Dr. John A. KingIndigenous Australian. 100% Human. Neo-Noir Novelist. Poet. Speaker. Performance coach. More than a Survivor. Terrible Golfer, Awkward Dancer🕺

I Spent 15 Years (and $300,000) Learning This So You Don’t Have To

18 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker recounts a 15‑year, roughly $300,000 personal journey to achieve recovery, noting that most people spend 10‑15 years after a pivotal revelation before they feel truly recovered. Believing this timeline can be dramatically shortened, the speaker distilled the accumulated knowledge and experience into a structured offering called the Phoenix Collective. The program delivers the distilled insights through a series of self‑paced exercises complemented by group and individual coaching, aiming to accelerate the recovery process for participants.

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It took me 15 years and probably $300,000 to recover. So it's very expensive. And I thought, it doesn't have to be. And that's what it normally takes people, 10 to 15 years from the time they get a revelation and make a decision to get into a place where they'd say, look, I'm in recovery. That window doesn't have to be that long. So what we did was take that 15 years worth of knowledge and experience and condense it. And so what we've been able to do is present it in such a manner that people can come join the Phoenix Collective and go through a series of self-paced exercises and with coaching, group coaching along with that, or individual coaching.