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This Is Your Last Wake-Up Call To Build Your Freedom
The copywriter who worked himself into a ghost
He looked like a ghost.
Pale. Drained. Eyes flicking between his phone and the floor, as if searching for an escape route.
“I’m writing 20,000 words a month,” he muttered. “And I’m still broke.”
I found myself at a local business event, surrounded by a sea of ambitious entrepreneurs. Among them was a copywriter, a man clearly at his wit’s end. He was fed up — utterly exhausted by the grind of churning out 15,000 to 20,000 words every month for clients who paid him peanuts.
He was trying to build an online presence. But the relentless pace was killing him. His dream of freedom had curdled into a nightmare of overwork and burnout.
The uncomfortable truth about “hustling”
This got me thinking.
If you’re working twice as hard for half as much, you haven’t found freedom. You’ve simply swapped one set of chains for another.
So, I asked him, “Why are you doing this? You can make more money selling a skill than using it.”
I shared my story — how I created a course a year ago that still earns me hundreds of dollars every month, even…
