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How High School Students Can Start Building A Career Doing What They Love
WATCH READ My wife Kate Hickey (COO of Data Driven Design) and I were invited to speak to high school students at Summit High School in Spring Hill, Tennessee in Spring of 2018. We had just sold our house, our cars, and committed to move to Valencia, Spain for a year. We are now in…
Read MoreCommunity Business Feature: Corner To Corner Nashville
WATCH READ Each month at Data Driven Design, we set out to feature a company that is doing amazing things in our community. For this interview, our Digital Strategist Bailey Robbins sat down with Will Acuff, the co-founder of Corner To Corner, a non-profit that invests in lives, hurts, hopes, and dreams. They collaborate, instead…
Read MoreCommunity Business Feature: Pathway Women's Business Center
WATCH READ Each month at Data Driven Design, we set out to feature a company that is doing amazing things in our community. For our first interview, our Digital Strategist Bailey Robbins sat down with Courtenay Rogers, the newest director at Pathway Women’s Business Center in Nashville, Tennessee to talk about her role in an…
Read MoreHow To Create A Conversion Optimized Website: Designing With Data
READ I knew when I met with the folks at Nashville Design Week in July that it would be hard for me to participate in a presentation in November from my new home in Valencia, Spain (my family and I moved in August), but thankfully I have amazing teammates, including Chris Toomajanian and Tanner Boriack,…
Read MoreWhy Have I Chosen Our Company To Be Defined By Data?
READ One of my amazingly talented co-workers recently asked me a great question. He phrased it “Why have we chosen to be defined by data?” The context is that we’re preparing for an upcoming presentation called “Designing With Data” at a community event in Nashville called Nashville Design Week. The reasons we’ve chosen to be defined…
Read MoreFitness, Fear, Insecurities, Flushing Out Negativity
READ I really appreciate when you can take one part of your life and apply it to another to create positive momentum. Fitness and Business are those parallels to me. Of course, family is woven into everything, so putting it all together takes extreme focus – for me anyway. A quick story…my favorite boxing trainer…
Read MoreBuilding Your Career: How To Do What You Love
WATCH LISTEN READ Loving your work is this dreamy statement that comes across as something very easy to achieve. The reality is that “loving what you do,” is not absolute, nor is it constant. It’s ever-changing. I recently had the opportunity to talk to about 100 high school students in Spring Hill, TN with my…
Read MoreWhy I'm Heading To VoiceCon And Pumped About It
READ Ask anyone I’ve ever worked super closely with, and they’ll likely agree that I’m not one to waste time going to conferences. Conferences are usually productivity killers. Not workshops or webinars, that take 1-2 hours out of your day, but freaking conferences – that take multiple days and nights out of your week. But…
Read MoreChanging The World Through Entrepreneurship: Podcast Episode 41 with Will Acuff
WATCH LISTEN READ I know what you’re thinking – another “entrepreneurship program, huh?” How can entrepreneurship be taught in a classroom? But this isn’t at all what you’re thinking. Corner To Corner is an organization that is bringing the Nashville community together, and working to enhance already thriving “side hustles” and turn them into…
Read MoreBuilding A Virtual Workplace: WHAT?! YOU’RE MOVING TO SPAIN?!
WATCH READ WHAT? YOU’RE MOVING TO SPAIN?! This is what I expect everyone’s reaction to be, which is probably why I haven’t told many of you face-to-face yet. Let’s be honest, it’s completely knocking the needle on the record player of our typical conversation about the status of your project or business goals. It’s not…
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