About

I never finished a degree. That never stopped me.

I spent 21 years working for two companies. Both times I started as an entry-level technician and worked my way up. At the first company I made it to service center manager, 16 people reporting to me. When there was no path to general manager without a degree, I moved to a Fortune 20 company and started over again — entry-level tech to a repairman position pulling over $130,000 a year.

My wife and I are high school sweethearts, married more than twenty years. We bought our first home at 23. Sixteen years later we built our dream home. Two daughters through good schools, a son coming up behind them. From the outside it looked finished.

Then COVID hit. I wasn't forced out, but I took the surplus anyway. Keeping my family safe mattered more than the paycheck. It was one of the hardest calls I've made, and it changed everything after.

So I started a business. Carpet and tile, self-taught the same way I teach myself everything — YouTube, trial, repetition. Five years in, it was gone. I closed the doors and filed bankruptcy. That taught me something: I'm good at business. I just never had a system. I was the system. Every hat, every task, running through one person.

Most people I know are scared of AI. I ran at it instead — studying it the same way I've always studied anything, one video at a time, until it clicked. First thing I built with it was a book, The Money Blueprint. Then The Focus Blueprint, because I needed that system too. Then The AI Income Blueprint. Then I built this store, using the same tools I was still learning.

Every guide on this site is something I built for myself first, because nobody handed it to me. I'm not finished. I'm still building.

If you're where I was — out of runway, not sure what's next — this is the shelf I built for you.

— Barron Taylor, founder, HaulmDigital