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In today's issue:

I sat down and thought about everything I've done online—every time I won, every time I lost, and every person I know who actually made money.

And every single time, I saw the same pattern.

It always comes down to two things: an offer and traffic. That's it. No complicated funnels or secret algorithms. Someone has something to sell, someone else has attention. Sometimes it's the same person, sometimes not. But you need both, because without them, there's no money.

I've seen people who hate getting traffic. Just make a new offer every few months and let affiliates do all the mailing—they focus on building and improving the offer and never touch the inbox. I've also seen people who are great at getting traffic but can't write an offer to save their life. they still make a lot of money just by sending people to someone else's funnel for a big commission.

Different personalities, same mechanics.

Most people mess up by treating this like a magic trick. They change their logo, rewrite their bio, mess with colors, anything except look at what's really going on. If you're not making money, it's because you're missing one of these two things, or they just don't fit together.

So you don't need to start over—you just swap out the part that isn't working.

It's not exciting, and that's why most people avoid it, but it gets rid of all the excuses and makes things clear.

So be honest with yourself: Do you have an offer or traffic? And which one are you going to fix now?

This expires at midnight ET.

What you get isn’t another “training to watch someday.” It’s a working affiliate engine you can put live before the New Year.

First, you watch the condensed highlights training — the exact parts people had to rewatch to finally understand why their traffic wasn’t converting. You’ll see how to choose traffic that holds up, how to route it so nothing leaks, and how the emails do the selling without endless rewriting.

Then, if you want to act, the 30-day Challenge opens immediately.

For 30 days, you copy the same setup I use:

This is built for execution — not studying, not experimenting, not guessing what to do next.

It’s currently available at a 98% discount, includes all bonuses, and comes with a 30-day risk-free period. If it doesn’t click for you, you walk away.

But access closes at midnight, and I’m not extending it. 

If you want a funnel running instead of another idea in your head, this is your window.

I once learned that Paris has a suicide hotline, not for locals but for tourists.

People fly in with a perfect picture in their head. When reality doesn't match, they break. The city isn't magical enough. The romance isn't cinematic enough. The disappointment hits harder than they can handle.

That sounds extreme, but it’s not.

Most people do the same thing in business—just quietly.

They come in loaded with perfect expectations. Easy money, fast wins, and immediate proof they were right. When the first offer flops or the traffic doesn’t convert, they don’t course-correct. They emotionally shut the whole thing down and ghost their own business.

That’s expectation shock.

Here's what nobody wants to admit. High expectations don't motivate you. They throw you off. Normal friction feels like a crisis. A bad test feels like betrayal, and a slow start feels like failure.

I've seen it for years. New clients swear the next thing is it. The moment it doesn't deliver right away, they spiral. They blame the source, blame the offer, blame anyone but the expectation that set them up to panic.

Low expectations change everything.

When you expect resistance, setbacks don't feel fatal. When you expect misses, you keep moving. You adjust instead of making emotional decisions. You stay calm enough to collect data. That's the only thing that actually gets you paid.

Think less fantasy and more navigation.

So here's the move. Lower your expectations, but not your goal. Go into your next project assuming it won't work cleanly. Commit to correcting instead of reacting.

That’s how you stay in the game long enough to win.

I sat down with Derek Gaunt, a former hostage negotiator with 29 years in law enforcement, including leading negotiation teams in Washington, DC. His job wasn’t persuasion. It was influence when emotions were maxed out and failure wasn’t an option.

One moment stuck with me. Derek explained why pushing for a “yes” actually makes people defensive—and how negotiators succeed 94% of the time by doing the opposite: naming the obvious fears, labeling emotions out loud, and shutting up long enough to listen.

That’s not theory. That’s survival-level communication.

If you write emails, sell offers, manage people, or deal with resistance of any kind, this episode reframes everything you think you know about persuasion. Not hype or tricks, just human behavior under stress—and how to work with it instead of against it.

Listen in and catch yourself rewriting messages differently the same day.

Chet Holmes isn’t selling tactics; he’s installing discipline. The kind most people avoid because it’s boring, repetitive, and brutally effective. This book is about doing a small set of things better than everyone else—and doing them every day.

The line that stuck with me is simple: success isn’t about doing more. It’s about doing the right few things relentlessly.

No hacks, and no shiny-object nonsense. Just focus sharpened until results become predictable.

If your business feels scattered, your sales are inconsistent, or your effort is disconnected from outcomes, this book will quietly expose why.

I can make you rich or keep you broke.
I’m shaped by repetition, not intention.
You practice me daily—whether you want to or not.

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