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Building a portfolio of business while living a creative life.
Values or Price-Driven?
A note from this week: It's a values-play, not a pricing-play. Hey Reader, Let's cheers to 2026 🥂 Tiny email celebrations count. Today is a short read to help you think differently, then get on with your Sunday. Values vs Price: A Key Mindset Shift The cost of a product or service is not its price. The cost is partly the money you exchange for it, but it's also the time you spend, the attention you give, the effort you put forth, the skills you learn, the sacrifices you make... Recently my...
What 47 can do that 47,000 can't
SUPPORTED BY HELLUVA PARTNERSHIP Hey Reader, You don't need more followers. You need the right ones. The people you actually connect with, the clients you actually want to help, the friends you want to grow alongside. The Myth of More Somewhere along the way, we were sold the idea that reach equals value. We were told the goal is always bigger, broader, louder, and that if you don't have ten thousand (or more!) followers, you don't have a real business. Bollocks. I went viral on TikTok and...
How I built my audience (behind the scenes)
SUPPORTED BY HELLUVA PARTNERSHIP Hey Reader, I've got such an incredible announcement today. But first! A bit of philosophy for our soul. How to Be a Rebellious Spirit I’m reading a collection of short stories called Spirits Rebellious by Khalil Gibran, and I can’t get over how something written more than 100 years ago feels like it was written today. The stories are about power, authority, love, and the tension between what the world expects from you and what your spirit actually wants. But...
Failure is a Winning Strategy
SUPPORTED BY A Human Tech Company Hey Reader, In 2018, I stood in front of the City of Phoenix Department of Transportation and told a room full of government employees they needed to fail more. Lol. I know. When I tell you the room went quiet...all of their faces said: This is startup thinking. This doesn't apply to us. And that's exactly why I was there: to teach these well-established leaders how to think like entrepreneurs. The 20% Nobody Talks About That hesitation isn't unique to...
The Business of Migration
SUPPORTED BY MORE HUMAN HOSTING Hey Reader, Most people have moved once or twice in their lives, and if you've done it, you know it's not easy. As my lease is coming to term, I've been thinking a lot about moving, the word migration and what it means: to move from your usual place of residence to a new place of residence––home to something rebuilt as home. There's many reasons we do that. Here are the most common: Seasonal: like the snowbirds in Phoenix flocking to cooler summers (less than...
7 Uncomfortable Truths Entrepreneurs Know
SUPPORTED BY GUSTO Hey Reader, The truth does not change with your ability to stomach it. I've said this quote by Flannery O'Connor, American Novelist and Short Story writer, more than a dozen times this new year. And yet. Denial is still a river in Egypt. So I thought today I'd share a handful of uncomfortable truths I've come to accept as a 10+ year entrepreneur––the stuff people don't like to admit. The stuff that makes you queasy and clench. But the stuff that, if you know ahead of time,...
Delegating is weird, actually.
Supported by GUSTO Hey Reader, One thing I do at the end of every January is Feng Shui my home. A lot of people think Feng Shui is just about rearranging furniture to make a space feel “better.” But for me, it’s been a steady tool through health scares, relationship shifts, career pivots—and an annual ritual for both decluttering and creating peace. It’s also not as woo-woo as people think. In fact, it’s deeply practical. Take this example: Do you ever notice how sitting with your back to a...
Small Power is Big Power ☕️
Supported byWebsite Goals Workshop 2026 Hey Reader, The other day I was stretching using one of those giant foam rollers nobody really knows how to use. I was on the living room rug, roller on my spine with my arms stretched wide, when I noticed a loose screw popping out of the leg of our coffee table. I sat up and saw the screw was almost completely off. You could only see this from floor-level. One false move would collapse the whole thing. How could I miss this? I got up and twisted the...
4 Signals in a World of Noise ☕️
Supported byStealing money from airlines Hey Reader, If you’ve ever felt torn between intuition, fear, logic, and “what everyone else says,” welcome to being human in 2025. The world is loud, and sorting real signals from internal static is becoming an actual skill. I’ve started noticing four distinct types of signals that help me understand what to follow, what to question, and what to release. They’ve changed how I make decisions; maybe they’ll do the same for you. 4 Signals in a World of...
5 Questions to Save Your Project ☕️
Supported ByHow to share the nice things people say about you Hey Reader, Today I've got some practical guidance for you that positively affects any project you're working on. It comes from the lovely David Sherry who I met last week in a ridiculously awesome, 10-year full-circle moment. These 5 Questions Make Any Project a Success David is the founder of Death to Stock, a company I've long admired for its simple business model, superb clientele and mission of supporting artists. At the very...
Building a portfolio of business while living a creative life.