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  • Design Your Next Five Years — On Purpose™
  • Your Last Paycheck™
  • Reset Protocol™
  • Reset Protocol – The Workbook™
  • Efficient Love™
  • Stark Naked Startup™ – Preview
  • The Story Behind Novelist Seeks Heroine™
  • Compound Knowledge™ – What It Is and Why It Matters to You
  • Join Our Advance Reader Teams (ARC)
  • Your Last Paycheck Tools™
  • Five Year Life – Special Sales
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  • About Author Robert Lee Goodman
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Five Year Life™ – Chart Your Five Year Future™ © FiveYearLife.com
Five Year Life™
Chart Your Five Year Future™

Mentoring and Coaching

Individual and Personalized Mentoring & Consulting Hourly Mentoring

With my 30 years of achievement, experience and an MBA from a top-rated, world class program, I have the background, credentials and capabilities to help your company fight your own, very specific dragons – and to help you with defining your own personal Point B.

Although many offer management consulting services – very few have my three decades of direct, hands-on CEO-level experience of actually conceptualizing, starting, staffing, funding and operating four dozen, multi-industry companies – experiences that can directly benefit the quality and reality of your own business planning.

If you select my individualized management consulting service, I will be the one working with you – with this service, your business will not be delegated to a junior-level staffer with a new MBA. My own Presidential / Key Executive MBA is seasoned and amplified by 30 years of CEO-level experience.rlg-1t-550

Does it REALLY make sense for you to risk all the time, effort and money you intend on investing in your new venture by choosing a cheaper, less experienced approach for your business planning and mentoring?

Or, does it make much more abundant sense to choose a business planning consultant and mentor who is a proven, successful entrepreneur – someone who has raised over $25 Million from angel investors and venture capitalists?

Shouldn’t you choose a proven expert who can both coach you with practical advice and who can genuinely help guide you and your new company past all those dragons and other obstacles that currently stand between your company’s present and the successful future you envision?

I invite you to check out my profile for details on my background, credentials and experience.

I have found during my past 14 years of consulting with start up and emerging companies that many dragons can be slayed with just a few hours of mentoring. Often, it just takes one or two insights and epiphanies to get my clients past those dragons and much farther down their path toward achieving their goals.

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The power of these quick insights is why I offer my clients my hourly Mentoring Service.
Are there other issues, problems or opportunities you would like to brainstorm about your company?

Below, you can usually sign up for as little as one hour of mentoring. Once you sign up, we can immediately schedule a teleconference to discuss your dragons and your goals.

Of course, we can’t solve every problem, and slay every dragon, in only an hour or two – but, together, we might be able to efficiently brainstorm some quick answers for you – and a genuinely implementable action plan – that will get you past these pesky dragons and get you closer to your vision of success.
Reserve your brainstorming and mentoring time now.

Limited Availability

One-on-one mentoring and dragon slaying is probably the most enjoyable part of my Virtual-Exec Service for me. I love the rapid fire brainstorming and efficient problem solving with my clients – and being able to provide so much pivotal help in such a short period of time.

If you, and your own company, could benefit from this individualized service, I offer this mentoring in one, two and five hour increments of time.

(My standard billing rate is $275 per hour for Standard Service, $390 per hour for Priority Service and $550 per hour for Top Priority Service. Time billed in quarter-hour billing increments. Please see Queue for a detailed description of the three levels of service.)

However, my availability for one-on-one mentoring can be very limited due to my other client, corporate and personal commitments and time requirements. Hence, some of my mentoring options may be unavailable at any given time.

Reserve Your Time Slot Now!

To reserve your consulting time slot, please click one of the following links that best suits your needs. Make sure you allow the pop up window with your browser.

Note: if one or more of the following links don’t work, it is because that particular 1:1 Consulting and Mentoring Service is currently unavailable for one or more of the above reasons. Also, Priority and Top Priority Service receive preferential scheduling.

Five Hours of 1:1 Consulting and Mentoring
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Two Hours of 1:1 Consulting and Mentoring
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One Hour of 1:1 Consulting and Mentoring
with Robert Lee Goodman

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Once you prepay the retainer – we will schedule a mutually convenient time so that we can get started right away! Just click one of the above links that best suits your needs.

Thanks,

Robert

PS: If you are a corporate buyer, HR leader, coach, or program director interested in bulk purchase or organizational use, contact: SpecialSales@FiveYearLife.com

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  • Design Your Next Five Years — On Purpose™
  • Your Last Paycheck™
  • Reset Protocol™
  • Reset Protocol – The Workbook™
  • Efficient Love™
  • Stark Naked Startup™ – Preview
  • The Story Behind Novelist Seeks Heroine™
  • Compound Knowledge™ – What It Is and Why It Matters to You
  • Join Our Advance Reader Teams (ARC)
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  • Five Year Life – Special Sales
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Your Last Paycheck™

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Navigating Job Loss and Layoffs in the Age of AI

Job loss is never just a financial event. It’s an identity shock, a loss of stability, and a rupture in how you understand your own value. And in today’s economy, finding stable work often takes far longer than people expect — especially as AI continues to reshape entire professions.

