Vic's guide to money, women, and getting your sh*t together.
54 years old. Brooklyn. 5'8 in shoes I lied about. Two marriages, two divorces — both women smarter than me. One good kid.
I built a million-dollar business by 30. Lost it by 33 doing the things 30-year-olds with money do. Built another. Lost that one too. Built one more. That one stuck.
I've sat in diners at 11pm wondering how I got there. I've stood in front of my employees telling them the business was done. I've signed two divorce papers. I've buried friends who didn't make it out of the same scenes I made it out of.
This book is what I wish somebody had handed me at 22. At 32. At 42.
Nobody did. So I had to learn it the hard way.
You don't have to.
You're not depressed. You're undertrained. You haven't moved your body since the Obama administration and your dopamine is so fried a sunset can't compete with a TikTok.
Anything that takes your judgment will eventually take your money. The cocaine took my judgment. The cocaine took $1.2 million. Whatever's stealing yours — phone, weed, sports betting — it's costing you more than you think.
You don't get the girl by being smooth. You get her by being someone worth wanting. Stop trying to game her. Start working on yourself.
You can be right or you can be married. Sometimes you have to pick. I learned this the hard way — by winning approximately one million tiny arguments and losing two marriages.
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No. Generic self-help is sanitized, vague, and 300 pages of one idea stretched thin. This is 108 pages of specific stories, hard numbers, and the kind of language you'd actually hear from someone who's lived it. Vic curses. Vic admits to drugs, divorces, and broken relationships. Vic also gives you protocols you can do tomorrow morning.
Vic is a composite character — a fictional voice built from real lessons, real stories, and real men's experiences. The stories in the book are dramatizations. Any resemblance to specific real people is coincidental. The lessons, though, are real.
Yes. The book is rated mature. Vic curses, talks openly about cocaine, drinking, sex, money, and his own failures. If you're easily offended by direct language, skip it. If you want a wake-up call that sounds like a real man, you're in the right place.
Aimed at men 20–45, but men in their 50s and 60s have told us they wish they'd read this at 25. If you've ever waited too long to start something, the book is for you.
No. Vic gives principles, not picks. He doesn't tell you which stock to buy, which crypto to bet on, or which medication to take. He repeatedly tells you to talk to a fiduciary, a doctor, or a therapist for any of that. The book is for entertainment and informational purposes only.
Buy them their own. It's $19.99. They'll thank you.