Season finale — I hit $100k! Now what?? | Ep 128

See full show notes here.DescriptionI've been putting this off for ages. But here it is... the season 1 finale!!The full rundown. From a freshman walking out the dining hall with a voice memo, to landing a 6-figure offer in SF with $100k in the bank. Almost four years!Walking down memory lane:My first janky episodeBackstage door in SLCFreshman summer where I fell apartThe book that gave me permission to believe againThe Hong Kong trip that changed everything.The marathon (then doing it again).Leaving my jobAll of it.SummaryThe first voice memo. Walking out of a dining hall freshman year in a winter coat, phone in hand, no plan. Heard a podcast say "imagine if Bezos recorded his journey at 18." Started the thing right there."The first thing you do is always the worst." First episode was rough. Microphone half-cut. Yapping like I knew anything. Didn't matter. No one was listening anyway.The Salt Lake backstage moment. Walked through a "Do Not Enter" sign at a Polynesian professional event, found myself in a room with David Tafuna and every cracked Polynesian I'd been DMing for months. Pivotal.Freshman year reality check. Couldn't just study more to get the A. Sleep schedule destroyed. Watched all of One Piece in three months at 3x speed. Put on 30 pounds. Coped with binge eating.Sophomore summer collapse. The breakup hit me months late. Calling Domino's at 4am. Working till 9am. No idea what I was doing.The book that flipped it. Taking Pascal's Wager by Michael Rota. Didn't try to prove God exists, just that you can be rational living a Christian life. That lower bar was everything.The $1,000 Jumpstart challenge. Bombed the pitch so hard. They said "your interview was bad but we love your hustle, make $1k by summer and you're in." Convinced 6 Polynesian business owners in Utah to chip in. Got the rest from Coach V.Hong Kong, two weeks after meeting her. "Bro, pull up." So I pulled up. Crashed on her couch. One of the most life-changing trips of my life.The assumption that broke. Always thought hard upbringings were the only fuel for ambition. Met people in Hong Kong with stable homes who were just as driven. Wait, that's possible?New Zealand Iron Man finish line. Watching my buddy cross the line. Started training for a marathon that same day. Two miles in 30 minutes. Three months later I ran the full thing.💔 The Leland goodbye and going to Sphinx. Three interviews in five minutes. Bombed the first round. Did a work trial on Valentine's Weekend. Took the offer.The actual takeaway. The money was never the point. The people, the faith, the failing forward — that's what $100k actually bought. Now onto the road to a milli.