*** Rewire Your Mind. Build Your Business. Live Your Purpose. *** Founder & CEO B7 Media and Mindset Mastery Tribe | Publisher Development Guru & Success Mindset Coach

“Success is not an option.”

That was the mantra drilled into me growing up in a Soviet country. My family immigrated when I was six, and from then on, life was about one thing: survival.

The rules were clear... go to college, get a job, stay safe. And for 20 years, I played by those rules. I climbed the corporate ladder, checked the boxes, and “succeeded.”

But inside I was suffocating.

The turning point came the day my boss fired me.
Terrified. Shaken. But also... free.

Then COVID happened and I had the luxury of plopping on the couch and watching A LOT of YouTube. I stumbled across stories of ordinary people building businesses they loved. Really?? Just regular people like me? That spark ignited something in me.

So I launched my consultancy helping AdTech companies grow through strategic publisher development. At first, I doubted myself. A LOT. But those YouTube videos helped me ignore the doubting voices in my head... and the results started rolling in:

✅ Year 1 → Matched my old salary
✅ Year 2 → +37% growth
✅ Year 3 → First 6-figure month

I was stunned. If someone like me... trained only in “survival mode”... could do this, what else was possible?

That question pulled me deep into studying money, success, and mindset. Like DEEP! I invested tens of thousands in personal growth... and it changed my life forever.

I was so into this success mindset that I started a little mastermind for my employees and partners at the consultancy. I figured it couldn't hurt. To my surprise, their income soared too!

And that’s when I knew: this work wasn’t just business strategy. It was life strategy.

That’s why I created Mindset Mastery Tribe... a high-level transformational mastermind where ex-corporate entrepreneurs learn to:

→ Replace (and often exceed) their income in under a year
→ Build growth plans that don’t burn them out
→ Finally feel free

If you're an ex-corporate business owner and you’re skeptical, I get it. I was too. So if you'd like to get a taste of what we do...

👉 I offer a $50 strategy call where we’ll map out your custom plan to replace your income in less than 12 months. If we mutually agree it makes sense to keep working together after the call, we’ll talk next steps. If not... you’ll leave with a solid plan to replace your income in less than a year

📅 Book your consult here → https://calendly.com/mindsetmasterytribe/consult-call-with-paulina

I’ve had a handful of client calls this week, and there’s one sabotage pattern that keeps smacking me in the face.


A pattern that explains why so many ex-corporate founders can’t break past 10k months no matter how many “strategies” they try.

Here it is.
 
Their strategy is fine.
Their identity is not.

People think identity is some woo concept.
 
It’s not.
 
It’s simply the collection of beliefs that run your business behind the scenes.

And those beliefs are either scaling you or capping you.

One client told me, “I know I deliver insane results, but I don’t think my audience wants to hear from me. They’re tired of being spammed on LinkedIn.”

Another said, “I believe in my work, but I also believe it takes a ton of effort to get people to pay me.”

Both of them believe they’re great at what they do.
 
Neither of them believes their audience, their offer, or money is on their side.

And that is the whole problem.

Your beliefs directly dictate your results.

Every. Single. Time.

If you believe it’s hard to get clients, you will experience hard client acquisition.

If you believe people don’t want to hear from you, you will attract people who don’t.

If you believe money is slow, money will crawl like a turtle.

Identity work is not a buzzword for woo people.

It is your 2026 competitive advantage.

If you want 10, 20, 30k months and beyond, your strategy matters… but your identity decides.

So here’s what I’m doing.
 
I’m offering a one hour  2026 strategy call ($50) to get your tactics and identity aligned so you can actually scale and not sabotage.

If we mutually decide it makes sense to work together after this call we'll talk about that.. if not, you will walk away with a ton of value.

DM me STRATEGY and I’ll send you the link.

Paulina Tillman

For ex-corporate business owners ready to scale, I’ll help you replace your income in less than 12 months

We all know belief work is important... but you're working on the wrong beliefs.



Everyone talks about changing your beliefs about yourself.

"I am capable."
"I am worthy."
"I deserve success."

But you're missing the beliefs that will actually make people pay you...

