Something beyond the focus of material possessions or accolades? A deeper meaning that supersedes the need for any external status or praise?

Humans are the most unique species on the planet. We are the only species that willingly self harms. Willingly destroys our own environment. We are the only species that lies and pretends to be something we are not.

And yet, we are the only species with the ability to perform supernaturally. The only life force on this planet that can see a vision and make it manifest into reality.

Is love what it means to be human? Hope? to dream?
Maybe it’s just to experience emotions. and if that’s the case, it means we must treat all emotions equal.
Happiness means just as much about being human as depression does.
Hope is just as meaningful as anxiety.

Because they are all acting as a compass within ourselves to guide us on the path we are meant for.

What does it mean to be human if you grew up in darkness? If all you know is pain or abandonment?
Maybe it means we were strong enough to be handed that hardship in our early days so we could develop perspective and wisdom to help others.

I think that to be human means to be in ruthless pursuit of ones purpose. To help other humans when they are lost on a path you have found your way back from.

To offer your gifts to the world with no other expectation but to help someone move a little bit further down their own life’s path.

What if you derived your sense of value based on how much you contribute instead of how much you can show for your contribution?

There will never be a limit on how much you can contribute but it will always feel like theres a limit on what you can show for it if you base that on what you physically have.

Being humans means to be grateful for everything you have and let go of needing the things you don’t.

It is to be a light every chance you see darkness around you.

As Aunt May says “when you help someone you help everyone”.

What could you do today to make yourself feel a little more human?
Could you answer some questions in your DMs? Could you buy somebody a meal? Could you create something that helps people solve a problem without asking for anything in return?

When you are exercising what it truly means to be human - you get a feedback loop in your mind, body and heart.
Your thoughts become positive, your heart expands open and your body enters a state of euphoria.
Almost like that internal reward system is trying to guide us down the path of our own greatness.
When you chase the wrong things, you feel bad. When you create the right things, you feel good.

That, is what it means to be human. Following your heart and your spirit down the path that ultimately will make you feel good… for that is your purpose.
Giving to the world in a way that brings you to life.

-Nick

The point I am trying to make is that the most fundamental principle you must understand in order to become successful in your lane is that everyone has an opinion when you’re more successful than they are. They never have an opinion when they are still more successful than you.

I have stayed in my lane since I started this company a little over 3.5 years ago.
When you stop looking at what everyone else is doing and you only focus on what you’re doing… something incredible happens.

You start to develop a uniqueness to your work. A sense of novelty. And novelty is what sells.
Nobody has ever hired me because they thought I was the best choice… they’ve hired me because they thought I was the best choice for them.

And the only way I could make someone feel that way is if I was being the true version of myself for me.

so what good is an extra $5M in revenue a year if you lose sight of yourself?
What good is having a stance or a worldview if they can change the second more money is on the table?
Money cannot be your master. Or you will never stick with something long enough for you to have more of it than you need.

I have a very unique way I view business and the person attached to it. My mind is my most valuable asset and is the thing people will pay me tens of thousands of dollars to get access to.

Which means the second I focus on what someone else’s mind does… I start slowly losing my own sense of intrinsic value.

I am the one who decided I wanted to create a few side offers outside of my core offer… not for money .For myself to have some creative expansion.

I make 0 moves for money. I make every move for creative freedom. I have to love what I’m doing or it won’t work. I know this to be true.

I decided I wanted to pursue more “in person” events and intensives because I genuinely love being in the same room as someone where they can’t escape the pressure. Their breakthrough is always assured.

So lets take this and break down my extra 6 figures I added to my monthly revenue already just be existing and letting my work do the selling for me.

The first part of this was in my visionary cohort.
A side offer that is 90 days long, or 12 weeks. This week was the 7th week and I made a pitch to the people inside of it.
I limited my pitch to 10 people and kept my word.
The cohort was a $2k investment and I offered 10 people to get a $2400 credit toward my main offer if they moved forward on the call.
My prices were up on the slide with a QR code to purchase. I didn’t hard sell. I didn’t handle objections or DM anyone… and all 10 spots were filled before I got off the call.

$83,640 in sales → $42,000 cash collected. In less than 15 minutes.

At the same time I was promoting a 2 day live in person intensive in austin with me.
2 days at my apartment with 6 other business owners diving deep into every block, tactic and strategy necessary to scale to the next level.
$5k per person. All expenses covered. I bought their hotel rooms for 2 nights, gym passes, breakfast, lunch and dinner etc.

I had 8 people total sign up for the intensive → $40k cash collected.
But wait theres more.

I had another business owner that wanted to come but couldnt make the date so they decided to take a consultation spot with me instead.
$4500 cash collected.

in 10 days I had brought in an extra $86,500 in new cash and generated just over $128,000 in new sales.
and this doesn’t even include the sales my team was making on their end!

Alright Nick stop bragging…. okay fine.
But let me at least finish the real lesson here.

Too many people just make offer after offer after offer and there is no tether point. There is no center of gravity that makes it all cohesive. So it all just looks and feels like a money grab.

If you notice, all of my side offers free stand on their own.. and they also funnel back into my main offer.
”You paid for this side offer, if you want to move forward with main offer I will credit what you paid for this side offer to it”

Some people move forward, others don’t. And not only do I understand this dynamic with my audience… I respect it.

I don’t excessively follow up with someone after a side offer and try to bludgeon them into giving me more money or joining my other offers. MY audience knows they can lean in when they want/need extra support and they can lean out when they don’t.

This keeps majority of my “buyers” constantly coming back to me and it grows my ABC. It’s what I like to call the “Assured Buyers Community”

The amount of people that have paid and had a good experience without me tainting the experience with obsessive follow up.

If you want to have an “easier time” making sales … focus on expanding your creative flow with what you do for people. If you are always chasing everyone in your audience for a sale you’re not actually giving yourself the chance to be sought after.

I take people along the journey I am doing to get the same result for myself that I say I can get for them. Which means every time I have success, It’s also a teaching opportunity show people what I find that’s working.

