Hi, I'm Tim. This Page Is Supposed To Be About Me.
I'll spare you the version where I stand with my arms crossed in front of a rented Lamborghini.
And I'll skip the part where I write about myself in the third person like I have a publicist. ("Tim Erway is a visionary..." No. Tim Erway is a guy with a laptop and a dog.)
Because you're not really here to learn about me. You're here to figure out one thing: whether I can help you build a business that pays you well without eating your life.
So let's answer that first.
Then I'll tell you about the dog.
Fair Warning: I'm Not For Everyone.
If you're looking for a get-rich-quick angle on AI, I can't help you. The tools are new. The math isn't. Building a real business still takes real work... the AI just means you don't need to hire a small village to do it.
If your plan is to wait out this whole AI thing until it blows over, I'm not going to talk you out of your nap. But you'd be sleeping through the biggest shift in business leverage since the internet itself, and the experts who move first are going to be very hard to catch.
And if you don't actually have expertise... something real that genuinely helps people... no system I teach will fix that. Systems multiply what's already there. Multiplying zero is still zero.
But if you're an author, speaker, consultant, coach, or course creator with real knowledge and not enough hours... someone who'd rather build leverage than manage headcount... you're exactly who I do this for.
The Short Version Of A Long Story
I grew up in government-subsidized housing. Dropped out of high school. Then dropped out of the school for kids who drop out of high school. (Consistency matters.)
Got my GED, talked the Coast Guard into taking me with a waiver, and something finally clicked. Drug busts, search and rescue, and eventually a firefighter job in Kodiak, Alaska.
Then I found marketing. Turns out the kid who couldn't finish high school was pretty good at it.
24 years later, that's added up to multiple 7-figure companies and over $100 million in sales. It also added up to big teams, big payroll, big stress... and one stretch where I went four months without paying myself so I could pay everyone else.
So when AI agents got good enough to actually run parts of a business, I didn't spend a year debating it on LinkedIn. I rebuilt everything. Today I run three businesses with a team that's mostly AI agents.
I'll never build the old way again. And I spend most of my working hours helping other experts skip the expensive version of this lesson.
The Rest Of The Resume
Outside the AI nerdery and an unhealthy marketing obsession, my main passion is martial arts. Aikido and Japanese Jujitsu for most of my life, and these days mostly Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
I'm a mediocre purple belt. I get smashed by people half my age on a regular basis, and I genuinely love it. (There's a business lesson in voluntarily getting your ass kicked every week. I'll write about it someday.)
I have four grown kids, and I recently became a grandpa... which is bizarre, and nobody is more confused about it than me.
My wife Reba is amazing, mostly because she tolerates my shenanigans. This is not a small job.
And the actual celebrity of the family is Bailey The Brewery Dog, who has her own Instagram and is objectively cooler than I am. Don't take my word for it... she has followers.
What I Actually Believe
I've always believed the highest calling of a human being is creating.
Artists answer it with paint. Musicians with sound. Writers with story.
Entrepreneurs answer it with ideas. We build solutions to real problems and make people's lives better... and we get paid exactly to the degree that we do.
It takes uncommon courage. You break from the status quo, take risks most people won't, and get knocked down more often than anyone admits in their highlight reel. Every entrepreneur I respect has had at least one foot hanging over the precipice.
We keep going anyway. We're willing to do what most people won't, so we can live the way most people can't.
Create. Serve. Matter.
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