John Goldman

I have always been an entrepreneur.

I worked in private equity first.

I worked in a hedge fund right out of school, graduate degree.

Then I got into real estate, did individual real estate, independent real estate development for like 2000 to like 2008.

And if you're not old enough to know what that means, great financial crash really took out almost everybody I know working in real estate at that time.

And then did some side work, did some nonprofit work, did school turnaround work where like I just jumped into the middle of the charter school universe and helped turn around schools because I came to it from a balance sheet management perspective and personnel management perspective.

And we were really successful at that.

From there, I got into social media and whatnot.

And here I am today.

I woke up in 2022 feeling like crap, man.

I said to my friend, I said, dude, are there guys my age who say, they say, I feel better than ever in their late 40s or whatever.

And I'm like, those guys are full of it, right?

They are lying.

There's no way that is possible.

And he's like, no, man.

There are definitely people who are 40 and 50 years old who are feeling good today and better than they did yesterday and getting better every single day.

And I thought, man, the way I feel every morning when I wake up, if this is it, if this is my peak existence at 46 or 47 and from here it's just declined, the rest of my life is going to suck.

And so I really found motivation because I was feeling bad and I didn't know why I was feeling bad.

And again, this is like four or five years ago.

And it was before the boom, right?