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<p>Dear SUCCESS Family,</p>
<p>As I sit down to write what will be my final newsletter for SUCCESS, I find myself thinking about the brand’s impact on an industry that is constantly on the move. Our remarkable team of writers, editors, designers, technicians, creators and vibe coders always makes a concerted effort to weave technology, storytelling, entrepreneurship and human potential together to enhance the lives and businesses of our readers. This has not only moved the needle in our industry—but also my journey as a seasoned journalist.</p>
<p>I have seen media and publishing undergo a remarkable transformation. The tools we use today to create, distribute and consume content have evolved at a pace few could have imagined even a decade ago. Artificial intelligence, digital platforms and emerging technologies continue to reshape how stories are told and how audiences engage with ideas. Yet amid all this innovation, one truth remains unchanged: People are still searching for inspiration, wisdom and connection. Technology may change the delivery, but purpose remains the foundation.</p>
<p>That belief was reinforced during the cover shoot for our <a href="https://mysuccessplus.com/product/success-magazine-jul-aug-2026-robert-herjavec" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">latest issu</a><a href="https://mysuccessplus.com/product/success-magazine-jul-aug-2026-robert-herjavec" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">e</a>, featuring entrepreneur, investor and <em>Shark Tank</em> star Robert Herjavec. Spending time with Robert and interviewing him for this edition was both professionally rewarding and personally transformative. While much of our conversation centered on business, leadership and digital security, what resonated most deeply was his perspective on risk.</p>
<p>Robert spoke candidly about the moments in life when certainty is impossible and the only option is to trust yourself enough to leap. He shared how growth often requires moving toward opportunity before you feel fully prepared, following your instincts even when the outcome is unclear and allowing your heart—not just your fears—to guide major decisions.</p>
<p>As I listened, I realized his message extended far beyond entrepreneurship. It was about honoring your calling.</p>
<p>For years, I’ve had the privilege of helping shape the editorial voice of <em>SUCCESS </em>magazine and the broader SUCCESS ecosystem. Together, we’ve celebrated founders, visionaries, creators and leaders who dared to pursue something bigger than themselves. Through their stories, I’ve often encouraged readers to embrace change, take calculated risks and believe in their potential.</p>
<p>This summer, it is my turn.</p>
<p>After four incredible years, I will be stepping away from my role at SUCCESS. It is a decision filled with gratitude, excitement and yes, a bit of uncertainty. I am deeply honored to have contributed to the SUCCESS legacy and to have worked alongside an exceptional team dedicated to serving our audience, especially our Managing Director and Publisher, Glenn Sanford. Your trust in me to manage your vision during these changing times has meant the world to me.</p>
<p>While I may be leaving the creator’s seat, I won’t be going far. I’ll be watching from the sidelines—this time as a consumer rather than a creator—cheering on the brand, the community and the stories that continue to inspire millions.</p>
<p>Most importantly, Robert’s interview gave me the courage to recognize something I had perhaps known all along: There is an entrepreneur in me too. His words reminded me that sometimes the next chapter begins the moment you decide to trust yourself enough to take the leap.</p>
<p>Thank you for allowing me to be part of your journey. It has been one of the greatest honors of my career.</p>
<p>With gratitude,</p>
<p>Kerrie Lee Brown</p>

