In 2022, Sam Bankman-Fried had the entire world eating out of his hand.

He was a billionaire crypto ‘genius’ who founded the cryptocurrency exchange FTX. 

He was on the cover of Forbes, rubbing shoulders with politicians, and getting endorsed by celebrities.

Meanwhile, the dude was using hard-working people’s money to fund org!es and play house with his girlfriend in a $30 million penthouse in the Bahamas.

And the craziest part?

Everyone from Wall Street to Washington was singing his praises right up until it all collapsed.

That’s how good the act was.

I’ve been in this game long enough to know that the business world is full of people who have mastered the art of LOOKING successful without actually BEING successful.

They’ve got the right buzzwords and enough confidence to sell ice to an Eskimo. 

But they’ve never actually built the thing they’re teaching you to build.

These gooroo hype trains always leave the station fast. 

Selling you big promises. 

But when they run out of railway – the chargebacks start rolling in, the reviews go south, maybe the FTC sends them a love letter or two – you’ll see real quick that they don’t walk the walk.

And when their program delivers a donkey instead of a unicorn, they’ll look you dead in the eye and tell you that YOU’RE the problem for it not working.

I share this with you because my first mentor didn’t teach me business from a slide deck. 

He was a millionaire client of mine back when I was a personal trainer making nothing. 

He sat me down, treated me like a peer, and taught me sales, marketing, and money by SHOWING me how he operated his own businesses.

He even loaned me $126,000 to build my first piece of software. When it flopped because Steve Jobs came out with the iPhone and made it obsolete overnight, Jim didn’t blame me. 

He helped me figure out the next move.

That’s what a real mentor does. 

They’ve built sh!t. 

They’ve lost sh!t. 

They’ve rebuilt. 

And they teach from the scars, not from a script.

So if you’re looking for someone to help you scale, stop looking at what they’re selling and start looking at what they’ve built and whether their students are still winning years later.

If you are looking for someone to help you scale and are doing $25K-$100k/mo…

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Bedros Keuilian