Posts Tagged ‘Spain’
Updates From Spain: Episode 2 – Living and Working In Quarantine
WATCH LISTEN READ Another Message From Spain The unthinkable and unimaginable has happened all at once. As much as I love working from home and holing myself up in my office to get a ton of work ton each day, being quarantined with my family home from school is a whole other story! In all…
Read MoreUpdates From Spain: Episode 1
WATCH LISTEN READ A Message From Spain I just wanted to thank everyone who has reached out to me to check in on how my family and I are doing in Spain. Right now we feel safe, healthy and prepared for the next 2-4 weeks. We are in support of the Spanish government’s decision to…
Read MoreHow I'm Building A Successful Remote Workplace
WATCH LISTEN READ I recently asked my good friend QuHarrison Terry, head of growth marketing at Mark Cuban Companies, and co-founder of the amazing content creation company Inevitable/Human, what he thought I could do to improve my overall content strategy. Being familiar with my love for being a practitioner in the technology space, and teaching…
Read MoreClearly You Love What You're Doing. Otherwise, Well…You Wouldn't Be Doing It, Right?
WATCH READ Real talk, I’ve been working really hard since I was about 15 years old. That’s when I first realized I could make money as a turntableist / (DJ), spinning records. Yep, spinning hip-hop records at parties. I invested in my own set-up, as a high school junior, I bought turntables, a mixer,…
Read MoreHappy Anniversary Jones! 13 Years Ago Today!
READ I believe in “the journey,” “the process,” in really truly working hard to build something special, and that the daily grind of that process should be what you fall in love with, NOT some “end result” or “big payoff” or “greater thing.” The greatest thing is right in front of you, all the time.…
Read MoreTo Valencia, Spain From Nashville: When You Don't Need Much, There's Always Room For More
READ About a year ago I started realizing I didn’t need “that much.” My family, my laptop. My phone. A pair of socks and running shoes. That’s pretty much it. The family for the people I love. The phone to keep in touch with the rest of the people I love, and the laptop to…
Read MoreLeadership Lessons: Let Others Lead
READ I thought I was a leader earlier in my career. But it wasn’t until I realized I was failing by trying to do everything myself that I actually started to become one. I realized I was being the opposite of a leader. Later, by necessity, I had to learn to let others lead. Whether…
Read MoreService Businesses Must Have The Patience Of Soccer (Futbol) Players
READ As you may know by now, I’m a HUGE Sports Fan. And from “growing up in the Sports Business,” I constantly equate Sports with Business. There are just so many similarities that the analogies are endless. Case in point, I’ve NEVER been a huge soccer / futbol fan. But since my family and I…
Read MoreHaving Patience With The Process
READ Patience With The Process. I’m on a flight to my new home, Valencia, Spain. I was just explaining to my 8-year old son Max the concept behind the phrase “hurry up and wait.” I think the first time I heard this phrase was around 2011 when I really started working in the “digital agency…
Read MoreMy New Love For Nature
READ Recently I was asked in an interview what my favorite trip was as a kid. I was going into 5th or 6th grade and my parents took me on an awesome road trip from our home in Michigan to Philadelphia, New York City and Boston, as well as Upstate New York, Vermont, New Hampshire…
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