How to Know When It's Time to Bet on Yourself — Inside SUCCESS

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<p>Dear SUCCESS family,</p>
<p>I’ve spent the last year in this newsletter talking about building with AI. What it can actually do. How fast the tools are moving. How we are completely reorganizing SUCCESS around that reality.</p>
<p>Today is about something we actually built. And I need a favor.</p>
<p>We created something called the SUCCESS Identity Upgrade™. I am looking for ten people to be the first to test it.</p>
<p>Here is how it works. You fill out an intake form with exactly 23 questions. We don’t want the résumé version of your life. We want the real one. What room you sit in the most. The habit you’d kill today if you could. The exact voice in your head when you are hardest on yourself.</p>
<p>Then we ask about three years from now. Not a private jet fantasy. A believable Tuesday morning. The work you’re doing. The thing you finally stopped chasing.</p>
<p>Then we send something back.</p>
<p>It isn’t a coaching plan. It isn’t a worksheet. It is a roughly 90 - 120 minute audio novella broken into twelve chapters. It is narrated by you, three years from now, looking back at the person you are today.</p>
<p>It is hard to explain until you hear it. The narrator isn’t some guru telling you what to do. It is your own future self remembering you. Remembering the coffee mug in your hand at 6:47 a.m. Remembering the late-night habit you hadn’t kicked yet. Speaking about you in the past tense, with the kind of affection you only have for a version of yourself you’ve already outgrown.</p>
<p>Here is why we built it this way.</p>
<p>You don’t cross the gap between who you are and who you want to be by getting more information. You already know what to do. The problem is that your future self lives in your head as a fantasy, and your nervous system ignores fantasies. It pays attention to memories.</p>
<p>So we built a way for you to live inside that future self for an hour or two. Vividly. With your own details. You listen to it until your brain starts filing that future under ‘things that happened’ instead of ‘things I hope for.' You finish listening, and without even deciding to, you start noticing the world the way that future person would. That is the whole mechanism. The story is the practice.</p>
<p>There is one piece I am obsessing over getting right: it has to be believable.</p>
<p>If you tell us you are behind in life, we don’t narrate you onto a yacht. We narrate the version of you that sits right at the edge of what you can actually believe. Meaningful work. A body that doesn’t hurt. Relationships that got closer. If a vision is too far outside your reach, it collapses under the weight of your actual life. If it sits right at the edge, it expands what is possible.</p>
<p>Getting that calibration perfect for real people is exactly what I need help with.</p>
<p>So here is the ask:</p>
<p>I want to run ten of these. Completely free for the first ten people who raise their hand. In exchange, I want the unvarnished truth after you listen. What landed? What felt off? Where did the future self sound like you, and where did we miss the mark? And most importantly: what would make this worth handing to someone you care about?</p>
<p>We are early. The product works. But it only gets genuinely good if I put it in front of people who won’t sugarcoat the feedback.</p>
<p>If you want one of the spots, reply to this email (or email me at glenn@success.com) with the subject line SUCCESS Identity Upgrade. I will send you the link to the intake. You spend fifteen minutes answering those 23 questions honestly. A little while later, you get an hour or so of audio from the person you are becoming.</p>
<p>Then we figure out what needs fixing.</p>
<p>The first time I listened to my own version of this, it did something to me that a traditional goal-setting exercise never has.</p>
<p>Ten spots. First come. I’d love to have you be one of the people who helps us get it right.</p>
<p>Keep building what matters.</p>
<p>–Glenn</p>

10 free spots to test something new—an audio novella narrated by the person you’re becoming.

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A brain trust is built on the idea that decisions are better when you tap into the collective knowledge and unfiltered opinions of a group.

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Are You Building Real Workplace Infrastructure? — Inside SUCCESS

