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Perspective. Mindset. Context. Essential elements for you and I to maintain as we live out today and tomorrow, within the story that is OUR LIFE. My perspective? My mindset? My context? I am thankful for it all. If you know me, you most likely know I’ve been blessed with a pretty detailed memory. One that allows me to remember most of my life (and yours, if I know you well enough) pretty accurately. When I mesh my memory with my journals and social media feeds, it’s like an out-of-body experience where I can look at my life just like I […]

en·tre·pre·neur äntrəprəˈnər/ noun a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so. Here’s my custom definition that I’ve been developing in an ongoing manner since I started working for myself as an entrepreneur, during my junior year of college in 2004. You’re a generalist with high capacity to get a lot done in a short period of time. You understand every genre of business (tech, ops, sales, marketing, finance, legal, etc.) enough to do the role at the beginning and hire people smarter than you to lead […]

[Click here to listen to full Transitional Manifesto podcast] **tran·si·tion (noun) the process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another.** The majority despises transition. It’s a phase filled with lots of change, which requires additional work that you didn’t plan for, while mandating a heavy time investment on forward-thinking. Transition also possesses a component that most leaders [and I] despise — a lack of full control on the outcome. Let me literally sum up a transitional phase for you; Hard Work + Innovation + Risk = The reward of staying relevant in an ever-changing world. Most leaders don’t […]

You hear content is king a lot these days. It’s become a cliché, but the reality is before it was ever a cliché, content was already king in my life. I was blessed to be on a journey in co-founding a sports broadcasting network at my alma mater 15-plus years ago. At the University of Montevallo, a Division II school just south of Birmingham, Alabama, a good friend and I were able to start building this network using a new medium of the time to distribute our content. That medium was internet streaming. In finding that network, I found a […]