It’s January 2022, and renewed with the spirit of a New Year (Yippee! This will be our year! This is the year we expand, take off, explode!) I have decided, in my new energized state of being, to take charge of our finances and all things adult. Yes, I will become one of those unlikely masters of finance and budgeting and look oh-so-smart. So, I start a budget. BTW, I have done this before with the same vigor and enthusiasm….
Nothing says “coping” like altitude sickness and a 16-hour hike through life metaphors. I read somewhere that when life is overwhelming and you have too much on your plate, you should add one more goal. I’m not sure that I agree with that little gem, but I desperately needed something, anything, else to focus on other than work… So, Mount Whitney it is! Because nothing soothes a frazzled soul quite like voluntarily ascending into oxygen deprivation. Other people do yoga…
Out of the Pandemic came the now widely accepted virtual meeting, taking the place of any actual physical human interaction. And sure, there are a myriad of advantages to this: The Pajama Meeting Renaissance You can have meetings with anyone around the world at the drop of a hat! You can have meetings dawned in your favorite sweats or PJ bottoms! No one will know and there is a 99% chance the other person is wearing something that should never…
I guess when you’ve been stripped of almost everything you’ve known about yourself for the past 25 years, there is some freedom in sort of re-creating yourself. I mean, really what choice do you have? Might as well have some fun and do some shit your former self would never have done. What do you have to lose? It is liberating to start with a clean slate. Part of my emancipation from former self, if you will, came from our…
One of the many many perks in my position of what I can only describe as a real-life whack-a-mole or really anything Ryan doesn’t have time for (read anything he doesn’t want to do), is Customer Service. It is also great fodder for this blog. I mean the anonymity alone brings out the best in humanity. Who doesn’t want to take out their personal frustrations on the faceless punching bag on the other side of the screen? SCREAMING and Profanity…….
Sometimes you just need a little perspective, to have some space and time in between your blog and the real-life events unfolding before you. Toby Keith said it best with , “As soon as we could see clearly through our big black eye, we lit up your world like the fourth of July!” Ah, Toby. He is missed. Back to my hiatus. I found myself in a hard space. Not able to write, both legally and energetically the way I…
And the Saga Continues….. After consulting with his wisemen (key board members, advisors, and shareholders), the CEO has decided to file a report with the local authorities as DF continues on his relentless pursuit of slander and sabotage. Now, filing this report is not a simple procedure. The Entrepreneur must drive a great distance (to our warehouse), and sleep all night in his truck (true story, waiting for the police). Finally, dawn broke and the officer appeared to scribe this…
Ahhhh… the fun of going back and cleaning up the wreckage left by the former partner. I am sure many Entrepreneurs can and do empathize with this one. I was listening to a podcast the other day and a very successful female entrepreneur was speaking about her former partner. A Cautionary Tale…. See, her business had grown to be an unmanageable size for her to run on her own, or so she thought. She hired a partner for 50% of…
You might wonder what dabbling in sobriety has to do with the entrepreneurial rollercoaster, or maybe it is self-evident. Anyone who knows me knows that I am the last person to run away from a good time. I fucking love a party, wine tasting, dancing at a dive bar (or anywhere really). By the way, the more I imbibe, the more fantastic I become. Seriously, Dancing with the Stars talent here. There is no way, however, that I could continue…
In today’s episode…. In today’s episode of “As the Entrepreneurship Turns,” our villain, the dastardly Dick Face (referred to as DF from here on out) has, in an effort to oust the mighty CEO and take over his company, gone on a mission of great sabotage and slander. Luckily, our CEO is loved and respected by his business associates who warned him of the treachery and he was able to thwart off the actions of DF. DF’s attempt at isolating…
Ugh.. just so. Fucking. Tired. This is the shit I swore I would write about, and I’m sure this is one of the parts of the entrepreneurial ride that the successful leave out of or brush over casually in their stories. Well, here we are, as promised. From the depths of hell. In the past weeks, Dick Face was finally let go, which, of course set the wheels of law suits turning. Let the games begin! As the attorneys go…