<p>Dear SUCCESS family,</p>
<p>Matthew Ferry here. Master coach leading the <a href="https://coaching.success.com/?_gl=1*1ls3gc5*_gcl_au*MTM2NjgyODc5NC4xNzc0MTk2NTU2*_ga*MjA4NzczNTExNy4xNzczNDE2ODk2*_ga_VNRM76T9LN*czE3NzkxOTMxNzEkbzE5NiRnMSR0MTc3OTE5MzI2NSRqNjAkbDAkaDA." target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SUCCESS Coaching Certification™ program</a>.</p>
<p>I’ll be coming your way the third Tuesday of every month to talk about all things mindset and coaching.</p>
<p>This week we’re focusing on a powerful idea in psychology called “Parts Work,” made popular through Internal Family Systems (IFS).</p>
<p>The core idea is simple:</p>
<p>You are not one unified voice inside your mind.</p>
<p>You are made up of many different “parts”. And...each has its own fears, motivations, intentions and strategies for keeping you safe.</p>
<p>One part of you wants to grow.</p>
<p>Another part wants certainty.</p>
<p>One part wants to launch the business, make the investment or step onto the stage.</p>
<p>Another part is terrified you’ll fail, lose money or look foolish in front of your family and peers.</p>
<p>Most people experience these inner conflicts as confusion or self-sabotage.</p>
<p>But what if those contradictory voices aren’t actually the enemy?</p>
<p>What if every part of you is trying to help…just from a different perspective?</p>
<p>This changes everything.</p>
<p>Instead of attacking the fearful part of yourself, you become curious about it.</p>
<p>You ask:</p>
<p><em>“What is this part trying to protect me from?”</em></p>
<p><em>“What is it afraid would happen?”</em></p>
<p><em>“What positive intention does it have for me?”</em></p>
<p>That awareness creates separation.</p>
<p>You stop identifying with every thought and emotional impulse.</p>
<p>And from that place, you gain the ability to choose consciously.</p>
<p>Not every part deserves to drive your life.</p>
<p>Some parts were created during moments of fear, embarrassment, rejection or uncertainty. They helped you survive but they may no longer help you thrive.</p>
<p>Growth begins when you acknowledge every part of yourself with compassion…and then intentionally choose which voice aligns with the future you want to create.</p>
<p>That’s not self-rejection.</p>
<p>That’s self-leadership.</p>
<p>More insights next month.</p>
<p>Talk to you soon,</p>
<p>–Matthew</p>

I’m Matthew Ferry, your new SUCCESS coach. My first letter is about inner conflict—and choosing the voice that aligns with who you want to become.

Someone New is Joining your SUCCESS® Journey — Inside SUCCESS

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What They're Not Telling You About Hiring — Inside SUCCESS

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What are these emotions trying to teach me? What is here for me to learn? Who can I better connect with? What are my options right now? How can I maximize this opportunity?

Why uncertainty is fueling a startup boom.

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Leadership coaching improves confidence but rarely drives business results without linking personal growth to organizational metrics. Read on to bridge this connection.

Why Leadership Coaching Fails to Move the Bottom Line

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Inside are the leadership frameworks that actually move the needle.

Tired, Burned Out and Doing Everything Right? — Inside SUCCESS

<p>Dear SUCCESS family,</p>
<p>I’ll be honest. There’s a version of becoming I tried to do by myself.</p>
<p>Head down. Build through the noise. Trust the work even when no one was watching. There’s something noble about that—but there’s something in the work itself that eventually breaks.</p>
<p>Because here’s what I’ve learned the hard way: transformation is a thing only you can do. But it’s not a thing you can do alone.</p>
<p>Those are different sentences.</p>
<p>The breakthroughs I thought I had at 2am? Someone planted those seeds three conversations ago.</p>
<p>The clarity that “came to me” in the quiet? It came through people who had seen something in me before I could see it.</p>
<p>The systems I tore down to build something new? I needed mirrors. I needed witnesses. I needed people willing to stand near me when I wasn’t sure what I was becoming yet.</p>
<p>I think a lot of us are carrying versions of ourselves we’re trying to outgrow. Beautiful, exhausted versions.</p>
<p>The ones who learned to do everything alone because at some point we had to. The ones who built the muscle of self-reliance so deep we forgot we were allowed to put it down.</p>
<p>What I’m noticing—in this company, in this community, in my own life—is that the people moving most right now aren’t the ones working the hardest. They’re the ones who finally let someone in. Who let a mentor see the messy parts. Who let a teammate sharpen them without flinching. Who reached back for someone a few steps behind, and felt the weight of their own becoming get a little lighter in the process.</p>
<p>That’s the part nobody warned me about. Becoming together feels different than becoming alone. Lighter. Stranger. Truer.</p>
<p>We’re living through one of the most transformative moments any of us will ever see. AI is rewriting how we work. The old maps don’t quite fit. And I don’t think any of us were meant to figure this out by ourselves.</p>
<p>So if you’re in the middle of something—a build, a pivot, a quiet shedding—I just want to say: you don’t have to keep doing it alone.</p>
<p>Transformation goes further when you have people walking with you.</p>
<p>That’s the whole game.</p>
<p>Talk more soon. I’m glad you’re here.</p>
<p>-Rachel</p>

You can do hard things by yourself. But becoming? That’s a different ask.

