KINGOFWOOL.ETH

5 months ago my computer got hacked and I lost $150,000 At the moment it was the worst day of my life I lost a tremendous amount of money and was embarrassed on a public stage. Looking back now, I couldn't be more grateful Let me explain: On January 13th of this year, a group of Russian hackers (shout out the internet sleuths for figuring that out) broke into my computer and took everything. Hijacked my Twitter, Substack, Gmail, Discord, and broke into all of my crypto wallets. Heck, even to this day I'm getting alerts from accounts I reporting I have suspicious activity. I still remember where I was. Sitting on my couch about to eat dinner with my partner. I started getting texts that my assets were being moved. I look at my digital wallets. All empty. Tweets being sent out with malicious links from my account. Emails with malicious links being sent out from my Substack. I was in shock. Didn't even move for hours from that spot. I knew my entire life just got turned upside down. What made it worse was I was a public figure. Everyone knew about it instantly. All I could read online was about how I lost it all. I wish you could see my DMs from that month. The most vile, toxic, putrid individuals in the darkest corners of the internet were attacking me. It was brutally difficult. Not only because of the negative attention, but because it felt like my goals were torn away from me. I'm not rich. I come from 0 money. I was saving everything I could so I could chase my dreams. My dream was to quit my job and build this account and my business full time. The money I lost was my ticket to achieving those dreams. All of a sudden, it felt like those dreams were destroyed. It felt like my purpose was taken away from me. So I disappeared for 3 weeks. I can still remember what my partner said to me on that night. That somehow, some way, things would be better after this than they ever were before. Turns out she was right. It's funny what being in the trenches does to you. Being at rock bottom. It changes you. It changes the way you think. It changes the way you operate. I don't mean to offend anyone, but I don't think people who are handed everything, who have never faced a true challenge, can ever truly experience the hardening that comes from hitting rock bottom. There's a mental toughness you can't create through meditation and saunas that you can only get from being punched squarely in the face. That punch in January changed me. When I came back from that long break I was a different man. I completely transformed emotionally. The small things that bothered me before, have almost no impact on me now. I came back with my singular goal in mind, building a business and working for myself. I doubled down on effort. I doubled down on eliminating distractions. 3 months after the hack, I quit my job My newsletter and socials were growing faster than I ever could imagine. My community was at an all time high. Never did I think within 12 months would I be making enough to support myself with this account. I accomplished it in 3 months. It's hard to say what life would be like if I didn't get almost everything taken away from me. I can very confidently say, I wouldn't be here. If you've gone through something similar or are going through tough times now, just remember that as long as you have your health, you have everything you need. Everything else is just noise. Let all that sh*t and all those people that try to tear you down go. They don't matter, they're just deeply insecure. Keep fighting. Keep pushing.