Earl, 20At a glance
Who
Earl says “I turned 20, like, four weeks ago” (3:27) and speaks of “the average wage here in Kenya” (2:25). The Real World’s caption: “Earl, 20”, with a Kenyan flag.
Starting point
“I was dead broke. I was actively looking for a way to make cash because of my circumstances” (0:18). “I had to go in debt to join The Real World” (2:08).
How Earl found it
“I was watching his Fresh and Fit episode and I saw Tate, and then Tate kept talking about The Real World” (0:23).
Campus
Strategic Marketing, which Earl knew as copywriting: “like I said, I did copywriting, so I was learning this whole new skill that I’d never heard about before” (0:55).
Timeline
Joined “December 2021” (0:12); a first client “about two, three weeks in” (1:13); “around February 2022” (1:25). The video was on The Real World’s home page by 8 June 2023, about 18 months after joining.
Result (video)
“So in total, maybe about upward of $45,000” since joining (2:00), “twice, three times more than the average wage here in Kenya” (2:25), and at the peak “competing with doctors” (2:41).
Result (caption)
The Real World’s caption: “New revenue: $45,000/18 months”, and “Within 6 months of joining TRW Earl was able to generate 2-3x the salary of doctors” in Earl’s country.
The caption and Earl agree on the total, $45,000; Earl doesn’t say whether it is revenue or profit. The caption’s “18 months” isn’t said in the video but fits: December 2021 to the June 2023 home page is about 18 months. The caption’s “2-3x the salary of doctors” “within 6 months” isn’t what Earl says: Earl’s 2 to 3 times is of “the average wage here in Kenya”, and doctors come in as “competing with doctors” at “my peak”, with no six months. By 27 November 2023 The Real World had swapped this video on its home page for a second interview with Earl, with Tristan Tate interviewing and a new caption, “$4k/month” and “over $50,000 since joining”; in it Earl says “upwards of 60 grand” (2:20). That interview is later, so a higher total isn’t a contradiction; this page covers the first. The figures are Earl’s and The Real World’s own; this site hasn’t seen them.
What Earl said
7 lines from the interview, copied exactly, each with what it means in plain English. The times are where they fall in the video.
“I was dead broke. I was actively looking for a way to make cash because of my circumstances”
What it means: The starting point: no savings at all.
“I was watching his Fresh and Fit episode and I saw Tate”
What it means: How Earl heard of it: Tate “kept talking about The Real World”, and the $50 price.
“I took a loan, boom, got myself in”
What it means: Earl borrowed the $50. That was Earl’s choice in Earl’s circumstances, not a recommendation.
“I started following what they were saying step by step.”
What it means: Once Earl reached the lessons on getting clients, Earl did them in order.
“So I was a free man now, and then also paid for the second month”
What it means: A first client, “about two, three weeks in”, paid off the loan and the next month.
“So in total, maybe about upward of $45,000”
What it means: Earl’s total since joining in December 2021. Revenue or profit isn’t said.
“I’d say maybe about twice, three times more than the average wage here in Kenya.”
What it means: Earl’s own comparison: the average wage, not doctors’ salaries, as the caption has it.
What Earl did, step by step
Earl heard about it from Tate
On a Fresh and Fit episode: “Tate kept talking about The Real World”, “only $50”. Earl didn’t have $50.
In the video at 0:23
Earl borrowed the fee
“I took a loan, boom, got myself in.” A personal choice, not advice.
In the video at 0:48
Earl learned copywriting from scratch
“I was sweating for the first two weeks”, learning “this whole new skill that I’d never heard about before”.
In the video at 0:51
Earl followed the client lessons in order
After reaching “the point of the program where they actually teach you how to get clients”: “I started following what they were saying step by step.”
In the video at 1:04
Earl got a first client
“about two, three weeks in”: it paid off the loan, “and then also paid for the second month” (1:19), around February 2022.
In the video at 1:13
Earl built up to $45,000
“maybe about upward of $45,000” in total; at the peak “competing with doctors”. Now pivoting: “I scale down my clients to focus on my best clients while I pivot into something else” (2:56).
In the video at 2:00
Full transcript
Read the full interview transcript (5 minutes)
Transcribed on 26 October 2026 from the interview audio with Whisper speech recognition (run locally), then checked against a second full pass and a re-run of every part with two models: punctuation fixed, nothing added; “[unclear]” marks words the passes don’t agree on. At 1:15 every reading hears “I learned my first client” (probably “landed”), and at 1:23 the university name is garbled (probably Hustlers University, The Real World’s earlier name); both are marked [unclear]. At 1:40 the client’s name is written as every reading hears it, “Justin Wallace”, and “Andrew Tate” is heard run together (“Antutate”); this site hasn’t checked who the client is. At 3:24 the interviewer’s question is unclear; Earl answers with an age. Speaker labels are ours. The interviewer is from The Real World. The $50 mentioned was the price at the time; today it is $99 a month on the official checkout.
