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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In my day to day, I do a lot of hiring and selling. Professionally, I have two companies – Credo and EditorNinja – that are both growing and I’m building out the teams. In just the last 3 months I have hired a content person, a designer, 4 editors, a developer, and various other contractors. […]
I’ve run productized service businesses for the last six and a half years. In that time, my businesses have made over two million dollars in revenue without doing custom work. While there are productized service businesses out there that make that number in just a few weeks or months, I’m pretty damn proud of it. […]
One of the biggest challenges digital entrepreneurs face when building products meant to solve a problem and make them money is over-building. “I built this course that solves X problem but if you sign up NOW you get these 30 other things that I’ve also created that are $Y,YYY value and they’re not really related […]