"My industry is too saturated..." If you have uttered these words, you haven't heard of or embraced the idea of a million micro niches. If your industry is too saturated, you haven't niched down enough and in different directions. For many o…
Good things come in small packages. For those of us who vertically challenged in elementary school, we were destined to hear that phrase a number of times growing up. When it comes to business, small is underrated. It's under appreciated and it's es…
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book 'The Wealth of Connection' which will be published on May 2nd, 2022. All customers are not created equal. Kevin Kelley pointed this out brilliantly in his 2008 article titled …
I wrote about this in my book Freelance to Freedom. So many people get mixed up and confused when it comes to money, entrepreneurship and their career aspirations. We set off on one path and then, without realizing it, make a slight turn and find ou…
Let me guess what you are thinking. You want to start a business to build that life of freedom but there is no way that you can replace your income to make it a reality. Trust me, I hear it all of this time. David attended one of our Total Li…
It would be looking through rose colored glasses to say that this whole 'running a business' thing will be all, well, rosey. It's not. Being an entrepreneur, running a business, being self employed- is hard. But as I heard my friend Jo…
In the podcast episode the other day titled 'How Much Freedom Do You Have In Your Life', I told the story of my career high moment as a sports photographer- shooting the Super Bowl. It also was a low point as I realized that I had little to no contr…
I had become a normal American. After years of freelancing while figuring out my career, I had chosen the steady path suggested by my classmates and my teachers at Ohio University. Get a ''staff' job. Meaning, instead of once again navigating the r…
There is nothing like the energy of the youth. As a parent of two teenage young men, and one a few years away from that milestone, we are encompassed with the excitement, intensity and vigor that comes with that phase of life. Between Christmas and …
Money, money, money. Sometimes, it seems like that's all people want. How can I make more money? Why don't I get paid me more money? How have I worked this hard, for so long, and still not have any money? Hopefully you aren't in the third cam…
One of my favorite movies when I was growing up was "Biloxi Blues", a film about a group of your recruits going through boot camp together in Biloxi, Mississippi in preparation for World War II. It was a sarcastically serious film starring Matthew B…
We are just hours into the new year of 2022 and you might already be exhausted with all of the "New Year, New You" resolutions that will be abandoned before the confetti is cleaned up in Times Square. Studies show that two thirds of New Year's Resol…
How can I get my spouse on board with our money? It's a question I am asked so often. More than 65% of millennials stated that money issues were a big strain on their relationships and according to a survey by SunTrust Bank, money is the leading ca…
Does the idea of self promotion make you cringe? Does it make you uncomfortable to even think about going on social media to promote your stuff? If given the option to either promote yourself or drive to the dentist for an invasive root canal , woul…
