A job was supposed to be the safe choice.

Isn't that what we're taught?

For me, it never was.

I masked all day and came home with nothing left in the tank for my own life. I would try to cope with that in many unhealthy ways.

I would work all week, try to get to the weekend where I could hopefully come up for air, but it was never long enough to heal from the week I just endured.

In fact I would start dreading going back to work on Monday by Saturday afternoon when I would realize it didn't matter what I tried to do for fun that night, it wouldn't cure my burnout. It was quite hopeless.

So, when the job got bad enough, I'd quit.

I couldn't rest though. I would clamor to start a business in hopes it would replace my income before I'd have to find another job.

Over and over.

I don't know if I ever truly recovered before I had to re-enter the neurotypical workforce.

Then the next job would make me sick, too.

What if you could:

• Earn income on your own terms?
• Work on your own time, with your own schedule?
• Honor your own capacity?
• Have total freedom for your own accommodations to regulate your nervous system?
• Finally do work that doesn't make you sick inside?

That's what I wanted, too, and I spent years trying to build it on my own.

Here's why it kept falling apart for me.

I didn't know how to "business".

But I also wouldn't stop trying.
I knew it was a matter of survival for me.

Even though I kept failing over and over, those failures taught me something every time, and I kept learning new things, and in every program, course, book, etc., I learned something.

It took me years to piece it all together through trial and error.

Here's the most important thing I learned...

Everything else in business is either in support of or an evolution of those three pillars.

Once you can see that, starting something of your own becomes a whole lot more approachable.

Hi. I'm Heath Close.

I grew up in a small town of 700. Being neurodivergent forced me into a life of serial entrepreneurship just to survive a neurotypical world.

I have had a lot of jobs.

I sold knives. Worked as a mechanic. Did landscaping. Worked in a factory warehouse. Drove a truck. Drove a school bus. On and on and on.

The pattern was the same every time. I would become miserable and burned out, so I'd spend every spare moment thinking about how to start my own business.

I made a course teaching musicians how to build a free online presence.
It failed.

I ran a recording studio out of my home.
It failed.

I started a freelance game business.
Blogs for musicians.
A cigar review site.

There were others.
They all fell apart.

That's the real cost of doing this alone. There's no way to tell what matters right now from what matters eventually. Every time I failed, I learned more about what matters and what doesn't.

But after a while of repeating this pattern, I figured I was missing something.

I needed to learn business at a bigger scale, and I needed a way to fund that education.

So I went back to trucking on purpose. I moved out of my apartment, sold my car, threw everything into storage, and lived in the truck, cutting my expenses to almost nothing to fund building a video game.

Living on the road, I built that game from the sleeper of my truck after 10-14 hour days, with the sole mission of making an artifact that would break me into the video game industry.

The goal was to release a mobile game of such high quality, Apple would feature it.

So I designed the game and ran a small team to build it. Then COVID hit and the money ran out.

Long story short, I finally learned to code, finished it myself, and Apple featured it.

Mission accomplished.

That's how I broke into the video game industry.

I wanted to peek behind the curtain of doing bigger business, with bigger budgets, and working with bigger teams (and business at that scale also showed me a lot of what not to do as well).

Now I teach other NDs what took me years to figure out, so they don't have to learn it the hard way like I did.

That's what I put into The Self-Employment Society™.

The step-by-step roadmap to building income on your own terms without doing it alone.

Completely designed from the ground up by a neurodivergent mind for simplicity and community. I lean into what matters most and help you become self-employed without spending years on trial and error.

Most programs hand you 40 hours of video to sit through, then leave the building to you.

I don't know why people think a HUGE course offers a lot of value.

I never liked that approach.

How am I supposed to get through it all?
Remember the important parts?
Find time to both learn and then implement, while needing to go back to re-watch what I learned to follow along again?

That kind of product is so overwhelming.
Frankly, I believe that's just poor design.

That's why I built The Self-Employment Society™ differently.

I don't believe teaching you how to do it is the same thing as helping you do it.

The Self-Employment Society™: Foundations course is there if you want the background.

If it helps you to understand, I wanted that option there for those who work better that way, but the main program is built around AI agents that literally guide you through building your business. 

I've combined the learning with the doing.
It's all about actually taking action, rather than me teaching you how to take action.

Each step starts with a short video explaining what you're about to build and why. Then you go to our AI portal and use the agent for that step. It's trained on my methodology, and it does the heavy lifting for you.

Together you forge the deliverable you need for forward motion at every milestone.

When the deliverable you worked on is done, you share it with a community of like-minded people doing the same work and supporting each other.

The kind of crowd that gets it.

In fact, I've even designed the AI agents to write your community post for you so you don’t have to try to come up with how to articulate what just happened in your building session.

That way, I can take a look at the work you did, answer questions, and help you through the process.

Here's What's Inside:

The Self-Employment Society™: Foundations

Ten lessons across all three pillars.

 
Here's a sample...

Plus:

The Self-Employment Society™: The Agents

Where the action happens.

 
Here's a sample...

Plus:

The Self-Employment Society™: Community

No masking required.

Results vary from person to person and depend on your own effort and circumstances. Individual business results are not typical or guaranteed. This isn't legal, tax, financial, medical, or mental health advice. Business registration and taxes are different everywhere, so sort the formal side out where you live, with a local professional.