Not a résumé. A real path — with turns, mistakes and conclusions.
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Chapter 01
The Beginning
«Israel. Army. Character.»
My youth was spent in Israel. Three years of military service — not behind a desk...
My youth was spent in Israel. Three years of military service in a selective unit — it wasn't romance, it was a school of will. In parallel — books, seminars, real conversations with people who had already built what I was only striving for. That's when I understood one thing that defined everything that followed: systems thinking is not a skill you can learn. It's a character trait forged through choices.
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Chapter 02
The Search
«Amway. Startups. Forbes. And an honest question.»
For several years I built a business in Amway. Learning to build teams, understand people...
For several years I built a business in Amway — learning to build teams, understand people, handle rejection. Then I moved into startups: services in dentistry, social networks, different countries, different markets. I was involved in leading a charitable foundation — in one year our team built a community of 1,000 people across 5 countries and 23 cities. I appeared in a series about new-wave entrepreneurs, worked with the Forbes Russia production team. Through all of this, one question kept nagging me: where is the business that doesn't force you to choose between money and life?
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Chapter 03
The Return
«10 years without network marketing. Until the right one appeared.»
For almost 10 years I didn't seriously consider network marketing. Not because I didn't believe in the model...
For almost 10 years I didn't seriously consider network marketing. Not because I didn't believe in the model — but because I couldn't find a project that matched the life I wanted to live. Until this one appeared. Travel is the only niche where the client already wants to be a client. Where you don't need to convince — you just need to open a door. I'm married, I have three daughters and a dog. And I want my family to live not in vacation-waiting mode, but in constant motion. This is not about money. It's about what an ordinary Tuesday looks like.
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Chapter 04
Now
«Not a team. A community of people with a shared direction.»
I'm not building a structure in a spreadsheet. I'm building an environment — multilingual, alive...
I'm not building a structure in a spreadsheet. I'm building an environment — multilingual, alive, where people from different countries are united not by obligations but by a shared direction: travel, grow, create together. For the past year and a half I've been deep in artificial intelligence — studying, implementing, creating courses, teaching people. Now I'm passing this experience on to the team. Not because it's a "bonus". But because a modern tool in the hands of someone with the right direction is a lever. If reading this you feel something like recognition — that's not a coincidence.
— Listen
WHY THIS BUSINESS
No script, no pitch. Just honest answers to the questions I get asked most — why travel, why now, why me.
Why I chose this business
Roman Smolkov · Podcast
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— Three sides of the system
HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS
These aren't three separate businesses. They're three facets of one approach — to life, to income, and to the people around you.
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Business
ALTERNATIVE TRAVEL
Travel is the only $12 trillion market where the desire to be a client is built into human nature. We don't sell vacations. We open access to a lifestyle people already want — but don't know how to make systematic.
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Community
SAMURAI IN MOTION
Samurai Way is not a structure or a list of partners. It's an environment where everyone grows. Here I'm not a mentor on a pedestal — I'm the same participant in the process, developing alongside the team. Real conversations, shared direction, practical tools.
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Tool
AI AS LEVERAGE
A year and a half deep in neural networks — not as a hobby, but as a working tool. I pass this experience on to the team. Because someone who knows how to work with AI today will do in one hour tomorrow what others spend a week on.
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BUSINESS PLAN 2026: HOW TO EARN IN ALTERNATIVE TRAVEL
I put together everything I usually explain in the first conversation. No fluff, no sales pitch — just structure and specifics.
Why network marketing?
How the income model works and what it consists of