Your Last Paycheck™ was written to prevent panic-driven decisions during one of the most vulnerable periods of a person’s life.

The first half of the book provides a calm, step-by-step stabilization plan for the critical early weeks: what to secure, what to protect, how to preserve both finances and emotional footing.

The second half offers a realistic blueprint for navigating the AI-driven job market — including how to assess which roles are expanding, which are quietly disappearing, and how to reposition yourself without chasing false promises.

For more information: FiveYearLife.com/YourLastPaycheck

Coming Soon – in Kindle, paperback, hardcover, and Audible formats!

Reset Protocol™

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Beyond the Road Less Traveled: The Road Most Desired

There comes a point in nearly every life when the internal alignment that once held everything together begins to fracture. You feel it before you can explain it — a heaviness, a resistance, a sense that you are living slightly out of phase with yourself.

Reset Protocol™ exists for that moment. It guides you through 108 carefully sequenced questions designed to reveal patterns you’ve lived with for years, surface truths you may have been avoiding, and help you see your life with clarity rather than judgment.

You’ll also learn the Five-Year Lens™ — a future-focused way to evaluate decisions based on who you are becoming, not just what you’re trying to escape. Not the familiar path, but the one most aligned with what you actually want.

Reset Protocol™ is not about blowing up your life; it’s about realignment — done deliberately, honestly, and with realistic compassion. It’s how you move beyond the road less traveled and step onto the road most desired.

For more information: FiveYearLife.com/ResetProtocol

Coming Soon – in Kindle, paperback, hardcover, and Audible formats!

Reset Protocol – The Workbook™

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The Companion Workbook to Accelerate Your Personal Reset Protocol

Some people prefer to read and reflect. Others need to engage, write, and move. This Workbook is built for action.

The Reset Protocol Workbook™ transforms insight into execution. It follows the same 108 carefully sequenced questions, but provides structured space to capture your answers, clarify your thinking, and turn reflection into forward momentum.

This is where your Reset Protocol becomes your own — not just something you understand, but something you actively work through, decision by decision.

Whether you use it alongside the main book or on its own, the purpose is the same: to move you from awareness into alignment, and from alignment into action.

For more information: FiveYearLife.com/ResetProtocolWorkbook

Coming Soon – in Kindle, paperback, hardcover, and Audible formats!

Efficient Love™

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I Had 1,200 First Dates So You Don’t Have To™

“I had 1,200 first dates” sounds like a gimmick. It wasn’t. It was the byproduct of an accidental experiment that started with a simple website: NovelistSeeksHeroine.com.

That page described the 28 traits I believed mattered most for long-term compatibility. More than 15,000 women responded, convinced they matched. What followed was a decade-long journey — roughly 1,200 first dates, over 300 second dates, and a hard-earned education in the difference between attraction, projection, and true alignment.

Out of those 15,000, out of those 1,200 first dates, there was one — and only one — woman I asked to marry me. She said yes. That was more than two decades ago… and we’re still happily together and counting.

But this book isn’t about my story. It’s about yours.

Efficient Love™ shows you how to avoid years of unnecessary detours, identify real compatibility earlier, and find the person who is right for you — where you also happen to be right for them.

It distills everything learned from that journey — including the Three Lists — into a practical, repeatable approach you can apply immediately to your own search.

For more information: FiveYearLife.com/EfficientLove

Coming Soon – in Kindle, paperback, hardcover, and Audible formats!

Stark Naked Startup™ – Novel: Book 1

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TOP SECRET // BLACK SWAN EVENT WARNING // HEAVILY REDACTED

It begins with a problem that has quietly grown into a worldwide epidemic, spreading across cultures, countries, and generations, affecting not just millions, but likely hundreds of millions and even billions of souls on this planet, often without being openly acknowledged because it hides so easily behind lives that appear complete from the outside.

Call it loneliness, if you want, though that word barely captures the full weight of it, because what is actually being felt is not simply the absence of company, but the absence of being truly known, truly understood, and truly connected in ways that feel real, dependable, and impossible to fake, whether in romantic love, friendship, family, or the quieter forms of human connection that give life its meaning.

Four founders come together around that recognition, not because they believe they have all the answers, but because they share the conviction that this epidemic is neither small nor inevitable, and that if something could be understood at a deeper level, perhaps it could be changed, not merely for a few fortunate people, but in a way that might genuinely make the world a better place.

