primary focus on sports tech and mental health. Through years as an elite athlete and mental health coach, I have developed significant knowledge on both the sports technology industry and mental health.

Managing General Partner

PNOĒ

I utilized my skills as a peak performance and executive coaching to help PNOE with business strategy and development, improve user interface design, build strategic relationships with partners, improve marketing strategy, help capital raise, assist in business growth, and recruit essential hires. During the pandemic there were dynamic moments when we had to pivot and adjust to the economy and consumers. This involved optimizing executive teamwork, leadership, and problem solving.

Advisor / Investor

Wisch LLC

Wisch LLC focuses on executive peak performance coaching, advising, consulting, advising on capital raising, public speaking, working with leadership teams, and investing in start-ups. Services offered also include business development, business strategy, leadership coaching, flow coaching, and overseeing marketing and sales.

Founder & CEO

Alex Wisch is an Executive Coach, Peak Performance Strategist, and CEO of Social Networth.

As founder of Wisch Coaching, Alex helps ambitious CEOs, executives, and founders achieve high performance without burnout, unlocking exponential business and personal growth. He also partners with high-achieving professionals navigating mental health challenges and adversity, bringing a rare mix of empathy and precision to leadership coaching.

In parallel, Alex leads Social Networth, a viral growth agency that guarantees clients 1M+ organic LinkedIn impressions per month, converting visibility into qualified leads and revenue. His mastery of the LinkedIn algorithm stems from his own record: 100M+ impressions since 2023, including a single year of daily posting that reached 37M people.

Beyond coaching and content, Alex has served as a fractional Chief Performance Officer and Growth Strategist, driving over $200M in revenue and raising more than $500M in equity and debt. His background spans venture debt, angel investing, and operations across multiple industries.


Why Leaders Work with Alex

✔ Executive Coaching Excellence: Trusted advisor to Fortune 500 executives, unicorn founders, and elite performers

✔ Entrepreneurial Track Record: 4x CEO, GP in a venture debt fund, angel investor in diagnostics & sports tech

✔ Proven Growth Results: Expertise in scaling sales, optimizing performance, and capital raising

✔ Social Media Authority: CEO of Social Networth, guaranteeing viral reach and client lead generation

✔ Mental Resilience: Neurodivergent leader who overcame dyslexia, ADHD, and 8 years of major depression


Mental Health Advocacy & Feats

🏆 2021: Completed 1,000 pull-ups, 2,000 push-ups, and 3,000 squats (24-lb vest) in 6 hours, raising $37,000 for veterans’ mental health

🏆 2025 Goal: Attempting the world record for most vertical feet rock climbed in 24 hours and a 600-lb deadlift in the same day. Goal to raise over 100k.

Offering Executive Peak Performance Coach, to help leaders optimize their productivity, leadership skills, mindset, purpose, and overall health to achieve their greatest goals. With all clients we focus on sustainable results and burnout prevention.

Seeing each client as unique and find individualized solutions. We work with several clients where “traditional” executive coaching has fallen short.  

Veiwing the client the client through a 360 degree lens. Exploring everything from bloodwork, health, mindset, environment, limiting beliefs, leadership style, bio-hacking, daily habits, and more.

We pride ourselves off our defining ability to see each client as unique and find individualized solutions. We have worked with several leaders where “traditional” executive coaching has fallen short of expectations and ambitious leaders want the best results.

Other services offered: Public Speaking, Company Workshops, Webinars, 3 Day Breakthrough Event, and Team Coaching.

For interested clients we offer a 20 min breakthrough session. *Press “schedule an appointment”.

Or call us at ‪(508) 250-0559‬.


Success is not determined by your skills, education, or who you know.

Yes, those help, but without this one characteristic, you’ll never come close to your potential.

It’s the invisible force behind every extraordinary comeback. The difference between those who break when life gets hard and those who rise stronger.

You can’t learn it in school.
It’s forged by pressure, pain, and persistence when the odds are against you.

Becoming UNSTOPPABLE.

To be unstoppable is to blend grit and resilience.
🔷 Grit is the fire that keeps you moving through exhaustion.
🔶 Resilience is the ability to rebuild when that fire burns out.

One fuels your drive. The other restores your strength. Together they create a force that rewires the brain for growth.

So how do you build it?
Do something hard every day, that forces discomfort and tests your limits. This literally reshapes your brain to handle more.

So, regardless of where you are in life and what you face, refuse to stay down.

Become unstoppable.

Follow Alex Wisch for more insights on #Mindset, #Leadership, and #PeakPerformance.

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If you are ready to learn how to create an unbeatable mindset and accomplish the impossible, then you should talk with someone who consistently overcomes the impossible.
Schedule a call with me Today!

Executive Peak Performance & Business Coach | Founder of Wisch LLC | CEO @ Social Networth | Mental Health Speaker | Mission to Inspire Over 1 Billion People

Some of the most successful people you’ll ever meet are silently fighting battles you’ll never see.

For eight years, I was unemployed, living on disability, and battling severe depression. When I finally rebuilt my life, I became highly functional. I was working, achieving, even inspiring others. But behind it, I was still learning how to live again.

Depression doesn’t always look like sadness.
It can look like the person who never stops working. The one who smiles in meetings, but breaks down alone.

For me, what saved my life, was movement.
Lifting. Running. Climbing. The gym became my outlet, my therapy, my way to feel present again.

Each rep was proof I could move forward.
Each drop of sweat was a small piece of pain leaving my body.

For you it might not be lifting but it could be hiking, dancing, painting, talking, board games, or just daily walks in fresh air.

If you’re fighting a quiet battle, you’re not alone.
You don’t have to hide your struggle to be strong, because without vulnerability there is no bravery.

If you’ve been there, or are there now, drop a ❤️ or write “Here for you.”

Show your support for anyone who needs it!

⸻

If you are struggling and a high performing professional, reach out, I am here to help.

#MentalHealth

Why most entrepreneurs fail is not what most people think; creating the right product or service. Most entrepreneurs fail to succeed because their to-do lists are impossible to complete.

In other words, there is a lack of a singular direction when chaos hits.

In the first episode of our new podcast, My Biggest Failure, Tom Bilyeu breaks down how every entrepreneur faces the second law of thermodynamics... 

Everything pushes toward disorder. 

Nothing lines up. And still, your job is to direct your energy toward a specific outcome every day, regardless of what life throws your way. Most people shut down when their to-do list explodes. 

Tom is blunt about this in the video. If you can’t solve that mental problem, you won’t succeed. This is why failure becomes your greatest teacher and chaos is the training ground. The ones who learn through it rise from the chaos.

And the ones who don't, break under the pressure.

Here are a few ways I stay locked on the main objective instead of getting pulled apart.

1️⃣ I pick one primary outcome for the day. Not ten. One. Everything else becomes optional noise.

2️⃣ I slow my pace when things speed up around me. Clear thinking beats frantic action every time.

3️⃣ I shorten the distance between thought and action. Small, immediate wins restore momentum fast.

4️⃣ I remove stimulation. Phone in another room, fewer tabs open, no conversations until the important work is done.

5️⃣ I remind myself that overwhelm is a signal, not an identity. It means recalibrate. 

Overall, mastering chaos is a skill. The more you practice it, the more you realise you can operate with clarity even when nothing around you is stable.

How do you handle chaos? Do you block out the noise and double down, or get pulled in multiple directions?

New episode every week.
Full episode link in 📌 comment below.
#failure #entrepreneur #mindset

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