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Even before he really knew what it meant, Allen Wong wanted to be rich. As a kid, he didn’t yet equate the word with “luxury” or “status” or “expensive things.” He didn’t think wealth would bring him 85-inch televisions and Jacuzzis, a one-of-a-kind rose-gold Lamborghini in the garage, a wearable Iron Man suit that shoots lasers — though he does, actually, have all of that now. What “rich” seemed to dangle was something simpler, more elementary, more a feeling than anything else: freedom from pain.
Wong’s parents had fled poverty — at one point, his father used tennis balls as flotation devices to illicitly cross waters from Guangzhou into Hong Kong — in order to raise a family in a more opportune land. But growing up in New York City, Wong watched one parent peddle medicinal herbs all day long while the other toiled away in a Chinatown sweatshop. They barely had time to slough off one workday before trudging into the next.
“I didn’t want my life to end up like that,” he told me. “I didn’t want to be absent from my family and only show up a few hours each day after work. I didn’t want my life to be monotonous and stuck in a repeating loop until I die.”
Then, in 2008, right as he was graduating from college, the family convulsed. Wong’s father was ousted from his business, sank into a depression and committed suicide; his mother tripped down a spiral of mental illness. Suddenly, Wong’s entry-level computer programming job was the household’s only source of income, and there was a world financial crisis going on. He had always dreamed about digging out of the middle-class quagmire — striking gold, pulling in enough money from a one-off idea that he would never have to work the way his parents did. But it was now, as anxiety and medical bills piled up, that those idle daydreams began to feel urgent and necessary. So he turbocharged his ambitions. He started coding around the clock, tinkering on D.I.Y. software ideas whenever he wasn’t at work, barely sleeping. He doggedly pushed one project after another to the App Store, praying for something to take off.
Eventually, one did: an app that let users tune in to police scanners around the world. Then another. Their runaway success took even him by surprise. By the time his peers were splurging on their first West Elm sofas, he was a self-made multimillionaire.
Wong found his day job interesting enough, and he liked his colleagues. But submitting himself to a boss’s whims, spending his days trapped like a houseplant under corporate fluorescence, grated at him; it reminded him too much of his parents’ suffering. What, he wondered, could a so-called career really offer him if he had already secured enough money for a good life? The whole point of working was to get what he had just gotten. So, at 25, he bought a $250,000 sports car painted a shimmery lime green — it wasn’t so crazy a purchase, he reasoned, because his police-scanner app was by then generating that amount of revenue in a single month — and announced that he was retiring forever.
It was only after he bought a second exotic car, a five-bedroom house in Celebration, Fla., a dog and a Disney World annual pass for his mother that Wong learned that there was an entire online community of people seeking to do what he had just done. Wong had heard of the Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE) movement before, but he didn’t think it really applied to him because of its focus on frugality. FIRE got its start in the early 2000s with a mantra of extreme saving — you may remember hearing about stoic ultraminimalists living off beans and friends’ couches — but it has since come to include all the people who would like to exit the work force on their own terms, at an age of their own choosing, rather than hustling for a paycheck all the way into their 60s. After Wong made a Reddit post sharing his story, it attracted such a flurry from FIRE adherents that he quickly became the quasi president of one of the group’s biggest online enclaves.
Some FIRE aspirants still get to early retirement by the traditional route of simply saving madly. Others, though, truffle-hunt for high-paying W-2s, tax loopholes, bold and risky market bets or big entrepreneurial ploys like Wong’s. The overarching credo of FIRE is that in today’s unpredictable financial landscape, 9-to-5s and decades-long careers have become bad investments: Old-school benefits like pensions and job security are a thing of the past, and wages aren’t even keeping up with the galloping pace of inflation. According to a 2023 survey, one-quarter of Americans would like to retire before age 50. After decades of tolerating workaholic culture as the norm, employees are tired, unafraid to show it and yearning to yank back control of their lives. To fed-up workers willing to do a little bit of math, FIRE offers a straightforward antidote: You can just leave it all behind.
Like Wong, and like so many other people who chase financial independence, I didn’t grow up with a lot of money — which might be why I became obsessed with it.
Long before “side hustle” became Merriam-Webster lingo, I was working Costco snack arbitrage on the elementary-school playground and hawking homemade bookmarks to my teachers. In adulthood, I moved on to online surveys, research studies, plasma donation, vintage resale, parts modeling and dog-sitting in other people’s homes in lieu of paying rent. I have left no income source unturned. I’ve trawled every page of NerdWallet and The Points Guy. I have made questionable margin calls. I have woken up at the crack of dawn to day-trade $NVDA, $TSLA, $TSM. I have “flipped”; I have “churned.” When I feel sad, I open my phone to check on the interest rates in the five-pronged CD ladder I’ve lovingly assembled in my Marcus account, like a tic, to feel better.
Come on, Kids. Let’s Grab Drinks. ImageWong in his Ironman suit standing next to the bathtub. Wong created a police-scanner app that was so popular that it allowed him to retire at 25.Credit...Maggie Shannon for The New York Times Is this all embarrassing to confess? Incredibly so. Would I characterize my relationship to money as “unhealthy”? Also yes. But I often wonder if anybody in this economy, in this country — where more than 60 percent of the work force lives paycheck to paycheck, where the average American is in five- to six-figure debt and often has only cursory knowledge of how he or she got there — has a healthy relationship to money. Simply learning to understand your own finances can feel, several FIRErs said to me, like acquiring a “secret weapon.”
The original FIRE doctrine revolves around delay of gratification. Save your money — ideally as much as 50 to 75 percent of each paycheck — instead of spending it immediately, and when you’ve amassed enough of a nest egg, quit your job and take the rest of your life for yourself. “It’s simple, because the main principles fit on a Post-it note,” Jacob Lund Fisker, a Danish former astrophysicist who is often thought of as the father of the FIRE movement, told me. “However, it is not easy, because everything the typical middle-class consumer has been raised and trained to believe goes against these principles. People have grown up associating success with money and spending money with happiness. They’ve been trained to sit still and perform repetitive work, first by a teacher, then by a manager. They’ve been educated to be specialists in a narrow field and never think outside that box.”
Fisker’s 2010 book, “Early Retirement Extreme” — written mostly while he lived out of an R.V. on $7,000 a year — is one seminal text for early retirees. Two others are “Your Money or Your Life,” a 1992 personal-finance bible written by Joseph R. Dominguez and Vicki Robin, and the blog Mr. Money Mustache, started in 2011 by Peter Adeney, who retired from his software-engineering job in 2005 at age 30 and figured out how to shrink his family’s expenses down to just $24,000 a year. The tao of all three tomes is that minimalist spending and anti-consumption can offer the keys to better living. (Adeney has professed to be “really just trying to get rich people to stop destroying the planet,” but his tens of thousands of monthly visitors tend to be more fixated on his other mantra: “Make you rich so you can retire early.”)
Conventional FIRE adherents are not necessarily big earners or genius mathematicians with incredible impulse control. Their superpower is their expert planning; it’s the ability to see the finish line from miles away that has allowed even some minimum-wage workers to achieve early retirement. One simple FIRE rule of thumb is to first calculate your target “FI number” by multiplying anticipated annual retirement expenses by at least 25, and then squirrel away as much as possible into interest-accruing or tax-advantaged buckets like 401(k)s, low-fee index funds, certificates of deposit, HSAs and Roth IRAs until you hit that number. As an example, if you bring home $150,000 a year, can save half of that and plan to spend $50,000 per year in retirement, then it will take only 16.5 years before you can kiss your job goodbye. For those who earn less or spend more, it will take longer — but for still others who can endure greater sacrifices, FIRE can be possible as early as their 30s.
From these plain origins, many offshoots of FIRE have sprouted up — some much more brazen than others. It’s rare to find anyone these days who actually wants to get to early retirement by living off beans; those people, with their stringent penny-pinching, are largely known in the community as LeanFIRE. A lot more people aim for CoastFIRE (a more measured approach that involves front-loading your retirement savings and “coasting” on compound interest and working lightly until you’re ready to quit) or BaristaFIRE (quitting your job but buttressing your retirement with a side gig, such as that of a part-time barista, to receive health-insurance benefits) or FatFIRE (a luxurious, no-sacrifice approach to retirement, the polar opposite of LeanFIRE — and the subset to which Wong belongs).
You might be tempted to regard early retirees as layabouts, soaking up sunshine while everyone else toils. But why not see them as brave maniacs, daring to build an entirely new vision of the world? Retirement has long been framed as a reward for a job well done — social reformers started pushing for mandatory post-work benefits in the early 20th century, and policies like Social Security later codified the tipping point between labor and leisure — but if FIRE’s incredible popularity of late (the Fire subreddit alone boasts nearly half a million members) is a defiant reaction to economic hardship, then it’s also a plea to re-evaluate the centrality of work to modern living. Maybe, the movement suggests, we should have always been in it for ourselves, and nobody else, from the start.
To my left was a woman who runs a phone-sex hotline; to my right, a cruise operator, a disaster-response volunteer, a kitchen-appliance entrepreneur, a public-school teacher and a former Off Broadway actor who now lives out of the back of an 18-wheeler and puts 70 percent of her weekly paycheck into index funds. It was a chilly spring weekend, and we had all flown to Cincinnati for EconoMe, an annual all-flavors-of-FIRE conference in which hundreds of people of all ages, from all over, bandy about tips on financial independence from dawn to dusk. The point of FIRE meetups — EconoMe is the largest, but others take place all over the world, some of them at a monthly clip — is only partly to give fiscal advice. Every person’s retirement plan is a highly individualized choreography, after all, so the manifold workshops and breakout groups are meant to offer only high-level ideas. The broader purpose of these get-togethers is more a sort of group therapy, geared to help people achieve their common goals and forge through their common struggles.
Much of the crowd was timid but curious — like Laura Rojo-Eddy, who decided on a whim to fly out from Texas. “My family doesn’t know anything about FIRE,” she told me. “I’ve been really shy talking about it. It’s hard to talk about finances with strangers, but in a way it’s even harder with people you love.” She chanced upon the movement in 2021 via a former colleague’s LinkedIn post, which made her consider for the first time that she may not have to work until the standard age of 65. The friend “posted she was retiring thanks to FIRE, and I was like: That’s really cool! But what the hell is she talking about? And, holy crap, this person’s my age — 40 — and what if I could do that? Should I do that?”
At EconoMe, bank-account totals were traded more freely than phone numbers. The conference’s organizer, Diania Merriam (retired at 33), introduced speakers like Jeremy Schneider (retired at 36), who spoke about how to pick a good financial adviser; the retired divorce lawyer Aaron Thomas, who evangelized the importance of prenups; the real estate tax strategist Natalie Kolodij, who discussed real estate investing and recommended employing your children starting from the age they are able to do household chores, which offers a double benefit of reducing a parent’s taxable income while building an investment-accruing tax shelter for the 7-year-old. Stephanie Zito’s two-hour seminar on the nitty-gritty of “travel hacking,” a.k.a. traversing the world through strategic deployment of credit-card points, had the crowd on the edge of their seats.
In one morning session, a brave volunteer named Krista put her life’s “balance sheet” up on a big screen so that 500 strangers could critique it for blind spots. She is 35, with four kids ages 16, 15, 9 and 7, and makes $32,000 working in a library in Wisconsin. Over the last seven years, since discovering FIRE, she and her husband had slowly paid off $200,000 in credit-card and home- and auto-loan debt. But she knew, she said, humbly dipping her head a bit, that she still had a long way to go, especially when compared with all the younger, already-retired millionaires in the room.
“Wait a second,” Frank Vasquez, one of the conference’s speakers, interrupted. “No. Do you all see this? Krista was a teenage mom who grew up in poverty. We are looking, right now, at a map of a hero’s journey.”
Jackie Cummings Koski of Dayton, Ohio, grew up on food stamps, learned about FIRE in her early 40s and retired at 49 with $1.3 million in savings.Credit...Brian Kaiser for The New York Times During a break, Jackie Cummings Koski, an Ohio local, shared her story with me: She grew up on food stamps and had a “wake-up call” with money after an acrimonious divorce left her a single mother. She learned about FIRE in her early 40s. Newly enlightened, she started saving 40 percent of the salary from her five-figure job, reached financial independence at 47 and pulled the trigger on retirement at 49, with $1.3 million in savings. “My corporate job had nothing to do with what I want to do,” Koski told me. “I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t love it.” She added: “While most FIRE people brag about having an old car with 200,000 miles or whatever, I drive a luxury car. But nobody’s going to chastise me, because I still retired early, even with that car, even with having made some mistakes!” Koski spends her time nowadays creating financial content and advocating for personal-finance classes to be added to high schools, and she recently wrote a “FIRE for Dummies” manual.
