Mind and Fist

Writer

US Army

-Responsible for repair and programming of Sincgar Radio Systems

-Responsible for repair and programming and Blue Force Tracker network for Brave 128th Support Battalion

-Performed installation of FM networks during field training exercises

-Performed installation of antennae and batteries in military transport vehicles

-Managed inventory of sensitive military items

Land Combat Electrical Missile Systems Repairer

All American Heavyweights

-­Sponsored to train full­ time as an amateur boxer.

­-Gold medal 2011 Pennsylvania Golden Gloves title at 201+ weight class

-­Gold medal at National Police Athletic League title at 201+ weight class

­-Silver Medal at Ringside International Boxing Tournament

-­Semi Finalist at 2011 Olympic Trail Reload Tournament

-­Attained a top ten national ranking in United States Amateur Boxing

-­Assisted in the training camps for United States Super Heavyweight 2012 Olympic Representative, Dominic Breazeale

-­Primary sparring partner in training camp for Uzbekistan 1996 Light Heavyweight Olympic Representative, Timur Ibragimov for his HBO Boxing After Dark title fight.

-­Developed training techniques for boxers by applying kinesiology to existing boxing training
methods.

-­Worked on nutritional plans to keep super heavyweight fighters body fat under 12 percent

-­Instructed fighters on methods of film study to effectively attack upcoming opponents weakness.

-­Instructed fighters on methods of film study to analyze and remedy weakness in techniques

-­Worked on innovative methods to analyze and rank boxers ability relative to one another.

­-Participated in community outreach programs to speak to at risk youth about the benefits of
engaging in sports.

Boxer

Ed Latimore is a writer with over 10 years of experience in creating engaging and insightful content for various platforms and audiences. He has a B.A. in Physics from Duquesne University, a MOS certification as a Land Combat Electrical Missile Systems Repairer, and a Secret Clearance issued by the US Army.

As a self-employed writer, Ed shares his unique perspective and wisdom from his diverse background as a former heavyweight professional boxer, a veteran of the United States Army National Guard, and a physics graduate. He teaches the lessons he has learned through his blog, his newsletter, and his Twitter account, reaching millions of people who benefit from his advice and stories. Ed's mission is to help others overcome their challenges, improve their lives, and achieve their goals.

Ed Latimore

My son turned 3 today.

Having a child has made me too aware of how little time I have left in this world.

Because no matter much how it is, it is not enough.

Professional boxer (14-1-1) | Stuck at 1800-ish chess rating | Keynote Speaker | Author of “Hard Lessons From The Hurt Business: Boxing And The Art of Life

The past 3 years of 

-Refining my speech
-Learning YouTube
-Writing my book

Have helped me refine my message, my story, and what my gift is to the world. A gift that pays and is "authentically aligned."

It's also given me great appreciation for life and made me grateful.

Money only solves your money problems.

It can't repair or build trust.
It can't make people love you.

It can't even solve your money problems IF character flaws cause them.

Get enough to live a stress-free life, but not so much that you create more stress.

Because remember: Some people are so poor that money is all they have.

Everything is simultaneously a big joke and deadly serious.

If this doesn't make sense, then you either play too much or not enough

There will be times when people want you to change your mind or opinion because it makes them uncomfortable. 

You might think about backtracking or changing your opinion, but you have to remember:

The moment they gave you the ultimatum to change, the relationship between two free-thinking people was over. 

Either you cave and resentment dissolves the friendship over time, or you resist and it ends immediately.

The best lies have a small grain of truth and are spread by people with just above-average intelligence.

They are smart enough to make a convincing argument, but not smart (or willing) enough to realize the holes in it.

And sadly, neither are most people, so they fall for it.

"The opposite of addiction isn't sobriety. It's connection."

If you had to learn this the hard way, this video is for you.

https://lnkd.in/g45bsGc9

Open video: Getting Sober Taught Me The Real Truth About Trauma And Addiction on youtu.be

Getting Sober Taught Me The Real Truth About Trauma And Addiction

If you do what everyone else has done, you'll get what everyone else has gotten...

For better or worse.

The *only* way to have a different outcome is to walk a different path, even if it only differs by infinitesimally small amount.

Eventually, you'll be in different completely different places...

For better or worse.

Learn more Hard Lessons From The Hurt Business here–>https://amzn.to/4nOUlL7

JK Molina

Run the JK Molina brand on Twitter (@OneJKMolina)

Founder

Tweet Hunter

Marketing

7-Figure Exit. 3,000+ Customers. 150+ Clients Served.

Grew Tweet Hunter to over $1 Million ARR.

200k+ Followers on Twitter.

Get a daily email on signing more clients: https://likesaintcash.com/

David Molina

I buy women's razors.

They're great. They give you a much better shave than the ones for men.

They're like the Apple of razors. They come in a nice box that's easy to carry. 

They're smoother. They last longer. Fantastic product.

The pink box and butterfly stickers remind me that this is not a product for men.

But I don't care about that.

I care that it's good.

