Morgan Styler
CEO
With over three decades of experience and $2B+ in sales from companies he co-founded, Morgan Styler brings deep expertise in both corporate management and field sales.
A Harsh Truth About Success
Fresh out of the Peace Corps in 1990, Morgan joined a San Diego startup that became America’s fastest-growing company (INC), hitting $200M in sales in three years. He rose to the top 10 earners but saw a broken system—where the success of a few depended on the failure of many. Walking away from a lucrative income, he exposed industry flaws in a book that led to a federal investigation and a $50M fraud penalty against the company.
A New Vision for Business
Despite the experience, Morgan still believed network marketing could be done right. He built record-breaking sales teams but kept running into the same problem: compensation plans funneled wealth to the top, giving him personal wealth, but leaving the majority struggling at the bottom.
He tried the corporate angle where Morgan’s sales team turned an another MLM from losing 30,000 customers a month into a 5,000 a month gain. His salespeople were thriving—until the owner exploited a contractual loophole that eliminated their residual commissions. The move maximized profits for the owner, who sold the company for a fortune, while the salespeople lost everything. Morgan was furious. This betrayal became the catalyst for Circular Wealth’s Equity Shares—to make sure it could never happen again.
Disillusioned with “business as usual,” he lived off-grid for seven years. Slowing to nature’s rhythm, a realization took shape: nature thrives through regenerative cycles. What if a business followed the same principles?
It took two decades, but this insight began the journey that became Circular Wealth, built on three core truths:
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When in doubt, look to Nature.
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Most failures stem from bad design, not bad people.
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Our greatest renewable energy is the human spirit.
In 2005, Morgan was drawn to Hawaii, where he met Diana LaRose, a woman with a gift to draw people’s life missions. She knew nothing about him, but she drew an image with a giant sun and many interconnected circles and said, "I don’t know what this giant sun means, but your destiny is to create a new economic ecosystem based on cooperation, not competition—to decentralize power by empowering people. It will take you 15–20 years to gain the personal power to make it happen."
The Hardest Lesson
Wanting to bring this model to the world, he led massive solar sales teams, including a 30,000-person affiliate network securing $1B in contracts in 18-months and later co-founded Powur.com with $1B+ in solar installations and four years running in the INC. 500 Fastest Growing Companies.
In 2017, he was recruited as CRO at Clean.Tech. By August 2020, the company was generating $1M a day in solar sales, aiming for an IPO within a year. But Morgan had made a mistake—after realizing the company wasn’t going to implement Circular Wealth as promised, he still stayed, justifying his decision with the promise of tens of millions after the IPO so he could finally build Circular Wealth right.
On August 10, 2020, he suffered a stroke.
Sometimes, when we refuse to leave a situation misaligned with our soul, our body forces us out. While he recovered, Clean.Tech collapsed into bankruptcy. His marriage ended. His body and mind weren’t functioning.
He remembered his mother’s words:
"The most interesting people I’ve ever met have passed through the dark valley of the soul—and learned to embrace what most of us run from."
The Birth of Circular Wealth
Morgan spent the next years investing heavily in his health—discovering breakthrough solutions while also wasting money on things that didn’t work. This journey crystallized that Circular Wealth was his life’s mission.
That’s when he met Mario Brainovic. Their shared vision led to a powerful partnership:
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A global platform where solutions are vetted so consumers can trust what they buy.
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An economic model that shares wealth through regenerative cycles and expanded self-interest.
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And a Shared Equity model where affiliates are paid like owners creating the potential to make generational wealth.