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This page is not for the person going through the disruption.

It is for the professional who serves them.

If you work in HR, outplacement, career coaching, financial advising, executive development, university career services, EAP programs, or any organizational role where people come to you during the most difficult professional transitions of their lives — this page is written for you.

The question it answers: what do you put in people’s hands that they will actually use?

Why This Matters Right Now

In the past 24 months, nearly 40 million Americans have been laid off or discharged. An additional 80 million have resigned — many of them pressured out, quietly pushed aside, or facing a job market that no longer has a place for the role they spent years building.

That is the population landing in your office, your inbox, and your programs right now. And most of them don’t need another motivational talk, another wellness app, or another webinar nobody watches twice.

They need something calm, structured, and genuinely useful — that they can open at whatever point matches their biggest urgency today and gain traction immediately. Something they will actually keep. Something that reflects well on the organization that gave it to them.

That is what the Five Year Life™ books were designed to deliver.

Why These Books Work When Most Programs Don’t

Most organizational transition resources fail for one reason: people don’t use them. They set them aside, lose them, open the first chapter under stress, feel overwhelmed, and put them down permanently.

Every book in the Five Year Life™ Series was designed around a different principle: every book is asynchronous by design. That means five separate Tables of Contents organized by reader type — the recently unemployed, the employed-but-worried, older adults, retired-then-returning workers, and single parents — each directing their audience to the most relevant sections immediately. No beginning required. A person opens to whichever Action Plan or question matches their biggest urgency right now and gains clarity immediately.

This is not a conventional design choice. It is the entire architecture of the books. And it is the reason adoption rates are dramatically higher than standard transition resources.

These books are also built on something no other resource in this space can claim: more than 33,000 deeply candid, one-on-one relationships across three decades of working directly with 3,000+ startup founders and CEOs navigating genuine crises — and across a decade-long personal quest involving 2 million visitors, 15,000 serious candidates, and 1,200+ first dates. Author Robert Lee Goodman calls the accumulated wisdom from those relationships Compound Knowledge™. It is why these books read less like theory and more like the most useful conversation the reader has ever had with someone who has genuinely seen it all before.

The Books and Why They Belong in Your Program

Your Last Paycheck™

Navigating Job Loss and Layoffs in the Age of AI
Paperback $29.95 · Hardcover $49.95 · Audiobook ~$29.95 · Kindle $9.99
423 pages · 7×10 format · 23 self-contained Action Plans

When you hand someone a copy of Your Last Paycheck™, you are giving them something most organizations never provide: a calm, structured companion for the worst weeks of a professional’s life.

Here is what your HR team and outplacement professionals know that most books ignore: the first 72 hours after a layoff are when the worst decisions get made. Panic drives unnecessary spending. Silence drives shame. The person misses COBRA deadlines, forgets to document what they’re entitled to, and makes financial moves that are very difficult to undo. This book exists specifically to interrupt that spiral — with a systematic, non-shaming protocol that gives the reader something to do instead of something to feel.

The book opens with the most pressing question for anyone you’re handing it to: what do you do in the next 72 hours? Hours 1–6: document everything while memory is still clear — termination date, final paycheck amount, severance schedule, benefit cutoff dates, COBRA enrollment deadlines. Hours 6–24: calculate actual burn rate, accept the 5–6 month average job search timeline (9–12 months for older workers or those in AI-impacted fields), stop making emotional decisions about bills. Hours 24–48: implement an Emergency Spending Freeze. Hours 48–72: begin generating immediate cash flow.

This is not motivational content. This is operational instruction for a person under stress who needs to execute, not deliberate.

Part Two delivers a realistic blueprint for the AI-driven job market — including a framework for identifying which specific tasks within a prior role have been automated, which human tasks remain, and how to reposition toward adjacent roles without chasing false promises. The book also introduces the mindset shift that changes every decision that follows: the person is the CEO of You, Inc.™ — looking for multiple buyers for their time and expertise rather than a single new employer. That shift moves someone from dependent and reactive to strategic and positioned.

The book’s non-shaming commitment is structural, not rhetorical. Every Action Plan’s Demographic Lens section addresses how that specific situation affects single adults, single parents, couples, families, older adults, millennials, seniors, high-income earners, AI-displaced workers, and people managing health issues separately — without comparing groups or implying any group is more responsible for their circumstances. Using government programs, food banks, and community support is consistently framed as a rational strategic decision, not a last resort.

For the corporate buyer, here is the practical reality: the employees you provide this to will use it. They will reference it across their entire transition. When they land somewhere new, they will remember that you gave it to them during one of the hardest periods of their professional lives. That is the kind of organizational goodwill that no branded wellness item can create.

Best fit for: Outplacement packages, HR separation support, EAP and employee wellbeing initiatives, career counseling offices, workforce development programs, union transition support, financial advisors whose clients are facing income disruption, coaches specializing in career transition, and any organization that wants to handle layoffs with genuine dignity.

