Accomplished Misfits create industries, whole new categories, and their success may look inevitable in hindsight, but seemed impossible at the outset.
Accomplished Misfits also feel lonely in their methods.
My friend Shermain Melton and I are hosting a free Zoom on this topic as we continue to create our once-in-a-lifetime Toronto event:
Weird, Successful, Lonely, with Unfinished Business.
An Accomplished Misfits Gathering.
On Zoom. July 21st at 1 PM Eastern / 10 AM Pacific.
This is a gathering of accomplished misfits who are ready to admit:
- We secretly fear our best days may be behind us.
- Our success terrifies us sometimes.
- We’re scared to use the same methods that got us here.
- There is a part of you deep inside that is screaming out to do something fucking awesome.
- There’s a specific kind of lonely that comes from succeeding in all the wrong ways.
And we’re done feeling bad about it.
Join us where we’ll share our stories and support each other’s dangerous missions.
Because the world doesn’t need more carefully edited success stories. It needs more reality-breakers who understand their power and aren’t afraid to use it because the stakes have never been higher.
If you know someone who built something significant by doing exactly what the experts said wouldn’t work – send this to them. They’ll recognize themselves in this message like a punch to the gut.
Monday July 21 1 PM Eastern / 10 AM Pacific on Zoom
Click here to RSVP (This is open to EVERYONE! All Accomplished Misfits are welcome!)
Your Accomplished Misfit hosts:
Shermain Melton
“I’m black, gay, and Christian, and for a long time I though God had played a trick on me. I rose out of a childhood of poverty, gunshots, and drug dealers to become a self-made, debt-free millionaire. I have survivor’s guilt because not all my friends made it. At age 20, I became GM of a Pizza Hut that was seen as undesired, and under performing and with the help of my team of 40 we turned it around. The lessons I learned then serve me today as a leader. I walked away from a lucrative tech career at AMEX where I designed and optimized networks to keep operating even if they were broken because I wanted to make an even bigger impact in the world – and I’m taking on a mission of solving loneliness to do so.”
Chris Frolic
“For most of my life I carried a secret shame that I had fooled the world, because how was it possible that a high school dropout would become one of the biggest selling DJs of the 90s, a historic pioneer of the original rave scene, who then became a comedy stage hypnotist that toured the country and appeared on TV, and then with no training or education co-founded a pioneering webinar business that hosted 60 million people and then be sold to private equity fund? I then took on an impossible goal of winning the Nobel Peace Prize for solving climate change, because I wanted to see what would happen if I dared spoke those words which brought me to COP28 in Dubai and later teach my impossible goal framework to cancer doctors and researchers. Today I remind myself and others what is possible if we remember who we truly are.”
