READ Courage. Curiosity. Consistency. Commitment. My amazing sister graduated from college recently and I attended her commencement ceremony. In addition to it being a joyous occasion for our family and my parents, it was a great learning experience for me. Seeing what a college graduate looks like from 15 years after I graduated is pretty…
Read MoreREAD Music has always been HUGE to me. At age 6, I was introduced to Run-DMC by my cousin Pat in Philly. Done. I was hooked on hip-hop. The Raising Hell album was dubbed on a tape that I broke by listening to it 1k+ times on my Walkman. If Spotify existed back then, I…
Read MoreREAD In 2006, my beautiful wife Kate (sorry, I always refer to her that way, but she is a beautiful person, so I can’t NOT refer to her that way 🙂 said that she wanted to run a marathon. It was on her “bucket list.” I was totally out of shape – like 55+ pounds…
Read MoreREAD Man, this may seem weird to some of you, and others may totally get it, but here goes. I hate when my Nikes get dirty. Like, of course, the shoes I wear to work, but I’m also talking about my running shoes – you know, the shoes that are SUPPOSED to get dirty. This…
Read MoreWATCH 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 MoreREAD I’m starting to think that the most important skill someone can learn is how to set your mind in a specific direction (also known as “mindset.”) Mindset is not just some froofy feel good inspirational term that Instagram influencers toss around, it’s a real thing. I mean it, you can actually control the way…
Read MoreWATCH READ 15 year old me was all about making money, but like most high schoolers, I didn’t want to get a part time job at a restaurant or retail store and make minimum wage, unless my friends all worked at the same spot and it became more of a hang out than a…
Read MoreREAD I’ve waited for a few weeks to make this post. Well, I’ve procrastinated, as today is the day that my Michigan State Spartans DID NOT win the national championship. In fact, not only did that NOT happen, but their arch rival Michigan Wolverines made it to the Championship game of the NCAA Tournament, losing…
Read MoreREAD I’ll never forget this day as long as I live. I’ll never again get April Fools’d the way that it happened to me, clear as day, in 2004. I was the newly minted Director of Public Relations for the 2003 WNBA Champion Detroit Shock. Just 22 years old. Working my ass off for the…
Read MoreWATCH READ Recently, my team and I went in to a client location and met with their entire sales team, conducting a video shoot with each individual member for the purpose of extracting real humanized content that would then be edited into :30 – :90 segments for deployment on social media, primarily Facebook and…
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