Action Academy | Millionaire Mentorship For Your Life & Business · Brian Luebben

From A $400k Career to a 240 Acre MICRO-RESORT (How To Find Your Purpose) w/ Zack Metcalf

April 8, 2026·55 min·4 clips

Zach Metcalf was fired from his $400,000-a-year pharmaceutical job and bought a 240-acre micro-resort instead.

A high-paying role disappears. The host sets up Zach Metcalf as the Action Academy member who had the money, the family, and the corporate track record, then had to choose what came after the email. The fork in the road is pretty plain: chase another job, or keep going toward the hospitality business that was already tugging at him. The numbers keep the story grounded. Zach talks through occupancy, added homes, and a first phase meant to sleep 20 people, with room to grow toward 35 to 45. This is not vague purpose talk dressed up as a business plan. It is deal talk with nerves attached. Stone Tavern Farm becomes the center of the episode because Vista Manor did not work, and that loss still mattered. The new property is in Roxbury, where the transcript says there are only two wedding venues in the area and a partner already has local presence. The property has 240 acres, a 10,000 square foot wedding barn, 100 acres of developable land, and a barn dating back to 1803. The pricing makes the room lean in: it sold seven years earlier for $2.2 million, and the group was getting it for $1.5 million inside a larger $5.5 million project. The missed Vista Manor connection does not just vanish. Those people become contractors on Stone Tavern Farm and hand over a wedding business plan, vendors, and hard-won partnership insight. That is the turn Zach wants listeners to hear. The wrong deal can still point you somewhere useful. The ending gets more personal. Zach thanks the room for doing the growth work, brings the conversation back to what their wives want, and says support and coaching are the work he feels called to do.

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A layoff story that turns into hospitality ownership, a family reset, and a lesson in alignment.

The episode follows Zach Metcalf as he walks away from a corporate career of more than 10 years and $400,000 a year after an email ends his job, leaving him with a wife and a young kid at home. What lands is not the clean exit but the slow fit of timing and persistence.

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You want the terminated-corporate-guy-to-240-acre-resort story with real money and real stakes.

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