I don’t trust you, homie. That’s what kept running through my mind. I was talking with this guy who came highly referred. As we talked, he was answering all my questions with confidence. And I could tell he knew what he was doing. It even got me thinking: This dude could actually be an asset. […]

It’s really not uncommon for people to want to take shortcuts. I remember being young and heading to a park on the other side of our neighborhood to play baseball. If we walked around the block, it’d take 30 minutes. But if we cut through a hole in the fence and took the shortcut, we […]

I sit and ponder sometimes is there such a thing as too much money? I definitely know there’s such a thing as not enough. One of my favorite scriptures says, in layman’s terms: “Lord, don’t give me too much that I forget about You, and don’t let me lack so much that I’m in need […]

I was on the phone recently, reminiscing with a friend about the early days of building my e-commerce brand , back when everything felt like trial and error. One story came up that still sits with me today. At the time, we were moving a lot of cotton tees. We had a strong system going, […]

Is perfection a thing? Of course not. It doesn’t even matter how old you are,  you know your entire life you’ve never done anything perfectly, and you won’t. You’re human. Anything that you set out to do will come with failure, and if you can accept that at this point in your life, then you’ll […]

I was on my phone editing a blog the other day, and I caught myself doing what I always do, screenshotting. And I don’t mean just one or two. I’m talking 20 screenshots, easy, just to get through a single blog post. If you’ve been following me for a while, then you already know,  In […]

When I say dangerously disciplined, I don’t mean that in a bad way, I mean it in the best way possible. See, I wasn’t always disciplined. For a large part of my life, I lacked structure. But now that I’ve found discipline in certain areas, I finally see what I’ve been missing. I’m sitting here […]

I ran across a reel today, actually, my wife sent it to me, and it hit me hard. It was talking about how there are some things in life we just don’t get to choose. When we’re younger, we don’t get to choose what family we’re born into. We don’t get to choose what our […]

It won’t be polished. It won’t have bells and whistles. It’s probably going to look generic, you know, like that off-brand product sitting next to the name brand everybody knows. I was nudging one of my clients the other day, encouraging her to get comfortable with just getting started. She sent me this super polished […]

Let me take you back to 2013. I can’t even remember the name of the platform I was using when I first got started, Big Something. Not even worth mentioning. OK, maybe I’m being a little harsh, because it did help me get going. But if I’m being honest, it was missing way too many […]