My Origin Story: Handcuffs, Hypomania, and the Shopping Cart That Changed Everything

Send us Fan MailI got arrested at 2 p.m. on a Saturday. I was 25, blackout drunk, and had just closed the biggest deal of my career. For the next fifteen years, I carried a liter-a-night habit through corner offices and Fortune 500 boardrooms — crushing quotas while crumbling inside.This is the episode I've never done before. No frameworks. No tactics. Just the real story behind everything I teach on this show.The arrest. The diagnosis. The medication that saved my life and got me fired on the same timeline. The eleven times I rehearsed telling my wife in an empty car in a Starbucks parking lot. And the question that changed everything: Did I really have to choose between sanity and success?I also break down the shopping cart pattern — how I found a multimillion-dollar opportunity hiding inside the most boring product in American retail, and why an entire industry was blind to it for decades. It's the clearest example I can give of what happens when you stop letting comfort filter out what's right in front of you.If you've listened to this show and wondered where all of it comes from — this is where.📕 Get "The Unfair Advantage: Weaponizing the Hypomanic Toolbox" at  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FV6QMWBX🌐 StagnationAssassins.com 🌐 ToddHagopian.com