0:00 Earl: So I've been in The Real World for a long time. I'm one of the OGs, sub-5K. Right now there are like over 200,000 people in The Real World, but yeah, I've been there for a while. So joined in 2021 of December, December 2021. And yeah, I was dead broke. I was actively looking for a way to make cash because of my circumstances, and I really needed money. So I was watching his Fresh and Fit episode and I saw Tate, and then Tate kept talking about The Real World, The Real World, The Real World, and he said it's only $50. But what Tate [unclear] understand was I didn't have $50. I was [unclear] broke. So I said, okay, I'm going to take the risk, because I've been watching Tate for a long time. I said, okay, bet. I went, I took a loan, boom, got myself in, and I was sweating for the first two weeks in The Real World [unclear], because, like I said, I did copywriting, so I was learning this whole new skill that I'd never heard about before.
1:01 Earl: So I'm like, how to do this, this, this, that. And then I finally reached the point of the program where they actually teach you how to get clients, and I started implementing. I started following what they were saying step by step. And eventually, I think about two, three weeks in, I [unclear] my first client that helped me pay off the loan. So I was a free man now, and then also paid for the second month of [unclear] University. So at this time, it's around February 2022.
1:30 Earl: And one of my biggest wins to date happened, not even because of the amount of money I got from that day, but because of who I was able to work with. So around February of [unclear], I actually started working with Justin Wallace, as many of you guys know him, close friend of Andrew Tate. And it's through the skill of copywriting that I learned in The Real World that gave me that opportunity.
1:54 Interviewer: Would you be comfortable revealing roughly the total amount of income you've made since joining?
2:00 Earl: So in total, maybe about upward of $45,000 in total, [unclear]. Basically, I went from negative net worth, because I joined The Real World when I was in debt, because I had to go in debt to join The Real World. So I was negative net worth, negative $50. And now I'm way above that, I could say, because like I said, I'm making more than that. I'd say maybe about twice, three times more than the average wage here in Kenya. And I'd even say specifically Nairobi, because Nairobi is a capital city of Kenya. So my college professors, my high school teachers, I'm competing with doctors. Yeah, my income is competing with doctors [unclear] spent eight plus years, 10 plus years in school. Like, that's how my income is competing. When I was at my peak. At this point, I'm pivoting, so I scale down my clients to focus on my best clients while I pivot into something else. But my peak, that's what I was competing with.
3:05 Earl: Yeah, and I'm just a kid in high school. Of course, a very intelligent kid who decided to think out of the box. But at the end of the day, I'm just like, I was, I'm just a guy who just came out of high school a few years ago, and I'm competing with the income of doctors. So that's [unclear] The Real World.
3:24 Interviewer: And how [unclear], for perspective?
3:27 Earl: So I turned 20, like, four weeks ago, a month ago. The good thing about The Real World is that there are multiple good things. You can start with the course material. First of all, it's step by step, you're spoon-fed. When you look at a lot of free resources, it's more of like general knowledge. They don't really give you the actionable steps you can implement. So that's the good thing about The Real World: they give you step by step. The second thing is the community. When you're learning a new skill, when you're getting yourself involved in a new income stream, it's very easy to get discouraged when things don't go well. So when you have guys in The Real World, you have this community of people who are doing the exact same thing as you, and they have the wins channel. That's what pushes you. It's hard to get discouraged because you have other people winning, and then they walk you step by step with the course materials.
4:18 Earl: $50 does not mean as much to you as it meant to me when I was joining, yeah, because I was dead broke. I went to debt to join this. And you, basically, I know most of you, also some of you are in first world countries, maybe some of you, you know, in a third world country like me. You have that money, yeah, but you want to go spend it on a night out, so you're unsure, will I really make money or not. If you're unsure, if your uncertainty is coming from a position of like, I don't really have the money, so I'm not sure if this is the right place to put my money, it's a bit understandable. Trust me, I took the risk. You should take it too.
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Follow the client lessons step by step
Earl: “I started following what they were saying step by step” (1:10), and had a first client about two or three weeks in. Earl’s view of the lessons: “it’s step by step, you’re spoon-fed” (3:37).
What support is like
- #newb-chat. START-HERE sends every question there. The Real World publishes no response-time promise.
- The community and the wins. Earl: “you have this community of people who are doing the exact same thing as you, and they have the wins channel. That’s what pushes you” (4:05). That is Earl’s account.
