ENTREPREGANDA | Season 1, Episode 54

"Game Plan 2026" | The Maintenance

🎯 2026 starts NOW. Reconnect. Rebuild. Maintain. Your legacy depends on what you preserve, not just what you create.

Host Michael Stewart-Isaacs delivers an urgent, relationship-focused episode on strategic reconnection, the power of faith (Imani), and why maintenance—not momentum—determines whether your empire lasts or crumbles.

In this episode, we maintain:

Rental Income Friday: The 7 Day Game Plan Advances
Day five—where assets generate recurring revenue. Michael reveals: Rental income requires maintenance. Properties, relationships, systems—they all decay without care. 2026 is the year you stop building new and start maintaining what matters.

Game Plan 2026: Reconnecting with 250+ Contacts:
Michael shares his New Year's Day strategy: Reconnecting with over 250 people via text—contacts from 2 years of conferences and business engagements.

Why this matters: Most entrepreneurs collect contacts but never cultivate relationships. Michael's goal: Transform surface connections into deep, progressive, contextual relationships that generate partnership, collaboration, and opportunity.

Your move: Who are YOU reconnecting with in 2026?

Kwanzaa Day 7: Imani (Faith):
Michael honors the final Kwanzaa principle—Imani (Faith): Believing in our people, our leaders, our teachers, and the righteousness of our struggle. The seven principles guide us toward unity, self-determination, and collective power—values that fuel justice daily.

Faith isn't passive hope. It's active maintenance of belief when everything tests you.

Headlines: Massive Investments, Gaming AI & Retail Bankruptcy

SoftBank Fully Funds $40B Investment in OpenAI:
$22-22.5B sent last week. Michael analyzes: When titans bet billions, they're not gambling—they're maintaining dominance. This isn't speculation; it's strategic maintenance of AI leadership.

NVIDIA Releases NitroGen—Gaming AI Trained on 40,000 Hours:
An open-source foundation model for gaming agents, trained on YouTube/Twitch gameplay with controller overlays. Michael reveals: NVIDIA is maintaining its ecosystem by empowering developers. Smart companies maintain by giving, not hoarding.

Saks Global Names New CEO Amid Bankruptcy Reports:
Richard Baker returns as CEO as Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, and Bergdorf Goodman face Chapter 11. Michael breaks it down: Luxury retail failed to maintain relevance. When you stop maintaining customer relationships and operational excellence, even billion-dollar brands collapse.

The Maintenance:
Michael delivers the episode's core truth:

"Why Excellence Matters More Than You Think":
Whether relationships or physical property, maintenance is the most important ingredient for longevity.

Entrepreneurs fail because they:

• Build empires but don't maintain systems
• Sign deals but don't maintain relationships
• Launch products but don't maintain quality
• Earn wealth but don't maintain health

2026 Game Plan: Maintain your health AND your wealth. Preserve your hard-driven work. Build a legacy based on your last name and productivity—but only if you maintain it.

Reconnect strategically. Maintain relentlessly. Build with faith.

🚀 This episode will transform how you approach 2026. Your empire needs maintenance NOW.

ChiMax | I AM BRILLIANT