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Hey, I'm Eric, the founder of Bach Performance

The phone call that cost me $200,000

Published 16 days ago • 1 min read

Eleven years ago, two weeks into betting everything on my own business, I got a phone call in a gym lobby that detonated my life.

My accountant, the guy I trusted with every dollar I had — had just been raided by the FBI, IRS, and Secret Service. Biggest white-collar tax crime in Colorado history.

My entire nest egg was gone. I owed the IRS six figures I didn't have. I was 26, newly married, and one signature away from losing everything.

I just published the story on what happened, the dark stretch nobody saw, the single question from a mentor that changed the trajectory of my life, and the concept I wish someone had taught me a decade earlier:

The ignorance tax.

A few things I cover:

  • The exact moment I realized the money was never coming back
  • The mentor question that ended my self-pity in one sentence
  • The book I read at rock bottom that rewrote my business model in a weekend
  • Why "ignorance tax" is the most expensive thing in your life — and you're probably paying it right now
  • The 7 lessons from the most expensive year of my life.

Buckle up — this was one hell of an experience:

​https://open.substack.com/pub/bachperformance/p/i-lost-100k-to-fraud-right-after?r=51ryu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true​

— Eric

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