Your beliefs about...

What your audience is willing to pay
Money 
The results you can generate

For instance...

A coach can think... "I can change lives but people don't want to pay more than 2k/month for coaching and so it will take forever to get to 25k months."

That's a belief about their audience. Not themselves.

Alternative belief: "There are very high level people out there that will pay 10k/month for transformational coaching that will allow them to step into a new upgraded version of themselves."

Here's the thing...

Both are true

It's your choice which one you decide to believe.

The belief you choose becomes the reality you create.

Your self-worth beliefs mean nothing if you believe your people are broke.

So..... What beliefs are you holding about money, your audience, and your results that are keeping you basic??

It’s December 2025.
You’re wrapping the year… sketching out your “2026 game plan.”

Drafting outreach messages.
Tweaking funnels.
Reworking prices.

Feeling like if you just “optimize” a little more… everything will start to work

But if that’s all you’re focused on...
You’re building a house on sand.

Those are tactics.

And tactics alone won’t get you anywhere near 30K months.

Here’s the part nobody talks about:
Have you built a plan to upgrade your identity?

Because every tactic works when you’re operating from the identity of a confident, powerful business owner…

and none of them work when your inner dialogue sounds like:

“Maybe no one wants to buy.”
“Maybe my offer isn’t good enough.”

You’re trying to build a 30K/month strategy…
while thinking like someone who isn’t even playing at that level yet.

Scrappy-founder decisions → scrappy-founder results.
30K-CEO decisions → 30K-CEO results.

Two identities.
Two completely different outcomes.

One of my clients made this shift... not by working harder, but by upgrading who he believed he was in the market.

He stopped competing.
He owned the fact that his work outperformed everyone else’s.
He raised his fees accordingly.

Within months he had...

Fewer clients.
Bigger contracts.
Consistent 5-figure months.

That’s the difference between building a strategy from fear…
and building one from power.

Because once you step into the identity of a 30K/month founder, things start moving fast:

More peace.
More trust in your process.
Cleaner boundaries.
Better clients.
Consistent, premium-level delivery.

If you want to build a 2026 plan that isn’t just tactics slapped onto an old identity…

but a true 30K-month strategy built from the version of you who already operates at that level 

Here’s your next move:

Book a 1-hour 2026 Strategy Call ($50).
We’ll design your 30K-month game plan together... identity + strategy.
DM me STRATEGY for the link

Here's how to manifest money fast.


Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and everyone will be grateful for what they have.
Their house. Their family. Their job.

And that's great but that's not how you attract more money.

You manifest money by being grateful when you SPEND it.

I sounds a bit backwards...

But every time you get pissed about paying your mortgage, you're telling the universe "I don't have enough money."

Every time you complain about your grocery bill, you're operating from scarcity.

And scarcity repels money.

So here's how to manifest money fast...

When you pay your mortgage → "I'm so grateful I can afford this fabulous house."

When you pay for LinkedIn Navigator → "I'm grateful I have money to invest in my network."

When you buy groceries → "I'm grateful I can eat this amazing food."

This changes everything.

Because like attracts like.

Gratitude when spending = abundance mindset.
Resentment when spending = scarcity mindset.

And money flows to abundance, not scarcity.

The formula:

1️⃣ Let go of the "how" 
Stop obsessing over where money comes from. Let if flow.

2️⃣ Be grateful when you spend
Every payment proves you have money.

3️⃣ Have faith more is coming
This is super important. Money flows to those who expect it.

Try this for one week.

Lemme know how it goes.

The best sales calls have long, uncomfortable pauses.



I know that sounds terrifying.
But here's what you likely don't realize...

You're not saving your prospects from discomfort when you rush to fill the silence.

You're saving yourself.

And it's keeping you from closing sales.

When you ask a super deep question and start talking again right away, you don't give them a chance to think.

When you say your price and then immediately panic-fill the silence with justifications, you sound desperate.

When they share something vulnerable about their struggles and you jump right into your solution, you miss the entire point.

Here's what it is... Silence is where the magic happens.

It's where they process what you just said.
It's where they connect their own dots.  
It's where they realize, "I actually do need this."

