Gulliver Burns

At 18, a guy came at me with an axe.

Still knocked on the next door.

100 doors. 10 sales. $8 a pop. 1997. I was gonna be RICH!

That's when rejection stopped meaning anything to me.

The best salespeople aren't attached to outcomes. They're attached to the process

Me and Gulliver Giles. May 29. Brisbane. DM me.

We will show you directly how to smash your sales targets

At 16 I was doing he**in with my dad.

The first time I made a sale, I recognised that dopamine hit immediately.

The rush felt the same.

That's why so many salespeople destroy everything they build.

The same wiring that makes someone obsessive enough to become great at sales can destroy their life if they never understand it.

I called it drive. It was addiction.

Same mechanism. Same craving. Same emptiness afterwards.

Most business owners I talk to are addicted to Growth. Not wealth. Not freedom.

Growth.

More deals. More staff. More revenue. More chaos. More pressure.

And when things go quiet — really quiet — does it feel like peace or danger?

I couldn't answer that for years.

Because I wasn't building from clarity. I was building to outrun something.

You can't build real systems when you need the rush.

You can't step back when your identity lives in the middle of everything.

You can't create freedom when your nervous system is addicted to urgency.

Getting clean showed me what I'd been doing in business for years.

It wasn't pretty.

Me and Gulliver Giles are breaking this down in Brisbane on May 29.

Small room. Real conversations. No generic business coach bu****it.

Message me — 10 minutes on a call and I'll tell you honestly if this is the right room for you.

The hustle culture crowd want you up at 3am.

Ice baths.
Raw liver.
12-hour days.
Peptides.
Rinse and repeat.

Here’s what 30 years of actually doing it taught me:

Hustle isn’t the problem.

Hustle without direction is.

At 25, I had 200 staff and over $10M in revenue.

Late 20s — the ATO bankrupted me for nearly $250k.

At 40, I had another business doing over $5M.

At 43, I was deep in addiction, arrested, and in rehab.

Not because I couldn’t make money.

Because I was addicted to the momentum.

And there’s a very fine line between building something real…

and addiction dressed up as ambition.

From the inside, they feel exactly the same.

Late nights.
Early mornings.
Always chasing the next hit.
The next number.
The next bit of momentum.

If you haven’t got systems that work without you and people you can actually trust…

you don’t have a business.

You’ve built yourself a full-time job.

And the moment you stop… the whole thing slows down with you.

4 seats left.

Me and Gulliver Giles
May 29. Brisbane.

If you’re stuck in that cycle, DM me “HUSTLE” and I’ll tell you straight if this is the right room for you.

Most business owners don’t have a revenue problem.

They’ve got a
“where the f**k did it all go” problem.

Money in.
Money out.

Tax bill hits… and you’re like—
hang on… didn’t I just pay one of these?

Was that GST?
PAYG?
Or last year’s payment plan you’re still dragging around?

Business is “doing well”…
but your bank account never got the memo.

Your top salesperson’s sleeping stress-free in their very expensive bed…
and you’re working harder than everyone and still feeling broke.

That’s not a revenue problem.

That’s a profit problem.

And it’s not because you’re bad with money.

No one actually shows you how money moves through a business…
or how to make sure some of it stays.

I learned that the hard way.

Late 20s.
ATO wiped me out.
Nearly $250k.
2-year-old at home. Partner pregnant.

There’s a cheaper way to learn it.

6 seats left — May 29, Brisbane.
Me and Gulliver Giles

If this hit a bit close to home,
message me “KEEP” — I’ll tell you straight if it’s worth it.

The cost of figuring it out alone is higher than you think.
I did it for years.

Made money. Good at sales.
So I stayed there.

Because it felt good. Closing deals. Winning. That hit.
Same pattern as everything else in my life back then.

Addiction. Ego. Chasing the next high.
Sales just looked more respectable.

Meanwhile…
Ignored the backend. Ignored the numbers. Ignored everything that didn’t give me that same feeling.

Told myself I’d figure it out.

Truth is — it was ego.
Didn’t want to put my hand up. Didn’t want someone showing me what I couldn’t see.

So I kept making the same mistakes. Just with more money behind them.
That gets expensive.

This time I’ve done it differently.
I’ve got a coach. Gulliver Giles

I’ve seen what he’s done with business owners. Real numbers. Real results. Millions.

That’s why I’m not doing this alone anymore.

If you’re only doing the parts of your business that feel good… and avoiding the rest…
You already know where that ends.

6 seats left. Me and Gulliver Giles. May 29. Brisbane.
Get in the room.

One day — we’ll show you exactly where you’re leaking money, what to fix, and what to focus on if you actually want to make more and keep it.

Message me — I’ll tell you straight if you should be there or not.

Zero in the bank.

That was me. For longer than I care to admit.

$5M turnover. $10M turnover.
Didn’t matter.

Because none of it stayed.

Sales runs on ego. The number sounds impressive. People clap. You feel like you’re winning.

Then you check the account.

And it tells the truth.

I built the whole thing on ego.
Chased revenue because it felt like progress.
Meanwhile the money disappeared the same week it came in.

Not bad luck. Not timing.

Design.

And here’s the part most people won’t say out loud:

If you’re reading this and thinking
“that’s exactly where I’m at”
and you don’t do anything about it…

That’s the problem.

Not your sales. Not your market.

You.

You’re choosing to keep building something that looks successful instead of something that actually works.

So answer it properly:

What does your revenue actually bring home?

6 seats left. Me and Gulliver Giles. May 29. Brisbane.

Message me — 10 minutes on a call and I’ll tell you straight whether you’ve got a business… or just a very expensive job you’re proud of.