On May 30, our friend Oren Miller was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. This devastating disease carries an average life expectancy of 1 year. While we are diligently hopeful for more, we want to ensure Oren and Beth get help with medical bills, are …
Finance/Money
Do I Have the Stamina To Reach My Goals? I'm Already So Damn Tired
It’s funny. It’s taken me about 31 years to really figure out the core building blocks of how opportunities are distributed. How a person comes to change their life. Why certain individuals are in power and have enormous influence over others. Why others simply have …
The Emotional Roller-Coaster of Entrepreneurship
Everyone is eventually taught to how to get used to the steady. The nice and slow. The easily anticipated. We’re not really born steady. We’re born full of emotion and curiosity. With an endless notion of wonder. Childlike wonder was so common to all of …
Introducing The New [bonafide] Section | Highlighting Up and Coming Game Changers and Influencers
[bonafide] is here to highlight artists I feel are in the process of greatness. These are the rare combination of talent+hustle+smarts to make major waves not just in their craft, but all the surrounding industries and businesses. Everyday people consistently doing incredible things one goal …
Must Watch – Ryan Leslie Drops Money Making Gems While Visiting Hot 97
Ryan Leslie has been so obscure in the last few years, that when he recently sat down with Hot 97’s Ebro in the Morning show, they asked him about his lost laptop a few years back. Turns out Ryan’s been too busy making a crap …
15 Minute Writing Freestyle: Part 1 – Austin, Jobs, Marriage, and the Future
10:36 pm This is the exercise I tell my friends to do when they’re having a difficult time communicating what they’re going through. Write. For 15 minutes, carve out 15 minutes and write whatever the hell comes to mind. I’m a big fan of taking …
Why are we really mad?
These days, it seems like everyone wants to be angry about something, but it’s never the right things. Beyonce sparked outrage from the families and friends of victims of the Challenger space shuttle disaster because she used a soundbite from that fateful day in a …
How You Know When It's Time to Take Your Ass to Bed – My First Post
TIME! Y U NO HAVE MORE HOURS IN THE DAY!? So the other night, as I’m getting ready to go to bed, just to get up in the morning and go to that black hole of creativity called corporate america, I’m realizing that everything is …
Not Guilty: Don’t Agree With Zimmerman Verdict? You Can Dance Your Way to A Difference
Change simply comes from time and pressure. Consistency and stamina are the agents of change in almost any scenario. This is why change is inevitable – because Time is a relentless sommomabitch (R.I.P. Bernie). Nothing out there has more consistency and stamina than Time. …
The Tragedy of the Zimmerman Verdict
On the surface, this case was about a man, George Zimmerman, accused of the murder of a young boy, Trayvon Martin. But south more was at stake for society than one man’s guilt or innocence. On trial were Florida’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” laws, race …