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The Profitable Prison: Why Your Business Success Is Secretly Destroying Your Life

Discover why successful entrepreneurs are secretly miserable and how to escape the profitable prison you’ve built. Expert Eric Williams shares insights from working with 300+ entrepreneurs, revealing why business systems can backfire and how to evolve as a leader without sacrificing success.

EP 493 Personal Brand Profits: Why Perfect Personal Brands Fail in 2025 (Parent Entrepreneur’s Guide)

Learn why traditional personal branding advice is killing your profit potential. Discover the contrarian approach to building an authentic, profitable personal brand while juggling family life. Features the ’15-Minute Content Sprint’ strategy, the Legacy Content Framework, and real-world examples of parent entrepreneurs generating 4X more income through authentic branding.

Stay Small, Succeed Big: Why Most Entrepreneurs Are Building Prisons Instead of Profits

Discover why staying small might be your biggest competitive advantage. Learn how one agency owner built a highly profitable, systematized business by rejecting the “grow or die” mentality. Features practical strategies for increasing profit without increasing headcount, creating sellable systems, and building real business value.

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About Tracy Brinkmann

From hitting the rock bottom of drugs, divorce, bankruptcy and even the death of an 18 month old daughter. To running the planning & marketing departments of some of corporate America’s finest companies to his own company helping driven entrepreneurs, scale their businesses, by crystalizing and monetizing their passions, and now hosting his podcast focused on Driven Dark Horse Entrepreneurs.

Tracy Brinkmann, is a business coach, success coach & product creator that realizes life isn’t fair and participation awards do not feed your family (or your drive to succeed)… This Driven Dark Horse Entrepreneur is looking to share all that he has learned and is still learning about starting, restarting, kick starting and stepping up your entrepreneurial game all while not ignoring that amazing tool between your ears!