Your audience and I have that in common:

We don't care who the stuff is for.

As long as the stuff is good.

You can say you help group A but if your stuff is really good you will always attract groups B, C and D.

This is why I believe niching down doesn't serve you or your prospects.

It's not that it's ineffective.

If you've got some clients now it clearly worked.

But if you stopped justifying who your stuff is for,

And only focused entirely in your art and making better razors,

You would get a lot more clients:

From your current niche.

And from dozens more.

Who cares which niche they're from.

As long as it's helpful to them and they pay you then you're doing something right.

I stopped caring about my niche and just started caring about making razors that work.

My razors got better.

Client acquisition took half the time.

And I got a lot of my energy back.

It's wild how much energy is wasted in choosing a niche.

There's too many options. You'll never get it right.

So don't try.

Don't market the niche.

Market the razor.

Likes Ain't Cash. 4,800+ Customers. 250+ Clients Served. How I Turned My 1 Big Idea (Likes Ain't Cash) Into $3 Million:

What my hands look like after a long day of making Google Doc offers

All entrepreneurs need to cope somehow.

I’ve observed entrepreneurs who cope with action and entrepreneurs that cope with thinking.

And the ones who cope with action make a lot more.

Picking a niche makes a lot of sense for cold audiences (like ads).

I could never make it work with warm audiences.

Gun to my head - if I had to answer what's my niche then I'd probably say "coaches".

Yet that would be inaccurate.

Maybe 60% of people I work with are coaches.

A lot of them aren't.

One prefers the private life without an audience and runs ads. Another one likes to be flown out for in-person packages but doesn't like to coach.

One guy I couldn't even find online. He partners with people in secret and launches stuff for them.

They've all spent a non-trivial amount here and made multiples of that in return.

It's been a positive for both sides.

But we would've missed this opportunity if my messaging was "I help coaches."

They may have had some interest.

But niching down would've made them go "not for me".

They were a "maybe".

But if I niched down I would have turned that "maybe" into a "no".

In my experience with audiences, that's what niching down does:

It turns maybe's into no's.

Niching down is like going to a bar with a shirt that says "I'm only into blondes."

It limits you to a great amount of great people.

Maybe a brunette liked you. But the shirt made her go from "maybe" to "no".

Niching down backfired.

A better use of your energy is to opt out of the niching game entirely.

And spend it creating tools and assets that make people from all niches interested in it.

Make great products.

Let the niche choose itself.

Actual DMs that me and the Cash Creators have received from Whales: 

To the 18-Day Whale Bait Challenge members,

I’ll email them 1 Whale Bait post template a day so they can get Whales too.

They will be able to swipe it themselves

Or have Ai write it for them (since every template will have an Ai-Friendly format).

These have got us $1,000-$10,000 inbound clients directly.

The Challenge tickets are $18.

DM me if you’d like to see the details before doors close in 3 days.

Very happy with the UltraHuman ring.

I don’t notice it unlike smartwatches. Tracks heart health (important on reta). And insights actually improve sleep.

Great product.

It's a normal thing in the Likes Ain't Cash world to not allow some people to give you money if you don't like what happens when they do.

We don't run a show business. You don't have to be nice to everyone.

Why your audience doesn't see your posts

(Insight after gaining 250,000 followers):

https://lnkd.in/gFigx3tX

"If you give the sauce away for free people will pay you too cook it for them."

I've had a few cringe takes.

This is one of them.

I used to swear by this.

It made sense: Give people value and they'll reciprocate with their money.

Some do.

Most don't because gratitude isn't a strong a motivator as self-interest.

Between free sauce and paid sauce - most people (myself included) will choose free sauce.

A frame that proved much more profitable for me is demonstrating why the sauce matters.

I demo this in this podcast with Ian Garlic at minute 4:15:

https://lnkd.in/ebETcVEq

Hamilton had about $11,500 in MRR and had made $150k last year.

But he wasn't satisfied with 2 things:

1. He wanted more money.
2. He wanted to get out of one-time purchases and more into monthly recurring revenue.

In August he made $42k (that's 3 months of last year's progress condensed into 1)...

... And more than doubled his MRR to $25,000.

8 lessons from Hamilton's journey (@howtoswingtrade):

Hamilton

Doubling Testosterone

(This post is not medical advice. Consult with your health professional.)

Unless we work together - nothing I post is business advice.

Consult with your business professional.

My posts are solely anecdotes of what's working for the Cash Creators and me right now.

I love business.

And I love health too.

I don't talk about it much but I nerd out on it.

Health protocol:

Weights: 3 times a week

Cardio: 3 times a week (alternating between LISS and HIIT)

Peptides: BPC-157, TB-500 and Retatrutide.

BPC-157 for Injury healing.
TB-500 for Blood flow, which complements it.
Retatrutide (Reta) for Appetite suppression and Metabolism.

A few months ago I completed the hardest thing I've ever done health-wise:

Getting a six pack.

I'm 5'10 (177cms tall).

And I ended up weighing 139.8 pounds (~63 kilos).

I was happy that I got my weight that low for my goal.

But I was NOT happy to see what that did to my testosterone.

It went down.

By a lot.

348 ng/dl. Which is the 20th percentile of men.

And I may not know much about tesosterone but I know that if 80% of men are better than you at some thing then something is seriously wrong.

I checked it yesterday (2 months after) and it more than doubled.

777 ng/dl.

Happy with the progress.

On to the next milestone.

$37,200 payments, $1850 ideas and yearly paid in fulls. How?

I went to to two aquariums the other day.

The first one was the Valencia Aquarium. It's the biggest in Europe.

The second one was the Cash Creators win board.

It's an aquarium the way these folks are attracting these many Whales:

Whale Bait.

It's what's working for us right now in November 2025.

If you'd like get the 18 Whale Bait Template that create results like these, there's a challenge going on.

We start in 4 days.

DM for the details.

Asking Ai to write for you doesn't make you dumber.

But it does prevent you from getting smarter.

It's the equivalent of reading book summaries instead of books.

You're not dumber.

But you're also not quite better at it. You have the info but not the knowledge. You have the wand but not the magic.

When I stray away from these 3, things get hard.

When I stick to it, MRR is built for clients and myself:

1/3) Create Customers

I've worked with about 50 people in a 1-on-1 basis. The amount of them that have bought a one-time offer before:

49.

Some people will jump straight from a lead that has paid you $0 to your 1-on-1 offer.

A customer that has paid you for a small product is 56 times more likely to take that jump.

The reason for this is the same reason why sometimes it's easier to close people on a sales call than to get them on the sales call in the first place:

People want in when people see you do your thing.

And asking them to pay for a small product that creates a small result is a very low-friction way for them to see you do your thing.



2/3) Turn Customers Into Clients

Products should leave people with potential energy: An Idea to be installed or an Asset to be used.

Let's say you help people with their offers. If your product helped someone create an offer, you just created potential energy in their business.

There's now something that could be turned into more.

About 15% of your customers will ascend into the next thing to turn that potential energy into kinetic energy.

The "pitch" is simple:

"You have this. Wanna get something out of it?"



3/3) Create Tools For Clients

Most people who join coaching programs watch 2 videos, attend 1 call and then stop using the tools.

Which means that they don't renew.

That's just how it goes.

You can mitigate this by reframing the way you think of yourself:

I believe that thinking of yourself as a coach, a consultant or a mentor is limiting.

You may do all 3. But you don't all 3 all the time.

A more helpful frame is looking at yourself as someone with tools.

Your job is not so much "coaching" people as it is creating useful tools for them to install.

This drops the time it takes to pass on your teachings.

Which makes your tools better.

Better tools are faster to use and easier to install.

Which incentivizes consumption.

Which then increases client results (and thus - retention).

And so the trinity is complete:

1. Create customers because a customer is much more likely to turn into a client.

2. Turn customers into clients by offering to turn potential energy into kinetic energy.

3. Create useful tools for clients that you can use to create customers.

Many steps in between but these are the Likes Ain't Cash fundamentals.

You can get the steps in between completely wrong (and I often do).

But as long as you get the fundamentals right you will always be okay.

Someone asked me if there's a place they can read all my emails and I realized this is a good idea.

I don't have it now but I do send a daily email on how to get more clients.

People like reading them.

If you want more clients you might like them too:

likesaintcash.com

My focus this November was Valencia:

Moving.

The Ukrainian and I like this city a lot. We're just waiting on the paperwork so that we can move.

In the meantime we went house-hunting.

We found 2 good candidates. One that's more urban and one that's more rural. I like the rural one.

I'm feeling alive in a way that's hard to articulate.

Might be something to do with the fact that I finally finished my cutting phase.

I got the six pack I wanted and now I can finally eat something else than egg whites and rice cakes.

I can enjoy the Ukrainian's (excellent) cooking now. And because I have more nutrients in me - my testosterone more than doubled.

It went from the 20th percentile to the 80th percentile:

And my gym lifts are up.

Those where my first 13 days of November.

During that time - the Likes Ain't Cash Model was cranking in my business.

It created:

132 one-time customers.

155 client payments.

6 new clients.

142 challenge members.

253 new email subscribers.

$39,712 ($32,984.83 of that is profit).

The Likes Ain't Cash Way.

The 18-Day Whale Bait Challenge starts in 5 days.

For 18 days,

I’ll send all members a daily post template that has directly got me and my clients a $1,000-$10,000 client.

Inbound.

The challenge is $18.

DM me for the link.

The 18-Day Whale Bait Challenge starts tomorrow.

For 18 days,

I’ll send all members a daily post template that has directly got me and my clients a $1,000-$10,000 client.

Inbound.

Some results that Whale Bait has got us:

The 18-Day Whale Bait Challenge is just $18.

DM me “whale” for the link.

How People Are Using The Cash Creator Tools:

During Black Friday only - they're available and one saves $4,401. 

Check your email for the details.

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