This Week
- Exploring Athens and my first impressions.
- The insane Crete house.
- A week with the guys, hanging out, getting content, and renting a catamaran.
November 2025
| Su | M | T | W | Th | F | S |
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| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 11/1 |
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 |
| 30 | 12/1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
Where In The World Was I?
- 🇬🇷 Athens, Greece
- 🇬🇷 Crete, Greece
Metrics From The Week
Exploring Athens
Took a long exploration run/walk for 2 hours around Athens, the Plaka neighborhood, up to the Acropolis entrance, and through the streets.
Had so many people making eye contact with me then looking down at my chest (tight athletic shirt), it got to the point I started laughing 😂
Surprisingly a lot of graffiti in the area I was staying.
+10 XP for asking someone to take photo of me (only a little overthinking and missed asking the pretty girl I was eyeing 😂). Eeeeeeeasy first try
First Impressions Of Athens
- Some very attractive women here…
- So much graffiti, maybe just in the metro and areas I went to though
- There are zero gyms open at 8am on Sunday, lol
- It’s Sunday… Why is everything closed, even restaurants
- The language feels like I’m reading a calc 2 math equation
- Plaka is goated
- This city is and feels very old. I don’t see much of anything modern like buildings
- Cheap! Wow. $8 for two gyros, 8 euro for a healthy bowl at protein garden
- LOVE the side streets, tons of restaurants tucked in side street, alleyways, pedestrian streets, absolutely packed with people. Such a vibe
- The language sounds a little bit Italian, everyone sounds like they’re mad at each other, speaking with the hands
Crete 1MI Event
Flew into Crete for another 1MI event.
Holyyyyyyyy schnikes! The house was crazy, quality was up there with the Bali villa. I think we had about 13 guys this trip.
Had lots of chats around the house, shot a TONNNN of content, videos, photos, went to the gym twice, hung out at the local coffee shop that was actually quite nice, went out for dinner one night, and played a game of soccer.
Also rented a catamaran for 6 hours on Saturday… Incredible. It was honestly a lot of fun and SO peaceful. I could feel the stress deloading as we were driving/sailing to the beach spot (about an hour). Such a cool experience.
I followed http://youtube.com/@SailingLaVagabonde for a while before/during my van life chapter. I had always wondered what it might be like to live on a boat and just sail around. No decisions made, but it does seem doable.
All in all this was a fantastic trip. Super grateful for Kris and for joining the community. What an opportunity…
I’ve got SO much content to go through it’s ridiculous 😂
Content
Speaking of content, I was inspired by one of the other guys in the group who also runs an online business and ran some Instagram trial reels testing out some new formats and text copy and some of them have been popping off the last week.
I’ve been getting between maybe 250 and 1k views per reel. But this week one hit 1k, and 3 others hit 3k. Gained some new followers from that, noice.
And two people (I already knew) reached out this week wanting to work with me. Double noice.
Thoughts From The Week
202511020932 Brain dump - HBBH Coffee Bar Athens
#journal
Wassup, gonna do a little brain dump here before jumping into the Life Update today.
Just made it to Athens last night, first time in Greece!
I've got 2 full days, then we fly to Crete Tuesday afternoon for the second 1MI event. Back to Athens for part of the 9th, 10th, and part of the 11th, then back to the U.S.! Crazy.
1MI Porto was really good. I think I'd give it a 7/10. Not as good as Bali, but I had a ton of fun, played lots of padel, laughed a LOT... and hysterically. Bro we were playing padel, 6 of us, and [name] was just kicking the ball around with his feet. It got to the point where he kicked it out of the court like 10 times and then did it again and we were all like gasping-for-air laughing oh man it was so funny.
I like this group.
It's less business and more just fun, laughing, joking around, aura-farming. They make me feel young.
I had some hesitations and bit of fear going into this if people would ask me about my coaching, or needing to admit that I'm not doing as well as I want to be doing.
Talked to [name] one night and he gave me some advice on Instagram as a funnel and profile optimization. I felt that pit in the stomach like sinking feeling of "oh shit I'm doing something wrong" tension.
But I also noticed that I don't think that ruined our relationship. Sure he probably has noticed that I've pivoted, that I'm still starting out, but we still played ping pong together and interacted.
The first day we were in Honest Greens and he was telling this story of him and [name] meeting up with a third friend. The two of them are doing very well business-wise, but the third guy wasn't.
He was talking about the guy felt like super insecure and that he didn't have any value to provide, but [name] learned that he was really into fashion and so they started talking about that.