To my surprise, a sizable portion of the FIRE crowd at EconoMe was older. This wasn’t so surprising to Bill Yount, a 58-year-old retired physician who recently started up a podcast with Koski and another friend, Becky Heptig, that speaks to older demographics. “The average American is a late starter,” Yount told me. “That’s just who we are, living in this consumption society and not having the mentality of saving often or early.” And things are no longer “9-to-5, 40 years and a gold watch” the way they were for his parents’ generation: “I’m not in the gold-watch generation. Gen X got lost, got forgotten.”
Heptig, who is 68, found herself in dire financial straits in her 50s, when her husband’s small business faltered. “I got really scared, thinking we will never get out of this debt and we will never retire,” she says. They took a course from the financial-advice radio host Dave Ramsey, and her husband signed up for a W-2 job. After that, they started saving madly. “We were net-worth zero at 50 years old, and he retired at 63 — so for us, where we started from, we consider ourselves retiring early,” Heptig says. She had made the same wild discovery that everyone in FIRE does: that it can really take as little as a decade to hit early retirement, from the moment you learn about it and start planning. But as Yount put it to me: “You don’t know what you don’t know. You don’t even know to go looking for it.”
Maybe it’s because I know too much about looking for money that I found myself, while reporting this article, especially drawn to the subculture of FatFIRE — and to the lavish, unapologetic, in-your-face money philosophy that Allen Wong and others of his ilk prefer. FatFIRE flies in the face of all the other variants of FIRE. It is anti-anticonsumption. Its typical benchmark is to accumulate enough wealth that you can comfortably spend at least $100,000 a year in retirement, but some highfliers aim for much, much bigger sums. It espouses an unbridled maximalism, a have-it-all abundance.
While most other FIRE communities steer toward the friendly and pragmatic, FatFIRE’s adherents tend to be jaded, brusque, laser-focused. They hunt for the “exit,” in the tech-world manner of speaking: a fast, lucrative way out. On the FatFIRE subreddit, aspirants ogle severance packages, geo-arbitrage, REIT, tax loopholes, high-risk options straddles and potential business moonshots. Successful FatFIRErs applaud one another for hitting double-digit-millions net worth, debate the merits of private jets versus second homes and agonize over how large a trust fund is ethical to set up for their kids. And just as Fisker and Adeney were beacons to early-era FIRE devotees, Allen Wong is FatFIRE’s mythic hero.
Wong is quiet and unassuming in person. When I finally met him this spring — three years after we first began chatting online — near his childhood home in Queens, he wore jeans, Asics and a wary self-consciousness. Now in his mid-30s, he has comfortably enjoyed nearly a decade of leisure; he spends the bulk of his days playing pickleball and counseling strangers online on how to follow in his footsteps. He’s not particularly interested in fame, so he posts, as the senior moderator of FatFIRE, under his app company’s name. For someone who is a living talisman against the tenets of conventional living, he speaks with a surprising calm — though his eyes flashed with a certain pride whenever we talked about his childhood or his father. Even though it sprouted up only seven years ago, FatFIRE is on the verge of overtaking FIRE in size, Wong told me. Membership doubled during the pandemic despite moderators’ intentionally hiding the forum from Reddit’s homepage, he said, showing me a graph, and he added that most of its members seem to be “early-career American men.”
This makes sense. Millennials may have been ushered into the work force with the encouragement to hustle, but we soon found ourselves jerked around by utterly unaffordable housing, pandemic layoffs, salaries that flopped flat while costs went stratosphere-high. Nearly half of young adults have “money dysphoria,” according to a recent survey from the personal-finance company Credit Karma. Online, trends like “quiet luxury” and “dupe culture” glorify totems of wealth while making it clear how depressingly inaccessible that echelon is for the average Joe. If the recent “antiwork” movement laid bare the disillusionment of the young work force, then FatFIRE represents those feelings put into action.
Some FatFIRE success stories are like Wong’s: a result of obsessive entrepreneurism. Just as many are a byproduct of grinding away at a regular, albeit high-earning, job for enough years. (Fisker, for one, argues that FatFIRE is just an aesthetic rebranding of the work-smart-not-hard ethos that has been woven throughout American history.) In San Francisco, Sam Dogen faithfully saved his finance-job paychecks for 13 years before retiring in 2012 to live off passive investment income. He initially budgeted $100,000 for him and his wife to spend per year, but they upped the target to $200,000 after having their first child, then to $300,000 after a second child — and recently again to $350,000 to account for the recent bout of unchecked inflation. “We choose to live in an expensive coastal city and choose to have two children,” Dogen told me. “But you look at the $300,000 budget I made for a family of four, and you’re like, This is a pretty middle-class lifestyle. FatFIRE is almost a necessity if you want to live in San Francisco.”
“I think more people should aim for FatFIRE, because even if you don’t hit it, you’ll be at regular FIRE,” Jeff Underwood, a San Diego-based FatFIRE aspirant who started chasing financial independence after he lost his house and sank $10,000 into debt, told me. “The idea of LeanFIRE makes me super nervous. Health care costs are going up. There are all these unknowns. You could really find yourself in trouble.” Through smart tips he picked up on financial-planning forums, Underwood’s net worth steadily climbed from $0 in 2011 to $1 million in 2023. He is drawn to FatFIRE’s cheeky energy and its emphasis on securing a big safety net: “I had spent so long in the survival mind-set,” he says. “My default position is to plan for the worst, because I’ve already been through the worst.”
Wong now splits most of his time between houses in Celebration, Fla., and in New York City. He wakes up early to play pickleball and can keep at it for hours if the weather is nice. Because he has so much free time to practice, he has gotten good enough to compete against elite players and coach novices. (He offered to teach me how to play, but it was a wind-whipped 35 degrees when we met up in early April, so we went to have soup dumplings instead.) Otherwise, he reads up on tech and cybersecurity news, plays video games and undertakes home-renovation projects. His houses have been burglarized three times, although he managed to halt the latest attempt with a self-programmed alarm system. He used to make videos about his exotic car collection on YouTube, a few of which went viral, but he grew tired of being a “content creator” because it felt too much like having a job. Plus, he had already done the whole rack-up-a-huge-number thing before — with money.
“It was as if I fast-forwarded through an entire movie, and the end credits are slowly rolling,” Wong told me recently, recalling his first, restless years in retirement. “There was nothing more to watch, and all my peers were still busy watching the movie that I already finished. After I traveled the world and had done just about every possible fun thing I could possibly do, I often found myself wondering, What now?”
Life after early retirement: the elephant in the room. What to do after the cruises, the skydiving, the teetering stack of books on the night stand? The main danger of FIRE is that you might be running hard away from something rather than toward it — that you’re propelled only by the too-nebulous idea of escape. And then, even for those who lay out a clear road map for decades of nirvana, the loneliness can eat at you.
That’s why some, like Merriam, EconoMe’s organizer, host regular social events in their local cities. The online community ChooseFI maintains a sprawling network of hundreds of local FIRE groups in cities around the world. Amy Minkley, who retired by working in Asia as a teacher and saving up to $90,000 of her salary each year, organizes an annual FIRE meetup in Bali as a way of keeping up the community that saved her from depression: “It just felt like someone had thrown me a life raft, and I could see the light at the end of the tunnel,” she told me.
A lot of other people go the Mr. Money Mustache route: They blog. Their posts about income spreadsheets and VTSAX returns then attract the like-minded, as potential friends or even lovers. Koski has heard of romances blossoming among fellow FIRErs — though many of them prefer the company of a FIRE Luddite. “A good chunk of my friends are on my phone,” Gwen Merz, who began saving up for FIRE when she discovered the Mustache blog at age 22 and reached CoastFIRE at age 32 with $400,000 in savings, told me.
A common worry is when to stop. How much is enough? Why not make more? Since there is an upper limit to money’s effect on joy — studies have shown that global happiness tops out at income levels of about $75,000 a year — chasing infinite wealth may be psychologically futile.
“I think people can accumulate money to the detriment of their health and happiness,” says Alan Donegan, who with his wife, Katie, lives a nomadic lifestyle and coaches FIRE newbies toward their resignation letters by “trying to show money is a tool to create your version of an extraordinary life.” There are also those like Oliver Truong, a 27-year-old who cares less about the dollars and cents of it all than about fulfilling a self-imposed challenge: “I think FIRE people are some of the most creative people I’ve ever met,” he told me at EconoMe. “At least for me, it was never about the money, honestly. It was more about just doing something I wanted on my own.”
For those who succeed at early retirement, especially at the FatFIRE level, a surprise depression can set in. “It’s quite alarming and sad to see how many people are lost after they do this,” Wong’s FatFIRE co-moderator, Mike Doehla, told me. Doehla himself thought he was prepared for the social segregation when he FatFIREd at 40 in 2022 through his nutrition-coaching business. He wasn’t. “It has been pretty isolating, and almost awkward at times,” he confessed. Based in a small town in upstate New York, Doehla doesn’t know anyone in real life who has retired early, and all his friends are still working. But, he told me, “I think I’m psychologically broken from ever working someone else’s schedule again,” and he is keen to discover who he is, as a person, outside of work. If the quest for happiness were a tangible metric, Doehla reckons he is about 60 percent of the way there: “I have this FOMO, this empty cup, regarding what is going around me that so many people have experienced, that I just want to taste a bit.”
At EconoMe, I met a 52-year-old architect who considers himself “FattishFIRE”; he and his wife spend about $8,000 a month in Boston and would like to keep up that lifestyle in retirement. But, he told me, “I pretend I have a lot less than I do.” He lives in a building where many of his neighbors “have very little money, live off government assistance and are critical of wealthy people. They don’t know we’re like ‘stealth wealth.’ Would they not like me anymore?” (For this reason, he asked not to be identified.) He has saved enough money to retire within two or three years if he wants to, but he worries about how he’ll be perceived within a field that takes pride in its workhorse culture: “I’d always thought ‘architect’ was my personality and was going to be until I died,” he said. “Am I being too nervous? Am I crazy? I’m still a little ashamed.”
Sam Dogen budgets $350,000 a year in expenses for his family of four: “FatFIRE is almost a necessity if you want to live in San Francisco,” he says.Credit...Maggie Shannon for The New York Times After a decade in retirement, Dogen, the San Francisco FatFIREr, recently did the unimaginable: He decided to go back to work. He doesn’t really need the money, but the endless leisure has begun to wear on him. “I can’t do pickleball all day,” Dogen told me. “So what’s the responsible thing to do? And the responsible thing to do is to find a job that has good purpose, good meaning, where you can work with some smart people and have a lot of camaraderie.” He added: “It just feels good to be part of something. I think it’s really important that we all feel like we’re part of something, contributing.” He took one gig but quit because it ate up too much time, and he is now looking for a less demanding part-time position.
Wong, these days, loves to volunteer. He donates to charities, serves on neighborhood boards and of course plays both chairman and soothsayer to the fraternity (for it is largely male) of FatFIRE. Wong doesn’t so much mind being solitary in real life — he considers himself a lone wolf and is often wary of making new friends for fear they will try to take financial advantage of him. He has been duped in the past by family members or acquaintances, including a friend who falsely claimed to need support for lifesaving heart surgeries. It’s not uncommon for him to get Venmo requests from strangers. (Many of his pickleball acquaintances learned about his wealth when a photographer showed up on the court to shoot him for this article.)
I asked him what he plans to do in his second decade of retirement — or his third or fourth or beyond. He doesn’t know yet. He told me he has been intrigued by the rise of A.I. and has flirted with the idea of a D.I.Y. project in that space. Ultimately, though, he hasn’t pursued it. He fears even self-employment would bring back the manic stresses he fought so hard to leave behind. “When I FatFIREd, I freed myself,” Wong told me. Inner peace, then, is the precious goal. He treasures all the time he has been able to spend with his mother and may one day share his wealth with children of his own. “Should I have worked more and made even more money? I’ve definitely left many millions of dollars on the table by stepping away from it all,” he told me. “But I always end up coming to the same conclusion: There’s no point in making so much money if you’re not going to be happy. I’d rather be free.”

