I was approaching my first tunnel just outside Milan, Italy. I was riding a rented BMW F800GS motorcycle with Kathy on the back. Loaded down with all our luggage, we were heavy and traveling at 68 mph. Of the eight bikes, one rider was consistently lagging behind. That was Steve-o. The tunnels in Italy cut […]
I was talking to my friend Mike, and he said, “As soon as I say something hurtful to someone I love, I know it. I know it the moment the words leave my mouth.” Mike is a Christian so he followed this with, “It is the Holy Spirit convicting me.” Then he asked, “This happens […]
As I write this, I am four speeches in on “The Seven Super Powers of the Kingdom Minded Entrepreneur.” Kathy has given one of her two talks to the women at the conference. Yesterday I finally met the Ugandan team which named their business Paparelli. They are amazing and have created six new businesses in […]
“I’ve reviewed the business, but I can’t seem to get the right question answered. I need more information to decide if this is a good fit for me,” Mark said. Mark is a corporate executive who is ready to make the leap to fast-growing startups. He wants to get in early with a company solving […]
“Not everybody thinks I am helpful. There is this one guy in the startup community who really dislikes me,” I said. Here’s the story. I met with a founder and his team in 2009. They were bright, talented, and chasing what looked like a big problem in a growing market. I was asked to join […]
“I always wanted to write a novel,” she said. I was having lunch with Michelle, a good friend who owns an advertising agency. I always admired her for her copywriting. Her writing, even in a simple email, was clear and to the point. When she wrote copy for a product, she had a way of tapping […]
I was now an angel investor. I had one company which was kind of working, one not working, and one which was failing. The money was going out. Nothing was coming in. This was the result of my first two years of my reimagined career. To tell you the truth, I wasn’t sure I was […]
Finding a church. Sounds simple, right? Not simple. I had not regularly attended church in 20 years. Kathy and I took the family to Episcopal Easter and Christmas services. That’s because Kathy grew up Episcopal, and we were married in an Episcopal church in Denver. But I grew up attending St. Paul’s Catholic Church in […]
“I accepted Christ as my Lord and Savior,” I said to Bob. Bob Weber of Weber & Associates is a sales and leadership trainer. I hired him to lead a seminar for my sales team in the early 1990s. I met Bob at a marriage seminar I attended as part of a couple’s management retreat […]
I was about to facilitate a leadership workshop in Uganda but wasn’t feeling right about it. I told Pastor Elijah, “I think I know what you want me to do, but I’m confused.” He said, “No. Do not say such things. You are not confused. We do not serve a God of confusion. We serve […]