Memoirs to Millions

TAKE NO FOR VITAMINS | Weekly Intel Brief #25 | Memoirs to Millions

Asher A. Wright Season 2 Episode 5

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The first person who doubted your story was you.

A friend leans across the table. "You should write your book." Before the sentence lands, you answer for them. Who would read about my life?

That is the first no. And you handed it to yourself.

So take no for vitamins. A no is not a wall. It is fuel. It goes down rough and builds something you use later. Every one you cross off puts you closer to the yes.

You do not have to make it big first to earn the right to tell your story. You write from the floor, not the summit.

You cannot fall from the floor.

I read this week's brief on camera. Watch it, then sit with the question my editor asked me: what about your story?

Read the full brief:
https://m2mweeklyintel.com/brief/2026/25

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ABOUT MEMOIRS TO MILLIONS
Asher Wright is a 22-year Army veteran, memoir coach, and book publisher
helping immigrants, veterans, and entrepreneurs transform their hardest
chapters into published books. Mission: 10,000 memoirs by 2030.

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Music: "Signal to Noise" by Scott Buckley. scottbuckley.com.au. CC BY 4.0

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That is the title of the newsletter today from the Weekly Intel. This is brief number 25. Subtitle You Cannot Fall From the Floor. And I got this title from uh John Hope. So credit to him. That's why I heard I first heard it and I was like, I love that. So you're looking at the newsletter that came out on July 3rd. I'm re I'm reading it now, and again, the journey of me reading my newsletter. Ash is working his way out getting better at reading out loud. I'm a novice at this, I'm an amateur, I'm a rookie. And I want to be at least by the end of the year an advanced rookie. But you get to listen to me go through some of the work the work the work some the stuff I'm working on, I'm writing about, and it's basically just getting better at writing, especially using AI. Because I use a lot of that in my my book writing journey with my clients. So here I am still practicing, right? Figuring out what works best. But this newsletter, room one, and the newsletter that I share every week. If you go to m2mweeklyintel.com, you'll find this stuff that I put out, and I just kind of share tools and different things, different podcasts. I'm listening to the one that I've recorded for myself with my clients and some of my guests. So it's all here. But this is my hub for putting out open information. So here's uh the title for room one. Um, the first no came from you. There is a sentence you have heard, or one you are afraid you will hear. The moment you tell someone you are writing your story. Who would want to read that? Or who would want to read about that? Sometimes it comes from across the table, someone tilts their head, tries to be kind, and acts it out loud. But the version that does not, but the version that does the real damage is the one that comes from inside. Someone says, You should write your story, and before they finish, you have already answered for them. Who would care about my story? Who would read that? That is the first no, and you handed it to yourself. Sit with where that sentence puts you. On one end, you let it land as a verdict, and the book closes before it opens. On the other end, you let it land as a question with an answer you have not built yet. Same sentence, two different floors to stand on. The one you'll pick decide whether the story lives. Most people pick the verdict. They hear one no and treat it as the final count. John Hobrian heard it. John Hobrian heard no for a living. At 18, he was sleeping in a black Monterey Jeep outside the Los Angeles airport. The truck, the truck one step from being repossessed, $500 a month coming in. He described covering the license plate from the inside so the tow truck could not read them while he he slept. He cleaned up in an office, he cleaned up in an office restroom before the workday started, and he made a decision about the word no that changed the math of his life. He decided to take no for vitamins. A vitamin does not taste like candy, it is not supposed to, it goes down rough and builds something in you that shows up later. That is what a no is for a memo writer. Not a wall, it's the fuel because there is a number, a real one, of no sitting between you and the yes that puts your story in someone else's hand. Every no you collect is one you crossed off. You are not further from the yes, you are closer because you use up one no. You use up one up, you use one up. You think you have to become gentle Huang first, build the most vibrant company in the world, stand on the stage, earn the right to be heard, and then you can write the book backwards. Huang says his parents landed here with two suitcases and nothing to fall back on. The story came from the floor, not the summit, so does yours. You cannot fall from the floor. Use up your use up your nose so you can get to your yes. How many no's have you used up today? And in here, I had a podcast conversation um with Jensen Wong, so that's the reason why he's part of the storytelling. Saying room two, these are two tools that I have on here that I keep sharing. And call it part of my recipe 13 suite. It's a risk recipe 13 compass. You can use that to create a better prompt inside of Cloud if you use Cloud or if you use Chat GPT, and it's gonna help you build out like really look into an idea. So you can go, you can descend into it, you can descend into it, you can go back into the past, you can go into the future. You just gotta really lay it on a really good thesis. And once your thesis is really good and strong, then you get to work with this tool. Same thing. I use Claude, so shout out to Claude Anthropic um best AI system that I feel like it does a really good job. And then we got room three here for serious writing. I also put more details in here so you can read this um for yourself. But you can go into room three and get more deeper in the story. Um, if you want to go to live channel, where's the marketplace? You can get on there as well, because uh the links are in here, and this is the episode the one that I really love with uh Jensen Wong and uh kind of Lisa Rice. It was a really good podcast episode to listen to. So if you're into that stuff, good. This is one of the podcasts I listened to um that I also thought was very good with uh John O'Brien and Chris Gardner, they was getting recognized from the fourth panel. I thought that was a really good, interesting one. The book of the week right now is uh Gap in the Game by Dan Sullivan, one of my favorite books. The other one is uh an enemy called Average. You can check that out, you can click through here, uh test it out. But go check out the newsletter, some products from my store. I'm pushing out here. Uh Product one unisex organic hoodie, boom, with memo submillions brand. We're pushing the brand out there right now, so you can test these products out. You can buy these um this season or next season or wherever we're gonna build a marketplace out. And right now, I am looking for individuals who want to write their memoir, and are looking for a place to do it, a community to do it with, and then the marketplace is gonna be the place where you'll launch your book. And here's the thing: if you're gonna put your story out, you're gonna build a movement, then at least know who's it who's who who are the people that are interested in your in your product, your book, and who buys your book. So you know you can build a community around them. That's one of the reasons why we're building life changing when we're a marketplace to go after that to be like that market to kind of serve the people who want to build a community around their product. So check out the newsletter. Um, I try to push these out every week, and also something in here that I I offer if you go to Ash Albertwright.com, you can find my best thousand like the best hundred books from my thousand book challenge. I have them under you can check them out, and I have them built out. I have them kind of like numbered, but it's a good place to start working on your your your reading skills or your your your education through self-growth, self-development. And it's a place to get some of these books that I've been working through that have changed my life from me being on this thousand book journey. Alright, ladies and gentlemen. Well, this week is The Take No 4 Vitamins, brief number 25, and with that, make it an utterly, utterly fantastic day.