This Week
- How I came up with the reel that went semi-viral this week
- Reflections from a crazy transformation over the last couple months
- Revealing the feet pics
October 2026
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| 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 10/1 | 2 | 3 |
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Where In The World Was I?
- Bali, Indonesia
Metrics From The Week
Snaps From The Week
Went to my first Sunday Gathering with these people that I met at a Saturday community brunch. Was super fun connecting with some other people there, everyone was so positive and uplifting.
Just practiced opening myself up to the story and message. And broke out into little groups to share answers to these reflection questions.
It was fun and always great finding cool and positive people and communities here.
Posted this to my story and marker’d out my feet because who wants to see my feet ya know? But I’ve also made this joke before so I was like let’s see what people say…
And then I started getting the story replies from friends… 😂😂
I was like what are we doooooin’ people hahahahaha. Made me LOL
And so since you’re reading my blog post/newsletter here I’ll give YOU access to the FULL UNCENSORED FEET PICS 😏😏😏 Don’t go to crazy with ’em 🤪
The Couch Reel
At the last Saturday community brunch, a woman gave a workshop/talk on getting unstuck, finding clarity and direction. I felt like I wasn’t really her target audience anymore but I was very curious to see how she ran it.
She gave us a lot of questions, some of them were good, but it was also a lot. I was taking notes and matching to what I knew and my own experience.
And towards the end she talked about the “most important part”… “how to follow through, how to not give up”
I was taking notes in my phone and literally typed out “ohhh here we go… :)”
She said when you lose motivation, come back to your why, your vision, purpose, reconnect with it. And talked about the levels of support “daily plans, calendar reminders, accountability, habit tracker apps, whatever supports you most”
And as I was hearing this and writing it out I wrote “LOLLLL”
The number of times I hear about this… And it’s not that they don’t work, but for myself and MY ICP, I literally say in my workshops “so you’ve tried to fix this with daily plans, time blocking, reminders, and it hasn’t fixed it… because you’re solving at the wrong layer.”
...
Most important - how to follow through (_oh here we go_), how to not give up
- if/when losing motivation, come back to why, vision, purpose, connecting
- and check in how important is this change, maybe not relevant
- _how to know if conviction change or like an excuse courage change_
- daily plans calendar reminders accountability habit tracker app, whatever supports you more
- _LOLLLL_
...And another guy in the community was running a 14-day accountability challenge where you give him what your priorities are and what you need to do and he puts together a daily routine for you.
Again I was like, everyone can do what they want, it’ll work for some people… but I just know it doesn’t solve for the deeper problem, which is what I was experiencing.
So anyways I had this in the back of my mind. And one day was walking back from lunch and this idea hit me…
I sat down on the couch, thought about what I wanted to say, gave it a couple takes rambling and tweaking. I remembered this reel I made back in May, something about self-improvement journey that did well.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYZGdlCTOqQ
So I kinda took some of these ideas and mashed them together. Then landed on this one maybe my 5th take, liked it, and posted it like I would any other.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DeqYkfbt6XS
I checked a couple hours and noticed it was at like 1.5k already and was like “oh… oh wow”
So I made another video that afternoon, something for the algorithm to push to the same people.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Deq_dytRAgE
I went to bed and woke up to this
I was getting comments from people asking how to actually fix feeling problems then. So I found a YouTube video from back in Salt Lake City 6mo ago and setup a Manychat automation to send people the link.
I was kicking myself for not having my VSL setup… It’s literally outlined and the next video for me to make… But I figured ah just give people some value, maybe they’ll stay in my world.
The following couple days were pretty overwhelming, all the comments, new followers, DMs from people, conversations. My brain was cooked and had a bajilion open loops from all the conversations.
I felt like I should take advantage of the opportunity in some way but knew I was working up against a Capacity constraint. I asked my business coach and he suggested putting my group offer out there. I AI’d a plan, didn’t do it for a day, caught myself, then just put out basically one story explaining my offer and how I have 4 spots left for Founding Member opportunity.
I setup a Manychat automation to DM them the Google Doc offer doc. One guy already responded, got the doc link, and responded saying he’s in… I sent him the payment link and he paid.
