Leaving It All On The Table

Leaving It All On The Table

I’ll be transparent with you – from about the end of 2021 to mid-2023, I dealt with pretty intense burnout.  Because of that, I did the work I needed to do to sustain my businesses, and even launched EditorNinja around the end of 2021, but I struggled to do even that. I survived the weeks. […]

My 2023 Recap

My 2023 Recap

What a year, y’all. This is my 2023 recap and is meant to chronicle the big things that happened, both good and bad. I’m going to break it down across work, personal, health, personal development, and travel. Work 2023 brought a big change for me. I shifted my focus from Credo, the business I started […]

Maybe You Need To Do…More?

Maybe You Need To Do…More?

I talk to a lot of business owners and in-house marketers. A common trope I hear is that they’re testing different marketing things, but they’re not sure which ones work. I have a theory that I’ve developed over time, as to why they’re not seeing more success. My friend, Peep Laja from Wynter and CXL, […]

The Bar Is (Hilariously) Low

The Bar Is (Hilariously) Low

Want to know how to succeed in business? Do the work that others are not willing to do, or simply just are not doing. My wife and I own a couple of properties. As such, we have different contractors for different things: Plumbing/Septic Electrical Lawn mowing Fence building Cleaning once per month Plumbing/Septic At our […]

3 Frameworks That Changed My Life

3 Frameworks That Changed My Life

Those of you who know me, know that I’m all about personal development. I work hard to improve myself, for my own good but also for the good of others. By working on myself, I’m a better husband, father, boss, friend, son, brother. In the last few years, starting with the pandemic where I wasn’t […]

“What if this was easy?”

“What if this was easy?”

I often get caught in the trap of thinking that anything worth doing “should” be hard. It’s a perfectionist tendency that I’m trying to unlearn. Because of this tendency, I am prone to over-complicating things. I feel like I need to add a lot of steps to a process or features to a product before […]

Unlimited resources

Unlimited resources

I recently listened to a great podcast episode from Brene Brown, that was published in September 2020, titled “Stretching and Chasing”. In that episode, expert Dr. Scott Sonenshein talks about two concepts that help explain a range of things in life and business. The two concepts are: Stretching – where you are being scrappy and […]

The slow lane – purposefully

The slow lane – purposefully

I do a lot of highway driving up and back from the mountains between our house in Denver and our house in the mountains where we spend most weekends and are spending summer 2022 as we try to slow down from the fast pace of city life. If you’ve ever been to Colorado and gone […]