I sat on the couch with Eleanor watching some figure skating in the 2022 winter Olympics. Growing up in South Carolina, things like ice skating, downhill skiing, curling, basically any sport that requires below freezing temperatures is not something we have much experience with. …

Tim, I can’t find my passport… (Tim smiling) That’s not a funny joke, Yeadon… Um…good thing it’s not a joke? The plane had just landed after an overnight flight. We had left Chicago the night before, stopped once to refuel, and had finally landed. In Moscow, Russia. And I could…

I remember how amped I was in the gym at college. Just back for spring semester, I had hit the gym hard. Way. Too. Hard. The next day, my shoulders were in such pain that I remember I had to have my roommate help me take off my jacket. Because…

Dad, I don’t know which one to choose… Eleanor was standing at the counter of the oldest pharmacy in South Carolina. Guerin’s pharmacy has had a soda counter and a candy section since I was little, the selection changing as candies come and go. And my 6 year old daughter…

Not of joy. Not of physical pain, though that was definitely happening. The ones that come with frustration and emotional turmoil. I was staring at myself in the mirror. Ready to quit, and completely give up. Standing there, wishing I had done things differently. I have to back up a…

I was 20 years old, working at an orphanage in Juarez City, Mexico. One of the largest border towns in the world, I was working on the outskirts of the city in the desert at an orphanage for a year before I went to college. My cell phone barely had…

For what seemed like the millionth time, I repeated…”Look with your eyes…NOT with your hands!!!” Ok, it was maybe the 3rd time. But I’m using parenting math to count how many times I say something to my children. I have to admit, I was taking a calculated risk. Some might…

My math was wrong. When I sat down and did the math, the result was 20% more than I thought it would be. On a deal with a renovation budget of $1,000,000 that would be a really big deal. Really, on any kind of budget at all…being off by 20%…

I was sitting next to my partner, Jennings, at the Commercial Empire conference listening to Tim Bratz And I felt so small. Didn’t help at all when Tim pointed out one of the conference attendees and said, “I’m closing on 200 units in Oklahoma with Jorge this week, actually!” Damn…