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• Learn how to stay safe on the blockchain: https://www.moonpay.com/learn/cryptocurrency/crypto-security-basics
• Ensuring your safety online is of utmost importance. BE CAUTIOUS OF SCAMMERS posing as our official accounts. DO NOT ACCEPT random DM’s until you verify the source of the account.

How do I redeem my membership at the restaurant?

• To begin enjoying the benefits of your membership, please make sure to register it to an account on our website after you securely stored it in a wallet. IMPORTANT: When you first register your memmbership to your Chubby Club account, you must accurately provide all your personal information (ID, DOB, Email, Phone). THIS CANNOT BE CHANGED. During each visit, there are two methods of redeeming your benefits: you may kindly present it to our server (through the website), who will then scan the QR code- OR you can simply tell us the information you provided during registration so that it matches the data in our system for quick identification. Rest assured, we maintain the utmost confidentiality and security of your personal information.

How often can I redeem my benefits?

• Redemption frequency is based upon the type of benefit included with each tier:
• SILVER:

(a) Priority reservation - Lifetime
(b) FREE 1st round of drinks/cocktails AND 1 dessert or appetizer per table- Once per day
(c) Access to private events - Lifetime

• GOLD:

(a) All of the above
(b) 1 FREE wagyu platter per table - Once per day
(c) 2 COMPLIMENTARY tasting menus - Once per visit, Two times total per year
(d) 10% DISCOUNT on entire bill for group - Once per day

• BLACK:

(a) All of the above
(b) UNLIMITED lifetime tasting menu - Once per visit
(c) 20% DISCOUNT on entire bill for group - Once per day
(d) BLACK card holders with a party of two is calculated as 50% discount on total bill (BLACK card holders eat for free)

• Note: The complimentary tasting menu benefit CANNOT be combined with any other benefits (e.g. you cannot also get a 10% discount on the total bill). A GOLD annual tasting credit may be used with a REFERRAL tasting reward (obtained through referring a friend).

What do you mean by "free dish"/What is PVV?

• Each unique asset in our collection is truly one-of-a-kind, featuring 1-3 adorable cartoon characters (random) that represent a complimentary serving of a dish. With every visit, members can redeem this special offering. We encourage you to take a look at our collection to see the creative examples other holders have minted. Some have received a delightful single tomato, while others have enjoyed indulgent sushi and wagyu platters!
• Every card has a specific value (Per Visit Value) assigned to it. This number is randomly generated and cannot be changed. PVV ranges from $3-$15 for silver and $15-$30 for gold. The value on your card represents the flat discount you receive on every bill. In the event that your character dishes are unavailable at a particular location, you may choose your PVV discount instead.
• PVV does not apply to Black cards.

How long is my NFT valid for? Will my NFT expire?

• As long as you remain an NFT holder, the benefits are for a lifetime. No, it will never expire.

Can I upgrade my tier?

• Regrettably, once you have purchased your chosen tier, it becomes immutable and cannot be modified in any manner. If you wish to explore other options or trade your membership, we suggest visiting OpenSea or engaging with our vibrant discord community to connect with other members.

How do I get my hands on the BLACK CARD?

• The BLACK card is an exclusive edition, limited to only 88 units. When you purchase a SILVER or GOLD card, you will receive a notification if you’ve won the prestigious BLACK card. This unique opportunity is the sole method of obtaining the BLACK card, aside from acquiring it on the resale market.

Can I purchase one on OpenSea or sell mine if I no longer want it?

• It's important to exercise caution when purchasing from the resale market due to the presence of scammers and imposters. While we are diligently working to report and eliminate such individuals, it is crucial that you practice safe online behavior during such transactions.
• To ensure the authenticity of your membership, please verify that it belongs to our exclusive collection by visiting our official page on OpenSea. This will confirm that you are acquiring a legitimate asset from us.
• Additionally, if you ever decide to part ways with your membership, you have the option to sell it at your discretion.

How much can I expect to spend at your locations?

• Prices per person vary significantly depending on location.
• Please see an example of our hot pot menu here: https://chubbygroup.com/project/chubby-cattle-las-vegas/
• Please see an example of our tasting menu here (only available at certain locations): https://nikux.com/tomahawk-tasting-menu/
• For more accurate pricing information, please locate your local restaurant and see the menu here: https://chubbygroup.com/

How does the tasting menus benefit work?

• To clarify on this benefit, each tasting menu has a two-person minimum. For instance, GOLD and BLACK holders may visit a location such as our Michelin restaurant, Niku X to enjoy their portion of the tasting menu free of charge. You may only redeem one portion per visit, at a maximum of two portions per year. For the premium Tomahawk menu (two servings), a credit redemption will be calculated as a 50% discount (for two people).
• At some locations, there are special Chubby Club tasting menus where you may choose to dine yourself.
• If you acquired a free tasting menu reward through the referral program, you may redeem this alongside your benefit.
• Tasting menu credits are reset yearly based on your PURCHASE date.
• Please refer to our redemption rules for limitations: https://chubbyclub.com/terms
• Please note that tasting menu offerings and prices can vary significantly based on the location. To obtain detailed information, we recommend referring to our official menus or reaching out to your local restaurant directly. For All-You-Can-Eat (AYCE) locations, you have the privilege of redeeming the benefits for the highest tier of items available on the menu. Since our menus are subject to regular updates and changes, we understand it can be a bit confusing. To find all the answers you're seeking, we encourage you to join our helpful Discord community. There, you'll get the latest information and assistance from our knowledgeable members.

Are there any limits to the amount of guests I can bring?/Free first round benefit?

• There is no limit for the amount of guests you can bring. Our benefits include a complimentary first round of drinks (alcoholic drinks included) for every guest and a choice of dessert or appetizer for the table. Feel free to invite your friends and family to enjoy the celebration with us.

How do I make priority reservations?

• For a seamless experience, we invite you to join our exclusive Discord community and you will gain access to our private concierge, which handles reservations for ALL our locations. Additionally, as a valued Chubby Club member, you'll be the first to receive updates on private events (such as grand openings) and exciting giveaways that we periodically organize for our community.
• You must first verify through our automated system under #holder-verify, then you may find the #reservations channel under "MEMBERS ONLY". If you are experiencing problems, please open a general support ticket.
• Please remember- in order to accommodate your request, we kindly ask for at least a 24hrs notice.

I'm having other technical issues regarding my wallet/I got scammed.

• Our Discord server is highly active and ready to assist you. If you have any concerns or questions, simply submit a support ticket, and our dedicated team will be there to address and resolve your issue as quickly as possible. Additionally, you’ll find a warm and welcoming community in our chat, where you can freely ask questions and interact with friendly members. Don’t hesitate to reach out – we’re here to help!

**If you got hacked and had your membership stolen, please follow these steps:

1. Notify us immediately through support ticket on Discord. We will have to manually deactivate the benefits of the stolen asset.
   
2. Keep an eye on the stolen asset, if they are listed on OpenSea, promptly contact their support and notify them that the listing contains stolen property; it will be frozen from sale.
   
3. Pay gas + admin fees for the minting and issuing of your replacement membership.
   

Is being an NFT holder the same thing as membership?

• No, some of our locations offer memberships for a fixed annual cost which is not the same as being an NFT holder. For more information on the membership perks and advantages, kindly consult your local restaurant. They will be delighted to share all the details and assist you in making the most of your dining experience.

How do my benefits work at All-You-Can-Eat (AYCE) locations?

• Since drinks and all food are covered under our special AYCE price, SILVER NFT holders are able to enjoy up to $15 off their total bill while GOLD receive up to a $30 discount+ 10% off the bill (exact amounts are determined by the total value of your unique set of cartoon dishes).

Ready to become a lifetime member?
Join the Chubby Club today!

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I figure it would be easiest to just calculate the calories on my own but it’s proving difficult to pinpoint how much of each food I have without a scale.
What’s been successful for y’all?

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This question arises from a free online Physics Textbook: Free AP Physics Collection Available for Download - OpenStax
The problem is at the bottom section 2.6
Suppose a car merges into freeway traffic on a 200m long ramp. If its initial velocity is 10.0 m/s and it accelerates at 2.00 m/s² , how long does it take to travel the 200 m up the ramp?
To solve this equation is not super difficult. Using this equation of motion: X-X₀ = V₀t + 1/5at² , I get this equation (when I plug in the variables):
200m - 0m = (10m/s)t + 1/2(2.00m/s²)t²
We can simplify this equation down to:
200m = 10t + t²
My question arises with the simplification of the units. How do we simplify (m/s)t to t? Or how do we simplify (m/s²)t²? Could someone explain this? Thanks

Hey guys,
A bit of a different post today but an important one: It's mental health awareness month, and in an effort to help the fantasy football industry embrace this, I am interviewing one member of the industry every day for 30 days straight.

Tonight's episode is with Dave Kluge!

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7pm ET: https://www.youtube.com/live/TVoDormAIIw?si=kzGyTuBvA6G5tFsh

• Tomorrow: Josh Larky
• Thursday: Brandon Blanco
• Friday: TrashSandwiches

Selfishly, these have been fantastic to be a part of so far. I've been able to learn more about autism, ptsd, counseling, depression, anxiety and even habits that help someone maintain a healthy relationship to gambling and fantasy sports.
I hope someone out there can find these stories and lessons fruitful, and remember:
You are not alone.
A quick summary of the previous episodes:

Episode 1 - Nick Whalen

In this inaugural episode of the Judgement Seesaw podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with Nick Whalen, a counselor and prominent figure in the fantasy football community, about the often-overlooked topic of mental health within our industry. Our conversation explored the potential downsides of social media reliance, the importance of setting boundaries, and the power of active listening in fostering genuine connections. Nick shared practical tips for maintaining mental well-being, such as practicing gratitude, prioritizing exercise, and focusing on personal goals. He also emphasized the importance of remembering our individual purposes within the fantasy sports world and prioritizing self-care. This episode provided valuable insights and resources for navigating the mental health landscape of fantasy sports, aiming to create a healthier and more supportive community for all. I encourage everyone to tune in and join us on this journey towards greater awareness and understanding.

