From Wall Street Success to Food Stamps to Redemption: The $4 Million Education Every Founder Needs Tina Singh raised $11 billion for the world's best investment firms on Wall Street. Then she lost $4 million in 15 months running a small business. Bankruptcy. Lawsuits. Food stamps. Personal guarantees that destroyed her family's financial security. The cruel irony? ChatGPT launched the exact month her business collapsed. The AI tools that could have saved everything arrived as she filed for bankruptcy. This isn't a glossy success story. It's a cautionary tale and survival guide from someone who has already paid the $4 million tuition — so you don't have to. ★ INSIDE YOU'LL DISCOVER ★ THE FATAL FIVE — Predictable mistakes that compound into catastrophic business failure: - Fatal Mistake #1: Hiring "Experts" Who Didn't Understand Our Soul - Fatal Mistake #2: Systematizing the Soul Out of Success - Fatal Mistake #3: Confusing Activity with Revenue - Fatal Mistake #4: Personal Guarantees — The Entrepreneur's Suicide Pact - Fatal Mistake #5: Ignoring Loyal Employees Who Know Better Each mistake documented with: ✓ Real dollar amounts and timelines ✓ Warning signs you can spot in your own business ✓ Prevention checklists and frameworks ✓ The exact decisions that led to collapse PLUS: The Scaling Sequence That Actually Works How to grow without the chaos that killed my business — the framework I wish I'd had before losing everything. ★ THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY ★ Wall Street Success: Managing Director at Merrill Lynch, raising $11 billion for the world's best alternative asset managers The Golden Years: Built California's fastest-growing truck driving academy from $500K to $4M in four years The Collapse: Three decisions in 15 months that destroyed everything — bad advisor, worse software, terrible hires Rock Bottom: Filing bankruptcy while using food stamps, with a daughter to feed and elderly mother to care for The Rebuild: How AI implementation and prevention frameworks became a new business helping others avoid the same fate ★ WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR ★ ✓ Founders scaling from $500K to $5M (the danger zone where most failures happen) ✓ Established businesses implementing AI or new technology ✓ Anyone who's hired the wrong "expert" and paid the price ✓ Entrepreneurs who want to grow without losing what makes them special ✓ Students who need to see what failure actually looks like — not sanitized case studies ✓ Women entrepreneurs navigating male-dominated industries ★ WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT ★ Most business books are written by people who succeeded. This one is written by someone who: - Succeeded spectacularly (raised $11 billion) - Failed catastrophically (lost $4 million in 15 months) - Rebuilt smarter (now helps others prevent the same mistakes) You get pattern recognition that cost millions to develop. Real numbers: Not "we faced challenges" but "we spent $250,000 on software that became obsolete with AI" Real timelines: Not "eventually things got difficult" but "October 2021 to May 2022, seven months, three decisions" Real consequences: Not "we pivoted successfully" but "bankruptcy, lawsuits, food stamps, personal destruction" Real recovery: Not "and then everything was fine" but "here's exactly how I'm rebuilding, one business at a time" ★ BONUS CONTENT ★ - The Prevention Business: How expensive lessons became valuable expertise - The Three Gaps: Food, Fear, and AI — the businesses I'm building from bankruptcy - The Growth Stack.ai: Helping founders implement AI without the $4 million tuition - Zara's Take: Brutally honest perspective from a 10-year-old watching her mom lose everything and rebuild .