Bring me a challenge.
For years my friends have brought me their hardest calls — calm, blunt, every option on the table with its pros and cons. The sessions are that, opened to you: bring the one you're stuck with.
I'd written to ask what he'd charge me for mentoring — I didn't even know this site existed. He's been the light on this stuff for years: getting my finances in order, being responsible with money, starting to invest, and above all actually making decisions.
— Adrián Jaén, one of those friends
Three kinds of stuck.
Every session is the same product — the audit, ninety minutes, a straight verdict. What changes is where you're standing.
Sanity-check the exit
You're near the number — or on it — and you haven't jumped. I stress-test the plan and tell you straight if it holds.
Find your edge
You're building your way out — or just building. We take your ideas apart and find the one that can carry you.
The far side
You're already out, and the days need a mission. Blank-page work: structure, people, a game worth playing.
Something else? Say it in a paragraph — I'll tell you straight if I'm not your person.
- —You want to know what to invest in — that's a licensed adviser, and I'm happily not one
- —You want a cheerleader — if I think it won't work, I'll say so
- —You want to talk about it for another year — this is about taking action, not having a chat
Ninety minutes of work, not a chat.
The Exit Audit
When you book, you get my questionnaire — ten blunt questions: five for everyone, five for where you are. Answering them is the first piece of the work, and it means the session starts at full speed instead of warming up.
We work it
Ninety minutes, online, direct. I scrutinise your options the way I'd scrutinise my own bets: what holds, what doesn't, what I'd do instead — pros and cons on the table. I'm a competitor. For that time your problem is mine, and I don't like losing.
You leave with moves
A straight verdict and concrete next steps — including, if the idea won't carry you, the discarded one that might. Then you go act. That part was always yours.
We push it further
Optional. Over several sessions we refine the plan as reality answers back — you go, do, report in, we adjust. That's the Full Push.
Two ways in.
Both online, both direct. Start with one session; take the Full Push if the challenge deserves it.
The working session
€600per session
Bring the challenge you're stuck with. Ninety minutes of my full, blunt attention on it.
- —You answer the Exit Audit first — so we start at full speed
- —You get a straight verdict, and the alternatives with their pros and cons
- —You leave with your next moves, not a warm feeling
The Full Push
€2,400the lot
For a challenge that needs working through, not just opening up. We refine as reality answers.
- —Everything in the working session, four times over
- —Follow-ups by email between sessions — walls don't wait weeks
- —You end with a plan you've already started — not one you're about to
Why €600? Because I don't need the income — the price keeps it serious for both of us. The push is exactly 4 × €600: no bundle discount, on purpose.
What I'll ask you first.
When you book, you get the Exit Audit — ten blunt questions: five for everyone, five for where you are. Your answers are the first piece of the work; they're why the ninety minutes start at full speed instead of warming up. Answer them right here and take the brief with you — or just read them. They're public, because they're useful even if you never book.
Where are you right now?
Pick a door and the questions adapt to where you are. Nothing you type leaves this page until you send it.
Everything here runs in your browser. Your answers survive a refresh in this tab and are gone when you close it — nothing is stored or sent until you send it.
All the questions, on one page
For everyone
- The challenge, in one paragraph. What are you actually stuck on?
- What does your life cost a year — and what's already invested? Rough is fine.
- Who else lives inside this decision — partner, kids, parents — and where do they stand?
- What has to be true in twelve months for you to call this a win?
- What are you afraid I'll tell you?
01 · Sanity-check the exit
- How many years does the pot buy at that spend, today, without touching a calculator?
- Is there a date? If not, what's it waiting for?
- If markets fell 40% the year after you quit — what's the plan, and could you actually hold it?
- What does an ordinary free Tuesday look like, once there's no job in it?
- What would you do tomorrow if you weren't afraid of it going wrong?
02 · Find your edge
- The idea — or the three. Which would you bet on if you had to choose today?
- What have you actually tried so far — and what did reality answer back?
- What's your unfair advantage — the thing you do better than the people around you?
- What did you discard years ago that still visits you?
- How much time and money can you put behind this without endangering the rest?
03 · The far side
- When did you stop — and what have the days actually looked like since?
- What's missing: structure, people, or a game worth playing?
- What have you tried since stopping — and what stuck?
- Is the money genuinely settled, or is it still living in your head?
- What would pull you out of bed before the sun?
04 · Something else
- Say it in a paragraph — and what made you think I'm the person for it?
Take the questions with you.
The audit as a two-side PDF — the fork and the five for everyone on the front, the five behind each door on the back. Print it, write on it, bring your answers to the session — or just use it to think. No email needed.
Download the audit sheet PDF · two sides · A4
A postcard when something new ships — a tool, an essay. No schedule, ever.
The thinking, free.
The tools, the writing and the atlas are the same plain thinking I'd bring to your session — try it on your own numbers first.
“Let's work together to beat the challenge you're stuck with — to turn your ideas into something you can live off. Don't get stuck in the rat race. Break free, make the change happen, and enjoy the spoils.”
— Pablo
What I won't do.
Said up front, so the hour is spent on what I will.
Investment advice
I won't tell you what to buy or where to put your savings — not in a session, not by email. This is about your ideas and your next move, not your portfolio.
Guarantees
Nobody honest can promise your idea will work. I promise the verdict, the alternatives and the push. The outcome gets built by you.
Sugar-coating
You're not paying me to agree with you. If the plan has a hole, hearing it now is the cheapest it will ever be.
Asked straight, answered straight.
Is this financial or investment advice?
No. I won't tell you what to buy, where to invest, or what any market will do. Sessions are about your ideas, your options and your next move. For your portfolio you want a licensed adviser — I'm happily not one.
Why €600?
Because I don't need the income — I take sessions because I like a hard problem, and the price keeps them serious for both of us. For that you get the Exit Audit, ninety minutes of full attention, and a straight answer. It's also why you'll get it straight: there's nothing I need to sell you at the end.
Will you tell me my idea is great?
Only if I think it is. If I think it won't work, I'll say so plainly — and then go digging for the option you discarded years ago that might. That's the session working, not failing.
Can you guarantee results?
No — and run from anyone who can. What I promise: a straight verdict, real alternatives with their pros and cons, and a concrete first move. Trying is never a failure. Staying stuck is the expensive option.
Why should I listen to you?
Because I've done the thing, more than once. Quit with no plan B in 2011. Travelled the world on €3–5 a day. Built a web-design business from the road. Was selling photos to magazines within a year of first touching a camera — National Geographic ran a feature on the trip. Made my number trading prediction markets and retired at 34. Different games, one method — think it through properly, then put everything behind it. The method is what you're booking.
I don't have an idea — just the itch to leave. Too early?
No. Half the work is seeing the options you've stopped letting yourself consider. Bring the itch; the ideas are usually in the drawer already.
I'm already retired — what would we even work on?
The part I care about most — the number was never the point, owning your time was. If the days have gone soft, we work on what the freedom is for: structure, people, a game worth playing. Bring an honest picture of your weeks; we'll find what's missing and what to do about it.
I don't care about FIRE — I just want my idea to work. Wrong place?
No. The method doesn't care what the goal is: a straight verdict, the alternatives with their pros and cons, and your next moves. If the idea can't carry you, I'll say so — and go looking for the one that might.
Bring me a challenge.
The Exit Audit, then ninety minutes: a straight verdict, real alternatives with their pros and cons, and your first move. If you want someone to nod along, I’m the wrong person to pay.