If you combine a great vision, mission movement with a great plan, now you're unstoppable.

And that's what we've got.

That's what gets me excited about capitalism.com and our vision, the doing, freedom is the doing,

in rewriting the message that it's not about the end goal.

That's a byproduct.

It's just being in the work. You know, it's just

freedom in the doing, getting out there building, investing, you know, because you can,

because no one else is going to. It takes one free person to create change. This is the show

for them. We are the creators of the free world.

This is capitalism.com and we are the one percent.

Hey, capitalists. This is Ryan Daniel Moran. And today we're going to do our, we've been doing this about every quarter,

our empire report for capitalism.com.

And the reason I do this is to document the growth, the struggles,

the highs and the lows for building a business from scratch.

I tend to think it's kind of poetic to have the documentation

of a capitalist and a company through the lens of capitalism.com. And in this Empire report,

you're going to hear me talk about being in the trough, being in the suck, as I refer to

it, as being willing to go through the hard work of things not going how you want while you

build what you want on the other side of it. Most capitalists and entrepreneurs are resistant to that. They double

down on what's working, which is great. But when that stops having the compounding effect that they

want, they tend to ease off rather than to go aggressive, to go play offense to build something bigger.

Now, I want that something bigger. And right now, I'm in one of

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