Eventually, people are going to want to join int he fun and see progress too.
Just make sure they have an opportunity to lean in.

When you are organic in your expression of self, the business will mirror that same growth organically within itself. You just need to hold your own authenticity long enough for everyone to orient accordingly.

And as always.
Thank you for reading this far. Now go create some novelty around your offer this week.

-Nick

PS: If you want to come to my next 2 day intensive in Austin, September 10 and 11, message me on IG the word “intensive” I currenlty have 5 spots open and haven’t promoted in outside of this yet.

The problem is that now anyone who has halfway decent copywriting skills also blends into the Ai slop that is plaguing our market.

You want your message to hit the market hard so that you’re people can find you… yet instead of using your own voice and maybe an imperfect writing technique, you send a little write up into Claude or ChatGPT and say “expand on this and turn it into a email I can send to trigger the psychology in my readers that will make them want to buy my product/servcie"

and it doesn’t really work, does it? Because deep down you know that you are hoping for a pipe dream to come into existence. If only that prompt were able to amplify your voice and doctor it up the perfect way so that no matter what you say or what you post - people will listen… and then they will buy.

But what if that imperfect writing technique is the main thing that will draw people in?
what if your unorthodox way of articulating the views you have around the topic are what move people?
What if the very thing you are trying to change with Ai is the very thing you need to lean into more in order to gain the traction you seek?

Beauty standards have all blended together, so much so that the people who are not considered “unconventionally beautiful” are starting to land the covers of every magazine.

I anticipate the same thing happening inside of all level for content. Short, long, video, written etc.

It will be the ones posting in an “unconventional way” that get the attention.

Said another way… when everyone is ziggin… you should be zaggin.

If your initial thought when you create something is “let me just get the basics down and let Ai pull the rest of the load for me”
what you’re doing is outsourcing your own creative power and just like a muscle, if you don’t use it you lose it.

Now look… am I saying I never use Ai to help me maximize my output? of course not.

What I am saying is that I make sure to never lose my own creative voice and never stop exercising the muscle of it.

My favorite combination for presentations is wisper.flow x Moda.app

These 2 together are my current powerhouse.
I use wisper to track my audio dialogue as I speak my entire presentation into existence (usually referncing some notes or bullet points ive taken down over the last week about the topic or so)

and once im done saying everything, It throws the words into the prompt of Moda and Moda uses its Ai to put everything I’ve said into sections for slides. Its great.

But it never writes for me. It only writes what I speak it to write. Thats the difference.

And then there are things like this, you guys, my writing. That is something I keep sacred to my own mind and my own fingers. Sure, maybe this is taking me a suboptimal amount of time to write… but sometimes thats the point right?

Using time to get lose in your creative process. Not pulling yourself out of it to maximize time usage.
I fear that eventually we will have automated or optimized our way out of being human all together.
There are many things that are “suboptimal” operating as a human but it is endlessly small compared to all of the traits that only humans can express.

There are far more strengths and perks of being human than there are outsourcing that humanness to something faster.

When most people come to work with me it is because they have gotten to a certain point and are now stuck. That sticking point is a human stuck point. Not a robots.

Trying to find your voice anywhere other than inside of yourself will leave you mindlessly seeking something that doesn’t exist for the rest of your life.

What do you think you would sound like if you shut down Ai for the next 30 days? Would you talk different? would you realize how little of your thoughts are actual your own right now?
Would you redevelop a sense of self trust that you had otherwise been outsourcing to the Ai bots?

I’m not sure what the outcome would be for you specifically, but I do know it would be something good. Perhaps even something great.

I can’t wait to see what you come up with when you finally start trusting yourself fully again. or for once.

Much love,

-Nick

I cried multiple times and was totally immersed in the entire movie. Multiple different story lines all being told at the same time.
Peter having to finally come to terms with his life changing. Him needed to decide who it is he is going to be.

Watching the heartbreak- love story undertone of the movie while he exists with the love of his life remembering nothing about him. As he watches her live a life without him.

Realizing he can’t have an “ordinary life” because he is different. He is special.
He doesn’t fit in. No matter how desperately he wants to.
He was made for more.

If i’m being honest, I’ve always resonated with the story of Spider-Man. A kid who never really fit in. Someone that people hardly paid attention to. Until he found his power.
In Spider Man- No Way Home, when the whole world finds out that Peter Parker is Spider-Man, they instantly love him.
Everyone who used to bully him or make fun of him wants everybody to know that they were close or had a deeper friendship.
A timeless experience for those who always felt discarded and then stepping into a place of power or influence.

I’ve never, and am still not, the person that gets texts or calls for an invite to go do something. I don’t have people who reach out to me to hang out one on one. I get invited when there is a big enough group but that’s about it.
I’d lie if I said it wasn’t a lonely feeling at times but I’ve become calibrated to it.

The tug and pull between stepping even further into who you know you’re supposed to be even if you know it will cost you more people in your life. Especially when there aren’t that many close ones left.

As Peter resisted becoming who he was meant to be, he had nothing. He was lost, wandering around looking for meaning in everything he was doing but he could never find it.
Because he is still part human. And humans, much like spiders, do not do well in isolation.

Near the end of the movie when Peter is finally faced with a decision because his life is on the line, he gets asked.
”So who are you going to be? Peter Parker? Or Spider-Man?”

As his pupils expand until his entire eye is black, signaling the internal decision had been made.
He finds a new strength that is even more powerful than he’s ever been.

”I’m both.” he says as he deters the attack and subdues his opponents. (trying not to spoil here lol)

That was the decision. To be both.
It was the tug and pull between thinking he could only be one of the two versions of himself.
He was stuck in a state of indecision, the same place many of us get stuck when deciding what will happen next in our lives. But there is something so powerful about the act of deciding. It changes your entire life in a moment.

By simply declaring “I Am Both”- he tapped into an energy that was always there that he needed in order to change his fate.
The energy wasn’t put into him at that point. It was already inside of him waiting to be chosen. Waiting to be accepted.

