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"Help who you were two years ago" merged with storytelling "from your journey" is the most repeated marketing advice in the personal brand meets service provider industry. It's also wrong for most of the people it gets handed to.

I recorded this the day a Substack thread cracked open something I've been sitting with for a while.

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The New "Game Theory" = a new model for understanding business, power, competition, opportunity and influence in the era we're entering.

If the old was:

•  More visibility = more success 
•  More scale = better 
•  More competition = win by outperforming 
•  More analysis = better decisions 
•  More tactics = more growth 
•  Rational strategy = the path forward 

The new will be:

•  Perception and pattern recognition matter more than information 
•  Adaptability beats optimization 
•  Knowing when to move matters as much as knowing what to do 
•  Your ability to see what's emerging becomes an advantage 
•  Identity and positioning aren't separate from strategy 
•  The edge of embodied coherence and information sourced from a higher quality of intelligence vs. a random "expert's" opinion 

When you spontaneously redo an episode about "a different kind of intelligence" and"a different kind of intelligence" decides an episode is going to be 11:11. I mean...🤷🏽‍♀️ 

PS: I know what the term Game Theory means and that this is technically not it. And that's the point. 

🎤Listen to this in 2032 and tell me I was wrong.

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This episode cuts through the noise and calls out what’s actually going on, why strategy feels harder than it should,
 and why more tactics won’t fix it.

Other resources mentioned:

Talk given to podcasters (Youtube)

Insight where I predicted the future of branding (2023) (Youtube)

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If you know you’re at a turning point but the direction isn’t clear, Alchemical Edge is where we fix that.

Episodes Mentioned:

Clarity is Not the Destination 

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Credits: Originally aired on the Business Insider Roundtable with Andrew Jones.

Andrew now has a new podcast Pivot Point and he aired this video clip on his Youtube Channel.

What if the reason your business isn't working isn't because you need better tactics—but because you're following someone else's playbook?

In this episode, I sit down with Andrew Jones of the Business Insider Roundtable Podcast to talk about why conventional business advice often falls short for established entrepreneurs.

I've spent more than two decades in business, earned an MBA, worked with some of the world's biggest brands, built multiple businesses, and navigated very different business models. What I've learned is that there are foundational principles of business that don't change—but the way you apply them has to be specific to you.

Every founder has their own operating manual. Their own strengths, wiring, instincts, and way of making decisions. The problem is that we've built an industry around taking those individual differences out of the equation and replacing them with formulas, frameworks, and cookie-cutter strategies.

In this conversation, we talk about:

• Why traditional business theory still matters—but can't be the entire answer.
• What I mean when I say every founder has their own "manual."
• Why alignment isn't just about values—it's about how your business actually operates.
• How I combine my MBA and strategic business background with Human Design and intuition.
• Why the right strategy for one founder can be completely wrong for another.
• The difference between having a strategy and having a strategy that actually fits you.
• Why influence, authority, and magnetism can't be manufactured through a formula.
• How I learned to trust my own judgment after 22 years in business.
• Why I don't believe entrepreneurs should blindly follow advice about what they "should" be doing.
• How I used my own podcast as an experiment to discover who was actually resonating with my work—and built my offers from that data.
• Why your audience can often sense when you're operating from someone else's recipe.
• What to do when you're stuck
• How entrepreneurs can build their own prisons.

This conversation is ultimately about something bigger than business tactics:

Raw, unscripted, no agenda. Just the thing said plainly.

It's what I do.

Additional Resources

1) A great companion episode that goes well with this (and aged like a fine wine🍷). Something I said a year ago: Internet Gurus:

2) The talk I mentioned in the episode (Video on my YT channel)

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Resources Mentioned:

1) Deconditioning (Youtube Video)

2) Interview with Eric (Youtube Video - Audio Only)

3) Rules are Made Up Episode

3) Misfit Manifesto Episode

4) Brand Evolution Episode

5) Eclipse and AI Episode

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The head center is the bright shiny object syndrome center. 50% of people have an undefined head. You're in good company.

This isn't surface-level personal development ("I have ADHD, I can't focus"). This is about influence. You listen to a podcast—influenced. You go to a conference—influenced. You hear what your friend is doing—influenced. Every other minute it's: Ooh, this new AI tool. Ooh, I need to join this membership.

Combined with the root center (the other pressure center), this is what marketers use: Buy before the time runs out. Five spots left. Special offer ending. Head pressure (influence) + root pressure (urgency) = useful sales tactic.

Episodes Referenced:

Emotional Authority

Root Center Episode

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Creating your own "category" is lonely. And every day you're going to question if you're crazy.

This episode is for entrepreneurs building things on the edge—things that are misunderstood, things without models to follow. 

The essence: turning shit into wisdom. Following signs like The Alchemist. And understanding that when you've been through enough, you become dangerous.

Relevant or Mentioned Episodes:

3 Line Episode

Manifesting Generators

Misfit Manifesto

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