@marshallhaas
Instagram · Vlog
@marshallhaas 2025 Year in Review: Life after selling my business. It was a fun year, full of adventure, toys, house build, and family… but it’s time to build again. #founderstory #entrepreneurship #yearinreview #businessideas #business
Performance
Video #20035 · Vlog
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The creator narrates a rapid-fire montage of their year following a lucrative business exit, detailing major life changes including moving states, building a custom home, buying luxury cars, and managing investments. The video transitions from highlighting material purchases to reflecting on personal growth, family time, and future business aspirations for the upcoming year.
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What stops the scroll in the first 3 seconds
Title hook · 25%
2025 Year in Review
Verbal hook · 45%
Last year, I sold my business for life changing money.
Visual hook · 30%
Fast-paced montage of high-value assets like luxury cars and a large house, establishing immediate visual proof of wealth and success.
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The promise the opener makes, and how the video pays it back
Hook
The Aspirational Anchor: State a massive, life-changing achievement and promise to reveal the reality of the aftermath to instantly hook viewers with curiosity and envy.
Payoff
The Future Tease: Pivot from past reflection to future ambition, promising immense value and new ventures to those who follow along for the next chapter.
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The structural pattern this video runs on
Framework
The High-Status Milestone Recap
Leveraging a massive, aspirational life event to frame a structured, multi-dimensional review of the aftermath, balancing extreme flexes with grounded realities to build personal brand authority.
The Lifestyle Escalation
Deliver a rapid-fire montage of high-status purchases, moves, and lifestyle upgrades that fulfill the audience's fantasy of the initial achievement.
The Professional Pivot
Explain the shift in daily routine or work life, establishing authority while showing a departure from the previous grind.
The Quantifiable Secondary Wins
Share specific, impressive numbers in adjacent areas (like audience growth or passive investments) to reinforce overarching competence.
The Grounding Reality
Introduce relatable friction and explicitly state what didn't go well, humanizing the creator and building deep trust through transparency.
2025 Year in Review: Life after selling my business. It was a fun year, full of adventure, toys, house build, and family… but it’s time to build again. #founderstory #entrepreneurship #yearinreview #businessideas #business
title · beginning
2025 Year in Review
title · beginning
I sold my business
contextual · middle
Moved from Texas to Raleigh
contextual · middle
Bought a bunch of cars
informational · middle
Up 12% this year
contextual · end
What didn't go well?
Last year, I sold my business for life changing money. tier was the year I found out what that actually feels like. Bought the cars, built the house, started a new life in North Carolina. It was everything I imagined, and now I'm ready to build again. Here's my 2025 in review. I started tier year by turning 35. January 1, baby. We packed up and moved from Texas to Raleigh. Better a worse, watched our dream home get built, sold our place in Texas, closed one chapter completely. Bye, house. We love you. Joined a country club, played some golf, made some friends in a new city. I bought a bunch of cars. McLaren six seven five l tier spider, Ford Bronco, Ferrari GTC four lusso, Ferrari three sixty tier, Rank Rover. Sold the m five, Huracan, and GT three. I didn't work the way people think of work this year. I tinkered, thought, tested ideas. The kind of year where nothing launches, but everything sets up what's next. Did a little consulting, just enough to find problems worth solving. I'll be prolific in 2026. A lot coming. I finally took Instagram seriously. Went from 20,000 to over 80,000 followers in a few months. Turns out, consistent content is harder than it looks. Starting to find my rhythm. Kids started new schools, new routines, a lot of change in one year. More stress than we planned for, mostly because of the house build. Worth it, but glad that chapter's closed. My investments grew nicely. Hired James as my money guy, up 12% this year in a conservative portfolio. Jamie and I set up a charitable fund. I put 7 figures in a shopping center investment. First deal returned 25% in a year. We traveled a lot. Road trips with friends, adventures with family, Cabo, Nantucket, Cape Cod, Charleston. So what didn't go well? The move and the build ate more time than expected, and it took longer than I wanted to find the next thing. But that's what twenty twenty five was really about. Enjoying what I built over twenty years rank letting clarity show up on its own. Looking at 2026, I'm back in creation mode. Expect a lot of new businesses from me, software, services, and an automotive business. Cheers to 2026. It's time to build. Follow for more.