Build a World You Never Want to Escape From
Because your business should light you up, not burn you out
Look, you’ve got this thing – this weird obsession, this crazy skill, this ‘it’s just a hobby’ that makes you lose track of time. Yeah, that thing. We’re here to help you turn it into a business that doesn’t just pay the bills, but makes you want to jump out of bed at 5 AM.
No soul-sucking formulas. No ‘proven systems’ that leave you feeling empty. Just real support for building something that feels like freedom, not another perfectly decorated prison. Because we’ve seen enough talented people build businesses they want to escape from. Your turn to build something different.
You know what’s worse than failing at business? Succeeding at the wrong one. Three times.
I spent years building what looked like success on paper: three different quarter-million-dollar businesses that made me want to stab myself in the eye with a fork. Each time, I’d build to 80% completion, hit six figures, then feel this overwhelming urge to burn it all down and start fresh.
Everyone had a theory. Lack of focus. Poor follow-through. The entrepreneurial equivalent of commitment issues.
Then at 42, I got an ADHD diagnosis that explained everything. Those “commitment issues”? Actually my brain’s inability to stick with things that didn’t light it up. The constant business hopping? My superpower for seeing patterns and opportunities, just wearing a problem mask.
But knowing why I built and abandoned successful businesses didn’t solve the bigger issue. That revelation came from my kid, of all people.
Picture this: It’s 7:13 AM on a Tuesday. I’m flipping pancakes, trying to get him ready for school. Bluey on the TV. Dogs barking at ghosts. He’s sitting at the counter, feet swinging, watching me work my weird dad magic with the spatula.
“Dad, what do you do for work?“
I tell him about the current business. The numbers. The growth. The success.
“Do you love what you create?“
I hesitate.
Right there, between flips of a pancake, everything changed. Because that hesitation? It meant I’d failed at something far more important than building businesses – I’d failed at building a life worth living. Even worse? I was teaching my kid that success meant being professionally successful and personally miserable.
That’s when Makers Mob was born.
Not because the world needs another business education brand. Not because I’ve got all the answers (spoiler: I don’t). But because I’m done watching talented people translate their joy into cages and call it success. Done seeing folks with fire in their belly dim their light because “that’s how business works.”
So here’s what we do instead: We show people how to build profitable worlds from their joy, not beautiful prisons called businesses. We do it by breaking every “should” in the business book. By measuring success in morning smiles instead of just monthly revenue. By proving that your weird obsession? Yeah, that could be your next business.
Because sometimes it takes an ADHD diagnosis and a kid’s innocent question to realize you’ve been building the wrong damn thing all along.
And maybe that’s exactly what the business world needs – more people building worlds they never want to escape from.