Writer · Speaker · Coach · Author of Be Rich Now

Michael Winslow Brown

You built the life you were supposed to want. Now let's make it one you actually want.

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Built the thing. Still feel the gap?

I work with founders who've made real money and quietly wonder, "Is this really it?" Pick the door that fits.

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Be Rich Now is for people who've built a successful life and still feel something missing.

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Coaching and a peer board for founders after the exit, or after the number hits the account.

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Keynotes, workshops and dinner evenings for founder groups and YPO/EO chapters.

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The book

Be Rich Now: How to Want Everything You Have

Most money books make you choose: grateful or ambitious, peace or greatness. This one doesn't.

What if the richest version of your life is already here, and the only thing in the way is the belief that something's still missing? 220 backers bet on this book before it was printed.

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Why I do this

I sold my company and thought I was set for life.

Then I lost over a million dollars in one failed turnaround.

I kept investing like I was still building: startups, real estate, crypto, a distressed e-commerce company. The risk felt like home. I couldn't see it.

Money had become my scorecard, my distraction and my identity. Taking that apart, and rebuilding on something that actually works, is the work I now do with founders.

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From founders I work with

"Life changing" gets thrown around. Here's what they said.

“I can say, without hesitation, this is the highest impact wealth program I've ever been a part of. More than anything, the shift in perspective paired with tactical steps for how to actually execute, is already paying dividends.”

Nick Eubanks, Post-Exit Founder, From the Future & Traffic Think Tank

“Not only was this program a major trajectory shift in my personal and professional life, the calls continue to deliver deep value. Today's call alone was worth 10x the price of admission for the year.”

Seth Conger, COO, Freedom Practice Coaching
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Speaking

Take your room somewhere it doesn't usually go.

Your people know how to build and win. I help them look at the money story underneath it all.

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“Definitely the highest caliber speaker VBB has ever had! Everyone raved about Mike for the rest of the day. I can definitely say no one was expecting to take such a deep journey inward from a 30 minute talk – but they walked away with profound insight that will shape them far into the future.”

Ken Jackson, Rice University Veteran’s Business Battle
Podcast

Inner Circle

Kevin Dahlstrom and I, off-camera, on one question: what makes a truly great life?

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More about Michael
  • Michael Winslow Brown (Mike Brown) is a writer, speaker and coach based outside Denver, Colorado.
  • Author of Be Rich Now: How to Want Everything You Have. Funded on Kickstarter by 220 backers at 327% of goal (as of October 2026).
  • Founder of Unbreakable Wealth, a coaching program and peer mastermind for founders.
  • Co-host of the Inner Circle podcast with Kevin Dahlstrom.
  • Board member and meditation instructor at the Wisdom Dojo, teaching fellow veterans.
  • Co-founded and exited Palmares Energy, an oil and gas mineral-rights investment firm. Before that, he flew F-18s in the Navy.
  • Featured in Forbes, USA Today, the New York Post, Entrepreneur, Bustle and Under30CEO. See press.