If You Feel Alone This Is for You

How I got here…

21: Graduated Vanderbilt in 3 years Magna Cum Laude, and took a fancy consulting job.
23 yrs old: Left my fancy consulting job to start a business (a gym).
24 yrs old: Opened 5 gym locations.
26 yrs old: Closed down 6th gym. Lost everything.
26 yrs old: Got back to launching gyms (launched 33). Then, lost everything for a 2nd time.
26 yrs old: In desperation, started licensing model as a hail mary. It worked.
27 yrs old: "Gym Launch" does $3M profit the next 6 months. Then $17M profit next 12 months.
28 yrs old: Started Prestige Labs. $20M the first year.
29 yrs old: Launched ALAN, a software company for agencies to work leads for customers. Scaled to $1.7mmo within 6 months.
31 yrs old: Sold 75% of UseAlan to a strategic buyer in an all stock deal.
31 yrs old: Sold 66% of Gym Launch & Prestige Labs at $46.2M valuation in all-cash deal to American Pacific Group. (you can google it)
32 yrs old: Started making free content showing how we grow companies to make real business education accessible to everyone (and) to attract business owners to invest or scale their businesses.

Today: Our portfolio now does $200M/yr between 10 companies. The largest doing $100M/yr the smallest doing $5M per year. Our ownership varies between 20% and 100% ownership of the companies. Many of them we invested in early and helped grow (which is how we make our money - not youtube videos).

To all the gladiators in the arena, we’re all in the middle of writing our own stories. The worse the monsters, the more epic the story.

You either get an epic outcome or an epic story. Both mean you win.

Keep crushing. May your desires be greater than your obstacles.

Never quit,

Alex

*FULL DISCLOSURE*
I make content to make money - just - on a longer time horizon than most. I want to build trust with business owners so we can find the best ones and help them scale. And if they’re awesome, write them a check and go all the way as partners.

[AlexiDrouin]

Keep pushing forward and stay true to your vision. 💜

[michaelkrahn]

Spot on. My friends don't necessarily hate what I want to do, but they'll likely be inferior or they believe I can't do it because where I come from.

[Marking_The_Way]

FOR ANYONE FEELING THIS WAY... I'm in that boat too.

I'm putting in the effort making my life even better. Those around me sometimes don't share that same passion.

You're not alone 🥲 I'm here for those looking to grow, or at least have someone they can relate to.

[notapplicable]

The real success is the friends we made along the way

[InfiniteFragments]

The 80s training montage stitch coming up 🙏

[spicer]

I totally needed to hear this at my point in my life because that’s all I do everyday is watch your content and also get hate from friends when I don’t go do something that doesn’t help me to my goals and they give me a hard time no more feeling bad thank you

[Zayyan_Shaibu]

This is so reassuring. I find myself bending the knee at times and now I need to decided to just hyperfocus on my real intentions.

[bonnie]

Alex, thanks for making me feel less weird.

[testing]

Please everyone keep in mind that most people around you, even the "closest" friends you have, won't be happy for you as you gain more success.

But it's also important that this is only human nature as we are driven by our egos. Gain enough self awareness to realize that you do this to others as well and don't have resentment towards anyone.

Life is finite and much shorter than we all like to believe. At the end, it really doesn't matter if you succeed or not, we all gotta go and don't really have much control. Just learn to enjoy every moment of the journey and the results are just bonus.

[jacobjohnson-hayward]

Man I needed this! Thanks Alex! It is truly hard to be between the friend groups. But I will keep pushing!

[LUCASHOnTheBeat]

He said the exact same thing in the Chris Williamson interview. Alex calculated as hell

[ghasaqkareem]

Thank you, that makes me feel less alone

[MonikaKopec-bodn]

Alex I did this to gain my education as a single mum of three now that I have achieved I want more I want to be paid for the work I did for us. I am going to keep going strong now with focus on money and your videos are really helping on the days when I am tired as f…ck

[TheArtofSelfActivation]

I let go of a friend of 17 years I am trusting myself.

[moeabrams]

This dude literally descendant of a king his genetics r off the charts if he had average genetics like most people he'd be working at a car wash and he knows it

[ThinkingWithLoretta]

There's no hate at this point just a void where I feel misunderstood by everyone around me and it gets hard when there seems to be no tangible results yet but I keep putting in the work. And am trusting the process.

[cheeseballs]

Will I ever fit in with successful people? How do i meet them once I am successful? Do I get a membership at a country club?

[XxSCCERxX]

Thank you for all of the amazing advice. Keep it up!! I love learning new things from you!

[AuthenticBranding]

Been dealing with this for 15 years and got another 15 year left of this for what I am working on. So tired.

[maxhofmann]

Wait i have to have achievements in order to fit in with a group of friends?