I've had an interesting few weeks. For almost 3 years I've been trying to rebuild my company. Between June and Aug of 2023, all 3 of my employees left. I dug deep. I rehired. I simplified. I sacrificed. 2025 was my best year since starting in 2007. It was also a difficult year with my wife's cancer and mental health scares with my teen daughter. Mid 2024 I hired Gary. I saw huge potential in someone that from the first interview said "I want your job". So we started the journey of training him to be my protege. 2025 was hard financially because I was growing and reinvesting and a lot of that investment was in him (time and money). He was a big help with the demands of family, treatments, etc. he was making less than he wanted, but saw the value in investing his time into learning and was gaining what he needed to eventually take over. I was making less because I was investing in him. His progress was slower, than I wanted, but his attitude and determination made up for it (or so I convinced myself). Hindsight, he was a diligent worker, but lacked the vision and confidence to grow a business. Over the last 3 months my wife has felt better and I've been able to dive back into the business and I have huge goals and ambitions for 2026. I could see Gary struggling to keep up with me at this new pace. The end goal of me stepping down or significantly back by the end of 2026 was firm in my mind. His too. However with some new hires and shifts in things I had to change our approach a few times. Rather than talk to me and express his concerns, he let things build up and started having a skewed perspective of my motives. Long story short, over the last 3 weeks he went from feeling frustrated and unappreciated to defiant, that culminated I him refusing to work, refusing to communicate with me and just making unrealistic demand and I had to fire him last week. So in a few weeks we went from things cranking along to another record year, to full nuclear implosion. I'm grateful for the things I've experienced over the last year and people I've gotten to know. I'm at peace with the whole thing. It sucks and it's made things hard the last couple of weeks, but I was honest. My integrity intact. My intentions were never misaligned with our end goal. I look at how I would have handled things even 6 most ago and I would have been devastated, offended. But from the intention and things I shared here, I was able to separate the emotions from the accusations. I was able to see the truth if who I am and be confident in that.

Alright fellas here’s my reflection of how I used the Operating System to move through the freeze I found myself in prior to Wednesday. I mentioned it in a previous post, @Jared Fenn asked for a ‘pinch & zoom’ so here ya go. I apologies it took longer than I originally stated.

Friends @Rhys Hall, @Lendon Pope, @Jared Fenn & @Chance Lundgren. New movements have been added to ManOS on Action & Accountability. Feel free to check out the gold that @Tah Whitty has dropped for us in there. Looking forward to tonights call @ 7pm CST. See y'all then! Much Love to everybody!

Last week I celebrated my 50th. Birthdays have never been a huge event for me. Another day. Nice dinner, maybe a few presents from my family. Then it's over, no worries. I think there was some external factors with work, my physical state (lack of sleep), but the day was off and I didn't feel right. The morning started with our local Expanse face to face meetup with @Jared Johnson and @Chance Lundgren . Good discussions as always. Afterwards I hung back with Jared. We talked a bit. I decided I needed a massage to try to unwind and he called around and got one booked for me. That was amazing and thanks to Jared for making that happen. I went to lunch with my 2 brothers. Came home and pretty much just chilled with my family . I wasn't feeling great so we ended up not going out, just watching some movies with my wife and kids. My wife had asked that morning what I wanted to do for my bday and I just said "for noone to demand or need things from me" it was said with a little sarcasm, but was the honest truth. That was Friday. The weekend was pretty calm, just hanging out with the family. My mother-in-law came for a nice Easter dinner. Not even sure what I'm sharing here other than I wanted to acknowledge @Jared Johnson for pushing me to just go do what felt right in the moment. I don't really understand why the day felt so heavy (and still not sure). I think there's some frustration and anger around where I expected and thought life would look a lot different at 50 than it does. I am often torn between doing what I want vs what's expected. I know if I get really poor sleep it can send my emotions haywire, but is that just because I'm really tired? Or is it because if I'm not tired I can more effectively suppress those emotions? And yes, I'm open to anything anyone wants to throw at me 😁.

Greetings gents, Looking forward to tonights call @ 7pm CST Let's get ready to get it. Come with questions, curiosities, wins, celebrations. Most importantly bring ALL of yourself.