Your discomfort with the pause is your ego talking.

Their discomfort with the pause is them doing the internal work.

And that discomfort is exactly what you want.

Because when someone sits in silence after you ask "What happens if nothing changes in the next 6 months?" their brain starts running scenarios.

When you say your price and wait, they're not just hearing the number... they're weighing it against their basic lives.

When they tell you their biggest challenge and you don't immediately jump in with your solution, they keep talking. They go deeper.

The silence forces them to be honest with themselves.

Let them do the work.

After a deep question - stop talking.
After your price - stop talking.
After they share something vulnerable - stop talking.

Count to 10 if you have to.

The silence isn't awkward. It's powerful.

It shows confidence. It creates internal urgency. It gives them space to convince themselves.

And self-conviction is the only kind that leads to a sale.

Stop being afraid of the pause.

Start being afraid of the prospect who never got the chance to think.

Building a successful business is not rooted in sacrifice... it's rooted in pleasure


And I get it... you learned it from your parents. 

They worked their asses off, stressed constantly, and wore exhaustion like a badge of honor. 

So you absorbed this idea that success requires sacrifice.

But that's not a universal law. 
That's just programming... disguised as truth.

Here's what actually works: you attract who you're being, not what you want.

When you're grinding from stress and lack, you're vibrating at the frequency of "not enough." 
And the universe gives you more of that. 

More struggle. 
More clients who drain you. 
More months where the money doesn't come.

But when you build from abundance...
From actually feeling good while you work... everything changes. 

You make better decisions. 
You attract better clients. 
The money shows up faster.

This is the Law of Vibration in action.

I see this all the time in Mindset Mastery Tribe. 
Someone's pushing and forcing, trying to hit their income goal, and it's not working. 

Then they shift their being... they start operating from the version of themselves who's already successful...

And within weeks, deals close. 
Clients appear. 
Things click.

Because sustainable success isn't built on suffering. 
It's built on alignment.

If the process feels like punishment, the result will too. 

You'll hit your goal and still feel burned out, empty, or terrified it'll all disappear.

So ask yourself: am I building this from fear or from vision? 
From lack or from abundance?

Your business is a reflection of who you're being while you build it.

Make sure you actually like that person.

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Most sales books teach you tactics. "The Frame"  teaches you how to BE the person who closes.


Decisions are not made from words.

They are made from energy. (This is what I teach in my sales training)

The words simply validate the energy you are already carrying.

Learning what to say is the easy part.
Learning who to BE it is the real skill.

That is what Justin Michael and Jonny Staker teach inside The Frame.

And it is a massive part of what we learn inside the Tribe.

I was lucky enough to get my hands on this book before it launched.

My clients got access early too.

It changed them.

It changed how they approach clients.
It changed how they sell.
It changed how they lead.

One client ordered really fancy stationary and wrote a handwritten note to 10 dream clients letting them know she has selected them... (This is a far cry from chasing broke people just a few weeks earlier)

Today The Frame is finally out on Amazon and now you get to have it too.

If you are going to read one sales book in 2026, let it be this one.

It will completely change the way you think about power, presence and influence.

And if you want to learn how to actually apply this so your clients start closing themselves

DM me and let’s talk to see if you are a fit for the Tribe.

Most ex-corporate founders never actually make a real decision.
They just think about it harder and call it strategy.

You’ve probably said this before:
“I’ve decided to grow my business.”

But if nothing in your life changed after the moment you said it…
You didn’t decide anything.

Here’s what a real decision looks like:

Imagine you say, “I’m getting up right now.”
And then you keep sitting there scrolling.

That wasn’t a decision.
That was just a sentence you said to yourself.

Say it again and actually stand up?

That second one was the decision.

Because your body moved.
Your life moved.
Direction changed.

This is where most business owners screw up.

They think a decision is:

Thinking hard about something
Saying it out loud
Writing it in your journal

None of that counts.

A decision is the moment your actions change direction.

Everything else is wishing.

One of my clients kept calling her leadership coaching business a “side thing.”

She kept saying she’d “decided” to take it seriously.

