Family, ▎ ▎ Tonight's Internz Academy is one you do not want to miss. ▎ ▎ DJ Mateo is the guest. First intern. 20 years deep. He knew me before any credit, before any ▎ room with Jay, Bey, or Puff. He watched the basement become the billboard in real time. ▎ ▎ We just made him VIP. ▎ ▎ Here's the play tonight: ▎ ▎ · Basement to Billboard. The real story. The hours, the doubt, the reps nobody clapped for. ▎ · Bruno Mars "Risk It All" breakdown on the piano. I've been living in this song all week. ▎ · Claude Code Day 1 for Mateo, live in the terminal. You're watching a tool change a ▎ creative's life in real time. ▎ · Mental health under pressure. Court week. Kids week. How I'm staying creative when admin is ▎ choking the calendar. ▎ ▎ No slides tonight. No script. This one is a roundtable, on the go, Chairman in motion. You're ▎ going to see what it looks like to run the empire from a pickup line. ▎ ▎ If you've ever wondered what it actually costs to be in the room, tonight is the lesson. ▎ ▎ See you live. ▎ ▎ Forever a student, ▎ Kosine ▎ ▎ Drop a "in" below if you're locked in for tonight.

THE GREAT DJ MATEO!!!!!!! YOU GUYS DO NOT WANNA MISS THE LECTURE TODAY, IT WILL BE A TREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Tuesday May 5, 2026 A field report from the front line of creative entrepreneurship. Yesterday's class took a word apart on purpose. We opened with the word business itself. Etymology. Business comes from busy-ness. The state of being busy. Hustle culture sold us busy as a virtue, but busy is not the same as productive. Busy is not the same as wealthy. Busy is not the same as free. The lesson dropped early. Busy is the rent the unfree pay to feel important. Tonight we are not handling business. We are stewarding the empire. Honoring the work. Designing the life. We sat with the opportunity of leisure. Most of us have a job. A second job. Kids. School. Obligations. The lecture was not a tell-them-to-quit. It was a tell-them-to-design. Leisure is not laziness. Leisure is unstructured time to think, study, create, rest, parent, partner, be human. Royalties buy leisure. Publishing buys leisure. Sync buys leisure. Master ownership buys leisure. Curriculum and IP buy leisure. The exercise for tonight: open a notebook before bed. Write down what your perfect Tuesday looks like, hour by hour. Calculate the cost. Name the asset that funds it. That is the entire game. Design the perfect day first. Reverse engineer the financial plan to fund it. We taught money in your sleep. Buffett's line. If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die. Royalties are sleep money. Sync placements pay for the life of the cue plus 70 years. Master ownership pays for 95 years from publication or 120 from creation, whichever is shorter, for a work for hire in the United States. We named the rooms most creatives have not walked into yet. The MLC. SoundExchange. ASCAP and BMI. SESAC. GMR. Your distributor's back end. Your collaborators' splits. Are they registered. Are they correct. Are you on the cue sheet. The question for the room. What was the last royalty statement you actually read? Not received. Read. With a calculator open. Line by line. We sat with two scriptures, both Chapter 4. Ecclesiastes 4 and Sirach 4. Two are better than

Family. Tonight we open the Tuesday Lyceum at **5:15 PM PT** and the lecture has a name. **HANDLING BUSINESS.** A think piece on the word itself, and why it is quietly costing creatives the life they are trying to build. We are getting into: 🔥 The word **business** itself. Why "busy" is the rent the unfree pay to feel important. 🔥 The **opportunity of leisure.** You are not chasing a check. You are designing a life. The exercise tonight will change how you plan your week. 🔥 **Money in your sleep.** Royalties. Publishing. Sync. Master ownership. The math your day job will never teach you. The MLC. SoundExchange. ASCAP. BMI. The rooms with your name in them you have not walked into yet. 🔥 **Two scriptures, both Chapter 4.** Ecclesiastes 4 and Sirach 4 (Ecclesiasticus). Two are better than one. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken. Wisdom tests you before she trusts you. The verses that diagnose what most creatives are walking around with and do not know they have. 🔥 **FYRE at Will.** When the Holy Spirit drops a name on your heart, you reach out yesterday. The Coodie story. The doctrine. 🔥 **The mental health of the creative** who did not get on the project (yet). The 2015 lesson. The Grammy nights. The clock that starts the moment the album drops without you on it. 🔥 **Three new weekly traditions launching tonight:** - WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO. Music diet. You are what you eat. - BILLBOARD BREAKDOWN. Read the room before you try to win it. - TESTIMONIALS WALL. **Rose, you are up first.** Song camp report. ### Bring three things tonight 1. A notebook 2. A royalty statement (any source, any year) 3. Three names the Holy Spirit has dropped on your heart this month ### And bring people This room is bigger than us. **Forward this email to ten people who need to be in this room.** Tag them in the chat. The free seats are open tonight on purpose. --- 📍 **Zoom:** [ZOOM LINK] 🕔 **Time:** 5:15 PM PT sharp 🎯 **Length:** 45 minutes plus testimonials