Levin put together an investment group that included actor Michael Douglas, Burt Kleiner, Joe Benadon and Pete Kameron.

[1] Levin retained many of the writers he had earlier brought to the Los Angeles Free Press and hired Joie Davidow to edit the arts and entertainment section.

[3] Levin founded the start-up progressive channel, Planet Central TV, and later a website and magazine called Real Talk L.A.[4] From 1999 until 2016 Levin split his time between starting, growing or turning around media properties such as TheFix.com; and part-time on life coaching focused on teaching life mastery and helping people reorient their lives, careers and relationships without spending years in therapy.

[5] For years he also led a mastermind group of CEOs on becoming socially conscious and effective managers while helping them elevate the bottom-line performance of their businesses and grow their companies.

Based on his knowledge of the positive effects of Life skills training, Levin early in 2016 launched The Big EQ Campaign (soon after renamed as the EQuip Our Kids!