Episode 2 - Jeff Sanders

This episode of the Judgement Seesaw brought me face-to-face with Jeff Sanders, a Marine Corps veteran with a truly inspiring story. Our conversation delved into the intersection of mental health and veteran affairs, exploring the unique challenges faced by service members upon returning home. Jeff's personal journey, from battling depression as a young adult to finding strength and purpose in the military, resonated deeply with me. His experience with a life-altering injury and subsequent recovery highlighted the importance of resilience, faith, and a strong support system. We discussed the dangers of succumbing to a victim mentality and the power of taking proactive steps towards healing. Jeff's candidness about his struggles with alcohol and his reliance on therapy and faith provided valuable insights for anyone facing similar challenges. His story is a testament to the human spirit's ability to overcome adversity and find hope, even in the darkest of times. I am grateful for Jeff's willingness to share his experiences and inspire others on their own paths to recovery.

Episode 3 - Brendon Booth

In this installment of the Judgement Seesaw, I had the pleasure of speaking with Brendon Booth, a fellow content creator and a shining example of embracing one's creativity to forge a unique path in life. Brendon's journey resonated with me deeply, as he shared his experiences with Oppositional Defiant Disorder, anxiety, and ADD, and how these challenges shaped his early years. His willingness to be open and vulnerable about his struggles with self-medication and the importance of finding a supportive network provided valuable insights for anyone facing similar obstacles. We discussed the challenges and joys of being a creative soul, the constant pursuit of new ideas and projects, and the importance of finding that one thing that truly ignites passion and focus. Brendon's story, from his unconventional path through high school to his fulfilling career in substance abuse counseling and his current endeavors in comedy and fantasy football content creation, is an inspiration to anyone who dares to chase their dreams. His message of self-acceptance, perseverance, and embracing one's unique talents is a powerful reminder that we all have the potential to create a life filled with joy and purpose.

Episode 4 - Brian Ford

On this episode, Brian Ford and I delved into a deeper conversation about societal structures and their impact on mental health. Brian's openness about his experiences with anxiety, depression, cyclothymia, ADHD, and autism shed light on the unique challenges faced by neurodivergent individuals in a world that often overlooks their needs. We discussed the concept of "masking" and the invisibility of many neurodivergent struggles, highlighting the importance of creating inclusive spaces and advocating for greater understanding and support. Our conversation ventured beyond the realm of fantasy football, exploring the limitations of the education system, the complexities of late-stage capitalism, and the need for systemic change to address the root causes of mental health issues. Brian's perspective as a former history teacher and his passionate advocacy for social justice offered valuable insights into the interconnectedness of societal structures and individual well-being. While the fantasy football industry provides a sense of community and escape for many, it is crucial to acknowledge the broader context in which mental health struggles exist and to advocate for a more equitable and just society that supports the needs of all individuals.

Episode 5 - Leo McNeely

In this episode of the Judgement Seesaw, Leo McNeely, a rising star in the fantasy football industry and most accurate IDP expert in the business, joined me for a thought-provoking discussion on managing the mental health challenges associated with playing fantasy sports. Leo's perspective as a relative newcomer to the industry, coupled with his impressive success in fantasy competitions, offered valuable insights into finding balance and prioritizing well-being. We explored the potential pitfalls of overextending oneself, the importance of setting realistic goals, and the benefits of maintaining a positive and supportive mindset. Our conversation highlighted the need for self-awareness and self-regulation in navigating the competitive and often stressful world of fantasy football. Leo shared practical strategies for managing multiple leagues, including setting boundaries, creating schedules, and prioritizing tasks to avoid feeling overwhelmed. We also touched on the potential dangers of gambling and the importance of responsible play. Leo's insights and advice serve as a reminder that while fantasy sports can be an enjoyable and rewarding hobby, it's essential to prioritize our mental health and well-being by setting boundaries, managing expectations, and fostering a supportive community within the industry.
As for me? I'm Ronnie Evans. I'm gearing up to launch goodguyai, where I will be showcasing AI advancements and that relate to the world of fantasy sports and gambling, demoing products made by my peers in the industry, and offering guides and resources on how to integrate AI into your fantasy football shenanigans. Behind all of that, I am a long time Mental Health sufferer who still -- after three decades -- am recovering from childhood trauma and working through managing chronic depression and anxiety.
As such, I am launching the goodguyai youtube channel with a Mental Health Awareness Takeover for May, and will do this again every year. The other 11 months will be beep-boop central though.
Been around on this site for almost 15 years. Accounts have come and gone. Reddit has changed. But one thing has remained constant:
Gaining exposure, expanding conversations, and embracing/being embraced by communities of hundreds of thousands -- if not millions -- of strangers is my favorite aspect of the internet, and Reddit is the leader.
IF YOU ARE STRUGGLING, YOU ARE NOT ALONE
The first step to recovery is owning your struggle and reaching out. Here are some resources:
1. 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline

• Provides 24/7 free, confidential support for people in distress. You can call or text 988, or chat online at 988lifeline.org.

2. Crisis Text Line

• Another free, 24/7 confidential support service. Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor.

3. NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness)

• Offers a wealth of resources, including educational materials, support groups, and a helpline.
• NAMI Helpline: 1-800-950-NAMI (6264) or text "HelpLine" to 62640pen_spark
• Website: nami.org

4. MentalHealth.gov

• A government website providing information about different mental health conditions, where to find treatment, and how to navigate getting help.pen_spark
• Website: www.mentalhealth.gov

5. Psychology Today

• Features a comprehensive directory of therapists and mental health providers across the United States. You can search by location, specialty, insurance accepted, and other criteria.pen_spark
• Website: www.psychologytoday.com

Stay happy, stay healthy, and believe in yourself.
I appreciate you guys and the mods for giving this the thumbs up. I'll be back next week with the more reviews, notes and links about the previous and next batch of episodes.