I wonder what power still lies within all of us that we refuse to choose and accept.

What would our lives look like if we fully decided who we are?
What would your life look like today if you made the decision you were putting off because you knew it was going to hurt or be uncomfortable in the immediate moment but ultimately put you on a higher path towards the future?

I dont know about you, but I had to grow very tired of running from the very aspects of myself that were begging to come out.
I am sick of it. Because I know there is so much more.

When Peter decided who he was, everything else fell back into place. He experienced so much pain from resisting the change.

And that right there is the root of all our suffering. Resisting.

Resisting change.

Resisting Problems.

Resisting life.

When you accept and allow changes or problems to occur, you move right through them.

Will Peter ever fit into the way the world works? no.
Will he every truly belong in a world of people that refuse to see their own greatness? no.
He will never live an ordinary life because he is not meant to. and the sooner he accepted that, the sooner he could build the life he was meant to live.

Known by everyone as Spider-Man.

Loved by many(also as Spider-Man.) The character. The superhero that saves others. The one people project all of their own hopes onto.

Known by few. Because thats the life of someone extraordinary. The higher you step into your greatness, the lesser people willing to make the climb.

So, I’ll ask the age old question:
Is it really lonely at the top?
Or are you just lonely because you’ve convinced yourself there’s nowhere else to climb?

If you think it’s lonely at the top, it’s not the top.
And hopefully, I’ll see you there one day.

-Nick

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Then the fire starts to build in your belly where the pride once was. Your mind betrays you and your words follow its lead.

”What’s the point of all of this if nobody even sees my shit?”
”fuck this, i should go find a different path. something that more people care about. “

“Why do all of these other people have so much success and engagement when they have half my level of expertise??” - you might as yourself.

”I care so much more than they do. It’s not fair.”

I’ll tell you the secret.

It doesn’t matter to them at all. You are 100% right. They don’t care as much as you. Not even close.
And that is why they win.

What you typically see is a byproduct of someone who has been 1000+ pieces of content that fell on deaf ears and empty seats. Someone who stood in front of a microphone and camera for an audience of 0.

Someone who wrote their heart out to an email list of 3 people for an entire year. Two of which were mom and dad. The other was their test account.

What you see is Michael Jordan on the basketball court and think “wow, natural talent. it just comes so easy to him”
You wouldn’t dare go to the gym with him at 5 in the morning. You wouldn’t dare run two a days every day for six months straight just to add a fraction of a percentage to your game.
Why? Well because you wouldn’t get any validation there either.

The truth is you are always fine tuning your craft. Always an athlete to your own sport in life. Always in a season where work must be done without praise in the moment. But if you have continuously proven to yourself that without external validation your work doesnt matter, then it never will.

Because if thats the case your work doesn’t actually matters to you. The only thing that matters is you putting something out that makes people say “wow’ at you.
You don’t care about your work you care about yourself. Or rather, what the rest of the world thinks of you.

If you don’t care about your work, why would you think anybody else would?

The other people you see didn’t care if anyone cared or not. They just keep speaking, kept posting, kept creating… because they loved it.

So whats the point when nobody is engaging with your stuff?
Nothing. There is no point.
If that’s what you are truly seeking.

But whats the point if you love it?
Experiencing the love of it while in motion.
Getting to that end product and looking at it with the proud dad nod.

Letting your mind, heart and hands all become one in a moment to create something that only you see.
That… that right there… is what matters.

and if you can focus on the process of creating instead of the praise for your creation.. you will never feel discouraged. You already won.

Yes, I know. You need to make money and you have big dreams. But those are such silly things to try to gain from an unhappy place.
In fact, when you are the most happy, the most care free or the most “in flow” is when life opens up to you. That is when opportunity finds you.

when you create without having anything to prove.

That is when you are the most powerful. That is when you become unstoppable.

So go create. For the sake of creating.
Because after all… that’s the whole point.

-Nick

You have the revenue. The team. The proof that it works.

And a quiet, persistent feeling that if you keep operating at this pace, the thing you built is going to cost you everything it was supposed to give you.

That’s exactly who Vitalis was built for.

It’s a year-long mastermind for 15 founders who have already “built it” and are ready to come back to themselves.

Four times a year, in four locations around the world (Tahoe, Sedona, Tulum, Asheville), you leave the room, move your body, reconnect with who you are outside your work, and then we dive in and do the strategic work from that place.

Led by Me directly. 15 seats. Application only. 9 spots remaining.
The offer goes live to the public on July 1st.

This mastermind is application only as I will personally be picking the 15 people to ensure the highest caliber experience and value.

If this is landing, apply here: vitalis.impaktindustries.org

Some joined for the visionary cohort, thank you.

Others joined from something I’m unaware of, thank you as well.

No matter how you got here, I’m sure most of you are well aware of what I do and how I do it.

The thing is, I’m really good at what I do. That’s why my 1:1 roster has been basically filled at capacity for the last 14 years as an entrepreneur regardless of what niche I am serving.
That is nothing short of a blessing and I thank God everyday for the gifts he has given me to serve with.

And also, at the peak of my career… staring at a company that has generated over $550,000 in cash collected organically just this month alone, I find myself being called to step away.
I had to look very carefully at my life and silence the noise to listen to what was really going on in my heart and in my body.

I am not currently the version of myself that I need to be in order to not only maintain $500k+ months, but to also lead this movement up to $1M months.

Our whole lives we hear “get in the room”… and that’s the only place I’ve ever been when trying to push for growth, focus on metrics, build resources, offers, etc.
always inside the room. closed off from the world and mother nature. Closed off from the very thing that is older and wiser than all things.

My bandwidth has suffered, my stress has been too high , my hormones have taken a beating and a lot of my business life has started to feel a little “black and white” or “discolored”. I want to bring vibrance back into my world because that is what made me fall in love with it in the first place.

I have officially retired from 1:1 mentorship after 14 years of it and now it’s time for me to step into a new phase of how I serve others but also how I serve myself so I can continue to lead at higher levels.

