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Y’all.

My email list is real.

90,000 subscribers…

Built in a little over a year.

Not bots.
Not scraped junk.
Not click farms.

Mostly Americans.
Heavily women 40–60.
Actual humans who open, read, and reply.

I moved the entire thing to an open-source platform.

No middlemen.
No surprise throttles.
No ransom disguised as “features.”

Same list.
Same emails.
Just fewer ways to get charged.

At its worst, keeping this list alive was costing me $700 a month.

The costs kept rising.

Now it’s mine.

What used to be a liability is now an asset with real weight.

Something that compounds instead of leaking cash.

I mentioned the list to an old client.

He asked about buying ad space.

That was a quiet reminder:
This isn’t theoretical.
This is a small city’s worth of attention.

Here’s where I’m being direct.

If you back me as a paid Permission to be Powerful subscriber, I’ll make you a lifetime VIP member of my Vacation Vault.

That means a constant feed of legitimate vacation giveaways.
Caribbean.
South America.
Europe.
More.

You get more entries than you could reasonably find on your own.
Sponsored.
Above board.
No guarantees, because reality exists.

You still have to enter.
Your name still has to be drawn.

That’s the game.

Alongside that, I’m going to teach exactly how I built this list.

Not guru fluff.
Not theory.
The actual decisions that mattered.

One of them was simple and brutal:
I decided I would get rich or die trying.
Which meant accepting that things could get worse before they got better.

I burned down my old life to get here.
AI was disrupting my industry.
I could evolve or go extinct.
So I stopped being just a writer.
I became a publisher.

Another insight:
The internet is much bigger than you think.

That single sentence led me straight to the system that worked.

This list could survive a nuclear blast.
It’s as real as a piece of land.

I’m still cultivating it.
The harvest is coming.
I’m buying time to do it right.

Early backers matter.
They always do.

Thanks for reading.
And for being here while this thing grows teeth.

Before it detonates.

If you would like to support this Substack at a rate above the standard, you can choose the Founder’s option.

You decide how much you would like to contribute.

You’re early.

And this thing is just getting started.

If you would like to support me through Patreon, you can also subscribe to the Vacation Vault there directly.

Thank you.

Tony
Editor-in-Chief
Permission to be Powerful