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Bray Wyatt was a truly brilliant man, a mastermind of creativity that brought to life characters, the likes of which we never dreamed we'd see in WWE.
From a cult leader to a funhouse to a fiend and many more iterations, Wyatt left an impact with his career and with his passing.
Many would say his career was cut too short and he had so much more to give, so much unrealized potential.
I'm sure by now we've all heard the rumors of Bo Dallas's return and the shoes of Bray's he looks to fill. I aim to write the best possible run for Bo to make for a respectable, iconic tribute run that would hopefully be a worthy successor to the legend that was Bray Wyatt.
NXT, 4/9/24:
It's the NXT after WrestleMania and the wrestling world is buzzing, especially given the fallout from Stand & Deliver.
Everyone is anxiously awaiting the tag team championship bout, however, right before introductions begin, a video airs.
[The scene opens with a dimly lit room, filled with eerie masks and props reminiscent of Bray Wyatt's countless ominous personas. Bo Dallas stands in the center, dressed in a black tuxedo, a ruby red rose tucked into the pocket. His expression is solemn as he gazes at the array of memorabilia.]
"My brother Bray... he was more than just a man. He was an enigma, a mastermind of both darkness and light. He taught me, not just about wrestling, but about life. About embracing the darkness within us and finding strength in it."
[Bo picks up a white sheep mask, running his fingers along its intricate details.]
"These masks... they're more than just fabric and paint. They're symbols of his creativity, his imagination. Each one tells a story, a story of the man who wore it. And now, it's up to me to carry on that legacy, to keep his memory alive."
[He pauses, a somber look crossing his face as memories flood his mind.]
"Bray and I... we shared a bond that went beyond blood. We were kindred spirits, wandering in the darkness together. And even though he's gone, I can still feel his presence, guiding me, urging me to continue the journey."
[Bo walks around the room, touching various items, each one invoking memories of Bray. He runs his fingers along the mask of Uncle Howdy, and bits of Bray's feud with LA Knight flicker across the screen. He passes by the sheep mask, and images of The Wyatt Family fill the picture, scenes of their destruction on full display. Bo dares to grip The Fiend mask last, and the monstrous reign of terror Bray went on is summarized with flashes of his darkest showings.]
"I may not be Bray Wyatt, but I am my brother's keeper. I am Bo Dallas. And I promise to honor his memory in everything I do. To carry on his legacy, to spread his message. Because that's what he would have wanted."
[As the camera fades to black, a single candle flickers in the darkness, illuminating Bo's determined expression, a symbol of hope in the face of loss.]
NXT, 4/16/24:
[The scene this week finds Bo Dallas in a ring, not the NXT ring, but at an undisclosed location, surrounded by eerie lighting and haunting music. His demeanor has shifted slightly, displaying hints of the madness that once defined his brother, Bray Wyatt.]
"Welcome, my friends, to the theater of the mind. Tonight, we embark on a journey into the dark limelight. For too long, I have walked in the shadows of greatness, but now, it's time for me to step into the spotlight."
[Bo's eyes gleam with an unsettling intensity as he speaks, his voice carrying a hint of the manicness that consumed Bray.]
"You see, I've spent my time wandering in the wilderness, searching for answers, seeking the truth that lies beneath the surface. And what I've found... it's both beautiful and terrifying."
[He paces around the ring, his movements fluid yet erratic, mirroring the unpredictability of his brother.]
"But fear not, for I am not alone in this journey. No, I carry with me the spirit of Bray Wyatt, my brother, my mentor, my lantern in the darkness. Together, we shall unleash chaos upon the world, for it is in chaos that true enlightenment is found."
[As he speaks, cryptic images flash across the screen, hinting at the impending madness that awaits. Two stand out, a smiley face with blood splattered on the bright yellow exterior, and an uber-realistic heart still beating, decorated with disturbing facial features, the eyes gouged out and grey bruises left in the sunken holes.]
"So to those who dare to stand in our way, know this: the reckoning is coming. The shadows will consume you, and you will be left to live in fear. For the madness of the mind knows no bounds, and soon, you will understand the true meaning of terror, the true face of fear."
[The camera zooms in on Bo's face, a wicked grin spreading across his lips as he stares into the abyss, indescribable intentions lining his tortured mind.]
NXT 4/23/24:
Bo Dallas vs Scrypts
[Bo Dallas finally makes his in ring return, to the brand he once called home, the brand he was once champion of. He enters to Feared, seemingly confirming his past role. Across the ring from him is the highly acrobatic Scrypts, eager to get an upset victory over the, presumably rusty, Bo Dallas.
In the closing moments of the match, Bo Dallas delivers a new finishing maneuver. He locks Scrypts in position for a Sister Abigail, kiss and all, before securing the head and falling back into a devastating DDT laying out Scrypts for the three-count. As the referee raises Dallas' hand in victory, the arena is left with a mixture of awe and fear, witnessing the emergence of a new force on the white and gold brand.]
NXT, 4/30/24:
Bo Dallas vs Davey Vega (Local Competitor)
[In the heart of the performance center, Bo Dallas stands ready, his gaze fixed on his opponent, Davey Vega, a local competitor stepping into the lion's den. From the opening bell, Dallas unleashes a relentless assault, showcasing the brutal side of his newfound madness.
As the match progresses, the referee is forced to intervene, calling for the bell and awarding the match to Bo Dallas via referee stoppage, signaling the end of Vega's valiant effort.
However, Dallas shows no signs of mercy, launching a vicious post-match assault on the defenseless Vega, driving home the message that he is not to be trifled with.
Suddenly, the arena erupts with the arrival of Axiom, charging down the ramp to confront Dallas and put an end to his rampage. Bo Dallas, unfazed by the interruption, simply smiles in response, leaving a chilling sense of uncertainty in his wake as he retreats from the ring.]
NXT, 5/7/24:
The week after Bo Dallas bludgeoned a local competitor who was thankfully rescued by Axiom, a video airs detailing Bo's thoughts on this 'heroic' act.
[The scene opens with eerie music playing in the background as the screen flickers to life, revealing a dimly lit room. In the center of the frame, Bo Dallas sits, his expression veiled in shadows, radiating an aura of malevolence.]
"Axiom, my dear adversary, I have a message for you. A message that carries with it the weight of inevitability.
You see, Axiom, you and I... we exist on opposite ends of the spectrum. Where you seek light, I revel in darkness. Where you find solace, I find chaos. And in that chaos, there lies a power that few ever get to feel."
[As he speaks, the camera zooms in on Bo's face, revealing a sinister grin that twists his features into an unsettling visage.]
"But fear not, for I am not here to harm you... yet. No, I am here to offer you a choice. A choice that will define your destiny, a choice that will determine what kind of man you're going to be left as."
[His words hang in the air, heavy with implication and menace.]
"So heed my warning, Axiom, because I'm not a bad person. I don't wish to harm you. Believe me, it will hurt me more than it will hurt you, and that's truly, truly saying something. The choice is yours... choose wisely."
[With a flicker, the screen fades to black, leaving behind an ominous silence that lingers long after Bo's message has ended.]
Later that night, we cut to a scene of Axiom & Nathan Frazer in the locker room with Nathan Frazer anxiously pacing back and forth, his expression wrought with concern. Axiom, his tag team partner, stands nearby.
"Axiom, listen to me... I've got a bad feeling about this. You can't take this match with Bo Dallas. It's like... like there's something dark hovering over him, something... unnatural."
Axiom furrows his brow, puzzled by Nathan's urgency.
"Nathan, what are you talking about? We've faced tough opponents before. Hell, we just won the NXT Tag Team Championships last month. Bo Dallas is just another challenge for us to overcome."
"No, this is...this is different. I can't explain it, but, I know, somehow, that this guy is bad news."
The lights flicker, as Nathan's eyes begin to dart, wary of... something.
"Axiom, please, I'm begging you... don't do this."
Axiom shakes his head, his determination unwavering despite Nathan's pleas.
"I appreciate your concern, I really do. But I can't back down from this. Bo may be...troubled, but I refuse to let fear dictate my actions. We've trained hard for moments just like this, and, just imagine what it'll do for us if I beat a former NXT champion."
Nathan's shoulders slump in defeat, realizing that his words have fallen on deaf ears.
"Just... promise me you'll be careful. Promise me you'll watch your back. There's something... something sinister about him. I'm afraid that if you face Bo Dallas, you won't come out of it the same."
Axiom nods solemnly, trying to show Frazer that he takes his concerns seriously. He reassures Nathan that he's got this, and by this time next week, they will be on the road to bigger and better things. He goes to get the match made official, leaving Nathan alone with his dark premonitions.
NXT, 5/14/24:
In the backstage area, dimly lit and filled with an air of anticipation, Bo Dallas prepares for his upcoming match against Axiom. Dressed in his ominous attire, reminiscent of his brothers, but with a touch of his own style. He methodically wraps his hands with tape, his mind focused on the task at hand. Suddenly, Joe Gacy appears, his smile warm and inviting as he approaches Dallas.
"Bo, my friend! I just wanted to say, I've been admiring your work lately. Your commitment to embracing your darker side is truly inspiring. For example, what you're going to do to Axiom tonight. If a guy like that doesn't want to listen to guys like us when we're warning him, begging him not to oppose us. Well, they get what they deserve."
Bo Dallas, though polite, eyes Gacy warily, sensing an underlying tension beneath his seemingly friendly demeanor.
"Thanks, Joe. I appreciate the... kind words. But let me ask you something...I hear your gospel, and you preach a lot about redemption. Do you truly believe in redemption? Or are you just using it as an excuse to justify your own actions?"
Gacy's smile wavers slightly at the question, but he quickly regains his composure.
"Of course, Bo. Redemption is a core belief of mine. I believe that everyone, no matter how lost they may seem, deserves a chance at redemption. Even those who have embraced their darker nature."
Bo Dallas nods, though the skepticism still lingers.
"Because you know, guys like us, of course. We don't make apologies, we don't make excuses, we don't need redemption. If you feel that you do, well, maybe you're nothing like me at all."
Before either can dive deeper into the conversation, a stagehand interrupts, signaling that it's time for Bo's match.
"We'll continue this conversation later, Joe. Right now, I have a match to focus on."
With a curt nod, Dallas strides off towards the ring, leaving Gacy standing alone in the dimly lit hallway, his smile masking the darkness that lurks beneath the surface. As Dallas's theme music echoes through the arena, Gacy watches with a knowing glint in his eyes, hinting at the turbulent confrontation yet to come.
Axiom vs Bo Dallas
[The arena buzzes as Axiom makes his entrance, his determination palpable in the air as he clutches his Tag Title strap. Across the ring, Bo Dallas stands, a sinister grin etched on his face as he eagerly awaits his opponent.
As the bell rings, Axiom explodes into action, showcasing his high-flying prowess with dazzling maneuvers, but Bo Dallas is unfazed, meeting Axiom's athleticism with a ruthless onslaught of dirty tactics and underhanded tricks.
Bo sinks to new depths of depravity, resorting to underhanded tactics such as eye rakes and choking Axiom with the ring ropes when the referee's back is turned. He strategically targets Axiom's limbs, ruthlessly wrenching at joints and ligaments with painful submission holds, eliciting agonized screams from his opponent. At one point, Bo viciously slams Axiom's knee into the ring post, causing a sickening crunch that echoes throughout the arena, leaving Axiom writhing in pain on the mat.
He repeatedly drives his knee into Axiom's ribs with malicious intent, ignoring the referee's warnings and relishing in the damage he deals.
Despite the odds stacked against him, Axiom refuses to back down, channeling his inner resilience to mount a comeback against his twisted adversary. With every leap and flip, he defies gravity, inciting faint Axiom chants that become even fainter as the finish nears.
Axiom attempts a shooting star from the top rope and gets caught in Sister Abigail positioning, kiss, DDT. Commentary dubs it Grim Affection. A dominant victory for Bo Dallas over a game Axiom.
"I told you, Axiom, that you had a choice to make. A choice to define your destiny, to decide what kind of man was going to be left. You... you didn't believe me."
Bo drops the mic and drags Axiom out of the ring. He nears the announce desk and begins slamming Axiom's head into the table. Again, and again, and again. Repeatedly. After several sickening collisions with the desk, medical personnel back Bo up and wring his grip off of Axiom's neck.
Perhaps, people should be asking what drove Bo to do this, how he could do this, but then again, he did warn us. Rather, one question seems to linger.
Where was Nathan Frazer?]
NXT, 5/21/24:
Bo Dallas vs Riley Osborne
The following week, Bo Dallas is paired up with the impressive up and comer, Riley Osborne. Osborne, a dynamic highflyer known for his breath-taking maneuvers, brings an energy to the match that contrasts sharply with Dallas's dark and brooding presence.
With Dallas in the driver's seat, Joe Gacy emerges from the shadows, making his way to ringside with his trademark smile firmly in place. His presence unnerves Dallas, who becomes increasingly distracted by Gacy's watchful gaze.
Sensing an opportunity, Osborne seizes the moment, launching a series of high-flying attacks that leave Dallas reeling. With the crowd firmly behind him, Osborne delivers a flurry of strikes and aerial maneuvers, building momentum and gaining the advantage.
However, just as it seems that Osborne may secure the victory, Gacy interjects himself into the match, distracting the referee and creating an opening for Dallas to strike. Seizing the opportunity, Dallas delivers a devastating blow to the back of Osborne's head, knocking him to the mat and leaving him vulnerable to Grim Affection.
Dallas quickly executes the DDT, driving Osborne's head into the canvas with brutal force. Dallas covers Osborne for the pinfall victory, all the while, keeping a weary eye on Joe Gacy. His victory tainted by the interference.
As Dallas stands victorious in the ring, Gacy watches from ringside, his smile wider than ever as he silently applauds Dallas's triumph, his motivations indeterminable.
Backstage, Bo strides purposefully towards Gacy, his expression a mix of frustration and curiosity. Gacy stands nearby, his back turned to the approaching Dallas.
"Joe, we need to talk. What the hell made you think you could get involved in my match?"
Joe turns to face Dallas, his smile unwavering despite the tension in the air.
"Bo, it's simple. I got involved because that's what friends do. We look out for each other, we support each other, no matter what."
Dallas narrows his eyes, unpleased with the explanation.
"Friends, huh? Joe, let me make something clear to you. You and me are not friends. You talk about 'guys like us.' but if you were really anything like me, you'd know, guys like us don't get the luxury of friendship. Stay out of my way."
Dallas walks off, leaving Gacy alone in the dimly lit hallway, feeling confident his warning will be the last he hears from Gacy. As Gacy watches Dallas's retreating figure, his smile fades slightly, a hint of the darkness leaking out behind his facade of friendliness.
NXT, 5/28/24:
In the aftermath of Dallas's confrontation with Joe backstage, tensions between the two competitors continue to simmer beneath the surface. As Dallas prepares for his next match, Gacy lurks in the shadows, his smile masking the intentions that lie beneath.
Bo Dallas vs Je'Von Evans
As Dallas steps into the ring to face off with the spry Evans, Gacy watches from ringside, his presence a constant reminder of the brewing conflict between them. Throughout the match, Dallas's focus is split between Je'Von and Gacy, the unsettling feeling of being watched lingering on his mind.
As the match reaches its climax, Gacy's interference once again comes into play, this time in the form of distraction tactics that allow Evans to gain the upper hand, ending his dominant sequence with a huracanrana to send Dallas out of the ring. Frustrated by Gacy's meddling, Dallas lashes out, confronting Gacy at ringside.
"What are you doing?! I told you to stay out of my business."
"I'm just trying to help, Bo. Can't you see that? We're in this together, whether you like it or not."
The confrontation between Dallas and Gacy escalates, drawing the attention of the referee and the audience alike. Sensing an opportunity, Je'Von seizes the moment, delivering a springboard crossbody that leaves Dallas smashed against the barricade.
As the match comes to a close, Dallas finds himself on the receiving end of a corkscrew frogsplash, pinned to the mat as the referee issues the three-count. Gacy watches from ringside, his smile wider than ever as he revels in Dallas's defeat.
As Dallas staggers to his feet, his anger evident, Gacy offers a mocking clap of applause, his smile taunting Dallas from across the ring.
NXT, 6/4/24:
The following week, Bo is obviously beside himself, given his first loss since returning due to the meddling nature of Joe Gacy. He wants answers, and he gets them, but they are perhaps...not what he expected
The video opens with a dimly lit room, casting eerie shadows across the walls. In the center of the frame, in an old rocking chair, sits Joe Gacy. He's surrounded by a cluttered array of photos, newspaper clippings, and pins connected by lengths of yarn. His expression is intense, bordering on obsessive, as he addresses the camera.
