The Hero’s Journey in storytelling informs not only how we know ourselves — but also how we: ✅ Know Prosperity ✅ Win in the Market ✅ Create a business that works for our family Scroll down if you are in a hurry for the quick exercise to find your story, know your market, and start making money your own way without marketing or media as you move to prosper. Approaches That Never Worked for Me I tested a lot of story frameworks over the years. The list is short, but the lesson is clear. WHAT DIDN’T WORK: 1. StoryBrand — Creating a story around the pain, desire, and experience of my customer as the hero, just to sell them something I thought would resonate. 2. Epiphany Bridge Stories — Finding a bridge to walk my market across into my life story as a movement leader, so they could think they could be like me. 3. Brand Archetype Story — Identifying my brand type from a matrix built by a major advertising agency, to supposedly reach the “heart” of a brand’s story based on heritage. The Fundamental Flaw The flaw in all these methods, programs, and variations I explored and executed for years comes down to one first principle: Everybody knows the answer for themselves — but most are not ready to know their truth. That was the “ding, ding, ding” moment. Once I stopped chasing formulas, I found the direction that worked, gave me what I wanted, and led to Knowing Prosperity. Real Success vs. Measured Success - Measured success means bringing hierarchy into your mind, comparing yourself to another’s standard, and deciding you either performed or failed. That’s conformity. That’s copying. It kills potential and income. - Real success means finding your own answer, your own truth, your own why. It means never copying a Prime Mover as the Prime Mover means by definition knowing your story. Why Most Storytelling Fails Today. Story from the marketing lens fails in today’s saturated economy. We’re exhausted.We don’t need more formulas.We want real experience, useful observations, and frameworks we can apply to create and know prosperity.

Everyone feels the system is rigged, but few can see the pattern clearly. In late 2020 I was late to the One-to-Many Coaching Model. My concepts included Sales Sherpa, Summit Club, Revenue Climber, and Solopreneur Inc. with a 2023 Skool Campus. The business model didn't lead to 7-figure revenue in 18 months or a 40% net profit margin like my virtual company that I started online in 2012. It did work for the top 1% influencers. But for 99% of creators, the funnel game has always been a treadmill — you work harder, buy more ads, and build someone else’s platform instead of your own. Get to simplicity to be a Real Prime Mover. That requires finding your vision, taking action, and great partners. Whenever adults learn yesterday's slang, kids change it immediately. Listen carefully to what they say. The secrets to how to Create and Know Prosperity remain hidden from view inside these simple quotes. Ponder the questions, look at my experience, and you will know. Many people confuse surface observations that change with essence that never does. Those who cling to old beliefs get left behind. My success always came from slowing down to look at market systems. That's how I took my family business to #1 in the USA in the 90s. Here’s how it plays out today — simple enough that middle schoolers already see it. Many adults are on the right side of this chart today, not the left side. They pay for others Think and Grow Rich lifestyles. My aim was to Know Prosperity like Napoleon Hill back in 1937. He went to NYC, left the Mountains of Virginia, and Took the Hardest Possible road as Andrew Carnegie refused to pay him despite asking him to work 20 years on his key book. The left column is our old society. The right is what many do now to avoid doing the work like Napoleon teaches in Think and Grow Rich. That doesn't happen sitting on the couch. - Go to school → Chase security and money - Go into debt → Waste money on How-To-Succeed - Get a job → Avoid hard things - Work 50–70 hours → Confuse work with productivity - Switch jobs → Quit when metrics dip - Buy stuff → Copy social media lifestyles - Pay loans → Fall for debt hustles - Save money → Chase easy passive income - Try to retire → Run out of money - Retire at 66 → Believe age matters - Die at 78 → Fear death, miss life