The Bet

You've already survived the unsurvivable. Your brain just forgot to add it to your resume.
That thing that destroyed you? The divorce, diagnosis, betrayal, or loss that split your life into before and after? You survived it. You're here. 

In this Mini Memo Drop, discover why your brain is treating everyday challenges like death threats when you've already got a PhD in survival.

The download: Your brain misfiled your survival story. Instead of filing it under "Proof of What I Can Handle," it filed it under "Never Risk Anything Again." Wrong folder. Wrong lesson. Wrong conclusion.

Why it matters: Your nervous system can't tell the difference between "this might be awkward" and "this might kill me." But you've already handled the unhandleable. Everything else is just paperwork.

The worst already happened. You're still here. Time to update your security clearance.

Already updating your resume? The algorithm is recognizing you as titanium. Send proof of life:
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Tell me what you survived that your brain "forgot" to count - I'm collecting evidence that we're all walking around with outdated threat assessments.

What is The Bet?

The Bet isn’t another personal development podcast. It’s a live experiment. For one year, I’m betting everything on energy over effort, documenting in real time what happens when you replace traditional self-help with cognitive engineering. Follow along each week and get one deep-dive “reality show” episode and one Mini Memo Drop (a quick hit to rewire your basic human OS). No scripts. No promotion. Just me, the mic, and whatever happens when you bet it all and let the world watch. If you’ve ever wondered what happens when someone dares the universe to show up — welcome to The Bet.

you already did the hardest
thing you'll ever do.

You already did it, and I don't
know what that thing was for you.

The divorce, the death, the
diagnosis, the bankruptcy, the betray.

Whatever that thing was that happened that
split your life into before and after.

But I do know this, you survived that.

You are here listening to this breathing
existing, and now you are scared

to do the next step of your life.

Welcome to your mini memo drop.

Here's what's going down.

Your brain forgot to update its resume.

It is still running.

On this old threat system that got created
from before you proved that you were

indestructible, before you survived.

That thing that you know that happened
that should have destroyed you.

Your brain is still acting like
you're that person who hasn't yet been

tested as if you don't have receipts.

You didn't actually walk through
hell and come out on the other

side standing fully intact.

So now everything feels
equally threatening.

An uncomfortable conversation feels
as dangerous as a cancer diagnosis.

Making a pivot in your business
feels as scary as a divorce.

Raising your prices, charging what
you're worth, claiming your value feels

like it might actually kill you because
your nervous system cannot tell the

difference between, Hey, this might
be awkward and mm, this might end me.

And that's not weakness on your part.

It's not a defect, it's a filing error.

Your brain misfiled your survival
story instead of filing it under proof

of what I can handle, it got filed
under things that almost killed me,

so let's never risk anything again.

Wrong folder, wrong
lesson, wrong conclusion.

The thing that should have broke you,
that was your doctorate in survival.

That was your masterclass in not dying.

That was your brain literally
rewiring itself to handle the

un handleable and you passed.

You're here, but your brain didn't
update your security clearance.

It's still treating you like a
civilian when you are special ops.

So here's the software update.

Next time it feels like something
is too scary, too risky, too hard.

You say this, I've already
done things harder than this.

Not as an affirmation, it's a fact.

It's data.

It's evidence that your brain apparently
forgot to enter into the system,

the thing you're afraid to say, the
conversation, you're avoiding the price.

You want to charge the boundary that needs
to be set, the move you need to make.

You've done harder things, you
have survived worse things than

someone being disappointed in you.

Your brain is treating
you like you're fragile.

When you have documented proof
that you are titanium, it's

running this pre- trauma software.

When you've already been upgraded
to the Bulletproof version,

the worst has already happened.

You are still here.

Everything else is just paperwork.

Stop letting your brain gaslight you
into thinking you can't handle something.

You've already handled the UN handleable.

Your resume is stacked.

Baby.

Your brain just forgot to read it.

Time to remind it.

Who the fuck you are.

Go bet on yourself.