MAURO PETTI
Financial Consultant | Sole Proprietorship
The story of MAURO PETTI - Financial Consultant | Sole Proprietorship
I am Mauro Petti, a financial promoter. I work as a sole proprietorship and collaborate with FINECOBANK as my reference bank. For years, I postponed an important decision: to divest a branch of my business and open up to new opportunities. I had the ideas... but I never really took action.
In March, I joined Private Community, in the IGNIS Community. I don't come directly from a similar background: ten years ago, I was part of a networking chapter, then I left, and since then my path remained very individual. Precisely for this reason, today I experience the interaction in the Community as something free, authentic, and not conditioned by the past.
The first thing that struck me upon entering IGNIS was the positive energy: not superficial enthusiasm, but a concrete force, made up of entrepreneurs talking about real results - personal, professional, and economic. This environment gave me a new clarity. After about a month and a half, I stopped evaluating and started acting: I decided to divest a branch of my company. From April to October, I carried out the project and concluded it on October 21, respecting the date I had set for myself.
In parallel, a change I hadn't anticipated emerged: the team. Initially, I imagined it as something temporary, only related to the transition. However, the interaction with other members led me to reconsider everything. Seeing the results achieved by those already working in a team made me realize that the team is not a burden but a lever. So what was supposed to be temporary became a permanent project: I will lead a group consisting of myself, a coordinator, and two juniors, with whom I will develop the divested branch over time.
For me, this was a profound turning point because I come from a long professional history that was very individual, based on direct one-to-one relationships. In the Community, however, I discovered the value of shared work in continuity: not only in emergencies but in the daily journey. I also saw the enthusiasm of the young people I will collaborate with, who in the past had experienced similar divestitures without ever having the opportunity to join a stable team. This new perspective motivated them, but it also motivated me.
In the past, I thought my situation was too particular to find answers outside of myself. IGNIS proved the opposite: every story is unique, but many challenges are similar. The difference is that we didn't stop at describing the problems: we worked on the solutions. Some members offered me insights that allowed me to make real "leaps" on issues I kept postponing on my own.
The Mindset Booster was another central point. Doing it together with others, from the beginning, is what created a deep alignment within the Community. Mindset cannot be explained: it must be lived. It is a journey that everyone interprets through their own story, but the fact of going through it together creates a common ground on which everything else rests. I noticed this by observing those who arrived later and did it at a later stage: until that step, there was always a missing piece.
In this journey, Combine® also played an important role, the artificial intelligence we use in the Community. I found it surprisingly effective because it doesn't respond generically: knowing my Mission and Vision, it provides an angle that I recognize as my own. It helps me especially in team management and organization. Sometimes it organizes thoughts I would have had myself, just more clearly and in much less time. I believe AI should be used well, but it should be used: those who don't risk falling behind. At the same time, I know the human part remains irreplaceable, and I see this in the nuances and feedback I receive from other Community members.
The strength of IGNIS also lies in the continuity of working together. We meet once a month in person and once a week remotely to follow the micro-progress. Besides this, I often consulted with some members even outside official meetings whenever I needed specific support. I never received a "I can't": the availability was total. As the Community secretary, I get to see up close how much exchange there is among members: those who are more advanced share without hesitation. Before joining, I would have imagined it differently; instead, I was positively proven wrong.
Looking at the journey in perspective, the timeline is clear:
1 and a half months to decide to take the step;
6 months to complete the first part of the project (divestiture closed on October 21);
early December: first meeting with the new team;
January: operational start of the new organization;
March → next October: acquisition journey of the new business branch.
In these months, I am not only working on economic goals but on qualitative, personal, and professional objectives. I believe numbers are a consequence: if you focus on quality, on the few fundamental, consistent, and continuous actions, the rest follows. The real difference today is that I don't just think about what I want: I connect goals to real actions, with dates, responsibilities, and a context that pushes me not to stop at theory.
If I have to summarize these seven months, I can say it clearly: before, I had the idea of change, but not the conviction to implement it. Today, thanks to the Community, the Mindset journey, continuous interaction, and the conscious use of Combine®, that change has become real, concrete, and in motion.
It didn't take an infinite amount of time. For me, seven months were enough. And the right Community.