But nothing in her behavior matched that story.

The real decision happened on the day she changed how she showed up.

She generated leads differently.
She charged differently.
She carried herself differently.

She 20×’d her income that same month.

Not because she became lucky.

But because she picked a direction and moved.

Here’s the part people avoid:
Once the real decision is made, the inner fight stops.

The back-and-forth disappears.
You’re already walking toward the thing you want.

The path will not be a straight line.. but as long as you are walking you WILL get there.

Life starts moving the second you do.

If you’re an ex-corporate business owner who’s done “thinking about it”
and you’re ready to move…

DM me with the word DECIDE and I’ll help you make your next best decision.

Are you an ex-corporate founder, and free tomorrow at 12pm ET?


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The worst thing that can happen is nothing

The best thing that can happen is that you start to close over 50% of your clients.

See you there.

The real reason you aren't closing clients (and it’s not demand)


You haven't practiced sales enough

Sales is not a personality trait.
It's a skill.

And most founders simply haven’t practiced enough to get good at it.

They think the problem is:

 — their offer isn't good enough
 — people don't have money
 — they are unlucky with their leads

But the truth is simpler:

You only get good at closing clients by doing more reps.

You can study every script on earth.
You can binge YouTube breakdowns from bro sales trainers
You can buy every sales course ever made.

None of it matters if you’ve only done 3 real conversations this month.

Sales is a muscle.

And most founders are untrained.

That’s why I built NeuroClose... an AI sales trainer that lets you rehearse your calls before you ever take them.

And it works.

One client bombed a call in the morning…
 
Practiced with NeuroClose that afternoon…

Closed a paying client that evening.

Repetition builds confidence.
Confidence closes clients.
Clients grow your business.

If you want NeuroClose with a 100% off coupon:
Comment SALES TRAINER and I’ll send you the link with the coupon.

Soooo…. Having a corporate job is safe, huh?



Being under the mercy of a major corporation who does not give a shit about your personal finances is not safety

The only safety is:

-Launching a business 
-Delivering transformational value
-Learning sales
-Realizing that paying for your own health insurance does not mean your life is over
-Embracing the fact that the ONLY one who is going to provide you true safety is yourself

Happy Friday!

If you hate sales, you don't understand the definition of it.

Sales isn’t convincing.
It isn’t manipulation.
And it definitely isn’t talking about yourself.

If you want to start to love sales and close clients watch this 
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If you want to start closing 50% or more of your clients, the masterclass is today at 12pm ET.

Register here 👉 https://lnkd.in/ejUjByUT

People think sales is convincing someone to buy, saying the right thing, or engineering the perfect close.

It’s not.

Sales is psychology.
It’s energy.
And it’s 100x stronger than the words you say.

Because people don’t buy when they understand...
They buy when they feel.

Today, I’m breaking down the emotional patterns that make people say YES
and how to use them ethically on every call.

If you’ve been hearing “I need to think about it” or “I’m not sure,”
this is where that ends.

We kick off soon.
Be in the room.
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Big money never comes from hard work. 


Or high IQ
Or a fancy degree
Or who you know

It comes from decisions.

We were taught to connect money with struggle.
We were taught that to get something big, you need to work HARD

But wealth is not created through effort.
Wealth is created through leverage.

Time. Money. People. Knowledge.
 
Napoleon Hill interviewed 500 of the richest people alive and said, “I never saw any of them working.”

They were leveraging.
They were deciding.

And here is the part most people miss...
 The “How” is not your job.

Your only job is the decision.
Whatever you believe in... God, universe, spirit handles the “how.”

When you make a real decision, the path shows up instantly.

It shows up through ideas.
It shows up through opportunities.
It shows up through people who appear out of nowhere.

But it only shows up when you are all in.

If you are thinking about expanding your business to multiple 6-figures... nothing happens

But when you make a decision to expand... the right coach comes along, the higher tier offer pops in your mind, the client acquisition system becomes apparent

Life responds to certainty, not hesitation.

You choose and the doors open.
You hesitate and the doors stay closed.

If you want a bigger life, stop working for it and start deciding for it.

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