Sleepin on a bench 😴

A newsletter about my rite of passage.

My first day in Sweden, May 2010 preparing for the first European 21 Convention.

What’s up man.

A few weeks ago in Fighting to Your Last Breath I told you the true story of James Marshall’s first speech at The 21 Convention in 2011, and my own subsequent adventure in 2012 bringing The 21 Convention live event to three continents in the same 6 month window.

It was a major level up for me as a young man and one of the most difficult years of my life at that point - but it was hardly the first.

What James and I each went through in our own respective journey’s was a rite of passage, or one stepping stone on that path. James being able to weather that storm is one of the main reasons he has my enduring respect.

Speaking for myself, I probably wouldn’t have referred to these events as a “rite of passage” back then. I was familiar with the concept for a few years by that point thanks to the early PUA manosphere, but when you’re in the thick of it (and that young) you’re not focused on abstract …