00-06THE DAMAGE WINDOW
Stop the bleeding
The mouth, the phone, the delete key. More careers end in hour three than in month six. You leave with the one sentence that buys you time with anybody asking questions.
- case file, opened 2:47 am -
Case 0072 · Open
The Rock Bottom Doc · Jack Manzella, DO
Confidential
2:47AM
You're in trouble, and for the first time in your life you don't know the next move
The First 72 Hours
A 90-minute live workshop on exactly what to do - and exactly what never to do - in the three days after everything comes apart.
Wed Sept 30
8:00 PM Eastern
90 minutes
25 seats
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Why this workshop exists
It's Not the Mistake That Destroys You. It's What You Do Next.
Something happened. Maybe one bad decision. Maybe a hundred, and one of them finally surfaced.
The affair. The arrest. The complaint. The audit. The bottle. The message you should never have sent. Whatever it was, the phone rang.
Most men survive the thing itself. What they do not survive is the seventy-two hours after it.
Because in those three days you will do what competent men do in a crisis. You will handle it. You will manage it. You will quietly decide what people need to know.
And you will turn a survivable problem into an unsurvivable one.
Take a Seat - $297
Cameras off. No attendee list. Register under any name you like.
No one will know you were in the room.
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What we cover
Ninety Minutes. Three Days. In Order.
We do not talk about your feelings and we do not talk about your case. We walk the clock - hour by hour - and you write down what you are going to do.
06-24THE TEAM
Get the right people in the room
Which lawyer. Which doctor. Which one man gets the whole truth. And who you must not call, no matter how badly you want to.
24-72THE CONVERSATIONS
Hold the line
Your wife. Your children. Your partners. Your board. What to say, when, and the thing you will desperately want to say that costs you everything. We write the script in the room.
72+NOT COVERED HERE
The rebuild
Faith. Family. Fitness. Finances. Future. That road is ninety days, not ninety minutes, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. We will talk about where it starts. That is all.
Property receipt
What you leave with
- exhibit AThe First 72 Hours checklist. Ten things to do, ten things never to do - printed, marked up, in your hand.
- exhibit BYour Do-Not-Do list. The specific things you were going to do this week. We take them off the table.
- exhibit CA script for the conversation you are dreading. Written by you, in the room, before you leave it.
- exhibit DFour calls, in order. Exactly who you are phoning tomorrow morning, and exactly what you are going to say.
- exhibit EThe recording, for thirty days. You will not be in it. Only I will.
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Before you register
This Is Not for Everyone
I would rather turn you away than take your money for the wrong thing. Read both columns honestly. If you are on the right, do not register - write to me instead, and I will help you find the room you actually need.
Match
This is for you if
- You are a physician, attorney, executive, officer, business owner, clergyman, or public official - and your professional life is what is at stake.
- Something has surfaced in the last few weeks, or is about to.
- You have been handed the phone call, the letter, the complaint, or the look on your wife's face.
- You are competent at everything except this, and it is humiliating.
- You want a plan, not absolution.
Refer out
This is not for you if
- You are thinking about ending your life. Call or text 988. Come back to me afterward - I will be here.
- You are in withdrawal or drinking at a level that needs medical detox. That is an emergency department, not a webinar.
- You need legal advice. I am not a lawyer and I will not pretend to be one.
- You want me to tell you it was not your fault.
- You are looking for someone to help you keep it hidden. That is the disease. I sell the cure.
licensing complaint
family disclosure
financial exposure
criminal matter
board inquiry
relapse
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Plainly
What This Is Not
Read this before you give me a dollar.
- I am a physician. I am not your physician. This is not medical care, treatment, or a diagnosis, and attending does not make you my patient.
- I am not your attorney. Nothing here is legal advice. Get a lawyer - that is literally lesson two.
- Nothing you say to me is privileged. If you are under investigation, ask your attorney what you should and should not say to anyone, including me. Follow his advice, not mine.
- This is not therapy, and it is not a substitute for it.
- If you tell me you intend to harm yourself or someone else, I will act on it. You should know that before you open your mouth.
Most people in this business bury that in a footer. I put it in the middle of the page, because a man in your position has been lied to enough - and because if you cannot trust me with the small print, you should not trust me with the rest of it.
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Who is teaching
Jack Manzella, DO - The Rock Bottom Doc
I am a physician - board-certified in internal medicine and pediatrics. I built practices and I sold them. I got to the top of the thing I set out to do.
Then I made a bad decision. And then I made a far worse one covering up the first.
I am not going to tell you the whole story on a sales page. It is not a story that should be free, and it is not one you need yet. Here is the part that matters to you tonight:
I did nearly every one of the twenty things on that checklist wrong. Not because I was stupid - because I was capable, and capable men manage things. It cost me years I am not getting back.
Everything in this workshop I learned the expensive way. You do not have to.
Jack Manzella, DOThe Rock Bottom Doc
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The questions you are actually asking
Straight Answers
Q.Will anyone know I was there?
A.
No. Cameras are off. The attendee list is hidden - you will not see the other men and they will not see you. Register under any name you like; the only thing that has to be real is an email address I can send the link to. I do not sell it, share it, or publish it, and I do not tell anybody who came.
Q.My lawyer told me not to talk to anyone.
A.
Good. Listen to him. Ask him about this before you register, and if he says no, do not come - there will be another one. But understand what this is: I never ask what you did. I do not want to know. Nobody is required to speak. You can sit in the dark with your camera off, your microphone off, and your mouth shut, and still leave with everything you came for.
Q.Is it recorded?
A.
I record my half. You are never on it. Every man who registers gets the recording for thirty days, whether or not he shows up live - because some of you will not be able to be at a computer at eight o'clock on a Wednesday, and I know exactly why.
Q.Do I have to say anything?
A.
Not a word. There is a text box you can type into anonymously if you want a question answered. Most men use it. Most men never speak.
Q.What is the difference between the workshop, the Bridge, and the Rebuild?
A.
The workshop is the first ninety minutes - triage. The Bridge is thirty days of structure after that, for the part where the adrenaline wears off and the real decisions start. The Rebuild is the full ninety days - faith, family, fitness, finances, future - the road I mention in the workshop and do not have time to walk with you there. Each one includes what came before it.
Q.What if the cost is money I do not have right now?
A.
Then write to me: [email protected]. Tell me the truth about your situation. If the cost is the only thing standing between you and this, I will find a way to put you in it. That offer is real, and I would rather you take it than sit alone on Wednesday night.
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Intake · Take a seat
Start Where You Actually Are
Every file starts the same way. What happens after hour ninety is up to you.
Level 1 · Stabilize
The First 72 Hours™
Live workshop · 90 minutes
The triage session. What to do — and never do — in the three days after everything comes apart.
$297
- Live, 90-minute workshop
- The Crisis Checklist and Do-Not-Do list
- The sentence that buys time — live only
- Never recorded, attendance never shared
25 seats total, live, quarterly
Not ready to enroll in anything.
Understood. Take the checklist instead - the ten things to do and the ten things never to do, free, no call, no follow-up you did not ask for. Read it tonight. All three doors above will still be open if you want one of them.
If you are thinking about ending your life
Stop reading this page and make the call. 988 - call or text, any hour, anywhere in the United States.
If you are a physician: the Physician Support Line, 1-888-409-0141. Free. Confidential. Volunteer psychiatrists, seven days a week, 8 a.m. to midnight Eastern. No appointment. They will not report you. They are colleagues.
If you cannot keep yourself safe tonight, go to the nearest emergency department. Tonight - not tomorrow.
You will be astonished, when this is over, at how much life was still left. I was. Stay long enough to find out.
