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Marc Anthony Longwith | Private Founder Advisor

@marcanthonylongwith

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I see what founders can't before it costs them years & millions
Former pro fighter | Creator of the ERI Method
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Private Founder Advisor: what I actually do, in one sentence.
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I help founders who’ve outgrown the business they built see the blind spots costing them time and money, so they can grow, sell, or start over on their own terms.
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Founder blind spots usually live in four places.
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The people around you. Proximity is everything.
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The habits that keep repeating. New results need new patterns.
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The beliefs you carry. Most founders have an invisible lid on their growth.
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The projects eating your time. Most of them belong to someone else.
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It’s private, one on one, and I only take a few founders at a time.
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Comment APPLY and I’ll send you the application.
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#privatefounderadvisor #founderadvisor #founders #founderblindspots #businessgrowth by @marcanthonylongwith

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10 days ago

At this level everyone has an opinion. Nobody has the full picture.

The bigger you build it the fewer people there are who can actually keep up with you.

Your board sees the numbers. Your team sees the leader.

Everyone around you has a stake in what you decide.

And nobody sees what is happening inside the person running it all.

The doubt. The fear. The questions you will not say out loud to anyone.

You carry all of it alone.
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Most founders come to me with a business problem.

What they find is that they are the business problem.

Because the patterns that built everything they have are the same patterns quietly capping everything they want.

The survival wiring that got them here is the same wiring making sure they stay here.

And the strategies keep changing. The team keeps growing. The revenue keeps moving. And the ceiling follows them everywhere they go.
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I am Marc Anthony Longwith. I have worked with US special operators, NBA and MLB athletes, and founders running seven to nine figure businesses.

The through line across all of them is the same. The biggest obstacle was never external.

I see what you cannot see from inside it. I push back when everyone else is agreeing. I do not let you play small.
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This is not for everyone…

It is for the founder who has outgrown every room they have been in and is ready for something different.
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Swipe through. By the last card you will know whether this is for you.
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DM me. Just say ready.
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#evolvedentrepreneur #foundermindset #entrepreneurship #highperformance #strategicadvisor by @marcanthonylongwith

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5 months ago

I sold my business after a decade and felt absolutely nothing.
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I signed the papers, got the confirmation text from my partners, and sat in my car. Ten years of building, over with one text.
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I expected relief. Or pride. Or at least something.
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What came was emptiness. The thing that told me who I was had just been removed from my life, and I had to build a new version of me from scratch.
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It took me a while to understand. The business had become my identity.
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That’s when the real work started. Rebuilding myself with nothing certain in front of me.
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If you’re planning to sell your business one day, start building the rest of you now, while the business is still yours.
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Comment STORY and I’ll send you what I did in the months after.
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#founder #sellingabusiness #entrepreneurmindset #founderlife #businessexit by @marcanthonylongwith

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5 days ago

Founders who check the sales dashboard at 2am: this one’s for you.
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You’re in bed. You open the numbers. Again. Nothing has changed since midnight, and you check anyway.
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Your mind won’t shut down, so you reach for the one thing that feels solid. Even when the numbers are the very thing feeding the anxiety.
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I know this loop. I lived in it.
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Every late night check teaches your brain that rest is dangerous. Over time, you lose the ability to shut off at all. That’s the real cost.
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What helped me: I check the numbers once a day, at a set time. The rest of the day, the app lives on the last screen of my phone, or it’s hidden completely.
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Your business will still be there at 9am. Your nervous system needs the night.
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Send this to the founder who’s definitely awake right now.
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#founder #entrepreneurmindset #founderlife #businessowner #entrepreneurlife by @marcanthonylongwith

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5 days ago

5 signs you’ve outgrown the business you built (and why it feels so heavy right now)
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You built something real. Revenue is up, the team is in place, the outside looks like success. And still, something feels off.
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Here’s what outgrowing your business looks like from the inside:
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1. Wins don’t land anymore. You hit the number and feel nothing.
2. You keep doing work you could hand off, because holding on feels easier than letting go.
3. You daydream about selling, with no picture of who you’d be after.
4. Your team waits on you for every decision.
5. You have more patience for customers than for the people at home.
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If two or more hit, the business has grown past the version of you running it. That’s a founder capacity problem. And capacity can be built.
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Comment CEILING and I’ll send you the Ceiling Code, the diagnostic that shows exactly where your ceiling is.
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#founder #entrepreneurmindset #businessowner #founderlife #leadership by @marcanthonylongwith

