My story
The world wrote my ending. I rewrote it.
Atlantic City, New Jersey. 1994. That is where the story starts. By college it looked like it would end badly too: I failed organic chemistry four times, lost my scholarship at the University of Central Florida, and dropped out. Then I spent time incarcerated in college. From the outside, I looked like a lost cause, and for a while, I believed it too.
One random ad on my phone showed me you could build a living from a laptop. I had no mentor and no safety net, just a decision that my past was not going to be my whole story. So I started over at zero, one skill and one double jet pack ☕ at a time.
That was almost a decade ago. I do not sell a dream I have not lived.
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What I actually believe.
God first
Faith comes before the plan. The mission is always bigger than the money.
People over profits
Take care of the person in front of you and the money takes care of itself. It never leads.
Spirit of excellence
Whatever I touch gets my best. Half-effort is a quiet form of disrespect.
Ownership
You do not win by working more hours. You win by owning the thing everyone else is working for.
Truth, even when it costs
I would rather lose the deal than lose my word. The truth is the whole point.
Built in public
No highlight reel. Real time, real numbers, and the failures too. Proof over promises.
Where the system is quietly beating you.
These are the odds stacked against the average person. Real skills and ownership are how you beat them back.
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Live paycheck to paycheck
Full-time work, and still one bad month from the edge. Owning your income is how that stops.
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Income stream, for most
When your only paycheck stops, everything stops. The wealthy average seven. Ownership adds more.
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Of adults are money literate
Nearly half cannot answer basic money questions. The skills that fix that are the ones nobody taught you.
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Hours traded for a wage
A lifetime rented to someone else's dream. Ownership is how you buy the hours back.
Every week, in my own words.
For those done waiting on the world to change, because they were born to lead it. New episodes drop several times a week.
The First or the Last
with Jay Awal
When I was at my lowest, one voice on a screen told me a different life was possible. That was the whole turn. I built this show to be that voice for the next person who thinks it is already too late for them.
So every week I put out exactly what I am learning in real time. No highlight reel, no guru act. The wins, the failures, and the systems underneath them.
It is called The First or the Last because that is the choice in front of all of us. Move first and lead, or wait and follow. I built it for the ones ready to move.
Your questions, answered.
Need more help?
I read every message. If your question is not here, send me a note and I will get back to you.
Contact usAre you a coach or a course seller?+
No. I am a business owner first. I run three companies, and I only teach what I am actively doing myself. The teaching came second, because people were messaging me every day asking how.
Who is this actually for?+
The nine-to-fiver who wants out, the side-hustler ready to go all in, and the business owner looking to scale. If you are tired of trading all your time for a paycheck someone else controls, you are in the right place.
Is this a get-rich-quick thing?+
No. I do not sell overnight success. I teach skills and systems that take real work and actually last. If you want a lottery ticket, I am not your guy. If you want something real, you are home.
What makes you different from the gurus?+
I am an operator, not a guru. You can actually reach me, the room travels with you, and I built all of this in public, in real time. Proof over promises.
