The Advisor

The Edge
You’ve Been
Seeking.

You’re already a successful builder.

You don’t need motivation. You don’t need a coach. You don’t need clever hacks from someone who has never built a significant business.

What you need is rare.

You need an edge. An advantage. Access to the inaccessible.

You need inside the rooms, minds, and playbooks of today’s titans: the market makers, category leaders, and disruptors. To learn how they think, decide, allocate, hire, build, scale, and win.

So you can too. Faster and bigger.

That is what I can give you.

That’s the work I do.

The Truth

Most ‘Advisors’
Haven’t Built
Anything.

Most of what’s sold as “business advice” today is sold by people who have never built a business.

28-year-old “coaches” selling courses on businesses they’ve never run.

Masterminds that produce selfies, not strategy.

LinkedIn “experts” with no actual business.

Podcast hosts who confuse interviewing accomplished people with being one.

You’ve already smelled it. You stopped attending the conferences. You stopped buying the books. You started looking for someone who’s actually built what you’re building.

That’s why I’m still here. 35+ years in. And what I’ve collected, almost no one else has.

The Receipt

35 Years At The
Center Of Success.

For 35 years, I’ve sat at the center of the success media industry. Founding publisher of SUCCESS magazine. Executive producer of three success-focused television networks.

This gained me access to something no consultant, coach, or professor has ever had.

Nearly every iconic founder, self-made billionaire, and business leader who has built something extraordinary from nothing took my call.

Why? Because I ran the only major media platform focused entirely on a positive profile of their success. They wanted that positive exposure, and it was significant for their brand, their boards, and their shareholders.

In exchange, they opened their vault doors.

Not their PR version. Their real insights: actual strategies, systems, and decisions. The ones they’d never share on a stage or under the bright lights of a camera.

I have spent 35 years collecting those playbooks.

I then tested everyone across more than 11,000 businesses in every industry and market condition. This allows me to identify patterns long before they’re obvious to anyone else.

The principles the industry titans use to dominate their markets are the same principles I’ve installed at your scale. Engineered for the realities you operate under. Proven across thousands of businesses that look a lot more like yours than theirs.

That is the unfair advantage no one else can give you.

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My Dad & Me
Darren as best man at his wedding
Best Man At My Wedding
My Father Would Say

Be The
Exception.

“Don’t just do what others do. Don’t be a follower. Be The Exception.”

I was raised by my father. A university football coach. Single dad.

He didn’t give me a lot of rules or restrictions. Yet I never did drugs, never got into trouble, and got good grades.

What he did give me was a philosophy. A standard to live up to.

When I complained something wasn’t fair, or thought I wasn’t good enough, my dad would say the same thing every time.

“Circumstances don’t matter. If others are smarter, have more talent, or are more experienced, you can still win. Work harder, study longer, and push yourself further than anyone else will go. Be The Exception.”

He had me believe I could do anything and achieve anything I wanted if I simply chose to.

Be The Exception.

Fifty years later, it is still my operating system.

Our Mission
1.6 Billion*

The number of people impacted globally each year through the daily mentoring, books, training systems, and inner-circle communities of our ecosystem.

*Measured by reach across all our media channels and active members.

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Our Team

A-Team

A hand-selected, battle-tested team of extraordinary human beings.

The Standards

What We Believe.
What We Don’t.

Required.
  • Audacity.Playing small is a sin against your nature.
  • Obsession.Motivation is weak and passion wanes.
  • Impact.You do make a difference. Make it positive.
  • Action.It doesn’t just happen.
  • Growth.Better is always possible.
  • Accountability.Everything is your fault. Own it.
  • Excellence.We have zero tolerance for mediocrity.
  • Courage.Especially when we’re scared to death.
  • Being Real.We’re all “flawsome.”
  • Being On Time.Because we hate burpees.
Refused.
  • Excuses.Step up or step aside.
  • Blaming.Fix it or zip it.
  • Whining.If you want it, earn it.
  • Regrets.Just do better next time.
  • “Good.”You are here to be great.
  • Motivation.Do it whether you feel like it or not.
  • Dreaming.Unless you back it up with a crazy amount of doing.
  • Talent.Only training and preparation.
  • What’s Popular.Popular is the average. Average is mediocre. We abhor mediocrity.
  • Hype Theatre.No dancing, high-fiving, or jumping up and down at seminars or on Zoom. That’s just weird.
Who Belongs Here

We Are Not For Everyone.

We’re not for the content, the satisfied, or the settled. Not for those who go with the flow, bend with the wind, or travel in the direction of the current.

We’re for elite leaders and extreme high achievers who take back control, own their responsibility, and invent their fate. We don’t believe in luck. We make our own.

Being a leader, a builder, an extreme achiever is hard work. That’s the entire point. If that’s not you, this is not the place you’ve been looking for.

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