Recently, @Penny Fleming posted the message you see displayed here asking for a cancellation and refund. She had requested several times, and I had never taken care of it. It wasn't malicious neglect on my part, but it was neglect nevertheless. So to Penny, I render my apology, and also I have stopped the recurring charge and we are processing your refund.

Hey gang — I owe you an apology and an invitation, in that order. Last week I quietly opened a new 6-month coaching program — the Empire Builders Mastermind Coaching Group. 2 hours with me every week, unlimited Voxer, a weekly Mastermind, all aimed at growing your business (and 3X-ing your revenue) over six months. $250/month, for what becomes $5,000/month coaching on September 1. All 12 seats sold out in about 24 hours. Here's my apology: I didn't give you first crack at it, and I should have. You're the people who show up here faithfully, week after week. You earned the first look, and I blew it. Sorry. So I'm making it right. By popular demand I'm opening a second cohort of 12 — and this group gets to go first. Before I email my whole list again, you get the head start you should've had the first time. Here's how to grab your seat: 👉 Join Empire Builders — $250/month Quick tip: please use that Stripe link rather than paying through Skool. It's cleaner and easier on your end — you manage your own subscription, update your card, and handle everything from one place without going through me. Smoother for both of us. My "not-so-secret agenda": To help every one of you reach your six-month goals in such a way you will rave about it, I need great case studies featuring all the new stuff I'm gonna unpack for this group that nobody else gets access to right now. (I'll be bold enough to say that, due to my insider access to so many people at the A-player level of this game, I have insights no one else can give you.) Once you're in, drop a comment or DM me so I can get you the next steps and your 15-minute welcome call scheduled. Thanks for being here. Truly. — Ray

For a new project I'm starting. I am very sensitive to the livelihood of creative artists who do work like this in the real world, but it's hard to bypass the fact that this would have cost me a couple thousand dollars to get done by a photographer, a Photoshop specialist, and a logo designer, et cetera. Not to mention the fact it would have taken days, if not weeks, to get the final product done well. I made this by uploading a few photographs of myself describing what I wanted done, and two minutes later, here's the result.

Thinking over your past experiences with courses, groups, and coaching, etc., what works best for you personally? What helps you the most?

My main email address has been swimming in a flood of spam for the last few years. Try as I might, I could never get it under control because I got on some big spammers' list, and this is what happened. But this morning I had a brainstorm of an idea, and I decided to get Higgins, my lead orchestrator and integrator on my AI agent employee team. I put him on the project of getting my inbox cleaned out and getting me off all those spam lists. Which means I just finished a project that I could never do over a period of years. Here is the message I just received from Higgins (my Integrator/Orchestrator)...