A week before Christmas, twenty-five years ago, I stood barefoot in the snow and watched a fire take nearly everything I owned. What came after took the rest. But in the ashes I learned the one thing that changed everything: ashes are what you plant in. The place where it all burned down is the richest soil there is.
Every year ends the same way — a chance to close a chapter and open another. Most people let that chance pass. This year, on the 25th anniversary of the night that started my whole story, I want to spend it differently: naming what's been sitting in the ashes of this year — the dream, the idea, the version of you that got buried under the noise — and actually building on it before the new one starts.
On December 19, 2026, WOW University is hosting a free summit to help people do exactly that before 2027 begins: withstand the storm, own the story, and win with their scars as maps. I'm looking for eight speakers who've lived their own version of this — sessions are pre-recorded, so you deliver it on your own time — and we want as many people in the room (or watching live) as we can gather — so 2027 doesn't start with the same buried dream, it starts with the plan to build it.
— Obet Pabon II, host & speaker, on behalf of WOW University
Just want to be there? Save your spot — we'll email you the details as they lock in.
