Starting a business is not as hard as they told you.
We show working families how to start a business, run it, and grow it — until your family is no longer living at the mercy of one paycheck. We call that Economic Freedom.
The films, the textbook, and the whole method. Free. All of it.
Some freedoms are given. This one you build.
What this company is for
One purpose, held for fifty years.
Most people never try. Not because they couldn't do it — because nobody ever sat them down and explained how a business actually works. So it stays a someday idea.
Family Dream Machine exists to end that. We hand you the whole method, in plain words, for nothing. What you build with it is yours to keep. Your business. Your asset. Your family's.
- ✓Start one. Take the idea in your head and find out — fast, and cheap — whether it will hold weight.
- ✓Run it. Learn what your numbers are telling you, while it's still early enough to matter.
- ✓Grow it. Bring in customers on purpose instead of by luck.
- ✓Own your time. Build something that keeps paying you after the workday ends.
Three films. Watch them in this order.
You don't have to join to watch these. Watch first, decide after. That's the whole point.
The Welcome
The front door. Keith and Bond explain what this company is, who it's for, and — more usefully — who it is not for. Four minutes to decide honestly whether to keep walking.
Four Roads
The long one, and the one that matters most. Keith and Bond walk you down the four roads into a business of your own, and say plainly what each road asks of the person walking it.
K&B Game Theory
Forty-seven seconds of Keith and Bond on a single idea. Proof that a short doesn't have to be a trailer for something longer.
There are four roads in. Only one of them is yours.
Most people quit before they start because they think there's a single correct way to do this. There isn't. There are four, and they ask different things of you.
Buy one
Somebody already built it, already has customers, and wants out. You skip the hardest part and pay for the privilege.
Start one
From nothing, on your own terms. The most freedom and the most weight on your shoulders.
Build one on the side
Alongside the job you keep. Nights and weekends, with the paycheck still coming in. Slower, and far and away the safest road.
Work with others
Partner, join, or build inside something already moving. You trade some control for shoulders next to yours.
Watch the film before you pick. Eleven minutes now can save you two years.
You can get this done in about a week.
Not a year of paperwork. Most people start with a business plan, spend six weeks on it, and lose the idea somewhere in the middle. We go the other way around.
Answer the questions
You talk, out loud, through about sixty questions. A couple of hours. This is where the real business gets found.
Do the arithmetic
Six numbers. If they don't work, it is far better to know that now than after the money is gone.
Build the website first
A website is the cheapest complete model of a business. Build it and you can see the whole thing before you spend a dollar on anything else.
Go get the first customer
Nothing is real until somebody pays you. Everything before this step is preparation.
The marketing plan and the business plan fall out of the website. You don't write them first — you discover them.
Free means free.
No trial. No card. No countdown clock. Become a Freedom Member and this is yours to keep.
The Blueprint
The whole method written down — the sixty questions, the six numbers, the story, and the week-by-week build. Yours the day you join.
The films
Short lessons you can watch on a lunch break. Taught, never sold at.
The Winner's Circle soon
Where members trade what's working and what isn't. Opening shortly after launch.
We give away the education — and get paid for the implementation.
Everything on this page is free and stays free. When you'd rather have it built and run for you, that's what FDM Productions is for. Teaching it is how you find out whether we know our craft.
Tell us the dream. Then go build it.
We ask you for three things. Two of them take ten seconds. The third is the one that matters — write us about two hundred words on what you actually want your life to look like.
Nobody is going to read that back to you in a sales meeting. It's for you. Most people have never once written it down, and that is exactly why it stays a someday.
We are not for everybody. We are for the serious.
Sometimes the general answer isn't enough.
Everything above works for anybody. But two situations came up so often that we built a whole company around each one.
Concierge Medicine Alternative
Forty patients a day and a stopwatch that isn't yours. You trained to take care of people and got handed a production quota instead. There is a way to practice on your own terms — started from your phone, on evenings and weekends, without walking away from your income first.
See the concierge medicine road →FDM Productions
Professional firms — CPA, legal, medical, dental, engineering — that know they should be putting real video and real communication in front of their clients, and have no time to learn how. We plan it, we supervise it, and we make it.
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