Start with Yes!

"I work in sales." That means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. "I work with customers and prospects to find and eliminate challenges in their organization that can be solved by using the product that I sell." That's a better definition, but it doesn't fully cover it. "I work with … Continue reading Start with Yes!

Consolidating into Amazon Lightsail – Part 2

The first step was tracking everything down which is what you will see documented below. Importance of Documenting Your Hosting Environment As a website owner, you know that a lot goes into creating and maintaining a successful online presence. From designing your website to ensuring that it is fast, secure, and always up and running, … Continue reading Consolidating into Amazon Lightsail – Part 2

Consolidating into Amazon Lightsail – Part 1

Itโ€™s time for me to collapse some cost and complexity out of my hosting footprint and will outline how I am doing that in this post. I also took advantage of the timing to check out OpenAIโ€™s ability to generate content. See the results below! โ€œWrite a blog post about consolidating different websites hosted with … Continue reading Consolidating into Amazon Lightsail – Part 1

Iced Champagne

Amber (@amberhagstrom) and I celebrated the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022 with Brooke (@luckyb3) and Aaron (@aarontimothy) in our new studio space. We discussed last meals, conspiracy theories and went around the coffee table sharing a couple small details about who we are and what we think is important. Definitely explicit, and … Continue reading Iced Champagne

Accidental Diversity

My wife and are the proud operators of a group of three boutique fitness studios in the DFW market, and we are figuring out how to weather the current pandemic and come to terms with the long-lasting changes we are about to face. We closed our CycleBar indoor cycling studios inย Frisco,ย Fort Worth, andย McKinneyย in mid-March amid … Continue reading Accidental Diversity

Digital Empowerment

The entire ServiceNow sales team, which is almost triple the size it was when I started, gathered in Las Vegas in January for our annual sales kickoff. We do this each year so that we can gather as a group and learn about the things that are important to making our customers incredibly successful. Iโ€™ve … Continue reading Digital Empowerment

Dear CIO, You have a tough job

I am asked to attend many events, host multiple roundtables, and nurture networking events as part of my current role. December of 2018 has been no different. I have detailed some of the lessons I learned most recently from the CIO community at events I had the opportunity to participate in the last couple of … Continue reading Dear CIO, You have a tough job

Time to ESC

Today I officially became an Executive Solution Consultant (ESC) at ServiceNow. What better way to celebrate this new role than putting together a few thoughts into this blog post and take the chance to lay out some goals. Since these goals are a public declaration in a written format maybe I can stick to them! … Continue reading Time to ESC

How to Find a New Role

Today marks the last day in my current role at ServiceNow and thought it would be fitting to walk through the process I leveraged to make this decision. It required me to first define what it was that I wanted to do next. From there I was able to take advantage of some time speaking … Continue reading How to Find a New Role

Goodbye Got Dedupe, Hello Digital IRL

I started this blog long ago as a way to share my thoughts on a myriad of topics. I've learned a lot along the way and have developed a voice that I always hope my readers appreciate. This weekend I put in the long hours to create, update and, completely overhaul my entire brand. Not … Continue reading Goodbye Got Dedupe, Hello Digital IRL