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Sep 16, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 16, 2026

    Count your closed doors (opens the original)

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    Dr. Jim Polk opens every client relationship with one question: what do you want your life to look like?He has asked it 25,000 times on 5 continents. A Navy captain answered it with a house on a mountain lake and a woodworking shop for building rocking chairs, and 10 years later that’s where he lives. Most people Jim asks have never written an answer down.This guide is your chance to. Set aside 20 minutes with a notebook and work through it in one sitting, or take one section a day for 6 days. B

  2. Issue · Sep 14, 2026

    Dr. Jim Polk can name all 5 people who refused to let him quit (opens the original)

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    Dr. Jim Polk was supposed to spend his life on a Flint assembly line. A car threw him 120 feet at 14 and ended his running. Bad eyes grounded his flying at 16. At 20 his parents' marriage came apart and he went home to raise his sister and clean a bar at night. At 3 in the morning, on his hands and knees scrubbing a toilet while guys he grew up with laughed at him, he decided he was done. He ended up in the back seat of an F-15 at 65,000 feet working with NASA, where he watched the engine stall

  3. Issue · Aug 28, 2026

    The gap, the gain, and the person you used to be (opens the original)

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    Earlier this week I told you about Jeff Wickersham: the $30,000 bet, the debt he hid from his wife for years, and the morning system that’s had him stacking wins for 3,155 straight days. This one is about you instead of him. I took the lessons learned and turned it into a guide for you.Jeff said something on the show that stuck with me more than any of his stories: it’s what to do until it becomes how to do. That’s the whole point of this guide. Inspiration is easy to consume and easy to forget

  4. Issue · Aug 26, 2026

    Why Most Dads Fail (and how to fix it) (opens the original)

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    Jeff Wickersham spent 10 years at American Express before walking away 8 years ago to found the Warrior Dad Experience. His mission: help 1 million dads become better men and impact 2 million kids by 2053. But his path there ran through his mother's death, a failed gym business, a $30,000 gambling bet he hid from his wife for years, and a battle with alcohol he finally won 4.5 years ago. In this conversation, Jeff and Andy talk about the fragility of life, the courage it takes to confess your wo

  5. Issue · Aug 12, 2026

    You Don't Scale a Plumber (opens the original)

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    If you read the piece from last Monday on Ruth Kahneman and why AI won’t do the slow work of learning for us, this is the part I left out on purpose. The article makes the case. This article is for you to make it personal.Set 10 minutes aside. Answer these on paper, not in your head. There’s a difference between having a thought and writing a sentence on paper, and it’s the same difference the whole article is about.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image

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