Words
Ideas are worth nothing until you act
My dad wrote his ideas down, then tried them. Not all of them worked. He kept going.
My story
The quiet kid who bets on the hard thing.
Nobody taught me about money. I've learned most of it the expensive way. This is the short version.
"I will pour through your hands millions and millions of dollars, if you will just hold loosely to it."
- 1980s
The youngest of six kids.
My blue-collar dad did the best he could. Nobody in our house was taught how money works. But Dad was always sketching ideas on paper: ways to make money, new projects. Then he'd try them. Not everything worked, and he kept trying. That's where my notebooks come from.
- High school
I stood up to the bully.
Everything changed that day. I learned that people expect you to fail at the hard thing, and that's exactly why it's worth trying. Also, my brother shot me in the head. With a BB gun. I survived.
- Dead broke
I asked for $2 at a job interview.
I needed a job badly, so I tried out for selling vacuum cleaners. I didn't get it. On my way out I turned back and said, "I know I didn't get the job, but I need to eat. Can you spare $2?"
- The prayer
Hold it loosely.
As I prayed and looked at my hands, I felt God say money would pour through them, if I held it loosely. I've chased how to earn it ever since.
- 2009
I started building online.
My first business sold cheap content. It taught me that words only matter when they carry real value.
- 2017
I started Ignite Marketing.
We've generated $65M+ for clients. But I kept putting everyone else first, and my own business ended up deep in debt.
- 2023
I got sick of it, and started paying it down.
About $150k a year, every year since.
- Now
I shed every side lane.
One focus: get the ideas out of my notebooks and into the world, and show you how.
All things are possible.