The cycle you were handed isn't the life you have to live.

Who this is for

You know if this is you.

You're in your twenties and something feels off. You did what you were told — the school, the job, the plan — and you're standing in a life that doesn't feel like yours. Nobody handed you a map. They handed you a script.

Or maybe it's not you. Maybe you read that and saw a name. A son. A daughter. Somebody's kid who's smart, capable, and stuck. Every time I tell someone about this book, that's what happens — they say a name.

Either way, you're in the right place.

What the book is

15

Fifteen rules. Four parts.

Every one of them learned the hard way — $20,000 in credit card debt before I could legally rent a car, a business partnership that cost me $200,000 and a friendship, patterns I swore I'd never repeat and then repeated anyway.

This isn't a book that talks at you. Every chapter ends with Field Drills — actual work, on paper, in your real life. You don't read your way out of a cycle. You work your way out.

What you get

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• The launch announcement, first
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No spam. No selling your email. When I have something worth saying, you'll hear from me. That's the whole deal.

About Mark

I'm Mark Nead. I've built companies, lost money, broken cycles, and started over more times than I planned to. I wrote this book because when I was twenty-three and drowning, nobody handed me one.