The message he was conveying was that it's a shame that our culture right now makes guys think that your monthly income is like the number one metric of value and worth, and that if you're not doing well you have nothing to provide. Compared to viewing money as ONE metric out of many that makes up us as humans.
I was like "oof yeah I resonate with that." I get the same feeling talking to [name] because he's so much further ahead in business and "successful" at business.
But it also reminds me of a moment, I think it was when we were at that rooftop restaurant _Sala de Prova Restaurant & Bar_. [name] and [name] were talking about women, feminine women, marriage, wives, etc. emotions.
[...]
And this other thought around how different their mindsets are around business, grinding, and how much more emotional my body is. I'm having trouble putting it into words here, but my takeaway was that my literal body is designed different biologically than [name] and [name].
It comes back down to [[202508202144 The thing that makes me unique]], how much more I feel emotions and feelings than other guys.
What else is going on?
[...]
Finished up [[202510191816 Book Yourself Solid by Michael Port]] on the plane, noice. Still need to go back through and turn into action items, but it was definitely useful.
Started reading [[202511020750 No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz]] inspired from [cousin]. I'm now seeing the unworthiness or at least some kind of blocks coming up, a delta between my reality and living from abundance.
I figure we just accept it and work on resolving it.
Was ChatGPT'ing yesterday and had all these book recommendations and got me excited for all these ideas and tools and things to learn and be able to share with other people! Read read read!
What else is on my mind?
Got another 1MI event this week, Crete. What's most important?
- Enjoy it
- Content
[...]
What else?
- The idea of niching down, focusing in on problems in content (related: [[202511010914 Takeaways from 1MI Porto event]])
Yeah let's talk about that, there was something else on my mind but forgot it.
This idea I took away from [name] [[202511010914 Takeaways from 1MI Porto event]]... Essentially the idea that my current content is too scattered. Maybe it is, maybe it's not.
But niching is better than not niching, no?
I'm thinking back to [[202509290826 Niche Clarity Codex Results]] and thinking "hmmm, I wonder if even this is too much..."
What could be the ABSOLUTE NUMBER ONE THING I'm known for?
- Lifestyle - Permission to live a non-traditional life against the norm.
What's the NUMBER ONE PAIN from my ideal client?
- Self-betrayal, the disappointment in myself for not making the progress I want to
What's the NUMBER ONE DESIRED OUTCOME?
- Waking up energized, feeling meaning in their life, progress.
Related:
- [[202509281718 Niche Clarity Codex]] and [[202509290826 Niche Clarity Codex Results]]
- [[202510191041 💀 One Person, One Pain, One Promise]]
- [[202510191026 🧍♂️ Ideal Customer Avatar]]
I did NOT AI-this because it needs to come from inside. And honestly? Looking at this... I'm like, there's my 3 content buckets right there.
I could honestly boil my entire content strategy down to those three:
- Lifestyle content, showing myself, my values going against the traditional life
- Solving the pain of self-betrayal, disappointment in yourself, procrastination.
- Talking about the dream, waking up energized, meaningful, fulfilled.
_Added to [[202509100831 🔽 Coaching Content Funnel]]_
I think for now that's a good start.
I'm thinking once I get back to the U.S. and in my van, we do some more brainstorming to fill out the content funnel just using Dan Bolton's content cadence.
Cool, what else is on my mind?
This disassociation from my body... it keeps happening. Got it on the plane I think, and my last day in Porto?
It's like bro what the fuck is going on right now... this not recognizing my reality... thinking what the hell is this life.
So much gratitude for this life I get to live.
[...]
Speak to my niche more. Money is not a problem for these people.
And I'm being influenced too much by my Instagram audience, a bunch of _brokies_ bro. Okay not actually, but my Instagram followers aren't exactly my ideal clients... and this is making me change how I approach, which is not good.
It's back to that whole YouTube advice of DO NOT share your channel to your friends and family in the early days because it absolutely destroys your algorithm because it can't find your actual ideal viewer well enough.
This makes me want to double down on trial reels right now, get much more niche and specific and actually start to pull my ideal client into my funnel instead of just adding people I know and meet. I'm wondering if it's wrecking my algorithm... But who knows. I bet you I can outpace this problem with just enough actual targeted content.
_Just added some content and spark ideas to my board [[202508101002 ⚡️ Spark and Idea Board]]_
Anything else on my mind before we jump into the Life Update?
Lock in bro.
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What’s Next
It’s finally happening folks, 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