Getting Paid to Fail

For 10 years I was a cop - and a closet entrepreneur. Fitness coaching, self-storage, a VA agency, wholesaling, a book I still haven't finished. I was basically getting paid to fail, running experiment after experiment on the side of a six-figure salary. None of it was a home run, but every one put a tool in my belt.

Then one night I got an email from Chris Koerner. His 15-year-old daughter had Googled him, found a post I'd written about him on page 3, and asked "who's Kevin Bell?" That one question turned into a job offer - and the door I'd been praying for.

This is episode 2 of The Jump: the real story of how a decade of "failed" side hustles and one relationship built on Twitter got me out of law enforcement and into work I actually love. Plus the one thing I'd tell you before you leap: you don't have to burn the boats.