You don't need to come from money. You just need to seize opportunity. When I was a kid I watched Dead Poets Society and found myself incredibly inspired by the Carpe Diem speech. Little did I know that moment sending chills down my spine was actually something I related to DEEP in my soul, I just hadn't discovered it yet. I began my entrepreneurship journey 34 years ago as little kid who was obsessed with pumpkins and the idea of growing them and selling them at the end of my driveway. I made $500 my very first season. I sold green apple & caramel suckers to raise money for my class in Middle School, learning that you could buy them for $.25 and sell them for $1. I paid myself back for my inventory expenses in the first 30 minutes of selling at lunch break, and bought my entire class pizza with the proceeds. Years later I was a 16-year-old signing a partnership with Marlboro for my tobacco crop which helped me land a full-ride scholarship to @murraystateuniv . I entered the marketplace and for a decade I learned from some of the brightest minds including the son of the founder of Dollar General (est. $2.6 billion net worth) and the team that raised $1 billion from advertising for President Obama's first campaign. Finally in 2013 I had reached the limits of my 9-to-5 and I stepped out on faith and launched a web design firm that eventually turned into a full-suite marketing agency that I still operate today. In 2025 I launched a brotherhood called Soulfire to help men activate their faith, lead their families and build their businesses, God's way. I've had days with only $53 in the bank account and a $1200 medical bill in the hand. And I've had days of enough surplus to be a blessing to others, giving away more than $1M of time & money along my journey. A little farm boy from KY that used to only dream of what it might be like to one day make $1M has seen that come through the revenue sheet multiple times over. But I've never forgotten my roots, never lost my gratitude, and will always invest in the ideas of those around me. My next goal is to give away the amount that I used to dream about: $1,000,000. In one year. That's what 2026 is going to be about for me and my family. Being so radically generous that people will think we're crazy. Normal is boring.

Read the Scriptures for yourself. — @PhilipAMitchell

How are you living at the moment?

The journey of running your own company takes you far and wide, and you often experience deep valleys and extreme highs. In 2023 while I was on a hunting trip, we lost a massive contract out of the blue we had just staffed up for. The client threatened to sue us to recoup all their money from the previous 4 months of completely rewiring all their digital infrastructure to be ready for the future they desired. It was a rough moment, but it taught me what type of leader I would choose to be and that was one that didn't shy away from hardship, but rather gave grace and pressed in with full Hope & Trust that the Lord would provide. This week I received an email from the CEO of that company that floored me. He apologized for his actions and admitted to leading from a fear of failure, not a place of love. Many of you here would recognize who he is and despite the extremely rocky end, choosing to have grace in the moment over bitterness gave me the ability to accept the apology and be excited for his future. Sometimes what feels like a set back is just the Lord giving all of us an opportunity to learn, grow, and trust more completely in Him. Truly grateful to be on this journey and thankful for men that are willing to admit a mistake. My prayer is the Lord blesses his life immensely more so that God gets all the Glory 🙏

"We don't confuse and think that we're the ones in the arena." — @WalterIsaacson Groups that should learn to understand this when it comes to factual, unbiased reporting: @CNN @MSNOWNews @nytimes @WSJ @washingtonpost @CBSNews @ABC @NBCNews

My wife said there's no way that the @X and @Tesla community would give me @XMoney to buy a Roadster, but thanks to @danielcberk raising for a Cybertruck, I feel like this would be a great community challenge for all of you to partake in 🚀

Hey @FAA_Bryan this is ridiculous and needs to be taken care of for Mike. What he's done for Farmer's across America is unbelievable. And to have the FAA penalize him like this is completely unfair. Maybe @jgebbia can help you guys create better systems and adopt better policies for a moving target like Spray Drones and Heavy Lift Drones. But penalizing well-intentioned Americans helping @USDA Farmers is not the way. youtube.com/watch?v=b3F3zVjc…

Nothing better than a ground-breaking, edge-of-your-seat product demo at had a high chance of failure.

Elon just unveiled a flying car and @CNN says this halfway down the page while @MSNOWNews @CBSNews @NBCNews all don't even have one story on it yet. "what it says is a flying car"... um, it literally flew. TDS and EDS seem to rule the media ecosystem.

We are living out the future in real-time thanks to the world's best visionary @elonmusk Tesla TeslaSI Tesla Optimus Cybercab Terafab SpaceX SpaceXSI Neuralink Starlink Starshield X Grok Optimus The Boring Company Musk Foundation SolarCity OpenAI PayPal Zip2

Un-Real 🚀

All it takes is a Yes.

Are you living a life you would relive?

Update: Muse is still pretty rough, but the Feed and Ideas concepts are pretty neat and working better now. Generating a new feed though... so slow. @bot remains the 🐐

This is so insanely helpful, solid work team!

Should I dump all my stock investments into my @Apple @nvidia @SpaceX @Meta and @Tesla portfolio? Seems like it could be a great future bet compared to anything else.

Congrats @ShaneWinnings just catching up to this news! If you guys aren't following Shane you need to do it now. He leads the team at @PromiseKeepers and what these guys are doing through events, college tours, devotionals, and fitness challenges is top tier.