"Greetings, my friends. I wanted to take a moment to share something with you. Something that has been weighing heavily on my mind as of late."
He gestures to the wall behind him, where a complex web of connections links various images together.
"You see, I've been doing some... research. Trying to understand the connections between us all, the threads that bind us together."
He points to individual photos, each depicting familiar figures, including Alexa Bliss, Bo Dallas, Braun Strowman, Bray Wyatt, Erick Rowan, Luke Harper, and even the iconic sheep mask.
"Bo Dallas... Bray Wyatt... They're more than just competitors to me. They're kindred spirits, souls bound by a shared vision of darkness and redemption. And now, with their guidance, I seek to create something truly special."
His voice takes on a fervent tone, his eyes gleaming with manic intensity.
"You may call me a fan, a devotee of their work. But I see myself as something more. I am a disciple, a vessel through which their legacy will live on. Together, Bo and me will forge a new path, a new family built on the foundations of their greatness."
As the camera zooms in on Gacy's face, his smile widens, revealing a hint of madness lurking beneath the surface.
"So to Bo, my dear friend and partner in crime, I say this: embrace the chaos, embrace the darkness, and together, we will create something truly extraordinary."
With a final unsettling chuckle, Gacy reaches forward to turn off the camera, a squeak echoing from the rocking chair and cascading across the disturbed audience.
NXT, Battleground:
Bo Dallas vs Joe Gacy
As the lights dim in the UFC Apex arena, anticipation hangs heavy in the air as Bo Dallas and Joe Gacy make their way to the ring, their paths on a collision course fueled by obsession.
From the opening bell, Gacy wastes no time in asserting his dominance, launching a relentless assault on Dallas with a combination of technical prowess and psychological warfare. Gacy taunts Dallas, insisting that he needs Gacy to unlock his true potential, but Dallas remains defiant, refusing to give in to Gacy's grand delusion.
Despite Gacy's mind games, Dallas fights back with a fierce determination, fueled by a desire for revenge against the man who has cost him victories and sought to manipulate him. The two competitors trade blows in a brutal back-and-forth, each refusing to back down in their quest for supremacy.
As the match reaches its climax, Gacy's desperation becomes apparent as he resorts to underhanded tactics to gain the upper hand. He attempts to lure Dallas into his twisted worldview, promising power and redemption through submission to his will, both literally and figuratively as he traps Dallas in Hell's Gate. Dallas sees through Gacy's deception, though, refusing to be swayed by his false promises and makes it to the ropes.
In a dramatic turn of events, Dallas mounts a ferocious comeback, unleashing a barrage of strikes that leave Gacy reeling. With the crowd rallying behind him, Dallas summons every ounce of strength to overcome Gacy.
In the final moments of the match, Gacy attempts his handspring lariat, but Dallas catches him! Dallas has him in position and connects with Grim Affection, Gacy's delusion shattered in the face of Dallas's unwavering resolve. With a triumphant roar, Dallas secures the victory, standing tall.
As Dallas celebrates his hard-fought victory, Gacy slinks away into the shadows, his facade of superiority crumbling under the weight of his defeat.
NXT, 6/11/24:
On the NXT following Battleground, Bo Dallas makes his way to the ring. He details how Gacy was one of the hardest fights of his career and he has a newfound respect for him. Gacy is clearly...confused about any potential connection he may have to Dallas, but Dallas has been a man of much confusion in the past and he can sympathize.
He asks Gacy to come out to the ring so Dallas can shake his hand after their war at Battleground. Instead, Gallus's music hits, the trio of bruisers signaling their arrival. The Coffey Brothers & Wolfgang have been on a Shield-esque run recently, terrorizing anyone they deem a threat to their success and dissecting them via the numbers game.
As Gallus surround the ring, preventing Dallas from making an escape, they bore their eyes into a trepidatious Bo.
Just as the wolfpack is about to swarm, Love Is Blind hits and Joe Gacy runs down wielding a steel chair. He jabs Wolfgang in the gut, and levels Mark Coffey with chair shots as well. This leaves Joe vulnerable to Dallas's attack, laying out Coffey. Coffey flees from the right side of the ring as Gacy enters from the left. Gacy and Dallas end up bumping, back to back, into each other.
They stare each other down cautiously, before Dallas sticks out his hand, Gacy shakes it and the two unlikely bedmates stand united against Gallus.
NXT, 6/18/24:
Bo Dallas & Joe Gacy vs Gallus (The Coffey Brothers)
[With Dallas & Gacy seemingly aligning for the moment, with the numbers game of Gallus being too great for either to overcome alone, this match is made.
Joe & Mark Coffey showcase their brawling ways and take the fight to Dallas, wearing him down throughout the match. It's not until Bo makes a hot tag to Joe Gacy that tides start to turn.
Gacy matches the brutality of Coffey and battles back as the freshest competitor in the match. As Gacy closes in on a victory, Dallas clears out Wolfgang at ringside who was attempting to get involved.
A moment later, Gacy is pinning Mark to secure the win for him and Bo.]
Later that night, Bo and Gacy run into Gacy's old running mate and NXT General Manager, Ava. She says that she was impressed with their performance and if they're interested in accepting it, would like to offer a Tag Team Title opportunity to them next week.
Joe looks to Dallas for his answer, and Bo agrees to the match. It seems Joe is finally getting his wish, to team with a man who's work he's admired for some time in Bo Dallas.
NXT, 6/25/24:
Axiom & Nathan Frazer (c) vs Bo Dallas & Joe Gacy: NXT Tag Team Championship Match
[Ever since Bo's encounter with Axiom, there's been tensions between Axiom & Frazer. Frazer has been somewhat absent, slacking in comparison to Axiom's extreme efforts. Not to mention, Nathan's choice to let Dallas brutally beat on him last month.
Earlier in the night, it's made clear that Frazer's most egregious example of this recent behavior is taking place at the most inopportune time. Axiom first gives an interview early in the show, Nathan isn't here yet but Axiom stays confident in their defense tonight. Axiom later voices concern to Ava over Nathan not being here yet. Finally, Axiom finds a note in his locker, clearly informing Axiom that Nathan isn't coming.
Axiom is asked pre match about these developments, the champion states he's going to go out there and vigorously defend his title, and if he fails...well he's no longer got a tag team partner, maybe he shouldn't be a tag team champion.
It's a big fight feel with the tag team titles up for grabs, but once Dallas and Gacy finish making their entrance, Axiom enters alone. The handicap is evident as despite Axiom's valiant efforts, the revolving door of tags from his opponents keeps him weak.
Axiom unleashes a series of big maneuvers on both men, fighting his heart out until his last breath. Axiom dives onto Dallas at ringside and attempts to on Gacy as well, but gets tossed into the ring apron. Gacy sends him back in and flattens him with a handspring lariat. He feeds Axiom to Dallas who lands Grim Affection.
With that, the Tag Team Championships now belong to Bo Dallas & Joe Gacy. A defeated Axiom writhes on the canvas, a harrowing loss noticably affecting him.]
NXT, 7/2/24:
It's the week after the big Tag Title victory, and Dallas & Gacy make their entrance, eager to celebrate Gacy's first WWE Title and Dallas's first in over a decade.
They seem very giddy to be Champions, Dallas compliments Gacy's vision and states that Joe knew they would make a great team even when Bo didn't want to accept it.
Dallas states that when he first came back, he was nervous, nervous he wouldn't live up to that legacy, fill those boots. Thanks to Gacy though, it was easier than Bo expected and know that he's got gold, he can finally relax. He feels that weight off of his shoulders.
This seems to unsettle Gacy who states that the hard part has just begun though and it's time to put in their best work. The tag titles are just phase one of the plan. Dallas says that, eventually sure, maybe they'll go after other titles and bigger things, but for now, this feels comfortable for Bo.
Gacy simply stares at him for a moment until Edris Enofé and Malik Blade arrive. Gacy turns away from Dallas to spot the young, hungry tag team. Enofé and Blade state that they are one of the longest tenured teams in NXT right now and they deserve a tag team title shot.
Dallas tries to tell them they'll need to earn it, not seeing the irony of how easy his road to the titles has been, Gacy however accepts on Bo's behalf and schedules the match for later tonight.
Joe tries to talk some sense into Bo backstage, letting Bo know that Gacy helped him capture gold as a way to inspire Bo to work harder, to fulfill his destiny and truly become great with Gacy. Dallas shouldn't become comfortable right now, now is when you double down on that effort and become undeniable. Dallas seems disinterested.
Bo Dallas & Joe Gacy (c) vs Edris Enofé & Malik Blade: Tag Team Championship Match
[The enthusiastic team of Enofé and Blade have the biggest opportunity of their young careers, as they take on two established foes with NXT tag gold on the line. The very different styles contrast throughout, the aggressive, smash-mouth style of Bo and Gacy opposite the adrenaline fueled, fast paced Edris and Blade.
It begins to look unlikely that the challengers will have a chance to fulfill their long awaited dream as Dallas and Gacy continuously cut off their momentum.
In a last gasp effort, Blade is able to turn the tides and neutralize Gacy at ringside, this leaves Dallas vulnerable to Enofé who closes the gap by standing on the back of Dallas and dropping into a DDT. Bo somehow gets the shoulder up, and Edris directs Malik to the top rope. Swanton Bomb by Blade, cover by Edris. New Tag Team Champions.]
After the bout, Gacy hugs a distraught Dallas. Bo is facing away from the camera, Gacy is facing towards it. Gacy whispers something in Bo's ear before planting a kiss on the side of his head. Dallas turns around just as Gacy connects with a handspring lariat. Joe stands over the flattened Dallas, and in disappointment, leaves the ring.
NXT Heatwave:
Bo Dallas vs Joe Gacy, Love & War:
[The stage is set for a hazardous clash as Bo Dallas and Joe Gacy step into the ring for their Love & War Match, a twisted variation of an Extreme Rules bout. The atmosphere is personal, the hurt of betrayal evident on the face of Bo, as the two rivals lock eyes, each determined to emerge victorious.
As the bell rings, Bo Dallas wastes no time in unleashing his pent-up frustration on Joe Gacy, launching a relentless assault with a steel chair in hand. Gacy, however, remains cool and composed, dodging Dallas's swings with ease before retaliating with a series of calculated strikes ending in a bodyslam on the open chair.
The match quickly spills to the outside, where Dallas sends Gacy crashing into the steel steps with a vicious Irish whip. The impact reverberates through the arena as Gacy writhes in pain on the cold concrete floor. Gacy eye pokes Dallas and tries for a sit-out piledriver on the bottom set of stairs, the top set tipped over beside it.
Dallas connects with a back body drop, though, sending Gacy cascading into the top half of the stairs. Back inside the ring, Dallas sets up a table in the corner, his eyes burning with determination as he prepares to put an end to Gacy's deception once and for all. Following a Sunset Flip, Dallas shows his strength, carrying Gacy across the ring and sending him crashing through the table with a devastating powerbomb, the wood splintering beneath the force of the impact.
But Gacy refuses to stay down, rallying back with a barbed wire bat in hand. With a sadistic grin, Gacy swings the bat at Dallas, striking him across the back with brutal force. The barbed wire tears at Dallas's flesh, leaving behind a trail of blood as he staggers back in agony.
Gacy introduces a ladder, propping it up in the corner, he slingshots Dallas into the hard steel. The ladder is set on Bo's neck, trapping his head in the middle of it, Gacy connects with a german suplex while Bo's head is trapped.
Joe fishes out a barbed wire wrapped table, setting it up outside the ring. Gacy re-enters and spots a vulnerable Dallas. He attempts a handspring lariat, but as soon as he goes upside down into the ropes, Bo spears Gacy, driving both men out of the ring.
Dallas and Gacy brawl on the apron, footsteps away from the barbed wire table. Gacy gets Dallas sat against the steel post and attempts a cannonball, Dallas pulls himself into the ring last second and Gacy crashes into the steel post.
Dallas runs the ropes and connects with a suicide spear through the barbed wire table. With Gacy reeling from the impact, Dallas seizes the opportunity to end the match once and for all. He sets a table ablaze in ring, the flames licking at the sky as he hoists Gacy into the squared circle.
Dallas sets up the ladder and begins to climb, he's thinking an elbow drop on the downed Gacy, but Joe climbs and gets Dallas in a fireman's carry position. Bo frees himself and gets Gacy in electric chair position.
The crowd waits in baited breath, as with a primal roar, Dallas falls backwards with Gacy on his shoulders, from fifteen feet in the air, into the table, the fire consuming them both in a blaze of glory. The crowd erupts into cheers as the referee counts the three-count, declaring Bo Dallas the winner of the Love & War Match.
As Dallas stands tall amidst the smoldering wreckage, a sense of catharsis washes over him, his victory a symbol of triumph over betrayal. As he gazes down at Gacy's body though, one thought runs through his head, a thought that scares him to his core, it's implications undeniable.
"That was fun."
WWE uploads an exclusive backstage video showing Gacy approach Bo. Dallas is on edge and stiffens up, Gacy grabs him by his face.
"Good. Now go fulfill your destiny."
Gacy claps Dallas on the chest and leaves, leaving Bo in a mix of emotions as he is forced to consider Gacy's betrayal may have been a selfless action.]
RAW, 7/15/24:
SummerSlam is just over two weeks away and things are heating up. Shortly before the respective parties make their entrance for the main event of the evening, a video airs.
[The camera flickers to life revealing the familiar face of one Bo Dallas, coming off arguably the most brutal match of his career and an enigmatic piece of advice from Joe Gacy.]
"It's been said that those who are baptized in the darkness, cannot handle the light, for it will surely blind them. As I stand here today, I feel the weight of those words.
I've spent so long living in fear, fear of not living up to those who came before me..."
[Flashes of The US Express and Bray Wyatt shoot across the screen.]
"Fear of failing."
[This time, flashes of Bo's initial run with WWE, losing his winning streak to R-Truth and then beginning his losing streak.]
"Fear...of judgement."
[Bo, previously staring at the ground, gazes up.]
"I thought I'd be able to feel him, but not like this. He's... he's everywhere. In everyone he's ever stood across the ring from. One man, he stands out in particular, not for no rhyme or reason, see my brother...he knew this man very well.
SummerSlam is fast approaching and I just wouldn't miss it for the world. And as for my opponent? Well, discretion is the better part of válor.
I can't tell you that part just yet, one thing I can tell you though? I am not afraid...anymore."
[The gaze of Bo stagnates on screen prior to the feed cutting off.]
RAW, 7/22/24:
Towards the end of the show, a big match occurs, harkening back to their days in NXT fighting over the top title, Finn Bálor collides with Pete Dunne in singles action.
It's a hard hitting affair, with McDonagh & Bate getting involved as well. Bálor scores the triumphant victory off his patented Coup De Grace. McDonagh has long disappeared, fighting with Bate to the backstage area.
Suddenly the lights go out, dimming section by section. Chills coat Bálor's body as deja vu swarms him. He's been here before.
Suddenly, Bo Dallas appears behind Finn Bálor, a single swinging spotlight allowing him to be seen. Bálor turns around and gets caught with a forearm to the face. Dallas drags him up and connects with Grim Affection.
Bo sits in the corner of the ring, murmuring to himself. The message is clear, Bo Dallas has set his sights on Finn Bálor.
RAW, 7/29/24:
The go home episode of RAW before SummerSlam, another video from Bo airs.
"My brother was a troubled man with a troubled mind. He loved this business more than anything else, and he gave his life to it. Bray was always...erratic, different and he was judged for it, believe me. I remember, five years ago, Bray called me in the middle of the night and just started to ramble about this thing. This thing that was going to finally make him. He was obsessed with the prospect of fear, fear is power, and Bray is a man who often had his power stripped from him. Fear was his way of getting it back.
In Toronto, maybe for the first time, Bray was a truly fearsome man, and with that, he became truly, truly powerful. Five years ago, Finn, you were the example. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I have a question for you, Finn, when you are at the center of all of the judgement that you cast, will you survive? I suppose I'll get my answer, on August 3rd."
[Bo settles back into his chair, contemplating before continuing.]
"You were supposed to be someone, Finn, there's a reason my brother targeted you in the first place, he saw that same darkness that he never could resist. That darkness though, is gone now. You've spent so much time...chasing rabbits. You've lost sight of who you were meant to be.
I fear, now, it's too late. There's nothing left of you to salvage, which is bad news for you, but very good news for me. Feeble as you are, you will be a perfect example, a sign of things to come, a canvas for which I will paint with my demons. Finn, I will ensure you do not die in vain, your sacrifice will be very, very worthy.
In five days, I become, for the first time, truly powerful. And in five days, Finn, you will find, we're all mad here."
[Bo exits the room as a small white rabbit skitters on to the desk in front of the camera.]

