High-ticket marketing machine with zero empathy, generic advice, and severe lack of support
I joined Contrarian Community in September 2025 and Growth Boardroom in January 2026. Despite my full commitment and hard work, this high-ticket program has proven to be a costly failure due to systemic operational flaws and a total lack of expert execution support. As a professional digital marketer, I quickly identified that the marketing portion of this curriculum consists of generic, surface-level advice. It offers no advanced strategy or real expertise. The operational reality of the program includes: 1. Repetitive Advisory & Low Cadence: The advisory support is severely lacking. My first advisor merely repeated my own directions back to me. After escalating, my second advisor tended to extract strategies directly from me; when asked what had worked in the past, I mentioned interviews, and his subsequent advice was simply telling me to go do interviews. Furthermore, contact was restricted to just one call per month, which is entirely inadequate for a program of this price point. 2. Lack of Tangible Execution Support: The program's leadership attempts to take credit for outcomes achieved entirely independently. I secured and delivered my own webinars, and wrote and launched my own book. When explicitly asking the team for concrete network introductions for the launch, the only response was an offer to review plans I had already completed. No actual introductions, leverage, or amplification followed. 3. Complete Lack of Executive Accountability: When I reached out directly to the founder, Codie Sanchez, via Slack to honestly explain that I was generating zero revenue, that the program did not fit a pre-revenue founder, and that my financing routes were legally closed due to my Green Card status, she completely ignored my message and never replied. 4. A Pattern of Backward Situations: Throughout my months in the program, everything ran backwards. When I asked for loan options compatible with a Green Card status, I got radio silence. The only thing that finally triggered a response was my refund request, to which they replied by approving me for an SBA loan—the exact financing route I had just explained was legally closed to me. Similarly, other teams promised to follow up with alternative state information and never did. 5. Zero Empathy and Pure Money Hunger: As an expat and foreigner whose English is my second language, I did not fully comprehend the predatory depth of the commitment I was signing into. I am a single mother in NYC, running a pre-revenue business, who invested heavily because I needed this to work. Instead of addressing their own service gaps or showing an ounce of human decency, the Growth Director (Mr. Hooper) ignored every single practical and personal point, simply hiding behind automated contract clauses (Sections 6.1, 7.2, 5.4, 5.7). After 7 months of being left to work substantially alone, the return on investment here is zero. Look past the polished marketing, the high-profile branding, and the fake community care. When you look under the hood, they are just running a corporate, money-hungry machine where human situations do not matter and operational support is non-existent. - UPDATE (Aug 26, 2026): Following my review, a program ambassador retaliated the next day with a malicious 1-star review on my Amazon book, admitting we share this group. He falsely accused me of plagiarism, which is absurd: my book advises business SELLERS, while their program focuses on BUYERS. He exploited a free copy I shared on Slack as a value contribution, where he previously left hostile critiques. This personal retaliation and conflict of interest was reported to Amazon. This money-focused model is a pattern. In May, a primary banking partner emailed me they were pushed out for ethically refusing to force referral commissions and inflate interest rates for clients. They were replaced by a broker willing to increase borrowing costs to pay the organization's margins. While I was systematically ghosted when needing support, they clearly have time for retaliation, deliver harsh critiques, and replace ethical partners to maximize margins. Proceed with caution.