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5 days ago

Founder burnout hides behind success.
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73% of founders in a 2025 study were running on empty while still hitting their numbers.
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I was one of them. I built the business to run on twenty hours a week. Then I sat on a train through the mountains with the woman I love beside me, and I opened the laptop anyway.
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Feel nothing. Go do something.
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That pattern had been running me for years. That train was the first time I saw it.
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If you’ve ever been somewhere beautiful and reached for your phone just to feel useful, you know the one I mean.
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Rest fixes a tired body. A pattern comes back with you from the beach.
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Full video on YouTube now. Comment CEILING and I’ll send you the diagnostic that shows where your capacity is leaking.
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#founderburnout #founders #entrepreneurmindset #capacity #ceo by @marcanthonylongwith

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Founder bottleneck: the ceiling on your business is usually standing in your shoes.
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You’re the best salesperson, the best at delivery, and the one who fixes every problem. That works for a while. Then every decision waits for you, every client wants you, and every problem lands on your desk.
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I lived this with my brewpub. For the first two years, nothing moved unless we moved it.
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This is why business growth stalls for so many founders. The business can only grow as fast as your capacity, and you’re one person.
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Try this tonight. Write down everything you did last week. Circle what someone else could do with a bit of training. Keep adding to that list for the next month and it becomes your growth plan.
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Comment CEILING and I’ll send you the diagnostic I use with founders.
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#founderbottleneck #businessgrowth #scalingabusiness #capacity #evolvedentrepreneur by @marcanthonylongwith

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I grew up around meth and exited three companies. This is my founder story.
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Both my sisters were using and selling. My father used it to fuel his gambling. So I grabbed onto the hardest thing I could find: fighting.
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Then twenty years in hospitality at Bellagio and Wynn, until I was a sommelier running beverage programs worth about $20 million a year.
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Then I built the number one brewpub in downtown Las Vegas. That’s where I found out who I really was under pressure.
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Three exits later, selling my company hadn’t fixed a single thing inside me. The success was real. The emptiness was too.
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That’s where the real work started. Now I help founders who’ve outgrown the business they built expand their capacity for what comes next.
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Comment STORY and I’ll tell you what happened the day I sold.
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#founderstory #foundermindset #capacity #entrepreneurlife #businessexit by @marcanthonylongwith

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11 days ago

Why do founders feel guilty taking a day off?
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You can take a Saturday. Barely. But a Tuesday feels like stealing.
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For years your worth and your work have been the same thing. So when you stop, it feels like you stop mattering. That’s founder guilt, and it quietly caps your capacity.
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A racehorse worth millions gets rested like the asset it is. An F1 car never skips the pit stop. You’re the most valuable asset in your business.
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In fighting, recovery days are where you get stronger. Rest is where a founder’s capacity grows.
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Block one weekday afternoon this month. Tell your team. Leave the phone in another room. Watch what actually breaks. Usually, nothing.
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Comment TUESDAY if you’re blocking one this month.
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Send this to the founder who hasn’t taken a day off since 2019.
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#founderburnout #founderguilt #capacity #founderlife #entrepreneurmindset by @marcanthonylongwith

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Trade your expectations for appreciation. Tony Robbins is right, and here’s how you do it without getting walked on.
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Pair appreciation with standards.
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An expectation is a silent contract the other person never signed. You hand them your peace and wait to see what they do with it.
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A standard is a decision about you. What you allow, and what you do when it isn’t met.
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Appreciation handles the inside. You meet people as they are and you’re grateful for what shows up.
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Standards handle the outside. When someone shows you who they are, you adjust their access. No resentment required.
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Appreciation without standards gets you used. Expectations without communication get you bitter.
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Appreciate freely. Say clearly what matters. Let behavior decide how close people get.
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Nobody can disappoint you when you kept the power to decide.
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Send this to someone who is amazing and can’t see it.

#boundaries #selfrespect #mindset #tonyrobbins #entrepreneurmindset by @marcanthonylongwith

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17 days ago

Alter Ego - You must become a different person. A new man.

Everything you desire requires you to change. by @marcanthonylongwith

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