In the bustling realm of commerce, where competition is fierce and consumer expectations are ever-evolving, the ability to forge meaningful connections with customers is not just desirable—it's essential. Enter Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, the digital backbone of modern businesses and individuals seeking to thrive in today's dynamic marketplace. From small startups to multinational conglomerates, and from freelancers to seasoned professionals, the advantages of CRM are profound and far-reaching. In this article, we delve into the transformative potential of CRM, exploring how its implementation can revolutionize operations, elevate customer experiences, and drive sustainable growth for businesses and individuals alike.

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n the bustling realm of commerce, where competition is fierce and consumer expectations are ever-evolving, the ability to forge meaningful connections with customers is not just desirable—it's essential. Enter Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, the digital backbone of modern businesses and individuals seeking to thrive in today's dynamic marketplace. From small startups to multinational conglomerates, and from freelancers to seasoned professionals, the advantages of CRM are profound and far-reaching. In this article, we delve into the transformative potential of CRM, exploring how its implementation can revolutionize operations, elevate customer experiences, and drive sustainable growth for businesses and individuals alike.

The Essence of CRM: Building Bridges, Fostering Relationships

At its core, CRM is more than just a software solution—it's a philosophy centered around cultivating and nurturing relationships. Whether you're managing a burgeoning enterprise or steering your freelance career towards success, CRM empowers you to establish stronger connections with customers, prospects, and stakeholders. By capturing, organizing, and analyzing crucial data points—from contact information and purchase history to communication preferences and behavioral patterns—CRM enables businesses and individuals to gain invaluable insights into their audience.

Streamlining Operations: Efficiency at its Finest

Efficiency is the lifeblood of any successful venture, and CRM serves as a catalyst for operational excellence. With streamlined processes for managing leads, automating tasks, and tracking interactions, businesses can optimize their workflows and eliminate bottlenecks that hinder productivity. Similarly, individuals can leverage CRM to streamline administrative tasks, freeing up valuable time to focus on core competencies and strategic endeavors. Whether it's scheduling appointments, sending personalized messages, or generating insightful reports, CRM simplifies the complexities of day-to-day operations, allowing for smoother sailing in the turbulent seas of business.

Elevating Customer Experiences: From Transactional to Transformational

In an era where customer experience reigns supreme, CRM empowers businesses and individuals to transcend mere transactions and deliver memorable interactions that resonate with audiences. By centralizing customer data and harnessing the power of analytics, CRM enables personalized engagement strategies tailored to the unique preferences and needs of each individual. Whether it's anticipating future needs, resolving issues proactively, or delivering targeted marketing campaigns, CRM empowers organizations and individuals to foster loyalty, satisfaction, and advocacy among their clientele.

Driving Growth: From Ambition to Achievement

Growth is the ultimate barometer of success, and CRM serves as a potent catalyst for driving sustainable expansion. By providing a comprehensive view of the sales pipeline, identifying lucrative opportunities, and optimizing conversion rates, CRM empowers businesses to capitalize on untapped potential and maximize revenue generation. Moreover, by nurturing existing relationships and uncovering new avenues for growth, CRM lays the foundation for long-term success and profitability. For individuals, CRM offers a pathway to professional advancement, enabling them to build robust networks, showcase their expertise, and seize lucrative opportunities in an increasingly competitive landscape.

Case Studies in Success: Real-World Applications of CRM

To illustrate the tangible impact of CRM, let's explore a few real-world examples of businesses and individuals who have leveraged CRM to unlock their full potential:

Business Case Study: XYZ Corporation

XYZ Corporation, a mid-sized manufacturing company, faced challenges in managing its sprawling customer base and coordinating sales efforts across multiple departments. By implementing a CRM system, XYZ Corporation was able to consolidate customer data, streamline communication between teams, and identify cross-selling opportunities. As a result, sales productivity soared, customer satisfaction levels reached new heights, and XYZ Corporation experienced a significant uptick in revenue growth.

Individual Case Study: Jane Doe, Freelance Consultant

Jane Doe, a freelance consultant specializing in digital marketing, struggled to keep track of her diverse client portfolio and prioritize her workload effectively. With the adoption of a CRM platform tailored for solo professionals, Jane gained a comprehensive overview of her clients' needs, preferences, and project timelines. Armed with this invaluable insight, Jane was able to deliver exceptional service, exceed client expectations, and expand her client base through referrals and word-of-mouth recommendations.

Embracing the Future: The Evolution of CRM

As technology continues to evolve at a breakneck pace, the future of CRM holds boundless possibilities for innovation and growth. From artificial intelligence and machine learning to augmented reality and predictive analytics, emerging technologies are reshaping the landscape of CRM, offering unprecedented opportunities for businesses and individuals to connect with their audiences in meaningful and impactful ways. By staying abreast of the latest developments and embracing a culture of continuous learning and adaptation, organizations and individuals can position themselves at the forefront of the CRM revolution, poised to unlock new levels of success in the years to come.

Conclusion: Empowering Success, One Relationship at a Time

In conclusion, the transformative power of CRM extends far beyond mere software—it's a catalyst for success, a gateway to opportunity, and a beacon of innovation in an ever-changing world. Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur leading a multinational corporation or an ambitious individual charting your own course towards success, CRM offers a pathway to prosperity, enabling you to forge stronger connections, streamline operations, elevate customer experiences, and drive sustainable growth. So, seize the moment, embrace the possibilities, and unlock your full potential with CRM—the ultimate key to unlocking success in today's interconnected marketplace.
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Sorry but this is going to be a long ass essay post ☠️☠️☠️ I haven’t slept and am yapping
Overall, a weak defence and weak diss track but maybe not 100% trash as ppl make it out to be. It has some gd qualities but it is ultimately damage control, poorly executed and an attempt to get the last word in when the battle is already likely lost. Or at least seems lost for Drake, judging by what he said in the end monologue and just overall public perception of Kendrick being on top and poor reception of the heart pt.6.
Before we move on, yes, I do have a kendrick bias. The man is my goat 🐐 Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong about anything on the track.
Good things about the track first,

• Nice beat, the production was good and felt menacing which complemented drakes focused tone and streamlined rapping which solely addresses kendrick and no distractions.
• Excellent use of the Aretha Franklin sample, telling kendrick to pull up with receipts. I like the subtle use of it in the end as well. Sample worked well to begin the track and let Drake talk about Kendrick needing to pull up with evidence (double standard but I’m not too fussed). The war general bar he uses is a bit too braggy to me after getting dunked on but probably works due to him being battle tested.
  
• A few bars I really liked
  
  • Rick Ross flight bar (I don’t rlly like Rick Ross so I might be biased)
  • The hit back bar (out of pocket but honestly fine since it’s beef)
• R Kelly streaming spotify situation
  

I didn’t like it being brought up due to intentional lack of context but it was good for drake to mention this and paint Kendrick as a hypocrite I guess. Correct me if I’m wrong I don’t think it was kdot himself but Punch who did this although I think XXXtentacion may have thanked kdot in a similar situation. (I don’t remember properly tbh)

• The title itself (self explanatory and I just cba to explain)

The bad things… Summarised - the entire approach was terrible and the majority of the angles used were either bad and/or poorly executed, especially how he tries to dismiss PDF allegations.

