If You're Going to Teach It, Teach What You’ve Lived — Not What You Heard

Dewayne Williams
1 day ago
4 min read

This message is not emotional.

This is correction, leadership, and accountability.

We are in a time where selling information is easy — and living the information is rare.

People hear something valuable, package it, and resell it — not to help, but to survive.

And I need to say this plainly:

There is a difference between teaching what you lived and reselling what you heard.
There is a difference between leading people and using people.
There is a difference between education and extraction.

Too many are selling information to people who do not read, instead of transformation to people who are ready to grow.

The Irony of Ebooks

We’ve all heard the saying:

If you want to hide something from someone, put it in a book.

Most people didn’t choose an LLC because they researched it.

They chose an LLC because:

Someone told them to
Someone made it sound simple
Someone sold it to them in a checklist

No study.

No comprehension.

No context.

And now?

People who didn’t read are now creating ebooks for people who also won’t read.

That is not education.

That is the recycling of misunderstanding.

Let’s Address What Happened, With Receipts

I purchased a $299 ebook.

Not to attack.

Not to expose.

To verify.

Because in this world, misinformation destroys real lives and real businesses.

What I found was copy and paste.

Not inspired.

Not rewritten.

Not re-explained through lived experience.

Copy. Paste. Package. Sell.

Let’s walk through this clearly and respectfully.

1) Templates Section — Copied Word-for-Word

The ebook begins with the exact sentence from my blog, identical in structure, punctuation, and sequence:

"Under federal law (26 U.S.C. § 7701(a)(1)), a Corporation is a person; it can own property, pay bills, buy cars, lease homes, hire people, and enter into contracts."

Not summarized.

Not paraphrased.

Not learned.

MY BLOG FROM OCTOBER 16, 2025

SELLER’S INTRODUCTION TO THE EBOOK:

Copied. Word. For. Word.

They didn’t even switch the order of the items:

property → bills → cars → homes → people → contracts — identical.

This is where the pattern starts — and it continues throughout the document.

Now, let’s look at the email confirmation for the ebook. You’ll notice that I only received one PDF file — “The Guide to Financial Freedom.”

SELLER’S EMAIL CONFIRMATION:

SELLER’S EBOOK:

I did not receive what was stated in the ebook.

It says: “Download a Free Residential Lease Agreement and a Corporate Short-Term Rental Agreement.”

However, those documents were not included.

MY ORIGINAL CONTENT (MEMBERS-ONLY):

Why This Matters:

The ebook told buyers to download legal agreements the seller does not have access to.

The email confirmation did NOT come with additional templates to download.

These templates are exclusive, and more importantly — they require context, legal usage explanation, and entity structure alignment.

This is not plagiarism alone.

This puts buyers at risk of:

Improper corporate housing setup
Incorrect tax deductions
Constructive dividend risk
IRS audits

If you haven't lived it, you cannot teach it.

2) The Journey to Success Roadmap — Copied Directly

SELLER’S ROADMAP:

MY ROADMAP:

Why This Matters:

The Journey to Success Roadmap is not just steps — it is the order that protects:

Corporate veil separation
Funding eligibility
Liability boundaries
Tax compliance
Audit defense

If you teach these steps without doing them, people get:

Stripe freezes
Loan denials
Business bank shutdowns
IRS flags

This is life-changing structure, not content.

Let me pause and say this clearly:

It’s one thing to sell what you’ve learned.

It’s another thing entirely to sell something you have not done yourself.

This is not a dig.

This is accountability.

This is exactly why so many people ended up with LLCs they didn’t understand — because they were sold hearsay instead of truth.

Okay — moving on.

3) Corporate Housing Section — Copied Verbatim

SELLER’S EXPLANATION:

MY ORIGINAL TEACHING:

Why This Matters:

This section came from trial and error, lawsuits, IRS reviews, and real corporate home leases.

This is not theoretical.

This is not something you can copy.

This was paid for in real life.

4) Multi-Entity Legacy Builder Framework — Copied Exactly

SELLER’S FRAMEWORK:

MY FRAMEWORK:

Why This Matters:

This is the backbone of:

Privacy
Liability protection
Asset separation
Wealth preservation
Funding stability

You cannot teach this if:

You have not built each entity
Filed taxes for each entity
Run payroll and inter-company billing
Managed the compliance and audit side

Otherwise you're not teaching.

You are performing.

Legal Reality Check

Under 17 U.S.C. §506(a) and 18 U.S.C. §2319, willful commercial reproduction of copyrighted written work can constitute criminal copyright infringement.

Penalties can include:

Civil damages
Injunctions
Business loss
And in willful commercial cases — criminal charges

If I wanted to pursue this legally, I could.

But that is NOT my intention

My intention is:

To correct the culture, not destroy the creator.

So Let’s Be Clear About What I Do vs What Was Done

Yes — I sell an ebook.

But the ebook is not the product.

The product is:

My lived experience
My corporate structures
My lawsuits
My approvals
My denials
My reinstatements
My Stripe funding strategies
My bookkeeping and tax filings
My real receipts

I don’t sell what I heard.

I sell what I lived, survived, tested, mastered, and can prove.

Conclusion

This is not about embarrassment.

This is not about ego.

This is about standard.

If you are creating ebooks and courses:

Do not copy and paste.
Do not resell what you have not lived.
Do not teach structure you do not operate in.
Do not claim mastery from someone else’s sacrifice.

Because when the truth comes out — and it always does — the only thing that will protect you is:

Integrity.

If you are building an ebook right now — pause.

Write from:

Your experience.
Your receipts.
Your journey.
Your lessons.

Because there is no legacy in hustling people.

There is no transformation in shortcuts.

There is no leadership in imitation.

If we say we are changing lives…

We must lead from truth — or we are not leading at all.