What is up my Action Academy family? Bad news. I am not perfect. Sorry, guys. Sorry to disappoint.

But I spent, or rather, not spent, lit on fire 118,000 U.S. dollars trying to solve a problem in my business in the complete wrong way.

And since spending $118,000, I have realized a significantly better way to solve said problem

and every other problem that exists in business and in your life in general, which is the topic

of today's podcast episode. Again, this show is off of the direct feedback from you guys,

the listeners that are asking for not only all the wins, but lessons from the pain and the losses.

So here we go. I will be your humble guide and servant

here. So how I will begin is telling you guys a story of a problem that I was encountering today,

Q1 of 2025, how I attempted to solve said problem, how I lost the $118,000, and then the core

lesson that you guys could take away from this and how we are changing our approach to problem

solving in our business moving forward. Again, this is a lesson that you guys can implement

and utilize if you're at $0,000, $100,000, a million dollars, $10 million a year

plus. It is universal. So to begin, in all of business, whether you are running an Action

Academy like me, any type of business that you're providing any type of service to a customer

or an investing company where you're buying multifamily storage,

other small businesses, or even land, there are two different constraints that you will

balance between in the realm of business. You're either going to have a sales and marketing

constraint or you're going to have an admin ops fulfillment constraint. And as you solve one side, the pendulum will eventually swing to the

other, and you will continue going back and forth for the remainder of your life. Welcome to business.

Fun, right? We scream into the abyss as we try to make money. To give new listeners some background

context, I was working a corporate sales job, quit. Now I run a few companies.

This company that I'm talking about here is Action Academy, which is our mastermind. We do about

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