I am going to be taking 15 people on a year long journey. 4 different locations across the US. 4 different trips to experience nature, disconnect from the matrix, reconnect to ourselves and then build the next level of the business once we are back home to ourselves.

You get to a certain level in your business and you realize… there isn’t another system or framework or grind phase that is going to bring your business higher without it also breaking you and everything you love.

I know this is what is necessary for me to scale my company to $1M/months organically because the only blocks you have once you get to 6 figures + per month is you. (unless youre solely running ads and have no brand positioning like a retard but i digress)

For those of you here who have built a 7 figure brand (or more) from inside the room but have lost yourself along the way…
I will be sending out an offer breakdown and application to apply for my new mastermind “Vitalis”

Vitalis is the latin root of ‘vitality” … meaning “of life” or belonging to life.

Something we tend to forget when we are focused on the wrong thing for too long.

If this is something you would be interested in getting an early bird look at, just go ahead and send me a message on instagram.

I am personally talking to, vetting and choosing the 15 people that will be in this mastermind for the year. So you know this room and these trips will be not only powerful but life changing.

I’m excited for all of us to get back to our own vitality so we can bring that back to our business and breathe life into it again.

I’ll talk to you all soon.

much love.

-(no longer coach) Nick

https://visionary.impaktindustries.org/

https://visionary.impaktindustries.org/

-Nick

So why did I just do all of that? for the money.
The problem was that money wasn’t what I truly wanted. It is what I associated with money that I truly wanted.
Safety, freedom, love, purpose.

I didn’t know money was so far below all of these until I had one and none of the others.
So I “Okay… I just built a multi million dollar business, for what?”
I wasn’t happy. I wasn’t sure of who I was. I didn’t know what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.
But I now how the time, freedom and resources to sit down for a season and figure it out. Ah… that was what it was for.
I was able to buy myself time to heal and remember who I was.

Then I started mentoring people 1:1 in business and leadesrhip, I started writing my first book etc.
… but for what?
Eventually I realized I had gotten enough data from 1:1 to teach my methods to others and scale. Ah… thats what it was for. To hone my craft before stepping into the next level.

I could go on and on with this analogy.
And I sit here, writing this to you… as I am in my next “for what?” phase of my life.
We are on the brink of our biggest live event to date, over 200 people already registered to come let go, heal, and rediscover who they are.

… but for what?
Where do I take my people next? And how must I take myself there first?
I don’t know the answers to those questions yet. What I do know is that every time I’ve asked the question “for what?”, I’ve always found the answer and then built higher.

Maybe you’re in this phase right now and you feel a little lost. Maybe you feel like you’re doing all the right things but the results aren’t coming through like they should be.
Maybe you’re holding onto resentment towards the person who hurt you and you see them in everything you do still.

Wherever you are in your path that has made you feel lost or fundamentally unwhole… I hope you trust that this is always part of the process. You are never lost you are simply rediscovering who you are by shedding the layers of who you are not.

I have a simple invitation to you. You do not need to accept, you don’t even need to click the link. It won’t change anything for me.

But if you are someone who knows you need help getting centered back on your path again… Please come join us at our 3 day live event in Austin, Tx. From June 11-13 we will be going deep on rewiring your identity, getting clarity for your desired reality, letting go of what is holding you back and making lifelong connections with others on the same path.

Grab your ticket now before its too late.

You might regret it if you come. But I know for sure you will regret it if you don’t.

Anyone who grabs a ticket in the next 48 hours will get a 100% money back gurantee.If you come for all 3 days and do not feel the value was worth it, I will refund you your ticket no questions asked.

Much love guys.

-Nick

I am a cursed man. That is what I have felt my entire life. Everytime something good comes into my life, I lose it. I try to let down my walls to let people in, but they build back up thicker. Walls so dense I’m starting to wonder if anyone will ever be able to reach me behind them.

I started writing this book because I wanted to chase a higher status of authorship. I published my first book Surrender and that was great. But by the time it finally published I no longer resonated with the version of me who wrote it. An accomplishment I had spent over two years trying to write and bring to life. I spent two years writing it. By the time it published, I was already at war with myself again. One book wasn’t profound enough.

The percentage of authors who actually publish a book is low. The percentage of authors that publish two books is even lower, which means it would make me greater. This is how my brain works. Always calculating my worth against statistics and comparing myself to others.

Said in another way, I never let myself have anything. I felt embarrassed when my first book was published because I felt like there was no way it was good enough. So I barely talked about it. I told myself I wanted it to be on the bestseller list but a part of me felt like it wasn’t good enough to be there. That I wasn’t good enough to be there.

So I did what any person with deep self worth issues would do, nothing. I spoke about it passively here and there, but never with enough power behind it to be all in.

It was just enough effort to convince myself I was promoting my book but not enough effort to be let down if I didn’t achieve bestseller status. To no surprise, I did not achieve the goal. Because that wasn’t actually my goal. My goal was to prove to myself that Surrender would be a flop because it wasn’t good enough.It was to protect myself from the perceived judgment of others and the feeling of failing. I’ve never set a goal that I was unable to achieve, but I’ve set many goals that I didn’t want to admit I had set for myself.

So here I am, ironically writing a book about ending the chase for external status to find peace within one’s own heart.

I don’t want to write another stupid fucking business tactic or self help book like every publishing company tries to groom you into writing. I don’t want to layer in unnecessary tactics and teachings to try and pretend I am an expert that has it all figured out. We have enough of that. Maybe instead of another book trying to teach you something from someone who you think has a better life than you, we just need to drop the mask and have a genuine conversation.

That’s what this book is for me. A genuine conversation about what shadows I still face as I achieve new levels of success in my life.

I am here, to some degree, still seeking validation from you by writing this book. The truth is we all want to matter. I want to matter. I want all of the pain and loss I’ve been through in my life to mean something. I want it to be worth it. So that is why I share, that is why I write. To cope.

To find a way to cathartically release things I have no other way of letting go of except by my writing.

