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EPISODE · Sep 9, 2026 · 57 MIN

Gaylen Wilson- How to Rebuild Your Life After Losing It Five Times

from Gamify Business Tavern Tales · host Paul Pape

What does it take to rebuild your life after losing it completely, not once, but five separate times? Gaylen Wilson has survived farm bankruptcy, a stockbroker collapse that wiped out his clients' money, years lost to alcohol, September 11 destroying his career in a single morning, and end-stage heart failure that left him waiting three and a half years for a transplant.In this episode of Gamify Business Tavern Tales, host Paul Pape sits down with Gaylen, a Rebuilder who calls each collapse a Character Wipe, the moment everything earned gets erased and you start over with a fresh sheet. On June 19, 2018, he told his wife they probably had a few months left. Thirty minutes later, the transplant center called. Now approaching 70 and twenty years sober, he's founded The Monument Method Institute, written seven nonfiction books and five workbooks, published eighteen romance novels with eighteen more drafted, and launched a relationship-readiness platform called MVP.This conversation explores what five identity collapses taught him that one couldn't, how to rebuild trust with yourself after a failure that hurt people you cared about, and why building late in life feels entirely different than building young. If you've ever thought you'd missed your window, this episode is for you.🍺 CONNECT WITH GAYLEN: Website: https://monumentmethodinstitute.com🎮 CONNECT WITH GAMIFY BUSINESS: Website: https://gamifybusiness.com Take the Quiz: https://gamifybusiness.com/quiz Book a Call: https://oncehub.com/GamifyBusiness60MinCall📚 PAUL'S BOOKS: The Creative Player's Handbook to Business- https://gamifybusiness.com/handbook The Creative Player's Workbook- https://gamifybusiness.com/workbook The Game Master's Guide to Business- https://gamifybusiness.com/game-masters-guide Quit Selling Your Shit!- https://gamifybusiness.com/quit-selling The Bard's Guide to Storycraft- https://gamifybusiness.com/storycraftBusiness is an adventure. Don't be an NPC.

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What does it take to rebuild your life after losing it completely, not once, but five separate times? Gaylen Wilson has survived farm bankruptcy, a stockbroker collapse that wiped out his clients' money, years lost to alcohol, September 11 destroying his career in a single morning, and end-stage heart failure that left him waiting three and a half years for a transplant. In this episode of Gamify Business Tavern Tales, host Paul Pape sits down with Gaylen, a Rebuilder who calls each collapse ...

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