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My most colossal failure in business, to this date, was when I bought a business brokerage franchise. I was in the middle of launching Matti D and thought I needed to take some pressure off of the business by diversifying. Plus, I really enjoyed and understood the process of buying and selling businesses. So, I […]

My wife and I took over our new boutique in April of 2015. Honestly, it was the scariest day of my life. Why? We put everything we had into our new project which meant there was a lot on the line. The previous owner had one foot in and one foot out for at least […]

If you’ve followed our story, you know that finding the right investment was a challenge for us. We had a clear vision to purchase a boutique and make it successful just like we’ve done with our other businesses. After months of stress and, yes, tears, it was finally time to close the deal on Matti […]

My wife and I, after our misstep with the clothing boutique, continued to look for the right place to buy. We widened our search into other states, the warm ones, the ones where we wouldn’t be miserable. And, as you know, that narrows things down to California or… California. Eventually, we came across a posting […]

If you’ve been keeping up with my story, you know that there was a season of life in which I had no direction. I had left my job with no plan for what to do next. Part of me felt free (insert Free Bird background music here) while another part of me felt lost and […]

After our company had been purchased and I, in my youthful pride, had forced my way out, I had no plans. I didn’t know what to do next. Up until that point, I had only worked for myself and, for a brief time, the company that bought us out. The last time I interviewed for […]

After selling our family company, I had been with the new organization for about four months before my boss was fired. And, as you might predict, the person I reported to hated my guts. Needless to say, I despised my job, the organization for which I worked, and I hated where my career was going. […]

The company my family and I built had been sold to a large conglomerate. It was bittersweet, as you might imagine because we had worked so hard to grow the business from scratch. As I watched a new organization take apart the old business piece by piece, I was trying to figure out my career. […]

Let me set the stage. The executive team and I were sitting around eating lunch one day talking about the future of our business. In the 8 years since launching Safe Site Inc., we had been through the wringer. We had fought competitors, some that were bigger than us, and won. We had dealt with […]

Have you ever gone through a season in which you felt like you were in over your head? The first time I really felt that way, it was winter, and we were hiring for our next startup in Houston. I had been flying back and forth conducting interviews and getting ready for expansion into new […]