- Live calls. The Morning Power Up Call runs in #power-up-live; a post in #daily-schedule asks members to turn on livestream notifications for the campus’s pop-up calls.
- The Dojo. A channel group with #daily-dojo-puzzle, #the-dojo-hq (the Dojo Drill of the Day) and #the-dojo.
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Real wins and reviews
No posts from the Strategic Marketing campus’s own #wins channel have been captured for this site yet, so these are other members’ wins from across The Real World, with names and avatars blurred (any that show this campus come first). Tap any screenshot to see it full size. They are individual results, not typical ones, and not a promise: The Real World doesn’t publish average member earnings.
What members said on Trustpilot
Trustpilot has since removed The Real World’s profiles. These excerpts come from archived copies of those pages, read on 25 October 2026, with the reviewer’s first name, country and date as shown; “Invited” is Trustpilot’s label for reviews that came through a business link. The jointherealworld.com.de profile was not run by The Real World; reviewers used it anyway. They are reviews of The Real World as a whole, not of one campus, and other people’s words, not this site’s findings.
“The biggest thing for me, besides the lessons and the professors, is the community. You have a problem, ask a question in chat, fixed in 5 minutes.”
“after a month, I informed them that their services were not suitable for me. Despite my clear communication, they attempted to withdraw a significant amount of money from my credit card for an additional two months.”
The Real World replied: “turn off auto-renew before your next billing date.”
“Most the informaton you could find for free online in other places but you'll spend more time trying to find a simple step by step guide then using this platform.”
“Despite paying $49 per month (around $300 total), I didn't make any money or gain valuable insights. Much of the content was outdated and U.S.-focused”
“the campuses are also perfect if you are completely new to these methods of wealth creation but it'll take you some time before you see results.”
“The courses themselves are okay, but they're difficult to apply, and getting real clients is even harder. Overall, I don't think this works.”
For the record, the scores on 27 February 2025: the profile at trwstudent.com showed 2.9 from 23 reviews, and therealworldeducation.com showed 4.4 from 82, most of them invited through a business link over two days. Both profiles have since been removed.
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It may suit you if
- You will follow the lessons in order. Earl “started following what they were saying step by step”.
- You can put in hard early weeks. Earl was “sweating for the first two weeks” learning a new skill.
- You have no starting capital and a few hours a day. The Real World lists Strategic Marketing among the campuses that “sell a skill instead of a product”.
- Other people’s wins keep you going. Earl: the wins channel is “what pushes you”.
It may not suit you if
- You would borrow money you can’t afford to lose to join. Earl did and it worked out for Earl; that is one person’s story, not advice.
- You are shy or timid. In the experience of the member behind this site, selling your writing means talking to clients.
- You can only give it the odd hour. The official courses page says “the checklist expects a few focused hours per day” and that “Members who treat it as a side interest see little.”
- You need a guaranteed return. The Real World’s Terms of Use say it doesn’t guarantee any financial outcome, and Earl’s figures are Earl’s own.
Earl’s numbers are one student’s account, given in an interview The Real World chose to publish. For more on who it suits and how long it took to feel confident, see the Strategic Marketing campus review, from a member who took the campus when it was still Copywriting, in the Hustlers University days.
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Sources
- The Real World: Earl’s student interview video (Cloudflare Stream) — transcribed October 26, 2026
- jointherealworld.com home page with the interview and its caption (Wayback Machine, June 8, 2023)
- The Real World: Earl’s second interview (Cloudflare Stream; 2:20 checked) — checked October 26, 2026
- jointherealworld.com home page with the second interview and its caption (Wayback Machine, November 27, 2023)
- Inside The Real World app: the Strategic Marketing campus Learning Center, START-HERE and #daily-schedule (screenshots from the owner’s member account) — captured October 26, 2026
- The Real World: Strategic Marketing campus page (formerly Copywriting) — checked September 12, 2026
- The Real World: courses page (the campus list, where to start, time per day) — checked September 12, 2026
- The Real World Terms of Use (no guaranteed outcome) — checked September 14, 2026
- Trustpilot reviews of trwstudent.com, archived February 27, 2025 (Wayback Machine) — read October 25, 2026
- Trustpilot reviews of therealworldeducation.com, archived February 27, 2025, pages 1 and 2 (Wayback Machine) — read October 25, 2026
- Trustpilot reviews of www.cobratate.com, archived December 28, 2022 (Wayback Machine) — read October 25, 2026
- Trustpilot reviews of jointherealworld.com.de (not run by The Real World), archived February 27, 2026 (Wayback Machine) — read October 25, 2026