Greg! So you checked out the website, now you’re seeing the twitter! LFG :)

Let me explain tell you my story, and how you’ll benefit from letting me in this course when I can’t pay for it right now(skip to the last tweet for solutions).

Here we go....

I love bringing people together, in my childhood I was an outsider(a diplomatic brat).

Bringing people together is the way I belonged and found my place in new schools, and new countries.

If there something didn’t exist, I created it:

“I didn’t find a niche, I created it”

Example:

I founded a loca l Yu-Gi-Oh club in grade 4. Where we'd talk and play Yu-Gi-Oh.

As president of this club, I would flip Yu-Gioh cards, and set up a place for others to sell/buy their cards.

Example: I reinvented a local business conference to be nationwide student entrepreneurship conference...

Why? Because I needed to find and help others like me who wanted to build businesses .

I grew it from 2 to 18 universities, from 120 to 600+ student entrepreneurs.

Example: Started a community for those who hated job interviews, and created 'work trial' events with companies.

Result: thousands of applications and got dozens of people jobs with companies like Shopify,1Password, Microsoft.

After building these communities:

Legacy Conference( http://www.legacycan.ca )
deCODE( http://www.hackdecode.io )

I got sick and kickstarted 5 years of struggle.

Year 1-3 (The sleepy years)

-Diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
-Struggle each day to function, 12-16 hours of sleeping each day and still fatigued.
-Severely Depressed

Year 4-5

-Became paralyzed in bed, couldn't move at all, couldn't scratch my nose and was spoonfed my meals..
-Couldn't view screens, or read books, or listen to music.
-There were days, I physically couldn't speak(yeah)

Eventually got to use a wheelchair, and move to Miami,FL

....Voyage to Miami....

I got to Miami by luck but decide to stay here by choice for the long term...

I came here to see doctors and get healthcare treatment.

Now I’m recovering I want to help others like me, and be part of the founder/tech movement that’s taking place here.

I learned a lot my journey aka rollercoaster

Key takeways and thoughts about community coming up:

I’m obsessed with playing ‘better tennis’, and surrounding myself with the right people.

For the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Fibromyalgia community I found the world experts, who make people recover no one else is getting in the world.

They live/breathe and eat this community in the U.K

I want to help them build it out globally,

And build a product for it.

I want to play infinite games, not finite ones.

I crave serving and help people not for a payday, but so I can keep on serving and helping others.

I don’t want to just be a community leader, I want to create other leaders and products to maximize impact with communities I care about

(i.e: people with my illness).

A sense of belonging is what makes us human, and will permeate any economic, pandemic or decade.

These communities need help, thats where I see this course coming in

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‘Community college is going to be my ‘Limitless Pill’ for building products to serve communities.

I'm going to see opportunities everywhere, be 2 steps ahead of my competition, and move faster and quicker.

"Business is how you make people feel, it’s that simple and that complicated"

Community is that sweet spot on leveraging relationships and feelings around a cause, ultimately about something people care about.

“You can cancel events, you can cancel creators/politicians, but you can’t cancel community”

Enough said.

I've been serving communities for years, but I don't want to sell my time for money, I want to build a product. To build leverage, to scale, and have nil costs of reproduction"

“The secret to living is giving”

I got my 2nd life through recovering from my illness, and I don’t intend to waste it by not maximizing my impact on others.

I found a community I want to give too(the people who had my illness)

By helping me get in this course, you’ll empower me to help others and change their lives, like mine has been changed completely:

Unfortunately, I'm not a stage afford $940 right now. (I haven’t had an income in 4 years due to my illness.)....

But I need to go for this course and I understand this your time and knowledge

What I can do, is:

-Make a donation to a $100 charity of your choosing.
-Pay in monthly installments of $78.3 over the next year
-I can pay a full amount in 6 months time(In September).

The end.

Follow me on Twitter
@letmeingreg

If you liked this thread, I’d love a follow. And a spot in this course :)