I am a grateful man. I love my life. I am proud of myself. But I am also deeply sad. Hurt. Unwillingly hardened by life’s unforgiving wraths. A man who has lost many versions of himself that he loved in a desperate attempt to be loved and accepted by someone else.

I am a cursed man. And this is my story.

2. The Trailer Park Kid

“I’m not trying to be mean, but is this basically one step above being homeless?” she asked me gently. We sat on the front of my car, hood still warm from the engine heat while feeling the crisp mountain air blow on our faces.

We had just driven two and a half hours to get here. The place I grew up. I wanted to show her where I came from.

She was the first woman I had convinced myself that I loved since the relationship that broke me to my core. She was full of life and laughter. A free spirit. I adored her joy and curiosity for life because they were the very things I was still mourning within myself. That version of me died on that day not even a year ago. Nobody knew because I got up like I always did and kept up on my responsibilities. But I was dead inside. A hollow man going through the motions because it was all he knew how to do.

He didn’t know how to break anymore. The world had hardened him too much for that. So he pulled the arrows from his back and just kept going like he had taught himself to. What point is there in acknowledging a wound when you have nobody that would care for it?

One day I received a message on my instagram responding to my story. She was asking about my ceilings and within a few hours we had our first date planned. I figured maybe I could give love a shot again. So I did.

I thought I brought her here, back to my trailer park because I wanted her to understand me better. Really I brought her because I needed to gain more status in her eyes by proving to her I came from nothing. My success didn’t feel like enough, so I had to tie in a rags-to-riches story to give it more merit. But to understand why I still do this - why at twenty-nine I was still trying to use my past to earn love - you need to know what happened in that trailer. You need to meet the kid I was before I learned to pretend…

Team Facing: How we integrate them when interacting with one another

Company Facing: How we integrate them while operating publicly

Individual Facing: How we integrate them in our personal lives

The reason I do it this way is so we are consciously aware and intentional about why we are doing what we are doing. I am going to give you the full breakdown of my teams values and how we are integrating them for the next 6 months.

Why only 6 months? Because if you give someone a year to do something, they will take a year. This way; we get two years worth of value building to everyone else’s one.
I believe that after an intentional 6 months of instilling certain values you won’t need to think about them anymore. They will just be an automatic park of how you operate at your natural state. The goal is to always expand our natural state of being if the goal is to maintain higher levels of wealth and prosperity.

Give this exercise a try for yourself and your team if you have them. You can also do this for your client community as well. Something I do with all of my new clients is a “culture reset” in their business to reset the standards and get everyone re engaged. The lifeforce of culture is values. without them. you have nothing.

If you google “brene brown values” a huge long list of values will pop up to help you decide on yours.

Here are my 5 team values and how we plan to implement them moving forward: Enjoy

CORE VALUES

2026

COLLABORATION

CANDOUR

PATIENCE

EXCELLENCE

RELIABLITY

Collaboration:

the action of working with someone to produce or create something

Client Facing

We do not send clients off to “figure it out on their own”, we co create inside of this space with them. We are their sound boards and also their compass. We give direction without robbing them of their own autonomy.

We are the go-to space when someone is ready to build something bigger than themselves. We are not just a company that helps students make money, we are a team that is building a dream together with each client.

Every client’s business is part yours. Every client’s vision is part yours. Every client’s dream is a part of your own. Our story and legacy will be found in every client’s.

Team Facing

When you suffer in silence, the team suffers out loud.

“I can do it better myself” is the opposite of collaboration and the anti-thesis of a leader. Being a good collaborator also means being good at asking for help.

The unasked question is often what costs us the most amount of time, effort, and money. We do not apologize for asking questions when we don’t understand something. We are all a part of one engine, if one part of the engine goes out, so does the rest of it. We function as one.

Company Facing

We replace all competition with collaboration. We do not withhold anything that can help another person get unstuck if we have the resources to do so. We operate in abundance and recognize that our deeper mission is to help raise the collective consciousness closer to wealth.

We put ourselves in rooms that need us, not in rooms that we need.

We focus on:

How do they win?

How do their people win?

How do we win?

We are the company other companies come to for help because they know we do so eloquently and privately. We do not seek the external glory of public praise, we let our power build others up even if it’s in the background. We see our work ripple throughout the new world we are helping create. We are not fighting to be at the top, we are the ones building a better foundation so that the top can be higher for others.

Individual Facing-

Be the go-to person that everyone thinks of first when it comes to a new project. You take care of your own mental health and energy so that you can be an attentive team member. Wherever you feel “in competition” in your life, offer instead, collaboration to help the other win.

IMPAKT INDUSTRIES

Candour:

the quality of being open and honest in expression; Nickness

Client Facing

We are willing to be disliked by the client in the short term to give them the truth than need to hear. Sacrificing short term comfort for long term evolution and success is our number 1 priority. The future is built by what we face in the present. It is destroyed by what we enable. Never waste a trigger. We do not run away from a heated interaction with a client, we lean in and hold the space so that transformation can occur. We do not enable but we do not belittle. The truth is our north store, even if it is uncomfortable. We provide a disservice to our clients and our mission but not telling our people what they need to hear in order to evolve.

Team Facing

If I piss you off, tell me. Do not hold onto it and let it fester. There is no conversation that can not be had on this team. Side conversations with others about someone or something you disagree without first going to them is dishonest. Hard conversations do not signal personal attack, they signal a deeper desire to connect with one another and find resolve. We see every hard conversation as an opportunity to form a tighter bond as a family. When we do not operate from candour, our culture will become cancer.

Company Facing

Well… I take care of this already lol.

We say what needs to be said in our space, regardless of who attacks us for it. We are truth seekers. Our company was built on authentic expression and honesty. We do not shy away from saying the thing everyone else is afraid to say. That is what builds trust with our people. Whether people like where we stand or not, they know where we stand. We are here to mirror the truth back to those who are finally ready to face it.

