Blake Tovez made tens of millions online and made sure nobody knew his name.

For eight years he stayed deliberately invisible. No brand, no face, no posts.
In this episode he explains why: at a million a month the feds showed up, the
hate mail started, and he decided that being known was not worth what it cost.

We get the whole story. A town of 400 people in Oklahoma, and a father who grew
up with violence. An eight hour train ride with no wifi that changed how he
thinks about business. The cold email that built everything. A day at
Acquisition HQ with Alex Hormozi. Landing in Medellin and spending his first
week planning how to knock someone out.

And then the part nobody expects from an operator, which is the inner work.
Including the best explanation of changing a belief we have had on this show,
which involves Gandalf.

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He lost his best friend's $100,000, got told to quit by everyone around him — and didn't. Today his platform has 500,000 monthly users. And he still can't write a single line of code.

William Jourdain is the founder and CEO of Fan Stories, a platform helping creators monetize their audience — 10,000 creators, 500,000 monthly active users, 50 million visits. But the road there was brutal: selling air conditioning door-to-door at -20°, building a "prototype" out of cardboard, losing $20K to the wrong developer, then nearly burning through a friend's $100K before a co-founder saved the company.

In this episode he breaks down the full founder journey — the failures, the comeback, and the grind nobody posts about — plus the exact playbook he used to build a community from 80 cold interviews, and the growth tactics he's using to reach million-follower creators.

If you've ever wanted to quit, watch this one.

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CHAPTERS
00:00:00 The story in 90 seconds
00:01:04 Meet William Jourdain: the founder of Fanstories
00:03:16 How the idea started and the -20° grind
00:05:29 The cardboard "app" that lost $20K
00:07:52 The $100K from a friend and losing it all
00:10:32 The co-founder who saved the company
00:14:08 Why he says he still hasn't "made it"
00:15:57 How he ended up in Medellín (and fell in love)
00:20:38 His scary first night, and dating culture shock
00:29:54 The host's real estate hustle (flipping at 21)
00:33:50 How the community got its first 50 members
00:43:11 The chaos behind a black-tie event
00:50:38 Why he joined after one retreat
00:56:21 The million-follower problem he's solving
00:59:51 The podcast funnel that books anyone
01:07:15 The "sold out" and tier-zero event hacks
01:12:19 His one rule

An AK-47 was pointed at her when she was 11 years old, and that's not even the wildest part of her story.

Laura grew up in a tiny village in West Africa with no electricity, no running water, and a pet chimpanzee. By her twenties she was inside the U.S. State Department's crisis room on 9/11, taking calls from foreign heads of state. Then she volunteered for one of the deadliest war zones on earth, became one of the youngest U.S. diplomats in the Congo, and started tracking the world's most notorious arms dealers up close.

In this episode she tells the full, almost unbelievable story, from a mud-hut village to war-zone diplomacy to building military contracting companies, and how it all led her to a quiet coffee farm in Colombia.

This is one of the most extraordinary life stories we've ever had on the show.

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Adam Lyons joins the podcast to discuss his experiences at the Entrepreneur House Mastermind event in Medellin. He touches on business advice, entrepreneurship, and sharing his knowledge of artificial intelligence with others. 

In this interview I sit down with Armin Shafee who shares his transformational experience from living in the "Think And Grow Rich" world scaling his business running masterminds and events to completely surrendering and giving it all up. 

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Our guest shares his background and business experience, detailing why he traveled to Medellin Colombia for a recent mastermind event. This interview provides valuable insights into the growing community of Medellin founders and the benefits of  living in Medellin. 

We discover his business experience operating a billion dollar public traded company with over 15,000 employees.

In this episode I sit down with Gaetan and he shares his roller coaster journey of hacking a crypto exchange, scaling and exiting his first company and then bootstrapping many more companies to success. To apply visit: https://entrehouse.com/

Peter sits downs and shares his business experience from starting, scaling and selling six different companies in different industries.

Peter shares his first impressions of Medellin, Colombia, after arriving from Mexico. And how today he coaches founders to become the best possible leaders

We sit down with Pavel for an insightful member interview, tracing his journey in entrepreneurship. He shares how he started his marketing agency in 2017, initially working with local business owners. The discussion covers his strategic pivot to specializing in contractor marketing, a move that significantly contributed to his business growth. How he scaled his YouTube channel to over 100,000 subscribers and now has become the #1 affiliate for go high leveel