The Part You Can't Do Alone — Inside SUCCESS

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When change comes, when you’re going through 17 different layers of change in this time of great uncertainty and complexity, in the center of it all is opportunity. And it’s up to you to investigate, to get curious, and to figure out, how do you maximize this opportunity that’s in front of you?

A pivot playbook, a wisdom edge, and what Iceland’s Former First Lady learned the hard way.

The Opportunity Inside Every Crisis — Inside SUCCESS

Greg Abel’s first Berkshire Hathaway meeting exposed the hidden challenge of following legends and it’s one of the clearest case studies in leadership transitions available right now.

The Real Test Every Successor Leader Faces

Stepping into management for the first time? Here’s the practical playbook for leading your team, earning trust and protecting your own sanity along the way.

First-Time Manager Playbook: Lead Without Losing Yourself

Leaders who communicate AI decisions transparently build stronger teams—because the distance between the real reason and the convenient one is exactly where trust lives or dies.

Why the Best Leaders Tell the Truth About AI


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        <p class="leadQuoteAttrib"><strong>Frank Sonnenberg</strong> — Award-winning author, consultant and thought leader known for his 12 books on moral character and integrity.</p>
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        <p>Greg Abel’s first Berkshire Hathaway meeting exposed the hidden challenge of following legends and it’s one of the clearest case studies in leadership transitions available right now.</p>
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You can’t expect people to look up to you if you look down on them.

Plus, frameworks worth applying to your business this week.

"It's not AI." Why One CEO's Honesty Stood Out in 2026 — Inside SUCCESS

<p>Dear SUCCESS family,</p>
<p>I recently watched <em>The Devil Wears Prada 2</em>, and once again found myself drawn to Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly—the poised and impeccably styled editor-in-chief of <em>Runway</em>. She’s a character that has always resonated with me, not just for her presence, but for what she represents: the weight of responsibility, the constant pressure and the expectation to see around corners before anyone else does. It’s a role I understand deeply because it’s one I’ve lived throughout my career: navigating high expectations, making difficult decisions and continually balancing vision with reality in an industry that rarely stands still. And right now, it’s moving faster than ever.</p>
<p>Publishing has always evolved, but the pace of change today feels different. With the rise of AI and the expansion of content creation into a broader, more democratized sphere, the lines around who creates, curates and leads are shifting. Barriers are lower, voices are more abundant and the landscape we once knew has become more dynamic—and at times, less predictable.</p>
<p>I feel that tension every day. The pull to uphold standards while embracing innovation. The responsibility to evolve without losing the essence of what makes this work meaningful. It’s both energizing and, at moments, deeply challenging.</p>
<p>In many ways, May mirrors this moment. It’s when change becomes visible and obvious. Across our business, we’re in the midst of a strategic realignment. Priorities are shifting, partnerships are evolving and how we define alignment continues to change alongside the world around us. Business alignment isn’t static; it’s a living, breathing process shaped by both our internal values and the external landscape.</p>
<p>With that comes a renewed commitment to transparency.</p>
<p>Transparency isn’t always easy (especially during times of change) but it is essential. It creates clarity where there could be confusion, trust where there could be doubt and connection where there could be distance.<a href="https://reader.emagazines.com/issue/success/may-2026-digital-edition/may-2026-digital-edition-cover?ipt=686bff6b-b4c5-42db-991c-b817ee7a4c6f" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> In fact, our new digital issue featuring Cassandra Worthy embraces the <em>Change Management</em> theme wholeheartedly. </a></p>
<p>As we move forward, my commitment is to lead with both honesty and strength—qualities Miranda Priestly embodies so well. Beneath the surface, her story reflects a reality many high performers know intimately: the weight, the trade-offs and the resilience required to stay at the top of your game. Because when change is met with intention and honesty, it becomes more than disruption. It becomes progress.</p>
<p>And May is a powerful reminder that progress is already in motion.</p>
<p>–Kerrie</p>

Lessons in leadership from publishing’s most iconic editor.

