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To help you be your best self for 2026, the style of posts you get from us will change a little. Each week, you should get:

• a visualized life hack

• a short excerpt from a post that inspired us

• a bit of modern wisdom

• an untapped opportunity/idea that can skyrocket your earnings

🔥 1. “Your beliefs are tools, not truths”

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Roark was kicked out of her mother’s house when she was 15 and spent the next three years living in a tent in Winter Park, Colorado.

She worked three jobs to support herself. At 16, she qualified for the Olympics but sustained a knee injury that kept her out of the 1994 Olympics. Two more serious knee injuries, each right before the Olympic Games in 1998 and 2002, prevented her from competing…

In 2006, U.S. Team freestyle skier Michelle Roark zoomed down the slope at her first Olympics, conquering hilly terrain that not even a 4×4 could handle. At 31, she was already years older than the average Olympic freestyle skier (24 years old at the time).

Quick one

Social wisdom

🔥 2.Wisdom

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Philosopher Matshona Dhliwayo on being wise:

“One who looks around him is intelligent; one who looks within him is wise.”

Today’s opportunity

Came across this opportunity from Matt Epstein (full gist here)

My take below…

My napkin thoughts:

• around 30K monthly searches in the US alone for “dating events near me”.

• potential to market by collaborating or even hosting your own

• lots of consent issues and red flags with unsolicited recording (esp if you want to be fundable) …however…nothing wrong with taking notes for your own reference

• figure out how to ethically take notes on dates, what was talked about, own goals and priorities, follow-up reminders

• then build a conversational coach MVP with B2C subscription + Content-based distribution (TikTok, YouTube, IG Reels). Men already pay for: texting advice, dating coaches, confidence courses etc.

Potential revenue

• 3 subscription tiers: Tier 1: $9–$15/mo (message rewriting, conversation analyzer, basic reminders, basic AI chat coach)

• Tier 2: $29–$39/mo (full conversation breakdowns, personalized communication style report, date planner, deeper coaching responses, compatibility insights)

• Tier 3: $69–$99/mo (advanced emotional intelligence coach, AI confidence trainer, roleplay simulations for tough conversations, call/voice analysis, “AI wingman”, monthly live Q&A with expert coaches

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Did this motivate you today?

That’s it for today.

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The Newseum Team