Fantastic discussion that lasted 1:45. Some great minds on here today. Enjoy!

Quick question: Have you been getting email notifications from Skool? If not, they're probably in your spam folder. This happens to a lot of members (especially Gmail users), and I don't want you missing important updates about The Great Pivot, community events, or conversations that could help you. Here's how to fix it in 2 minutes: For Gmail Users: Option 1 (Easiest): 1. Check your spam folder for emails from Skool 2. Open any Skool email 3. Click "Not spam" at the top 4. Done! Option 2 (Most Reliable): 1. Find any Skool email (check spam if needed) 2. Click the three dots (⋮) in the top right corner 3. Select "Filter messages like this" 4. Click "Create filter" 5. Check the box that says "Never send it to Spam" 6. Click "Create filter" 7. Done! Bonus step: Add [email protected] to your contacts so Gmail knows we're friends. For Outlook/Yahoo Users: 1. Find any Skool email in your inbox or spam 2. Mark it as "Not Junk" or "Not Spam" 3. Add [email protected] to your safe senders list 4. Done! Why This Matters: The Great Pivot launches Monday with 20 founding students. I'll be posting updates, wins, struggles, and lessons learned in real time. Weekly coffee hour is every Sunday at 1pm MST. Important announcements about the next cohort (starting in 4 weeks) will be posted here first. I don't want you missing any of it because your email provider decided Skool emails look suspicious. Too Many Emails? If Skool is overwhelming your inbox, you can customize what notifications you get here: 👉 https://help.skool.com/article/95-how-to-manage-my-notifications You can turn off most notifications and just check the community daily instead. But please don't mark Skool emails as spam. That hurts deliverability for everyone in the community. Just adjust your notification settings instead.

Thank you all who have joined! I will be contacting you all over the next week for next steps. To those who didn't get in this time, please, if you are interested, tewll me and I will put you on the priority list for next time.

I've been thinking a lot about the moment everything changed for me. Not the heart attack. Not the bankruptcy. Not even the 800th rejection email. It was the moment I stopped asking "Why won't anyone hire me?" and started asking "Why am I still begging them to?" That shift - from job seeker to builder - changed everything. I went from $0 to $2,500/month on Medium in a few months. Added ghostwriting clients. Built this community to 560+ people. Created a course. Now I'm making $1,500-3,500/month depending on how the algorithms treat me that week. It's not retirement money. But it's mine. No boss can take it away. No HR department can decide I'm too old or too expensive. Here's what I'm building: It's called The Great Pivot. A framework for people like us - the ones who did everything right and still got rejected. The ones who are already unemployed and desperate. And the ones who are still working but watching colleagues get laid off and know they're next. Eight modules. Ninety days. Real income, not theory. Here's what it covers: - Module 1: Why the job market failed you (the brutal data on age discrimination, ATS systems, why your experience became a liability) - Module 2: Reverse engineering your life (designing what you actually want, then building income to match it) - Module 3: The content system (Reddit validation, writing that converts, building your platform) - Module 4: Your first income stream (freelancing, digital products, or content - get to $500/month) - Module 5: Your second stream (diversify for resilience, stack to $2,000-3,000/month) - Module 6: The Side Door Method (how to bypass HR and land clients on your terms through LinkedIn) - Module 7: Don't burn out (sustainability, rest as strategy, picking your one big bet) - Module 8: Your 90-day build plan (week by week, what to do Monday, when to pivot) This isn't theoretical. This is exactly what I did to go from unemployable to building multiple income streams. It's what people in this community are already doing. I'm just organizing it into a system that can be replicated.