Lewis Howes

I was the little guy.

They were the big guy.

They had bigger muscles in the financial legal playground.

And I stood my ground.

I'm like, no, I've done nothing wrong.

And to try to put pressure on a settlement, they issued a contempt of court application saying I breached a freezing order they'd put on, which was like financial handcuffs to try to put pressure on me.

And I hadn't.

And I read it and I looked at it and it was clever.

You'd expect it from a $100 million law firm representing a multi-billion dollar company.

And I thought he'd get laughed out of court in five minutes.

They sold it to the judge.

He gave me six months inside as a civil prisoner.

Never been arrested, never been accused of a crime, still no criminal record.

Yeah, with anything connection to that.

It was like, wow, I go from 50 staff helping hundreds, thousands of people to in jail, lost everything.

Wow.

And that was nine years ago.

And including hundreds of thousands of legal debts that they piled on top of me.

No credit rating.

I came out, lost nothing, lost my wedding, lost business, lost everything from literally that quick.