What do Leicester City, Apple, J.K. Rowling — and even Coca Cola — have in common? They were done. Finished. Total failures. And then…

everything changed.

You know what separates crashing hard from rising strong?

A razor-thin line. So thin, you don’t even see it—because you’re too busy complaining that no one’s buying your online course.

If you’re an edupreneur—selling what you know through courses, coaching, or training—and you’re tired of the grind, it’s time to change perspective. 

You’ve hit the end of your reserves. Tired of working hard to sell your expertise. Having the right ingredients to help your customers. But no one biting. No excuses left.  

That’s the moment. The same one Rowling hit when she was broke, Apple when it was falling apart, and Leicester City when people laughed at them like they were some village team that got lost in the Premier League.

Want to know what saved them?

Not magic.
Not investors.
Not connections.

Just one thing: they stayed in the game.

 

1.  Leicester City – The misfit squad that crushed millionaires

Back in 2015, Leicester City was a joke. Everyone expected them to get relegated.

Their players? Rejected. Cheap. Leftovers.

Jamie Vardy? He used to clock in at a factory at 6 a.m.
Riyad Mahrez? Cost less than an old car.
N’Golo Kanté? Small, quiet, completely unknown.

On paper—total misfits.
On the pitch? Dream crushers.

Chelsea, Arsenal, Man City—everyone thought they’d swat Leicester away like a fly.

But Leicester just played their game. Humble. No drama. No trash talk.
And they won. The whole damn league.

Premier League champions. 5000-to-1 odds.

That’s like you returning to make $100k this month from a course that’s currently gathering digital dust.

THE LESSON: You don’t have to “be somebody.”
You just need to act like someone who wins—before anyone else believes it.

 

2. Apple – The walking dead that built an empire

Today, Apple is a global giant. But in the ’90s? A tech disaster.

Losing money. Failing launches. Customers running.

Apple was going down. Hard.

Then Steve Jobs came back—the guy they kicked out of his own company.

He didn’t walk in with a miracle plan. Just a vision:

"Let’s build something simple. Something beautiful. The rest will follow."

And follow it did.
iMac. iPod. iPhone.

Stuff no one took seriously became cultural gold.

Apple went from a company Bill Gates could’ve bought with spare change… to the most valuable company on Earth.

THE LESSON: You might be one decision away from collapse—or one bold move away from an empire.
You choose which.

 

3. J.K. Rowling – The welfare mom with a notebook no one wanted to read

Rowling wasn’t always a billionaire.

She was a single mom on welfare. Depressed. Broke. Writing in coffee shops because her apartment was freezing.

She sent Harry Potter to 12 publishers.

Every one of them said no.

Until finally—one tiny publisher said yes. Why?

Because an employee’s daughter read the first chapter and said, “Dad, this is amazing.”

You know the rest.
Books. Movies. Theme parks. Billions.

THE LESSON: Your idea might get rejected 12 times.
But you only need one “yes.”

The real question: Will you hold out long enough to hear it?

 

4. Coca-Cola – The failed medicine that became a global icon

Fun fact: Coca-Cola started out as a medicine.

For headaches. Fatigue. “General wellness.”

Problem? Nobody wanted it. Not for headaches. Not for anything.

It flopped. Sales tanked.

Then someone had a crazy idea:

“What if we just sold it as a drink? Add bubbles, change the name, rebrand it?”

Boom.

A disaster of a remedy turned into the most famous soft drink on the planet.

THE LESSON: Sometimes your product isn’t failing because it’s bad—
It’s just being sold to the wrong people, in the wrong way, for the wrong price.

Tweak it. Rename it. Reframe it.
Watch what happens.

 

All of this comes down to one question:

Are you willing to keep going—even when you feel like a joke?

Because Leicester looked like a joke.
Rowling? A broke, single mom.
Apple? Dead in the water.
Coca-Cola? The laughingstock of the medical world.

And now?

Leicester is part of sports history.
Rowling is a living legend.
Apple is a symbol of innovation and power.
Coca-Cola? A pop-culture, global empire.

You can do it too.

But only if you stay in the game until the final whistle.

 

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