Being an entrepreneur is a huge financial sacrifice. You may not draw any salary while you’re bootstrapping and/or looking and begging for capital and even once you have the means to pay yourself, it will…
Many moons ago I spent the summer working in Porto, Portugal. At the time, the country was far less developed than the rest of Western Europe. Portugal was lightyears behind the economies and hustle and…
I once left a perfectly good paying job with loads of student debt and almost no savings to my name to launch a company. I’ve flown planes, jumped out of planes, paraglided off 5,000 foot…
I was sitting on the floor in the back of an old single engine propeller-powered plane which was flying straight up toward the sky like a rocket ship. I was just a few feet away…
The receptionist escorted me to the conference room and said Mr. Stevens would be with me shortly. Mr. Stevens was the Chief Strategy Officer of a fast growing, Fortune 1,000 technology company. I was there…
I’ll never forget a deep sea fishing adventure I had over twenty years ago. It all started at business school during orientation week when I befriended a classmate from Florida over a couple beers. Jon…
In the beautiful Boston suburb of Winchester, Senator Jason Lewis was giving a fiery presentation to a roomful of concerned parents, teachers and citizens. The topic was educational finance reform. Funding for education had been…
I was returning to the San Carlos airport during my first ever solo flight. Everything went according to plan and I was now within sight of my destination. As I was preparing to go through…
I was standing on the edge of a mountain peak, 3,000 feet from the valley below. I had trained for over two years to be in a position to make this paragliding flight. I was…
We were a full day into a three day trek into the Ecuadorian jungle. The conditions were rough but that’s exactly what my friend and I had signed up for. A real authentic jungle experience. …
When I moved out to Los Angeles after college, I thought it would be fun to set an audacious goal for myself. So I figured what better activity to pursue in sunny California than…
I was about 100 feet below the ocean surface that morning. Everything was going according to plan. I’m checking out the beautiful colors of the coral reef, watching a moray eel slither in and out…
I vividly remember that moment 15 years ago like it happened yesterday. There I was lying flat on my back gasping for air in complete and utter exhaustion but yet with a huge grin on…
Wow. You found me. I’m impressed (even if it was a mistake). I’ve had many careers in many different industries (technology, health and wellness, real estate, theme parks, retail, advertising, market research, private wealth). I’ve…