The Billionaire and the Backpacker

THE BILLIONAIRE AND THE BACKPACKER

What if the life you're living isn't the one you were meant to live?

I spent 30 years building successful businesses, making money, achieving what looked like freedom from the outside. Inside, I was completely unfulfilled. I knew something was wrong, but I couldn't name it. I kept grinding, kept forcing, kept pretending I was on the right path.

Then, during an ayahuasca ceremony in the Amazon, something broke open. This 70,000 + word novel wrote itself in the weeks that followed. I didn't construct it. I didn't outline it. I simply sat down each day and reported what came through a clear 'Signal Line'

The story that emerged is about two people on opposite ends of everything - Ben, a middle-aged billionaire market trader who has everything and feels empty, and Christina, a rebellious twenty-something backpacker who has nothing and feels free. Their collision in an unlikely place that becomes a mirror for the question I'd been avoiding my entire life: What is success actually for?

This isn't a business book pretending to be a novel. It's not a self-help manual wrapped in story. It's the book that had to come out of me before I could understand what I'd been doing wrong for three decades.

The story will stay with you - not because I crafted it that way, but because it emerged from the same place where your own truth lives. Ben's struggle with identity and purpose, Christina's clarity about what actually matters, and their unexpected collision will echo your own unspoken questions.

You'll recognise yourself in these pages. The successful person who's built everything right and feels something's deeply wrong. The person who's afraid to walk away from what took years to build. The person who knows, somewhere beneath the noise, that there's another way to live.

This book will show you the cost of living someone else's version of success. Ben's journey from empty achievement to genuine purpose mirrors the path many successful people need to take but are too afraid to start. Christina represents the clarity you've been ignoring.

If you've ever felt successful and empty at the same time, this book will find you where you are.

This is the book I wrote while living the wrong life. Reading it will show you how to recognise the patterns keeping you trapped—and what becomes possible when you finally stop pretending.

— Martin Cole

WHAT READERS ARE SAYING

★★★★★

"This book contains a lot of the answers to the questions you didn't know you were asking." — Dan Buffington

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"Once you pick it up it really is hard to put down. From consciousness to expanding self-awareness to Ayahuasca to family, friendship and love, this book had it all." — Jose Galvan

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"Not a standard 'self-help' book by ANY means, I believe this has the potential to help people in the most basic yet deep way possible. And all by just reading an enjoyable story!" — DJ Spingola

★★★★★

"This is not just a good story – within it are contained elements of metaphysics that may impact one into self-examination, which could lead to change and better your life." — RJ, United Kingdom

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