This happened and my face was like: 😯
Like wait so I can just send people a doc and they sign on… without a sales call… that’s wild.
I actually had this happen twice this week, once with a guy but we’ve known each other for a while. But this guy was completely new.
By now the reel is at 47k and still climbing.
AI Agents
In the meantime I’ve been continuing to mess around with AI agents and prompts and things inside my Obsidian vault. I’ve been streamlining things like post-call work, transcripts, summaries, client notes, using prompts.
I also this week finally after 7 months had Claude Code build out this auto-transcriber idea that I had back in like February, something that automatically transcribes every video journal I make on my phone and drops it into my Obsidian vault to mine.
I pushed this off for so long because I didn’t want to have to deal with writing code, or debugging, or maintaining it. But Claude Code basically just one-shot it, told me the exact things and instructions to run. Now I have this pipeline built that’s running automatically.
AND I setup a nightly cron job that mines my vault for ideas, quotes, interesting stories, etc. on my server and pushes notifications to my phone and adds notes to my vault.
This shit is so cool.
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Thoughts From The Week
202610240745 A personal win shared to Onem reflecting on Bali chapter
#journal
Shared this to Onem Personal Wins chat:
Boys, a little personal win check in from my end on THE GREAT BALI LOCK IN:
The last 3 months have been f*cking crazy. Changed my life. I feel like a new man. Launched a new coaching program 3mo ago, hit my capacity for 1-1 clients, launched a group tier, got my first 2 amazing case studies, random reel I made this week went semi-viral and is at 40k views now, I'm the biggest and also leanest I've ever been, the most confident and fulfilled I've been, the most playful and expressive I've ever been, today just had my first completely cold approach from driving by on a scooter and turning around to stop, been running my own belief rewiring frameworks on my cold approach/rejection fears, dates have gone extremely well lately, some of the girls got to almost obsessed level...
As I reflect on this, it wasn't one thing but there was one moment in particular that was a domino for A LOT of this, and that was after a long time struggling, to decide to stop trying to do it alone and hire a business coach to help me with how to market myself. That obviously massively transformed by business but that also had downstream effects on my confidence and my self image.
And when I reflect even further back, all of my biggest step function growth moments happened with someone else: mentor, business coach, joining a community, joining Onem...
I was stubborn for a long time, convinced I could do it myself, but after long enough I said fuck it maybe it's time to accept I can't do it all myself. And that was one of the best mindset shifts and decisions I made. Just invested in another 6mo
So my one takeaway from all of this: don't be afraid to ask for help. A lot of men right now maybe some of us in this group are struggling silently and we all try to put up this front that "nah bro life is amazing I can't show weakness," but we're all in this group to level up and help each other get better. If you feel stubborn or afraid to ask or reach out to someone, as someone who was a lone wolf for like 5 years, I'd suggest thinking about what it really is that's holding you back... And if YOU need someone, my DMs are always open
Onwards and upwards see you boys in Crete 🫡🤝
202610240746 Reflections on my 2026 Bali chapter
#journal
- this shit crazy, that's all I gotta say
Lol
Leaving for Athens tonight and Budapest for 2 weeks then coming back
Right now?
- brain is cooked right now, sleep has been shit last couple days, [...]
- feeling overwhelmed from all the messages and DMs having to get back to people
- thankfully pivoted yesterday to just posting SOMETHING to my story, sharing my group program, [name] this one guy responded, haven't checked his message yet if he's in or not, so that's sick
- but I asked [name]'s SignalOS and it gave me this like 5 story sequence and I just ended up avoiding it I was like I'm just not gonna do this
- feeling a bit of a treadmill with work, content falling behind, been slacking on post call followups and stuff. I think I definitely need a break from working in excited for Crete. I just need to figure out how to put all my calls on one day or something
- SUPER pumped at what I've been building with Claude code the last week, bit of pulling the thread but I'm finally getting to these things... Video Transcriber automatically, and added an auto cron signal miner every night. So now every video journal I make on my phone I automatically get the transcript to my obsidian vault and then it's automatically included in the signal miners so it's gonna start pulling nuggets from my actual videos. I'm so excited.
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What’s Next?
Off we go!
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