• Pulitzer Prize winner bar Some ppl liked this opening bcos it flips kdots own bar but I just don’t like it. Why remind people kdot is a Pulitzer winner and make them remember kdots own bar about your past as a former actor, a persona you want to move from?
  
• Daughter Damage control (or the way that Drake tries to say Kendrick is dumb/desperate)
  

He does this by saying that the 11yr old daughter thing was intentionally leaked misinformation. But there’s reasons this isn’t really working for Drake. Before I say more, I want to say that I don’t think Drake actually has an 11yr old daughter but I don’t think Drake intentionally leaked this info. I think kendrick was just misinformed by a bad source - nothing more. Regardless, the idea of an intentional leak isn’t a good look for Drake. It’s not the chess move he makes it out to be. reason is that if it was true, it proves Kendrick’s claim of him being fake, an actor and master manipulator and why is he focusing on this as a chess move instead of the Drizzler accusations??!! A major reason why it doesn’t work is that why would he spread a lie about himself that reminds people about him being a deadbeat and furthers his deadbeat reputation. Why not lie about something else (and make it more believable)? Why give that lie to a talented writer like Kendrick and let him run with that lie and use it for two whole days in a story of Adidon sequel that shatters the whole public perception of him winning the rap beef. Why would he let that track marinate for two days, instead of saying he had intentionally leaked the daughter info right after Meet the Grahams? He wouldn’t even have had to drop a whole response track to say it. He could have just posted an IG story saying that he did that. Instead he just straight denied it via his IG story with no evidence and waited two days to reveal he intentionally leaked with no evidence to back up the leak. To the public, due to the time taken, it either seems Drake is lying about intentional leaks (and is crowdsourcing inspiration from his own fans on social media because they were making theories about leaks) or either he looks incompetent if he is telling the truth. Bcos why would he have no evidence about a planned leak especially if he is asking kendrick to pull up with receipts and why would he take two whole days to reveal the planned leak like it was some master war general move.
We all know Drake is capable of releasing tracks quickly and Heart part 6 seems to be written after Not Like Us. So why would he respond so late especially after Kendrick dropped a club bop that hammered Drake down (no drizzy). Overall, this rebuttal is either a bad lie or a bad truth but it’s shitty damage control either way

• Why did Drake double down on weak accusations he already mentioned?This is what I meant by poor attack. The majority of people didn’t believe Drake the first time round due to strange execution and certain things not adding up about those accusations. The accusations sounded desperate and false the first time and sound the same now. Why would kendrick keep working with Dave free if that was the case? Would that make Kendrick the opposite of Drake, in terms of being a deadbeat dad?

The domestic violence seems to also be a desperate claim and is covered by the breakfast club interview where kdot addresses it. Also, I think the initial story remains unverified (Correct me if I’m wrong). Why talk about Kendrick and the mother of his children being potentially distant/ legally separated as if it’s a bad thing? Lots of couples are separated and it’s very normalised. If it is a bad thing, what does that say about Drakes own parents? Why mock Kendrick for not being close to his partner and mother of his children, especially considering the situation with Adonis m? I feel like Drake uses very shallow things to jump to conclusion which makes it seem like he’s lying, why does Dave free liking a post and leaving a comment, mean he is fathering a child and why does a non-follow mean a couple is split? Drake just seems too chronically online if this is his thought process but hey idk

• Mother I sober I remember listening to how he used Mother I Sober and being like “Nah, that aint it”. Don’t get me wrong, the subject is open game albeit distasteful. Morals were out of the window and Kendrick has been cooking this man. I see why Drake tried to use it to deflect some intense pdf labels off himself but it was poorly executed. He intentionally made a wrong conclusion missing the point about generational trauma by saying that Kendrick got touched on. He uses this to spin the narrative, saying this means kendrick is obsessed with PDFilia and crazily sees him as one with no evidence but this backfires since ppl call Drake out for making the false claim that K got touched when it explicitly states in the song that he wasn’t touched. This just makes him look stupid instead of calculated.
  Also, it feels like Drake is mocking Kendrick for being touched and not for weirdly using the PDF label which makes it worse because it’s distasteful and he already has that PDF label on him. Drake, a person perceived to be a PDF, mocking someone for being touched by a PDF just makes Drake look more like a PDF. Why give people ammunition like that? Winning a rap beef is all about public perception and how people receive what you say, (hence why tea is so effective) and Drake just loses out regarding that because of how he approached a sensitive subject matter and trying to mock a PDF victim when being suspected of being a whole PDF.
  Furthermore, misunderstanding the song on purpose adds to peoples disillusionment with drake and his place in hiphop and his status as a rapper. This was very sensitive subject matter, that Drake just didn’t have the skill or know how to navigate and successfully to use against Kendrick
  

He shouldn’t have intentionally lied about Kendrick being touched instead of his mother and should’ve approached it with a different calm tone, (almost like a therapist exactly like kendrick occasionally does in his songs), pointing out Kendricks failing to his mother in using pedophilia as a serious smear against him with little evidence. A commercial rapper kicking knowledge to a conscious rapper and flipping the script like that in a calm tone would probably be pretty disrespectful and well received due to valid criticism. That being said, Drake just doesn’t know how to use his range to accomplish that and probably doesn’t care - he just went for what he thought would be most disrespectful and didn’t think that the subject matter would blow up in his face like it did. Also, I think he underestimated how strong the PDF label on him was and how sinister normal people find PDF allegations on celebs and how intense the shock factor of Meet the Grahams 2nd verse was to the listener.

• PDF damage control - using fame as a shield

The fame shield was pretty funny because it honestly shows how some peoples minds become so far removed from reality and how they think other ppl perceive society as opposed to themselves when they get some fame and live a certain lifestyle. What do you mean you’re too famous to be a pedophile Drake??? Why did he think that would be well received? I’ll try not to say too much about this because its so obvious and you all would understand if you heard what he said and have common knowledge about MJ going to a trial (when he was probs the most famous man in the world) and the decades of freedom, fame and acclaim certified PDF celebs have had (R Kelly, Saville, Polanski, Epstein, etc.). Also talking about himself and how much he isn’t a pdf just makes him look like a pdf. Did no one in the OVO sweatshop say anything? Or were they worried that if anyone said anything wrong, they’d be banished to the studio basement and chained to a workbench eternally cooking up hits like Jesse was in the last episodes of breaking bad?
In Drake’s defense, I would kinda somewhat understand this idea if Drake, being as big as he is, was absolutely 100% squeaky clean in terms of rep and had no “smoke/fire” in terms of speculation/rumours about being a dodgy ped. But that isn’t the case. There have been rumours/speculation about Drake for years about him being dodgy with minors. Is there any solid evidence of him being a PDF? No, no smoking gun so it’s hard to say he is a PDF but there are a lot of rumours and speculation nonetheless. We’ve seen him in relationships with questionable age gaps and we’ve seen him kiss teenagers on stage and make weird comments about their body when finding out they’re a teenager. He also think it’s normal to be an adult and go out of his way to slide into the dms of a teenage girl and start being weirdly friendly and giving them advice about boys and relationships. He chose the wrong angle to defend against the claim. Since the claim was thrown with little evidence from Kendrick himself, Drake should’ve been able to better defend against it, but man did he fumble.

• In all honesty, I don’t think Drake is a PDF that grooms under 18s (or whatever is illegal in Canada) but I think that’s not really the major point. I don’t think Drake is some serial offender who prowls around the local Toronto kindergarten or high school looking for kids to kidnap and diddle in the embassy. Drake did actively go out of his way to deny being a PDF and mentioned Epstein and I think he is looking at the lyrics of Not Like Us and the online PDF jokes/discourse about his questionable history with minors and is playing defence saying he’d never look at teenagers or anyone legally under the age of consent. However, I don’t think that’s what Kendrick is getting at. I think kendrick is comparing him to Harvey Weinstein who targeted young women who were adults and kdot is suggesting stuff about SA and trafficking rings with adult women and I think that’s where kdot goes if he replies to Drake. This makes sense due to the whole tinder thing, kdot name dropping Weinstein and Drakes known relationships with young adult women as well as the major kickers - 530K dished out on SA cases before and OVO signee who has plead guilty to trafficking charges before somehow having them dropped. As to whether rumours/surrounding SA and trafficking of adult women is true, I honestly have no Idea and there is a gd chance,it’s just speculation and I hope it’s all false because that’s not really something for rap beef and is probably something for the right authority to go send OVO to Jail. However, since it may be an angle, I’ll say that I don’t think Drake properly played defence on this base and didn’t talk about the “offenders on OVO” that kdot mentions, just himself.
  
• End of track monologue So low energy, but that might be me being biased. A lot of empty air
  

Right now, Kendrick is still up but he might still respond for the sake of a wider victory and letting the stock (5+5 or whatever) off, just to finish Drake and make sure he doesn’t maintain commercial success, like he did after story of Adidon. Alternatively, Drake could drop again and a lot harder, forcing Kendrick to reply. Also, narratives can easily change on social media, forcing another drop from anybody. But I haven’t slept so maybe I’m just rambling and overthinking stuff. Let me know what you think

TL;DR: Transferring UR to Southwest is very poor value unless there is a promotion for point redemption. If you fly Southwest, buy their gift card from wholesale clubs instead.
I recently earned the companion pass and had to book some Southwest flights. Made the mistake of transferring 30k+ points to Southwest and found out it is not a good way to get value out of the points. Sharing my mistake so you don't have to make them.
Let's get some assumption out of the way because people will point them out:

• Costco / Sam's Club membership is not free. I am not going to factor in a $60 membership fee into the calculation because many people have other use for the membership. But if you do not then the math will be different.

Taking non-stop flights from DEN to MDW as an example:

• ( 241 - 5.6 ) ÷ 17740 = 1.33 cpp
• ( 180 - 5.6 ) ÷ 12731 = 1.37 cpp

On paper, the points are worth ~1.35 cents per point, which is higher than the CSP redemption rate on the portal (1.25 cpp).
But a recent gift card sale on Costco/Sam's Club made me reconsider. The clubs sold $500 Southwest gift card for $420. That is 16% off for cash prices. (Normal price is $450, and the sale price of $430 happens a few times a year)

• ( 241 - 5.6 ) × 0.84 ÷ 17740 = 1.11 cpp
• ( 180 - 5.6 ) × 0.84 ÷ 12731 = 1.15 cpp

Now what people forget is you earn points on cash fare but not point redemption. $241 buys you the flight plus 1261 points. Those points should be added as the cost to point redemption because you lose the opportunity to earn them.

• ( 241 - 5.6 ) × 0.84 ÷ ( 17740 + 1261 ) = 1.04 cpp
• ( 180 - 5.6 ) × 0.84 ÷ ( 12731 + 921 ) = 1.07 cpp

At last, a good cashback setup like the BoA CCR with Plat Honors will land you 5.25% on Costco online purchases. If you don't have a BoA setup, Chase Freedom/Flex may also have 1 quarter of 5% wholesale club per year when you can buy Costco gift cards. If we factor in 5% earning on cash purchase (if you're Costco Executive you get another 2%, but that cost extra $$).

• ( 241 - 5.6 ) × 0.84 × 0.95 ÷ ( 17740 + 1261 ) = 0.99 cpp
• ( 180 - 5.6 ) × 0.84 × 0.95 ÷ ( 12731 + 921 ) = 1.02 cpp

In short, redeeming your UR for Southwest points would have been 1 cent per point value if you bought the gift cards at $420 with a 5% cashback card. Even if you didn't catch the $420 sale and can only buy it at the more common $430 price, it would only be another 0.02 cpp higher. It is so close to 1 cpp that it should be considered poor value compared to other redemption options such as Hyatt.

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