Personal Reflections

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I Had My First Business at 14. Here’s What Pigeon Racing Taught Me About Entrepreneurship

Before the internet, before the adult industry, before all of it — I was a 14-year-old buying and selling racing pigeons, learning risk, reward, and the cost of trusting the wrong people. Before the internet. Before the adult industry. Before the Bahamas, the money, the collapse, the bankruptcy, the prison sentence, the comeback attempts, the

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Today’s Reminder: You Don’t Need Permission to Be Yourself

In today’s world, being fashionable, following trends and “influencers” are seemingly a standard that people accept. I’ve never following fashion or trends. I detest being told how I should think and be.. The biggest single thing you can be is yourself. You don’t need anyone’s approval, validation, or permission to be Yourself.Not your parents.Not your

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