STRATEGIC SCALE PODCAST

This has been one of those weeks where everything just flows.

I want to walk you through it, not to flex…

But because I think there's something inside of what's been happening that can shift how you think about your business.

Let me explain…

We launched ads for our Strategic Scale Sprint Workshop...

Today is Juneteenth, and I don’t know about you, but I wasn’t taught what that means growing up.

Just in case you weren't, let me give you the short version.

On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas, and announced that the enslaved people there were free…

More tha...

Writing this one barefoot, in my backyard, feet in the dewy grass.

It's not even 9am and it's already one of the clearest mornings I've had in a while.

I've been doing this thing called grounding... earthing, some people call it.

It’s just you putting your bare feet on the ground. Grass, dirt, ...

I got back in the lab yesterday after a week in Spain with Mj.

And honestly, I’m energized than I've been in a while.

It was the rest I didn’t know I needed, even though I didn’t technically reset because we were on all day adventures daily and the weather was 90+.

Had all the intentions of worki...

I flew to Spain Wednesday morning with my 12-year-old Mj.

The architecture here is incredible, especially the Moorish stuff.

The Moors were Muslims from northern Africa who conquered and occupied parts of Spain for nearly 800 years.

And they built things like…

Really built things.

Palaces, mosq...

Writing this sitting with the fam at the Phoenix airport waiting on our flight back to Atlanta.

We flew out Tuesday to watch my nephew graduate high school.

AZ is beautiful. It’s something about seeing the mountains from my hotel…

…but the heat will take your breath away (literally lol).

After t...

Wednesday morning I was in the car at 7am heading to RyPie's kindergarten awards Ceremony.

Afterwards, Vanessa wanted Waffle House so we went there, I grabbed a smoothie and we headed back to the school for Royal's 5th grade graduation ceremony at 10:45.

Then at noon I jumped on a live Zoom and de...

It’s crazy how this works.

Sunday, I walked into church expecting a normal service.

Well, kinda normal, because it was family and friends day.

However, what happened, I wasn’t ready for and couldn’t have prepared for.

I left ordained as a minister and installed as the Lead Associate Pastor.

WHA...

Monday morning I woke up and something felt off.

I couldn't pinpoint it, I just felt a heaviness.

Then I looked at the date.

April 27th, which is my mom's birthday.

She passed 14 years ago and grief still finds its way in at times.

Then I found out one of our church members died in a car accide...

I'm recording this talk to text from a lounge chair by the pool.

Vanessa is next to me and the water is the kind of blue you think only exists in screensavers.

We've been here since Monday and don't go back until Saturday.

I want to be honest about something because this newsletter is about docum...

The last few days, I’ve been in a room in Sarasota with some sharp entrepreneurs nerding out on some next-level growth strategies and I booked an early flight home.

Here's why…

This week started Monday with a couple meetings.

Brought on a team to dial in our entire front-end organic engine...

I'...

I've been conscious of my pace this week in a way I haven't always been.

Sleeping in on the days my body needs it.

Resting without guilt and not filling every quiet moment with activity just to feel productive.

There's a version of building that comes from rest, and there's a version that comes f...