I spent $14K to learn to make my business fail.

I joined a coaching  program* with all the red flags:

• Too good to be true promises.

• Telling me everything I wanted to hear.

• A Money Back Guarantee.

Yup. I fell for the scam. Hard.

Over the next three months, I spent 6-7 hours a day completing items on their task list:

• 25% of my mailing list unsubscribed.

• my client caseload dropped by 67%.

• my business revenue dropped by 74%.

I asked for my money back, and they refused. I’d completed 727/800 items on their required task list, and time was up.

I spent the next several months wallowing in self-pity, eating regret for breakfast. 

I was broken.

One morning, I put my cup down on my ancestor shrine and bumped the picture of my very first spiritual teacher, Rev. Phil Laporte. As I propped his picture up again, I heard Phil’s gentle voice inside my head, “Stop shoulding all over yourself, it doesn’t smell good on you.”

I immediately took a shower. A long one. I washed all my regrets and woulda/shoulda/couldas down the drain.

Then, with my wet hair still tied up in a towel, I opened an account with Substack.

I’m a writer damnit. It’s time I be serious about writing.

The MindfulSense Mentor🧚

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*The program was called Growth Tools.