Reset Protocol™

Beyond the Road Less Traveled: The Road Most Desired
Paperback $44.95 · Hardcover $74.95 · Audiobook ~$39.95 · Kindle $9.99
846 pages · 8×10 format · 108 questions across 22 chapters

Job loss is not just a financial event. For most professionals, it is an identity event. The role defined the schedule, the relationships, the sense of purpose, and the answer to “what do you do?” When it disappears, a significant part of how the person understood themselves disappears with it.

Your outplacement or coaching program addresses the mechanics of a job search. Reset Protocol™ addresses the deeper disruption — the one that makes the job search harder than it needs to be, and that, left unaddressed, drives people toward the next role that looks right rather than the one that actually is.

The book’s core insight — one that most transition programs never reach — is that misalignment does not make a person’s current life wrong. It makes it outdated. The life was right for them once. They have grown past it. Reset Protocol is the framework for naming that with precision and rebuilding deliberately rather than reactively.

The 108 questions are organized not by topic but by how the reader feels right now — through a 10-bucket emotional navigation system called The Question Picker™. A reader experiencing anxiety lands in Bucket 1 (relief questions: Q5, Q14, Q24, Q61; depth questions: Q57, Q62, Q63, Q68). A reader experiencing burnout or meaning erosion lands in Bucket 8. A reader feeling financially trapped lands in Bucket 9. This design makes the book immediately useful under stress — which is exactly when your program participants are using it.

The book also provides four distinct reading paths that your program coordinators can recommend based on participant situation: a single-question-per-day path (indefinitely sustainable), a 7-Day Triage path for acute stress, a 30-Day Reset path for steady momentum, and a 108-Day Deep Reset for participants in a deliberate transition period. This flexibility means the book adapts to the reality of your program rather than requiring participants to adapt to it.

For organizations, the value of Reset Protocol™ goes beyond the transition support itself: people who know what they actually want make better decisions, move faster, land in better-fit roles, and stay longer once they get there. Providing this book is not just a goodwill gesture — it is a practical investment in the quality of outcomes your program produces.

At 846 pages in 8×10 format, Reset Protocol™ is a comprehensive, long-term reference tool priced accordingly. It is the kind of book people keep on their desk for years and return to at different life stages — finding new layers in the same questions as circumstances change. That longevity makes it an unusually durable gift.

Best fit for: Leadership development cohorts, executive coaching programs, university career centers and professional programs, alumni programs targeting mid-career transitions, organizational change management initiatives, professional associations offering member development, therapists and coaches seeking a structured client take-home resource, and any outplacement program that wants to address the identity dimension of job loss alongside the tactical one.

Reset Protocol™ Workbook

Beyond the Road Less Traveled: The Road Most Desired
Paperback $24.95 · Hardcover $49.95 · Audiobook ~$29.95 · Kindle $9.99
269 pages · 8×10 format · 108 questions in active write-in format

For program directors managing costs, this is the section to read carefully.

The Reset Protocol™ Workbook is the most affordable entry point in the series at $24.95 in paperback — and it is also the most immediately actionable format for a program participant under stress. If budget constraints limit what you can put in people’s hands, the Workbook alone is a complete and valuable resource.

Here is what makes it different from the main Reset Protocol™ book: the Workbook strips all 22 narrative chapters and delivers the same 108 questions in a compact, active-use format designed for writing rather than reading. Every question occupies exactly two pages. The left page presents the question, a brief framing of why it is revealing, and four focused sub-questions. The right page provides extended writing space plus a 24-Hour Action and the Workbook’s unique structural innovation: the Stop Signal™.

The Stop Signal appears on every one of the 108 questions and reads as a variation of: “You can stop here. Naming this and completing that sentence is enough for today.”

This matters enormously for organizational programs. Most programs fail because participants feel they must complete entire sections before the day counts as productive. The Stop Signal explicitly gives permission to stop after a single question — transforming what might feel like incomplete engagement into a completed win. It is the mechanism that keeps people coming back to the book across weeks and months rather than setting it aside after one overwhelming session.

The same 10-bucket Question Picker™ navigation system from the main book is fully present in the Workbook — meaning a participant experiencing anxiety, burnout, financial fear, or relationship conflict can find the question most relevant to their current emotional state immediately, without reading anything first.

For organizational programs, the Workbook has a specific advantage the main book cannot replicate: it creates a tangible artifact of the process. A participant who fills out a workbook has done something. They have made commitments on paper. They have a record of their own thinking during a significant transition. That artifact has staying power — it is not forgotten, not donated, not discarded. It is evidence of their own progress.

Many organizational programs provide both Reset Protocol™ and the Workbook together. Others — particularly those with tighter budgets — use the Workbook alone as the active-use resource, knowing participants who want more depth can purchase the main book independently. Either approach works. The Workbook is designed to stand completely alone.

Best fit for: Any program where budget limits what can be distributed at scale, workshop and offsite programs where individual follow-through is a stated goal, coaching programs needing a structured take-home resource, university programs (particularly graduate and professional programs), HR and outplacement programs wanting a consistent tool across large populations, and any setting where the goal is lasting behavioral change rather than short-term inspiration.

