Nicolas Cole has founded more successful writing businesses than perhaps anyone on earth. These include a daily writing program that has over 10,000 students, a ghostwriting academy that has over 800 students, a SaaS platform and a paid newsletter. He’s also written 10 books, been a World of Warcraft champion, accumulated over a billion views online and been published in a slew of mainstream publications.

While his failures may not be obvious from the outside, they’ve existed. These include holding onto employees that didn’t care about their jobs, building a business only to find himself miserable and thinking of business success as the number of team members you have.

He’s also a guy who radically changed my business life when he said a seemingly simple thing to me one day in 2017.

Listen in as we discuss success, failure, bottoming out, changing, altering your money mindset and so much more.

For more info, go to www.failyourway.com.

There was a time where you couldn’t walk down the street without seeing someone sporting a SpiritualGangster t-shirt. (Please note: that time hasn’t really passed.)

Well, the shirt that epitomized the spiritual seeker who was also cool was the brain child of former lawyer and yoga teacher Ian Lopatin. Despite the fact that the brand he and his wife started by making t-shirts out of their garage mushroomed into a $30 million business, their success was far from a straight line—as Lopatin shares in this episode, there were many failures along the way.

But Spiritual Gangster has never been so much a clothing company as it is an ethos—one that Lopatin embodies. And now he’s helping those who have achieved it all but still find themselves in a place of lack discovering how they can get out of the achievement game and into a life of true fulfillment.

We dove into everything from the glory failure can bring when you embrace it, how being “energy rich” brings you everything and the way failure comes from fear and attachment. And so much more!

For more info, go to www.failyourway.com.

Darren Prince holds a special place in my heart.

Not only is he a powerhouse (you’ll read more about that in a second) but he was also Legacy Launch Pad’s first client—AKA the reason this company even exists.

See, many years ago when Darren and I met, we both knew he needed to write a book. The thing is, he needed a publishing company. The short version of the story is that I built one for the sole purpose of launching his book. I had no idea it would turn into what it has today. And I owe it to him.

To be clear, the dude was no slouch when he first came to me. A prominent sports agent who already represented people like Magic Johnson and Hulk Hogan, he’d had a powerful experience overcoming addiction and wanted to help others in that world. We did his book, Aiming High, with that in mind.

His addiction story is beyond brutal, and it started with a need to escape, in part because of the teasing he got when he was little. (But don’t worry about that; those teasers ended up working for him.)

What Darren has turned his book into blows my mind. It will blow yours too if you listen to this one.

For more info, go to www.failyourway.com.