Two truths I wish I knew when I started: 1. Systems beat hustle Working 24/7 isn't sustainable Build processes that scale without you 2. It takes 5-6 years to truly understand entrepreneurship "Overnight success" takes a decade This may sound demotivating but the journey is

Every major disruption follows the same pattern: Stage # 1: "This will never work" Stage # 2: "This only works for simple tasks" Stage # 3: "Wow this is actually good" Stage # 4: "Wait, where did my job go?" We're between stages 2 and 3 with AI right now.

The 5-5-5 leadership principle that helped me scale to $35M: Spend 5 minutes every day with your 5 most important people asking 5 simple questions: → what's going well? → what's not going well? → what obstacle can I remove? → what resource do you need? → what are you

I'd rather take advice from a founder who failed 10 times than a successful founder who got lucky once.

Burnout was killing me despite my "$4M success story." GinoWickman's EOS completely turned things around. Before: I was a slave to my business. Constant fires. No free time. Complete burnout. After: Systems that actually work. Cut meetings by 70%. Fired bad clients.

The best things happen right after the moment you've given up all hope

Ain't nothing to it but to do it - Simple mantra when things are getting too complicated or when there is too much overwhelm.