dropped out and figured it out

The pandemic was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Not because I had some master plan.

Because it gave me permission to do what I was already thinking.

I'm sitting in the crib in Golden, Colorado (fuck Colorado School of Mines btw), computer science major, watching the world shut down around me.

Classes moved online. Campus emptied out. Everyone's acting like this is temporary.

But I'm looking at my degree like… for what?

For what am I doing this?

So I can graduate into a world that just proved nothing is guaranteed?

So I can work for a company that'll lay me off the second things get hard?

I couldn't shake it.

That question kept eating at me until I finally said fuck it.

I dropped out.

No backup plan. No savings. No rich parents. No clue what I was doing.

Just knew I couldn't keep pretending the path I was on made sense.

That was six years ago.

I started on Fiverr building $500 websites. Terrible websites. Like genuinely bad work. But people paid me so I kept going.

One day I posted something on LinkedIn and a Dubai oil company hit me up.

I pitched them with the confidence of someone who had no idea what they were doing.

Closed them for $5,000.

They emailed me after delivery like "bro this website is ass" lmaooo.

But I didn't care.

That check rewired my brain.

If I could finesse $5k out of a company I had no business talking to, I could figure out the rest.

So I did.

Built an SEO agency. Landed B2B SaaS clients doing $50M+ a year. Real corporate money. Exposed me to how actual businesses operate.

Exited in April 2024.

And then I completely fell off.

I'm talking two months of being a supreme degenerate.

No work. No goals. No structure.

Just gaming, gambling, and waking up at 2pm wondering what happened to me.

I had money but no purpose.

I had time but no direction.

Boredom was eating me alive.

I remember waking up one morning feeling sick of myself.

Like physically disgusted with the person I'd become.

So I bought an Instagram course.

Not because I had some grand vision.

Because I needed something - anything - to do before I lost my mind.

First week I posted a reel.

It hit 1 million views.

I sat there refreshing the screen like nah this has to be glitched.

But it wasn't.

That snowballed into AI influencer accounts. 250 billion views from 2024-2025. A billion views this month alone.

Numbers that still don't fully make sense to me.

Ran casino affiliate offers. SEO sites. Streamed on Kick. Made money in ways I never expected.

Then watched the whole space fill up with copycats so I pivoted.

April 2025 a day trader (s/o my nigga Baron) showed up to the weekly BBQ, i would host.

Random invite. Didn't think much of it.

We started talking and something clicked.

He signed with me. Quit his 9-5 fifteen days later.

By June he was at $100k a month.

From a backyard BBQ to six figures CASH COLLECTED in sixty days.

That's when I realized what this game is actually about.

It's not funnels. It's not scripts. It's not hacks.

It's psychology. It's belief. It's understanding what moves people and building systems around that.

Most people overcomplicating this are broke.

Most people selling you the "secret" are lying.

Big agencies with 30 employees get outworked by one locked in person every single time.

I don't do the guru shit. I don't need you to think I'm rich.

I need you to feel what I'm actually saying.

If you're building something right now - info products, content, a solo business - and you're stuck wondering why it's not clicking while everyone else seems figured out…

Relax.

Most of them are faking it.

You're in the right place.

I'm gonna be sharing frameworks, case studies, and the real thinking behind what's working. No fluff.

More soon.