This month, I had a business trip (on a real plane and everything) for the first time in 15 months. Before the pandemic, I was on the road more than 50% of the time and the process was second nature – packing, check-in, security, flight, rental car, hotel, meeting, and back again. #Flightmares aside, everything […]

They say April showers bring May flowers, which is really just a fancy way of saying that in order to get to something good, you often have to endure some challenges along the way. I’ve been thinking a lot about growth recently. Being the founder of a small business, I sometimes get caught up in […]

Growing up in the Midwest meant long and cold winters, thick layers of clothing, and endless board (bored?) games. But the first moment that temperatures creeped above 50℉, kids were donning shorts and t-shirts in a frenzied embrace of an unnamed sun god. And while our parents glanced knowingly through the living room windows, we […]

Personal and professional milestones create interesting opportunities for self-reflection. Do we romanticize the past, or instead, let honest memories rise to the surface? Are we capable of seeing things from afar that we failed to notice up close? Is it luck (good/bad), fate, necessity, design, or some combination therein that put us on a certain […]

Wow, what a crappy year for nearly every human on the planet. The pandemic. Relentless storms of every shape and size. An unfathomable loss of life. Economic devastation that has yet to be truly measured. Not to mention a level of emotional distress that will be felt for years (or decades) to come. With everything […]