07/08/2025
Just landed the cover of and they asked me the hard questions about what it really takes to build a media empire.
Here’s what I told them: In 2016, I was sleeping on a bunk bed in my mother’s spare Texas bedroom. My marriage was over. My first business had vanished. I was 40 and starting from scratch.
But I had something most people don’t. A photographic memory and a deep understanding that rock bottom is the best foundation for building something unshakeable.
That’s when I created Beverly Hills Publishing™. Not because I wanted to publish books, but because I discovered the publishing industry’s dirty secret: Visibility = Power. Ownership = Power. And traditional publishers were keeping all the power for themselves.
I told my first author: “If you don’t own your space, someone else will.” That became our founding principle.
Now we’re a $100B industry disruptor. We’ve helped our authors raise $150M in assets. We’ve reached 17 million readers globally. We’ve built a 7-star publishing model that integrates branding, public relations, marketing, and authorship.
But here’s what really matters: We’re not just changing publishing. We’re architecting legacies. We’re building authority equity. We’re making sure brilliant people own their brilliance.
The future belongs to those who publish to lead, not just to publish.
