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Heya Solo School Peeps, 

I knew this was coming up but I didn't realize how soon it was coming... This year -- month in fact - marks 10 years for me "building an online business". 

I started off with Ramit Sethi's I Will Teach You To Be Rich/Zero To Launch program (with additional coaching, total $8k) on January 29, 2016:

I don't recall the exact timelines, but you can bet your fancy bottoms that (1) I made it to very very few if any of the coaching calls, and then lost track, and (2) soon after followed...

- Cat LeBlanc's $10k for 6 mths 1:1 coaching. While I was traveling back and forth to Canada, migrating all my stuff to California, and unbeknownst to me, she was making a HUGE life transition moving to Australia. Can we say high-pressure sales ("You'll have 24 hours to make a decision, are you in or are you out?"). Apparently even then I knew/had an idea I was autistic; I recall her selling herself on me because her brother is autistic so she "gets it". Spoiler: she didn't get it; and I didn't even know then how much support I needed, and how uncoachable I was at that point. Actually this WAS very soon because it was 2016 when I was moving... so, like within months of dropping $8k on Ramit's program, my AuDHD brain had erased it from memory and "reinvested in myself" with Cat's program. Yikety yikes. (Happy to share the dark history of how I was able to pull off that kind of spend back-to-back inside of a year, but I digress)... 

- James Wedmore's Business By Design program - Sept 2019. I don't recall the spend but it was in the $3k range. I can still access this program and the community is pretty alive. Some folks in it I know have done VERY VERY well (like in the idea-to-$1MIL+ kind of "well"). I might even go back to revisit this. 

- Off the top of my head, I'm also recalling an Amy Porterfield's webinars program (probably that was also 2016 or early 2017), Tony Robbins & Dean Graziosi's Knowledge Broker Blueprint (KBB) program, which I tried to get refunded and ultimately settled on a deeply discounted $1k for access to a program that's now an empty website shell of dead links and "Sorry you don't have access to this content" messages; Lisa Johnson's One To Many program, which was actually really fantastic and one of the FIRST programs I fully completed all the calls, if not the action items, at least... and... oh so many other things. I can think of at least 5 other smaller/obscure programs off the top of my head. 

Am I making $1MIL/year yet? HELL NO. Have I even made that much over the whole 10 year haul? Again... hella no. Here's a testament to how badly NT coaches are able to support their ND students in getting results, and how real the hard can be; and why "invest in yourself" on its own never ever ever ever will get you the result without the other pieces being in place.

I'm kinda interested to hear what others have dropped big bucks on, what if anything was useful, what was most cringey, what had an ROI.... and doing a forensic overview myself. Anyone else? 

Happy New Year. Here's to continued growth in deliberate, intentional and fully aligned directions. I'm so glad Solo School exists NOW.... definitely an "if only it had existed then" moment, but alas, the learning is rich.