The Newsletter for High-Achievers Who Are Tired of Carrying Everyone Else's Weight
"The Rebel Onion helps successful men & women in their 40s+ stop carrying inherited burdens, break generational patterns, and build the life they actually want—not the one they think they should want."
Who This Is For
You're successful on paper. Maybe you run a business, climbed the corporate ladder, built something impressive.
But you're carrying weight that isn't yours—family expectations, inherited patterns, the "shoulds" that never quite fit.
You've been waiting for permission to own your worth.
This newsletter is for people done waiting.
What You Get
Every Thursday: One story, one pattern to unpeel.
Each week includes:
- Real coaching from Dr. Goodman (40+ years, psychology background, NET practitioner)
- A book insight or learning tied to the week's theme
- Cinematic AI-animated visuals bringing each story to life
Under 10 minutes. No fluff. No sanitized success stories.
Who's Writing This
I'm Martin. 48. Father. Designer.
I spent 10 years in my family's freight business learning that my worth was tied to someone else's mood—low salary, but if you performed well, maybe you'd get an envelope with cash when Dad felt generous.
Five years in a tech startup, staying in my creative lane, waiting for others to figure out the money.
34 weeks into this newsletter, I finally saw the pattern: I've been performing for permission instead of deciding my own worth.
Now I'm documenting what happens when you stop waiting.
100 weeks. No filter. You're invited.
THE REBEL ONION MANIFESTO
We live in a rigged world.
Billions spent on psychology to manipulate you. Algorithms designed to validate your worst impulses. Deceptive practices at every turn. Vague truths sold as certainties. Agendas hidden behind slick marketing.
Even the tools we use to think—AI, LLMs, platforms—are built to retarget, reshape, and redirect us toward someone else's ultimate plan.
And yet.
There's still a voice inside you that knows the truth. Your truth. Even when it hurts. Even when it costs you comfort, approval, or peace.
The Rebel Onion is built on one principle:
Stay authentic. With discernment. With core values intact.
Lead by example. Inspire stories from truth. Not from the highlight reel. Not from the sanitized version that keeps sponsors happy.
From the messy, real, unfiltered middle of trying to break cycles, own your worth, and build a life that's actually yours.
This isn't self-help. This is self-truth.
And if that stings—good. That's how you know it's real.
The Book: My Journey with Dr. Goodman
Before The Rebel Onion, I documented a year of transformative coaching with Dr. Goodman in "Fridays with Goodman: A Striving Artist, a Good-Man, and the Universal Principles at Play."
Every Friday morning for a year, I worked through Neuro-Emotional Technique (NET), peeling back the layers of conditioning, family patterns, and limiting beliefs. This book is where the journey began.
Contact
Email: theonionrebel@gmail.com
Design & Marketing Services: nitramdesign.com
