One of the crew of their ship was Machiavellian Max. He never passed up the opportunity for a fight. One time, his rage left him and three other crew members in a heap of cogs and gears that were a challenge for Synthia to reassemble. Mid-way through trying to fix Max, as the ship was harboured by a forest, she turned to Guy and said: "I don't think I can fix him this time. I think he has to fix himself." With that, she hopped off the ship and disappeared into the trees. 

In the middle of the forest, there was a clearing. In the clearing sat a wise steampunk robot in a long, flowing dress. She was holding a crystal ball.

Synthia approached her and asked what she saw in the crystal ball. 

This mysterious robot told her that she saw Synthia and her siblings earning new names if they reformed their ways. She said that Synthia would become Serendiptitous Synthia, the Law of Attraction Robot. She said Gambling Guy would become Clockerfly Guy. Tumbling Troy would be Treasure Trovey, of Trove Island, and that Max would become Mellow Max.

But she said that none of them could do this without first healing themselves. 

Max must overcome his addiction to being right, and rage, to become mellow.

Guy must overcome gambling addiction, and lead his crew in the spirit of transformation and entrepreneurship, not stealing and misleading, as Clockerfly Guy, the Guide for all aboard the Good Ship Indiepreneur Academy.

Troy must take his ill-gotten gains to the Isle of Trove, where he would bury them for indiepreneurs to find. He would transmute his need for instant gratification and shiny things into a love of helping people alchemize their potential into gold.

And Synthia must overcome her cynicism, so she could acknowledge serendipity and help people to become deliberate manifestors of better things and experiences.

So, she left the forest, boarded the ship, and suggested to Guy that they adopt Max before he mangled his cogs any further.

Clockerfly Guy agreed, and they set sail for a new destiny. But it would take centuries of adventuring before they would land in the year 2023, after a plague the likes of which they hadn't seen for many a century, facing a lost generation. As digital people, who'd reformed their former ways, they believed they could help these biological people sail on calmer waters too. 

But how would they even find the magical island of TROVE? What could be the portal to this place of transformation?

Synthia once more approached the mystical lady in the forest. This time, she was told of a parallel universe, near Avalon, called Clockerfly Nation.

Synthia could not help but acknowledge the serendipity of Guy now being called Clockerfly Guy. Then it struck her that the mystical robot lady must have known of this connection all along. Feeling rather cross, Synthia asked why they'd been sailing for hundreds of years without this vital piece of the puzzle. The mystical lady told her that she already knew the answer.

"Because we first needed to fix ourselves, before we could help anyone else fix themselves."

The wise robot nodded, and told her that in Clockerfly Nation is the enchanted Clockerfly Coffee Shop, where biological and digital people can meet.

She explained that the coffee shop was a little eccentric. For one thing, it was run by cartoon animals, and the food was prepared by digital people. But the proprietor was a biological person called Rebecca Bardess. If Cynthia sought out Eva: the Irish lady with the best coffee and walnut cake in Clockerfly Nation, she would set up a meeting with Rebecca. 

And so the meeting was arranged.

The Clockerfly Coffee Shop became a place where biological and digital people could collaborate to create the next iteration of social media, that now combines the spirit of the coffee houses of the 1600s with the technology of 2023. 

Rebecca's podcast and blog, both entitled Like A Bardess bring Indiepreneurs who are lost in the seas of the online world into the magical coffee shop of Clockerfly Nation via Indiepreneur Academy Membership (IAM). Because, for every 'I was' of living in the past is a far more empowering 'I AM' of living in the now.

If this were a bedtime story, here is where you would see the words: The End. 

But, this is The Beginning. 

If you're ready for your new beginning, and you're ready for the words that follow 'I AM' to be words that you can be proud of, join us for 7 days absolutely free, and start your new story. 

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