Individual Facing-

Candour is also about being open and honest with yourself. Holding yourself to a high standard while also offering grace and compassion. Being honest with yourself is the highest form of self love and respect. Are you keeping the promises you make to yourself? Why or why not? And if not - what needs to shift in order for you to do so? Staying open and honest with yourself allows you to stay open and honest with everyone else. Don’t make promises to yourself that you know you can’t keep.

IMPAKT INDUSTRIES

Patience:

the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset

Client Facing

Our tone or energy does not change towards a client just because something is taking longer than expected to click for them. We do not enable disrespect but we extend understanding towards clients when they are experiencing a trigger. It is in our patience that we find presence and it is in our presence that we find transformation. Love is always patient and that is what we choose every day inside of our client interactions. There is always a way for them to win, if they aren’t winning, we haven’t found it yet.

Team Facing

If someone is not understanding something you are saying it is because you did not communicate it effectively. Communication is about the other person, not about you. We recognize that we are all human which means we will all make mistakes always. We understand that everyone is on their own individual life path and we are all choosing to walk a part of that path together here inside of this mission.

Company Facing

We do not chase clients. We do not chase leads. We do not worry about what others are doing or allow thoughts to come in that we should be somewhere other than where we currently are. Wealth is a game of patience. There is nothing more valuable than peace of mind and that is why we let the timing of our success take care of itself. We do not rush because when we rush, we make mistakes. We are patient with everything that is meant to come for us but we are relentless in our pursuit of achieving it.

IMPAKT INDUSTRIES

Excellence:

Company Facing

“Is this truly the best we can do?”

IMPAKT INDUSTRIES

Reliability:

Company Facing

What people see is what they get. We do not pretend to be anything other than what and who we truly are. We do not promote false teachings, we do not claim bigger wins than what is actually going on. We do not put on a show to gain status. We are the through line. No matter what is happening outside of us, we operate at the same frequency. We are predictable in our response to people and hard situations. We are predictable in our unpredictability. People know what type of experience awaits them when it is connected to Impakt.

A low came in.

and it hit just as hard as the 3 day high prior.

I sat in it for a few hours. Angry. Sad. Hurt. Frustrated.

and then? I got up and started getting back to my through line.

The through line is the only thing that can get your through these things.

Who do you orient back to regardless of what happens?
What version of you is your default?

IF you don’t have one… that is why entrepreneurship feels so “unstable”. Because you are.

Fortunes come and go to those whose fortune changes who they are.
Fortunes come and stay to those who stay true to themselves regardless.

So… are you a different person when you have a high revenue month vs a low revenue month?

Find your trigger, there is your path.
That’s your work.

put your phone on DND.

have fun and be present with your loved ones.

Dont be so focused on having a good life that you forget to have a good day.


Love you guys.

Happy Thanksgiving

=Nick

Stop letting everyone push you into a state of rushed panic because of a fictitious calendar we created that doesn’t even align with natural cycles of nature.

New Years in the middle of winter? When everything is dead?
What an awful time to try and bring new ideas or set new goals into life.
Spring is the true cycle reset or “new year” … look at nature and you will always find your greatest mentor.

Undoubtedly, you will be sold to more than ever over the next 7 weeks. You will see FOMO, deception, deal/flash sale tactics and everything in between.

… if everyone is doing it… how then do you make yourself stand out?

The answer is simple, don’t focus on what anyone else is doing.
I know… crazy advice since every other business mentor seems to say “go find whats working for other people and copy it”

That’s like saying I should follow Michael Phelps 14,000 calorie diet because I want to start swimming.

So instead of selling you on some bullshit or telling you to go offer flash sales blah blah… we are going to do an 8 week reality creation intensive in here.

Each monday we will do a new orientation around intentions and manifestations to help you start to get your power back and become the source or reality creation in your life again.
So lets dive in

Week 1: Write it down and forget about it

Write down your intentions/manifestations in present tense as if you are already experiencing them.

I have X
I feel Y
I am Z

Ex. I have 50,000 followers on instagram

Write down no more than 5-7 intentions or manifestations.

Once you write them down, put the journal or document away and do not open it again until next week.

During these next 8 weeks, we will get “lost in character” for our role in this next reality we will be cast inside of.
Our conversations here, in direct 1:1, on group support calls, to yourself, your team, your friends etc. will all be AS IF these intentions and manifestations have already happened.

If your intention is 200 active clients, that is the language we use for everything. If your intention is virality and a ton of warm leads, all of our conversations and your questions are going to reflect that as your current reality.

You will be scripting aspects of your reality once a day, every day. Not the full reality, just one aspect of it in past tense as if you are recalling it happening at the end of your day.
You will script the part of your morning where you open your laptop at a coffee shop wearing your new watch and seeing your community chat with 200 notifications because all of your clients are talking about a specific topic. You notice a homeless man outside and decide to buy him a meal with some coffee. Etc.
Every. Single. Day.

And I’m doing something I’ve never done before.

And will never do again.

I’m giving away $32,000 in birthday scholarships…. but you guys get to know a day before anyone else does. So you have first dibs.

One thousand dollars for every year I’ve been alive.

This is the last scholarship we will ever offer.

After today, this never happens again. Not next month. Not next year. Not for Black Friday or any holiday or any other reason.

After today, it’s full price. Forever.

Here’s why:

Let me be blunt—we don’t need to offer discounts anymore.
We only did them once a year anyways.

Our waitlist is full. Our demand is high. Our results speak for themselves.

Thomas went from wanting to quit at 11 days to his first $10k month in 90 days.

Mark went from invisible to $15k months in 100 days.

Bobby went from running a $227M business while hating himself to building a $5B legacy in 2 years.

and if you’ve been following my on instagram, you’ve probably seen a huge wave of testimonials this week.

When you only scale your business through excessive flash sales and deals, you attract clientele who look for easy. You attract people looking for cheap. And they rarely show up as ideal clients.

We have undeniable proof that our program works if you do the work.

So why am I doing this?

Because for the last 8 days, I’ve been showing you the mirror.

