I will be part of the team that wins the Nobel Peace Prize for solving climate change. This is part of an “impossible goal” that I’m using to make my next chapter my greatest chapter. I’m deploying my unique history, gifts, and mastery of the most powerful mindset tools on the planet in service of the world’s greatest challenges.
I lead a private and invitation-only community called the Frolic 100, made up of the most successful, audacious, and unorthodox weirdos on the planet, so that they can turn their next chapter into their greatest chapter and make a difference.
In the 1990s I was better known as “Anabolic Frolic”, one of the biggest DJs in the world. I sold over 400,000 of my “Happy2bHardcore” albums and over 100,000 people attended my ground-breaking (and often illegal) rave company, “Hullabaloo!” After that I hypnotized over 5,000 people as a comedy stage hypnotist, appearing on TV and touring the country. And following that, with no formal training or education, I co-founded StealthSeminar.com – a multi-million dollar tech company. I’m also a published author of multiple books. Not bad for a high school dropout.
I’ve done some cool stuff, no question, and I’m in a place now where I think I can better serve people by telling the whole story and be as authentic as I can.
For most of my life I carried the things that made me great around as secret shames. I’ve learned now that I’m a “weirdo creative genius” and the mediums I work in are entrepreneurship, as well as creating connection with an audience and conducting the energy in a room. I used to accomplish this through spinning records and now I do it through powerful storytelling. My other strengths are creating new things, connecting dots that no one else sees, taking action (especially when I’ve been told something can’t be done), and going about it in such an unorthodox way it felt like it was too easy and unearned.
I’ve struggled in places like traditional schooling. I’ve never had a piece of paper with my name on it. Yet I’ve thrived as a life-long learner through learning just enough to solve the problem I’m facing, mentorship, and reading books as they interest me. Somehow, I managed to write my own memoir. (Hell, I just dismissed my memoir in the previous sentence. There’s a perfect example of how we can continue to dismiss our accomplishments.) I’m living proof that there are other ways, other paths to get where you need to go, yet I saw my path as shameful.
Despite the appearance of overnight success, it actually took me a very long time to find stability in my professional life. Even today I have difficulty fully owning my successes. I was the king of Imposter Syndrome. I was able to check my ego to such a degree I began to really feel like a fraud, even though the proof of my successes were on full display. It took a couple years of therapy to unwind this.
I’ve lived extremely poor through multiple times of my life, sleeping on the floor of my office for 2 years (technically homeless), and later in life going through a personal bankruptcy, yet I’ve created multi millions of dollars. I live in fear that I could still lose everything.
I still have a difficult relationship with money, always undervaluing my time and gifts.
I’ve made life-altering mistakes like getting myself banned from entering the US for working as a DJ without a visa, forcing me to start over and do other things. I used to have a ton of regret about it, but after many years I am grateful that it happened.
I’ve done multiple things in my life, and now realize I am a master of reinvention. Again, it was so easy for me I didn’t own how good I am at it. I spend a lot of time asking myself “What’s Next?” I like talking to people about their own “What’s Next?”
In the end I became grateful. I live in a place of huge gratitude. I am grateful for all of my story because without it I wouldn’t be where I am today.
I live in Toronto with my family in what I think of as a decelerated life. Today I share my experiences by writing and challenge myself in how I can connect my life’s experiences and creative gifts to new projects, specifically ones that can have a positive impact on the world. I want to create new things and help other people do that.
I’m on the lookout for people who have done big things, and are tantalized by the thought that their next chapter can be their greatest chapter.
If you think we should talk, contact me.
If you aren’t ready for that, why not apply to be part of the Frolic 100:
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