About The Author Robert Lee Goodman
Robert Lee Goodman has spent more than 4.5 decades helping people navigate some of the most difficult and defining chapters of their lives. What began with mentoring founders, CEOs, and entrepreneurs on the business side of their journey steadily expanded into something deeper: helping many of those same clients navigate the personal realities that unfold alongside their careers.
Across uncountable virtual mentoring relationships — spanning startups, corporate leaders, solo operators, career changers, retirees, and individuals in transition — Robert became the person people turned to when clarity, steadiness, and direction mattered most. While most initially sought strategic or business-related guidance, a meaningful number also turned to him for help with personal challenges: identity, resilience, relationships, confidence, reinvention, and the emotional patterns that influence every major decision.
Working with so many people for so many years generated a powerful body of insight, Robert calls Compound Knowledge™ — a cross-disciplinary understanding of the recurring life patterns, emotional themes, fears, breakthroughs, and decision-making dynamics that shape human behavior across industries, life stages, and circumstances. These insights form the foundation of The Five Year Life™ Series, a multi-book framework for rebuilding and redesigning your life with intention.
The first three books in the series launch together:
- Your Last Paycheck™
Navigating Job Loss and Layoffs in the Age of AI
A grounded, immediate guide for one of the most urgent economic challenges people face today. - Reset Protocol™
A Structured Method for Resetting Your Life in Five Focused Years
A deep, practical system for understanding who you are now, where misalignment began, and how to rebuild your life deliberately and sustainably. - Reset Protocol™ — The 108 Questions™ Workbook
The Companion Workbook for Deep Reflection & Immediate Action
A guided workbook that translates introspection into clarity, and clarity into action.
Following these releases, Robert will publish:
- Efficient Love™
I Had 1,200 First Dates So You Don’t Have To
A candid, practical guide to modern relationships and emotional alignment — informed by both lived experience and decades of mentoring others through relationship transitions.
Alongside this, Robert will debut his first novel:
- Stark Naked Startup™ — The Novel (Book One of Four)
A deeply emotional, character-driven erotic romance threaded with rising suspense and a developing techno-thriller arc. It explores intimacy, ambition, startup culture, vulnerability, and the unintended consequences of rapidly accelerating technology.
Before becoming an author, Robert built and sold nearly 4 dozen companies, raised significant capital, navigated multiple economic cycles, and mentored thousands of individuals through financial resets, career disruption, entrepreneurial reinvention, and personal transformation — almost entirely through long-term mentorship.
Today, his mission is simple:
To help people begin the next chapter of their lives with clarity, steadiness, and direction — no matter what the previous chapter looked like.
Robert and his wife, Jan, live in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, intentionally adjacent to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where he continues to mentor founders, develop new tools within The Five Year Life™ Series, and support individuals through reinvention with the same grounded wisdom and practical compassion that have defined his career for nearly half a century.
While Robert offers very limited paid consultations, he is not generally available for speaking engagements, workshops, or interviews.
He intends to use what he has left of his quickly evaporating life by writing books that help others and by spending as much time as possible with his wife, including hiking mountain trails and other simple pleasures. That lifestyle is the major focus of their mutually desired, current Five Year Life.