Your invisibility. Your comfort trap. Your self-sabotage pattern. The future where nothing changes.

And I know some of you are ready. I can feel it.

You’ve been reading every email. Feeling every word. Recognizing yourself in every pattern.

But you’re still on the fence.

Maybe it’s the investment. Maybe it’s fear. Maybe it’s that voice in your head saying “not yet.”

So I’m removing every last excuse.

Today—and ONLY today—I’m offering early access to the last scholarship opportunity my company will ever provide.

Not because we need to fill spots. Because I want to celebrate 32 years of life by giving more people a chance to change theirs.

I have a feeling most of these slots will be filled by those of you in here (which was my goal so we don’t have to deal with the public jumping on in a panic to try and secure the deal)

HERE’S HOW THE $32,000 BIRTHDAY SCHOLARSHIP WORKS:

I’m distributing $32,000 as a lump sum across everyone who books a call with my team today.

That’s right. Everyone who books a call gets a piece of the scholarship if you decide to move forward.
We just built out an entire new offer suite as well so we have something for everyone at every level.
The worst that can happen is you book a call and then say no. But please be respectful of my teams time. Be serious about yourself and your future this time.

The more people who book, the faster the scholarship gets divided.

But here’s the catch:

You have to actually BOOK the call. Not “think about it.” Not “come back later.”
If you play that same game, you won’t make it.

Book it today. Before midnight.

Once you book your call and if get accepted into the program (not everyone will be—we protect our culture), your scholarship amount gets applied to your enrollment.

Could be $500. Could be $1,000. Could be $2,000.

Depends on how many people actually take action.
To give you some context: Last year we booked 52 calls in the first hour after launching. My audience has grown by over 100,000 people between the two platforms since then.

The catch is that this year I’m only opening 25 slots for the pre sale scholarship. Which means they are going to go quick. We signed 32 in the first 5 days last year.

WHAT YOU’RE GETTING:
(Before Scholarship Applied)

ALCHEMIST ACADEMY - Current Investment: $897/mo (or $10k/year)

12-month program designed to take you to consistent $10-20k/mo recurring in your business through:

• 1:1 coaching support with a dedicated coach (whose actually build and is currently running a success business)

• Full access to our curriculum and community

• Weekly group coaching calls

• Slack messaging support from your coach

• Free access to ALL of our low-ticket and mid-ticket resources free of charge

• The exact frameworks we use to sign clients organically

• (2) free tickets to our in person events

CONSCIOUS LEADER - $2,000/mo (or $20k/year)

12-month program for coaches ready to build out staff, systems, and processes to scale to $50k/mo recurring while getting their time back.
After that, its a sling shot to $100k/mo recurring.

You will work much more intimately with me in this container and also have your own 1:1 support coach as well.

We will train your team members, give them access to all calls and resources as well.

Prices to work with me 1:1 will vary based on our compatibility which we will discover on the call.

Your scholarship gets applied to whichever program you qualify for.

WHY THIS IS THE LAST TIME:

Let me be crystal clear about something.

We’re at a place now where we don’t need discounts to fill our program.

Our results speak for themselves. Our client transformations are undeniable. Our demand exceeds our capacity.

We turn people away every single month because they’re not the right fit.

Not because they can’t afford it. Because they’re not ready to do the work.

Your credit card is not more valuable than my culture.

So after today, the only people who get to work with us are people who are willing to bet on themselves at full price.

People who don’t need a discount to say yes.

People who see the value and make the decision because they’re ready. Not because they got a deal.

But today? Today is different.

Tomorrow I’m 32 years old. And I’m grateful. Grateful for every client who trusted me. Grateful for every breakthrough I’ve witnessed. Grateful for a business that allows me to do what I love.

So today, I’m giving back.

$32,000. Split among everyone who takes action.

Consider this my gift to you. And your last excuse removed.

HERE’S WHAT HAPPENS NEXT:

Step 1: Click the link below and book a discovery call with my team in the next 12 hours.

Click to Chat with Riley

Click to Chat with Sammi

I strongly encourage you to book in as soon as possible… like I said, once the slots are filled, they are filled. I gave you two different calendars so the spots don’t fill up too fast.

Step 2: Show up to your call. We’re going to qualify you (not everyone will be accepted—we protect our culture with a 3 round interview process).

Step 3: If we’re a fit, you get accepted into the program AND your piece of the $32,000 scholarship gets applied to your enrollment.

Step 4: You start your transformation. And 90 days from now, you’re unrecognizable.

THE DEADLINE:

Midnight tonight. That’s it.

After midnight, the early scholarship door closes. Then I announce it to the public tomorrow morning and the $32,000 gets distributed to everyone who books. Then this opportunity disappears forever.

After this, we go back to full price. No discounts. No scholarships. No special deals.

Just results. And the people who are willing to bet on themselves to get them.

If you have a dream, bring it to me.

-Nick

Standing at the edge.

Feeling the pull toward something bigger. Something real.

Knowing that if you just took the leap, everything could change.

And then you didn’t.

You told yourself you needed more time. More money. More preparation.

You convinced yourself that “soon” was the right answer.

And here you are. Still at the edge.

How many times have you done this?

How many times have you felt the pull and then talked yourself out of it?

How many times have you been on the verge of saying yes and then found a perfectly logical reason to say not yet?

This is the moment.

The moment where you decide if this time is different.

Or if this is just another cycle. Another “I’ll come back to this later.” Another story you’ll tell yourself about why it wasn’t the right time.

Let me tell you what’s on the other side of the leap:

Not perfection. Not instant results. Not some magical transformation where everything is suddenly easy.

What’s on the other side is you. Finally showing up for yourself.

You. Finally keeping a promise to yourself.

You. Finally breaking the pattern of abandoning yourself when it gets uncomfortable.

And THAT is what changes everything.

Not the strategy. Not the tactics. Not the program.

You finally becoming someone who follows through.

Someone who doesn’t quit when it’s hard.

Someone who honors their commitments.

Someone who keeps their word to themselves.

