Brian Brushwood

I mean, I guess it's funny because people ask, you know, what I do for a living.

And 10 years ago, the answer was very, very simple.

I quit my day job because I wanted to tour with a live blood and guts punk rock magic show.

And over the course of three or four years, I put together this 90 minute show with fire eating escapes, mind reading, break 30 pound bricks over my head and stick nails in my eyes.

And I found a real match with the college market where I would tour 150 to 200 days on the road.

And once that got to be

I don't want to call it a grind, but once it seemed under control, it's like, okay, well now what?

And so I sort of added a little skeptical stage lecture to my repertoire.

And then I started doing stuff online.

And then I was a guy who toured with a magic show, but also dabbled in the internet.

And then at some point I was clearly spending more time on the internet than I was on the road.

And then all of a sudden TV comes calling and the comedy albums start happening.

So, so I guess at this point I would say I, my career has a highly diversified portfolio.

And I never thought, I got to be honest, I never thought I'd be in this position.

And it's funny because only after doing all of these things for seven or eight years did it occur to me that you need to have a back end.

And so after doing all these things, I realized that trading my time for money, and even though it's a blast to fly out to Kuala Lumpur to give a lecture on building a platform and a brand,

You know, really, all of that is just the surface.

And to build a back end, something that would keep me financially or get me to a point where I was financially free, I had to build the rest of the iceberg underneath.

And so we launched three years ago, scam stuff.

We call it gear for the modern rogue, which is sort of a way for if you're a fan of the