Our family was sitting in church on Christmas Eve last year when our ten-year-old, Dylan, tapped on my left shoulder during one of the musical performances. I looked towards him as he leaned over to ask me what time it was. That was a question that I asked often while I was a child in
In the fall of 1998- nine years after graduating from high school- I moved out of state to attend college at Ohio University. I had spent many of those previous years attending Nassau Community College in New York, bouncing around from major to major moving through a revolving door of dead end jobs while trying
Welcome to The Connection! If you scroll down, you will see a few different variations of this blog from past lives. Yet as the band Semisonic sang in their song “Closing Time,” every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end. The Connection is going to be different and I’m here today to tell you
I am no doctor and I don’t play one on T.V. I do have a very sloppy signature that has gotten people to ask if I was a doctor, though. So what I’ll bring today, as we wrap up this topic of Entrepreneurial Health, is based on the help I received, the research I did
I hope you enjoyed yesterday’s interview with Shawn Stevenson. Stevenson was instrumental in getting my health back after a severe bout of adrenal fatigue. My wife Elizabeth and I found his podcast, The Model Health Show, as I was pushing the boundaries on my health. My diet had become predictably unhealthy. Not in a dramatic
People often ask me what it is that I do. I’ve never been an ‘elevator pitch’ type of person. Once, I blurted out a quick line. I help lonely entrepreneurs. It was meant to be a joke but the person nodded, leaned in and sounded extremely curious. She mentioned that there is such a need
It felt like a screwdriver was twisting through my temples. Not just one temple. This invisible screwdriver went though both ends of my skull and seemed to have the ability to dig in above my eyes as well, into the area beneath my eyebrows. My in-laws were visiting from Ohio, and up until that point,
When we talk about health for entrepreneurs, there are quite literally hundreds of directions in which we can go. Finding information that is important about the health of entrepreneurs to share is not the problem. Choosing which direction to take is the challenge. So this week, I am going to go in a direction that
The lure of entrepreneurship is something that, for many of us, is unavoidable. Those who know that this life is their destiny crave freedom more than security, the want options more than comfort and they desire control over direction. So much has been said to glorify and glamorize the world of entrepreneurship. Admittedly, there is a