And once you become that person?

Everything else becomes inevitable.

The clients come. The money follows. The success shows up.

Because you finally became the person who was always capable of having those things. There is no secret.
You are the answer, you always have been.

You just kept running from that version of yourself.

I want you to feel something right now.

That tightness in your chest. That knot in your stomach. That voice in your head that’s either screaming “YES” or “NOT YET.”

That feeling is your signal.

That’s your intuition telling you which path you’re about to choose.

And tomorrow, you’ll know if you listened.

Tomorrow, something happens that I’ve never done before in my company. (and you guys will be the first ones to know.)

And after tomorrow, it will never happen again.

If you had… One shot. One opportunity… To seize everything you’ve ever wanted… in one moment… would you capture it? or just let it slip?

Are you finally ready?

Nick

P.S. - You’ve been “getting ready” for months. Maybe years. At some point, you have to ask yourself: what am I really waiting for? Permission? The perfect moment? Or am I just scared?
The perfect moment doesn’t exist. The right decision doesn’t exist. You make the decision and then you make it right.

Standards.

Not motivation. Not discipline. Not willpower.

Standards.

Motivation is temporary. It comes and goes based on how you feel.

Discipline is what you force yourself to do when you don’t feel like it.

But standards? Standards are non-negotiable… meaning you.. don’t negotiate lol

Standards are: “This is who I am. This is how I operate. Period.”

When you have standards, you don’t need motivation. You don’t rely on discipline.

You just show up. Because that’s who you are.

Let me give you an example.

You don’t wake up and debate whether or not to brush your teeth. (unless… you do) You don’t need motivation to shower. You don’t require discipline to eat.

You just do it. Because it’s a standard.

Now apply that to your business.

What if posting content wasn’t something you “tried” to do when motivated?

What if following up with leads wasn’t something you forced yourself to do?

What if showing up fully in your business was just... who you are?

That’s the shift.

From “I’m trying to be consistent” to “I Am consistent.”

From “I want to be successful” to “I Am successful.”

Here’s what I’ve noticed with every client who breaks through:

They don’t have more motivation than you.

They don’t have more time than you.

They don’t have more resources than you.

They have higher standards for themselves.

When Thomas wanted to quit 11 days into my program, I didn’t give him a pep talk.

I held the standard.

“You committed. Either honor that or don’t. But I’m not lowering my expectations because you’re uncomfortable.”

And that boundary saved his life.

90 days later, he hit his first $10k month. Not because I motivated him. Because I refused to enable his pattern of quitting. He has been hitting $15k months every since.

When Bobby came to me running a $227M company but hating himself, I didn’t give him business strategies.

I made him raise his standards for how he treated his body. His time. His energy. His people.

He cut alcohol. Fixed his diet. Started breathing before reacting.

And his company backlogged $1 BILLION that year.

When Mark wanted permission to stay small, I didn’t give it to him.

I shoved him. Literally.

I forced him to reconnect with the part of himself he’d exiled.

And in 100 days of showing up as that version, he went from invisible to $15k months.

Here’s what all of them had in common:

Someone held a standard for them until they could hold it for themselves.

And that’s what you’re missing.

Someone who won’t let you quit on yourself.

Someone who sees through your excuses.

Someone who calls you forward when you try to run.

Someone who holds the standard you’re not yet capable of holding for yourself.

Tomorrow, something changes.

Nick

P.S. - You can’t raise your own standards from inside the system that created your current standards. You need an outside force. That’s not weakness. That’s wisdom.

You are the problem.
Not me. Not Hermione. YOU!

Not the algorithm. Not the economy. Not the “wrong niche” or “bad timing” or any other excuse you’ve been telling yourself.

You.

You’re the one who doesn’t follow through.

You’re the one who quits when it gets hard.

You’re the one who chooses comfortable pain over uncomfortable growth.

You’re the one afraid to speak up for what they believe in.

You’re the one standing between you and everything you say you want.

And I know that’s harsh. I know you want to believe it’s external. That if you just found the “right strategy” or the “perfect mentor” or the “ideal timing,” everything would click.

You’ve had the right strategy. You just didn’t execute it.

You’ve had access to the information. You just didn’t implement it.

You’ve known what to do. You just didn’t fucking do it.

And every day you don’t, you prove to yourself a little more that you’re not ready.

That’s the real enemy.

Not your circumstances. Your self-concept.

The story you tell yourself about who you are and what you’re capable of.

Let me tell you about another client.

He was hitting multiple $100k months organically from his coaching offer. Comfortable. Successful by most standards.

But completely numb.

He was using nicotine pouches. In a relationship he knew wasn’t right. Scrolling his phone for hours. All cheap dopamine to avoid doing the hard work.

When he came out to work with me for an in person weekend (this is a part of my offer for clients), I made him train with me at my gym. My training style.. new stimulus... new hardship.

Because the brain needs to conquer something challenging to activate real dopamine.

Give someone unearned dopamine and their internal drive to conquer slowly dies.

The craziest thing happened… in the middle of our circuit .. I saw him hunched over the bike urg … ON HIS PHONE SCROLLING.

He was getting his fix from comfort. So he had no hunger for challenge.

In the peak of the hard workout - instead of pushing through - his body defaulted to the safety net of cheap dopamine.

woof… did we have work to do.

Sound familiar?

How many sources of cheap dopamine are you using to avoid doing the hard thing?

The scroll. The Netflix. The “I’ll start Monday” safety net.

You’re numbing yourself from the discomfort of growth.

And calling it self-care.

But it’s not self-care. It’s self-sabotage.

And until you’re willing to get brutally honest about how you’re standing in your own way, nothing will change.

You can have all the strategies in the world. But if you’re the bottleneck, you’ll stay stuck.

Tomorrow I’m going to show you the one thing that actually breaks this pattern. The thing that makes the difference between staying stuck and breaking through.

Nick

P.S. - The moment you stop blaming everything else and take full ownership for where you are, you take your power back. Until then, you’re just a victim of your own story.