What Miranda Priestly Taught Me About Change Management — Inside SUCCESS

There’s a segment of the market actively looking to pay a premium—and your current pricing could be altering their decision to choose you over the competition. This piece breaks down the psychology of pricing power and the three moves that could shift your positioning.

What a $50 Movie Ticket Reveals About Your Pricing Strategy

The gap between a solo founder and a fully staffed team is closing faster than most industries have accounted for—and new neuroscience research helps explain why certain founders are built to capitalize on that shift.

How AI Is Turning Solo Founders Into Category-Defining Companies

Starbucks just posted its strongest quarter in years. The SUCCESS® team breaks down the five decisions that drove the comeback, from how Niccol simplified strategy to a single sentence to why he killed the discounts entirely. These aren’t Starbucks-specific fixes—they’re replicable moves.

The 5 Decisions That Saved Starbucks


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Cultivate visibility because attention is currency.

What Does a $50 Movie Ticket Mean for Pricing Strategy? — Inside SUCCESS

The skills that earned your promotion won’t help you lead. The learning curve often comes without notice, so read on to see how to make the shift work in your favor.

Your First Management Job Will Break You—Unless You Do This

Small teams now match Fortune 500 social output using AI while keeping their authentic voice. Discover the workflow that continues to scale these companies.

Small Teams Are Out-Posting Fortune 500s With This AI Trick

Prime Video’s 60 Day Hustle exposes the brutal realities of high-pressure scaling every founder faces.

What 20 Founders Battling for $100K Reveal About Scaling Fast


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        <p class="leadQuoteAttrib"><strong>Rob Edwards</strong> — Nationally recognized wealth adviser and founder of Edwards Asset Management</p>
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        <p>Prime Video’s 60 Day Hustle exposes the brutal realities of high-pressure scaling every founder faces.</p>
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If you’ve built anything that you value, then you’re already wealthy enough. Succession planning is about preserving your legacy and protecting your loved ones—not about living up to someone else’s standards.

Prime Video’s 60 Day Hustle exposes the brutal realities of high-pressure scaling, plus the first-management playbook and how small teams are out-posting Fortune 500s with AI.

20 Founders. $100K on the Line. What They Reveal About Scaling Fast. — Inside SUCCESS Friday Influence

Young global leaders share one thing: five repeatable career patterns you can start using today. Discover the actionable methods to optimize your career.

The 5 Patterns That Build World-Class Careers Before 40

Tim Cook spent 15 years preparing for this handoff—here’s the succession playbook most leaders ignore and what Cook did differently.

Apple’s $3 Trillion Succession Plan

Proximity bias is quietly pushing your top hybrid talent out the door, and most leaders don’t see it.

Your Best Remote Workers Are Leaving. Here’s the Hidden Reason.


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This ability to admit we don’t know, and this ability to show genuine curiosity and to cultivate it in other people—I think it’s one of the most important leadership traits.

Five repeatable patterns from the world’s top young leaders, plus what Tim Cook’s 15-year succession plan and proximity bias mean for your team.

What Do World-Class Careers Before 40 Actually Look Like? — Inside SUCCESS Wednesday Leadership