A Note on Efficient Love™

I Had 1,200 First Dates So You Don’t Have To™
Paperback $29.95 · Hardcover $49.95 · Audiobook ~$29.95 · Kindle $9.99

Efficient Love™ is not a standard corporate program book — and presenting it as one would misrepresent what it is. It is built around deeply personal self-disclosure about what people truly need from love and lasting partnership, including explicit discussion of sexual compatibility.

That said, a specific corporate use case does exist: EAP programs, relationship coaching practices, and employee wellbeing initiatives that work with relationship stress and personal resilience may find it highly relevant. Relationship difficulty is one of the most common co-presenting issues alongside career disruption — and the book’s Three Lists methodology (the Profound List, the Profane List, and the DIDO List) provides the most structured framework available for the kind of honest compatibility assessment that prevents years of misaligned relationship investment.

For most organizational programs, however, the first three titles are the appropriate recommendation. Efficient Love™ is best positioned as an individual recommendation — particularly to professionals whose transition coaching includes the full life picture, or to coaches and advisors who work with clients on personal reinvention alongside career strategy.

How Organizations Typically Use These Materials

Outplacement and Separation Support
Providing Your Last Paycheck™ — and optionally the Reset Protocol™ Workbook — as part of a separation package signals something departing employees do not expect: that the organization cares what happens to them after the last day. That signal has significant reputational value internally, and both books provide something genuinely useful during the most difficult transition these individuals will face. This is how a layoff gets handled with dignity.

Leadership and Talent Development
Reset Protocol™ and the Workbook work exceptionally well as a structured reflection framework paired with coaching or leadership development programs. They surface misalignment before it becomes a retention problem or a burnout event — and they give high performers a private, non-judgmental tool for examining whether the direction they’re moving in still reflects what they actually want.

University and Alumni Programs
Career centers, graduate programs, and alumni associations regularly look for materials that deliver real value without requiring significant facilitation. Your Last Paycheck™ is particularly well-suited for graduating cohorts entering an AI-disrupted job market. The Reset Protocol™ Workbook is particularly well-suited for alumni programs targeting mid-career professionals in transition — at $24.95 per copy in paperback, it is also the most cost-effective option for programs distributing at scale.

Client Gifting for Advisors, Coaches, and Service Firms
Financial advisors, executive coaches, HR consultants, and professional service firms regularly gift books to clients as a relationship-deepening tool. A book a client genuinely uses and references over time creates trust and goodwill that no branded item can replicate. These books are designed to be kept and returned to.

A Note on Pricing and the 500-Copy Threshold

These are not typical trade paperbacks. Your Last Paycheck™ is 423 pages in 7×10 format. Reset Protocol™ is 846 pages in 8×10 format. The Workbook is 269 pages in 8×10 format. Large-format, high-page-count books carry materially higher manufacturing, binding, and shipping costs than standard trade nonfiction — costs that have increased significantly across the industry. Pricing reflects physical manufacturing reality and the depth of the frameworks. Nothing important was left out for the sake of keeping the page count down.

Meaningful bulk pricing is only available at quantities of 500 copies or more per title. Below that threshold, the manufacturing economics do not change — there is no structural cost advantage to pass along. At 500 units or above, publisher-direct printing and custom pricing arrangements become available.

If your initial program need is smaller than 500 copies, the most cost-effective path is purchasing through Amazon at retail pricing in the format that fits your program — Kindle for broad digital distribution, paperback for standard program use, hardcover for premium client gifting. The Reset Protocol™ Workbook at $24.95 paperback is the most accessible entry point for programs distributing at scale. We are glad to discuss how to structure smaller initial orders most effectively.

Customization Options for Qualifying Orders (500+ Copies)

Publisher-direct bulk pricing (prepaid print runs at manufacturing cost)
Flexible shipping (single location or distributed to individuals)
Optional insert page with your organization’s support resources, benefits links, or program contacts — kept clean, tasteful, and reader-first
Optional brief sponsor acknowledgement (never promotional in tone)
Discussion of licensed internal printing for very large recurring programs

The default philosophy: protect reader trust first. These books work because the people who receive them trust them. Any customization that undermines that trust undermines the value of your program.

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Robert Lee Goodman, MBA
Founder and Author, Five Year Life™ Series
44X Founder · Rocket Scientist ·
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Chief Dragonslayer — Business & Love ·
Novelist Who Successfully Found His Heroine

P.S. — If you’ve ever wondered what 1,200 first dates, 15,000 serious candidates, and a decade-long personal quest actually produce — there’s a page on this site you probably shouldn’t miss. It’s the real backstory behind Efficient Love™ and the decade that made it possible. Some of it is embarrassing. All of it is true. And somewhere inside it is the methodology that led me to the one woman in 2 million who became my wife.

→ The Story Behind Novelist Seeks Heroine™

P.P.S. — The frameworks in these books didn’t come from research or theory. They came from something far harder to replicate: 33,000 deeply candid, one-on-one relationships — across business and love — with people who couldn’t see their own best path forward and were looking to me to help them find it. If you want to understand why these books are different from anything else you’ll find, that’s where the answer lives.

→ Compound Knowledge™ — What It Is and Why It Matters to You

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

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

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

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

“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

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