Leadership

As my friend and I jogged through the tree-lined streets of Barcelona, the warm Mediterranean sun on our faces, our conversation pierced deeply into our dreams, desires, and struggles. I shared my internal conflict about taking a sabbatical amid shifting company dynamics and uncertain economic conditions. My friend listened intently, then shared a personal story that completely reshaped my perspective on developing leaders. The Lessons of the Sea He loves to go sailing, but what …

Navigating Uncharted Waters: A Captain’s Tale of Trust and Transformation Keep Reading »

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?” –Rumi The Unseen Strength in Adversity “You seem pretty put together for everything that’s going on” as I finished laying out to one of my entrepreneur friends, all of the challenges opportunities in the uncertainty we’re currently going through in both my marketing and real estate businesses. As the waiter came up to take our lunch order, I paused to fully absorb …

Embracing the Grind: How Adversity Shapes Stronger Leaders Keep Reading »

Your team’s performance directly reflects the energy you lead them with: Are you creating and elevating or destroying and depressing? In order to lead your team/family/community with energy, you must lead first with your own. The energy you lead with directly reflects “the work” you are doing on you; small daily choices determining if you are living a life of AND or one of OR: Work AND Family AND Self… Happy AND Fulfilled AND Productive… …

To Lead Your Team, First Lead Yourself Keep Reading »

On a recent Zoom call with a few of my favorite entrepreneurs from around the world, we talked through one person’s concern about everything in his life becoming about work, or at least seen through that filter, and his fear of becoming a one-dimensional, boring human (which I’ve also long suffered with)…by the way, if you couldn’t tell I have some AWESOMELY deep conversations with my friends. 🙂 I’ve noticed a similar paradox growing in …

Are You Becoming a One-Dimensional Boring Human? Keep Reading »

“Soooo, do you sleep?” – the most common response upon hearing what all I’m working on: running marketing and real estate investment companies, launching a not-for-profit, buying/renovating a new house, all while raising two high energy kids and trying to be a good husband. Besides the fact that I don’t spend much time on social media or watching TV, I’m able to produce at a consistently high level predominantly because I have spent the last …

How to Be Just as Productive While Working From Home Keep Reading »

The biggest challenge I’m facing right now with the work from home situation is the lack of contrast. Every day, all day it’s the same scene of trying to juggle the work, the kids, the schooling, the marriage…all in the same house, all the time. Where before “going to work” and “coming home” created separate disparate spaces, now all the same. Dark needs light. Good needs evil. Home needs work and work needs home. Without …

Working From Home: Really Hard Until I Did These Things Keep Reading »

I’ve never been too good at sitting still, a trait that earned me the well deserved childhood nickname of Wild Man, a trait that garners a “paybacks are a b!+<#” from my parents and siblings as my kids literally bounce from wall to wall.    Although I knew I needed to relax and take time off, and recognized how much more clearly I saw problems afterwards, I always felt guilty and wasteful not being productive…until …

Get Busy Doing Nothing Keep Reading »

I love Southern California and try to get out there as often as possible. There’s something about the LA beach towns that invigorate and inspire me. We recently took the whole fam out to CA and did the full kid circuit: Disneyland, California Adventure, LEGOLAND, the beach, the ocean…the whole thing.   As my wife and I watched the kids jumping up and down and running around on the beach and into the freezing cold …

Oh to Be a Kid Again… Keep Reading »

Growing up on a dairy farm, hard work is literally part of my DNA. Early on in my entrepreneurial journey when I’d go home and complain about my 80 hour week, my dad reminded me he did that by Thursday.    As a kid, I’d often remind him my game was working smarter, not harder…at which point he would just shake his head and walk away. What I know now, it is about working smarter …

Easier to Work Hard than to Think Hard Keep Reading »