      <p>Dear SUCCESS family,</p>
      <p>I spent last week at eXpCon Vancouver with our SUCCESS® team. From the main stage, we officially introduced <strong><a href="https://www.success.com/author/matthew-ferry">Matthew Ferry as our faculty lead and master trainer</a></strong>. Matthew brings over 30 years of experience coaching and helping people become the absolute best versions of themselves, and having him partner with us is a massive step forward.</p>
      <p>While we were there, we worked heavily on a question I think every leader is going to have to answer over the next twenty-four months:</p>
      <p><strong>Who exactly are we building for?</strong></p>
      <p>Most companies design for everyone. I would put a younger version of myself in that group. We tell ourselves that a broad approach is inclusive when really it is just undifferentiated. The market punishes that eventually. When a team cannot picture the specific person on the other end of the work, everything they ship gets fuzzy.</p>
      <p>So we sat down and got highly specific. We named our avatar the “Conscious Achiever.”</p>
      <p>The “Conscious Achiever” is someone who has already done the outer work. They have built a career, a business and a life that looks the part. Now they are ready for the inner work that makes any of it sustainable. They are no longer chasing motivation because they have outgrown it. They want absolute clarity about who they are and how their internal identity quietly shapes their external results. They believe that human agency is real and that we are not simply subjects of our circumstances. What shows up in our lives is usually exactly what we expected to show up.</p>
      <p>This is where the philosophy gets incredibly practical. What you expect tends to materialize. You can modify those expectations, but only at the level of who you fundamentally believe yourself to be. Strategies never survive contact with an old identity. The identity is upstream of everything.</p>
      <blockquote>“In a world that has taught humans how to be machines, our job is to help humans be better humans.”</blockquote>
      <p>That is the exact work behind our new SUCCESS® Identity Upgrade™ platform. We are incredibly excited to beta test this system. The mechanics are highly specific. You start by completing a 23-question intake form. Based on your answers, the platform actually builds a custom book written from the perspective of your future self.</p>
      <p>You can read it or listen to the audio on a regular basis. We refer to this concept as Growth Fiction™. Because it engages your mind through storytelling rather than just reciting facts, it facilitates a true identity shift significantly faster than traditional programs. Our upcoming coaching cohort will take advantage of this as our beta group, helping us dial in the platform entirely for future “Conscious Achievers.”</p>
      <p>If you’re interested in joining the next cohort of the <a href="https://coaching.success.com/">SUCCESS Coaching Certification Program™</a>, join me and Matthew Ferry this Wednesday, April 29 at 4pm ET for a <a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/R_qu8nxHS0CXYajFEwmXxA#/registration">free one-hour webinar</a>. We’ll walk through what it takes to build a coaching practice that delivers real transformation—and actually pays.</p>
      <p>I wrote recently that AI handles the speed while humans supply the discernment. I meant it. But that raises an obvious next question about the source of that discernment. Is it coming from someone burned out and running on the expectations of others, or a “Conscious Achiever” who has chosen their identity on purpose?</p>
      <p>That “Conscious Achiever” is who we are designing for. Every product, every coach and every single email we send is built for them. If you have been a <a href="https://www.success.com/subscriptions"><em>SUCCESS</em>® subscriber</a> for a while, you may have noticed our focus tightening. It is not an accident. It is simply the discipline of finally answering the avatar question out loud.</p>
      <p>I will be honest. I came home from Vancouver more energized than I have been in a year. Not because we launched anything new, but because we got completely clear about who this whole thing is for. Finding that clarity about the person you serve is the closest thing a company has to a soul.</p>
      <p>In a world that has taught humans how to be machines, our job is to help humans be better humans. <em>That</em> is the mission. The “Conscious Achiever” is who we are building it with. The real work happens upstream of every habit, system or tool you use. It is the identity you choose to run on.</p>
      <p>More SUCCESS® innovations are coming soon.</p>
      <p class="signature">—Glenn</p>
    

What we found when we finally answered the avatar question.

Glenn Sanford on naming the SUCCESS® avatar—the Conscious Achiever—introducing Matthew Ferry as faculty lead, and the new SUCCESS® Identity Upgrade™ platform built around Growth Fiction™.

Who SUCCESS® Is For — Glenn Sanford

A San Francisco boutique recently handed full management authority to an AI named Luna—hiring staff, setting prices, and updating the employee handbook—while underpaying workers and missing ethical red flags entirely. The SUCCESS® team unpacks what Luna got right, where she failed, and what every leader needs to put in place before AI touches their org chart.

When Your AI Boss Hires—Then Exploits

Last weekend, a humanoid robot completed a half-marathon faster than any human ever has—and that’s not even the most important part of the story. What happened in the 12 months leading up to that finish line says a lot about where careers are headed.

A Robot Just Cut 68% Off Its Half-Marathon Time in 12 Months

John Lee quit his dream job at 23 to chase freedom over paychecks. Discover his 6 lessons on wealth, success, and building financial independence.

Why Entrepreneur John Lee Chose Freedom Over a Paycheck


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