What draws them forward is , and at the beginning it still looks, at least from a distance, like a startup story, a few brilliant, driven people building something ambitious and hopeful in the face of a problem that seems too large for any small company to solve.

Then something begins to shift, though not in any clean or predictable way, and not in any form the founders would have recognized at first for what it really was, because whatever they had touched was no longer simply shaping what people said to one another, but the space beneath what they said, where hesitation, desire, restraint, and truth normally remain guarded, filtered, and quietly distorted.

Because when two people connect through , the distance between what is felt and what is revealed does not gradually close the way it usually does, but instead begins to collapse, giving way to a form of shared awareness that feels at once intoxicating, disorienting, and impossible to resist.

It does not feel reckless. It does not feel confused. It feels certain in a way that is almost unnerving, because the usual space people rely on to stay in control seems to dissolve almost immediately, leaving behind the unmistakable sense that something deeper has already recognized what neither of them has yet spoken aloud.

Time does not disappear. It accelerates until hesitation has no place to live, until desire and certainty arrive together, and what would have taken months becomes something neither of them can delay, and neither of them would ever choose to.

This is not the familiar courtship minuet people have come to expect, not the cautious circling, not the incremental testing of boundaries. It is something else entirely, a different kind of dance, where recognition arrives first, where alignment follows immediately, and where passion does not wander aimlessly but locks into place with a precision that feels both overwhelming and inevitable.

Desire is unmistakably part of it, but it does not stand alone, because what rises with it is something far more disarming, a sense of alignment so complete that the usual friction is simply not there, no second-guessing, no misread signals, no quiet holding back that people are used to carrying even in their most intimate moments.

Here, there is to reinterpret, to correct, and almost no place left for the subtle evasions that normally prevent passion from becoming what it was always capable of becoming.

What unfolds in that space is not merely erotic, though it is undeniably that, and not merely romantic, though it is deeply that as well. It is the experience of two people entering a form of connection where closeness is no longer negotiated, but revealed, where desire and certainty rise together, and where intimacy carries a depth that feels both intensely physical and profoundly understood at the same time.

Within that convergence, moments begin to emerge in which , where sensation deepens into meaning, and where the line between emotional connection and physical experience becomes impossible to separate.

And yet what begins here is not confined to romance, because the same underlying shift begins to extend into , , and , suggesting that what is being touched is not merely a better way for people to fall in love, but a deeper way for human beings to recognize, understand, and relate to one another across nearly every meaningful dimension of life.

What began as an attempt to address a global epidemic affecting hundreds of millions, and likely billions, starts to reveal implications far beyond anything the founders imagined, becoming less a product and more the early edge of a black swan event, one capable of producing outcomes no one can fully model and no existing system of control can comfortably absorb.

And that is when the attention shifts, because something like this will never be left alone once outside forces begin to grasp even fragments of what may be possible.

What follows is no longer simply a question of whether the founders can protect what they have built, but whether what they have touched can remain what it was meant to be once others begin trying to control, redirect, weaponize, or own it.

Especially once it becomes clear that beneath the emotional, romantic, and philosophical implications there may also be elements of that extend beyond fiction.

That realization was never part of the original plan, and yet somewhere in the process of developing this story, it became impossible to ignore the possibility that what was being described might represent something more tangible, something that could, under the right conditions, constitute , with the specific details intentionally withheld for reasons that should be self-evident.

This is not just a story. It is a partially redacted case file. And whatever is happening inside it has already begun.

For more information: FiveYearLife.com/SNSPreview

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  • Design Your Next Five Years — On Purpose™
  • Your Last Paycheck™
  • Reset Protocol™
  • Reset Protocol – The Workbook™
  • Efficient Love™
  • Stark Naked Startup™ – Preview
  • The Story Behind Novelist Seeks Heroine™
  • Compound Knowledge™ – What It Is and Why It Matters to You
  • Join Our Advance Reader Teams (ARC)
  • Your Last Paycheck Tools™
  • Five Year Life – Special Sales
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  • Design Your Next Five Years — On Purpose™
  • Your Last Paycheck™
  • Reset Protocol™
  • Reset Protocol – The Workbook™
  • Efficient Love™
  • Stark Naked Startup™ – Preview
  • The Story Behind Novelist Seeks Heroine™
  • Compound Knowledge™ – What It Is and Why It Matters to You
  • Join Our Advance Reader Teams (ARC)
  • Your Last Paycheck Tools™
  • Five Year Life – Special Sales
  • FAQ
  • Blog
  • Press and Media
  • About Author Robert Lee Goodman
  • Contact Me
  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy