Ian Grindey

🚨If you feel like you are failing at everything right now, stop and try this!🚨 Try clarifying your personal values. Most people live their entire lives without ever writing down their values. But a few minutes can make a huge difference to your mental... See more

Nobody wakes up at 3 am craving a course, a PDF, or a new subscription. These are just vehicles. Nobody buys the vehicle, they buy where it takes them. When we focus on selling the format rather than the transformation, we force the customer to do the mental math of why they need us. Instead, sell the outcome so clearly that they’d buy it even if... See more

Switched paid on 5th Novemebr 2025 34 days to 100 18 days to 200 12 days to 299 300 today? THANK YOU!

My pension statement arrived yesterday. £487 monthly. After 46 years of work. The financial advisor who set it up in 1982 promised it would be 'more than adequate.' He's dead now, which is convenient. 💼 Meanwhile, my Substack brings in £800. From writing. At 67. With no qualifications except having lived long enough to... See more

I’ve stumbled into something genuinely exciting. AI has opened up a whole new way of explaining ideas I’ve written about for months. It can generate clear, logical images that map perfectly onto what my guide covers. Suddenly, the ideas don’t just sit on the page — you can see them.... See more

NotebookLM gets better every time I log into it.. Uploaded my new book $7 Problems and in under 30 seconds it gave me this infographic and a mindmap for the download page. https://makemarketingsimple.gumroad.com/l/7dollar-problems

After 29 years as a professional screenwriter, this is my process before I outline: Find the story. Who transforms and how? Find the dramatic question. What do they want and... See more

7 Quiet Truths About Sleep After 60 (That Nobody Warned You About) I used to sleep like the dead. Eight hours, no interruptions, wake up ready. Then somewhere around sixty-two, my body decided we were done with all that. Now I'm up at 3am staring at the ceiling, wondering if this is just how... See more

There's something quietly insulting about being simultaneously invisible and patronised. "Senior fitness" classes where they assume you can't lift more than a tin of beans. Medical professionals who attribute every symptom to "getting older" before you've finished describing what's... See more