Get Clear. Take Action. Win Where It's Worthy Good morning friends! This has been a great week of slowing down with my family and enjoying some quality time. Erin and I agreed that this was our best Christmas to date - because we were able to have some really encouraging (and hilarious) conversations of depth with our kids about the true meaning of Christmas. Now while I’m not back running full speed, the reality is that 2026 is coming quiiiiiick. In my last note I told you how my life was...
19 days ago • 2 min read
Get Clear. Take Action. Win Where It's Worthy Good morning! Last week I had the privilege to lead some local friends through an evening workshop that left them encouraged about how they could win in 2026. More to come on that in a minute… Often times when I’m around really smart, inspirational people who are talking about next year - they say a version of this quote, and it smacks me in the face… “The most important person you are going to lead this year is yourself.” I don’t know who said it...
27 days ago • 4 min read
Get Clear. Take Action. Win Where It's Worthy Good morning, I’m writing this the day after Thanksgiving - still reflecting on how much I have to be thankful for. And at the same time looking back on how I was feeling five years ago at this time. November 2020 was one of the most difficult seasons of my life. My Dad had been in the hospital for over two months after a fluke fall in a Wal-Mart parking lot and it felt like we were riding a rollercoaster that shifted daily - or sometimes hourly -...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
Get Clear. Take Action. Win Where It's Worthy Good morning, Humble confession: a few months back I got caught speeding out in the middle of nowhere Indiana. 😬 A selfie as I awaited my fate... I honestly don’t know exactly how fast I was going because I was in a rental car and the speedometer was placed terribly. I couldn’t see the speedometer from my natural seated position. Not making an excuse. That was a fact. 😂 But the truth is that I know I was rushing. I wasn’t racing by any means, but...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Get Clear. Take Action. Win Where It's Worthy Good morning! Two years ago this week I had one of my worst travel days ever. y flight got delayed for an hour. Then two. Then four.... And in the end - we departed the airport nine hours after the originally scheduled time. There was lots to complain about that day, but it actually turned into one of the most encouraging days I’ve ever had. And the reverberations of what happened that day continue to impact my life to this day. FROM WORST TO BEST...
2 months ago • 4 min read
Get Clear. Take Action. Win Where It's Worthy Good afternoon! Last week we traveled across the country with our kids. There were great memories made - and the whole trip felt like a Worthy Win. On top of that, there was a particular memory from one of our travel days that will be forever burned into my memory. Anyone who has traveled with youngish kids knows that there are invariably lots of things that come up and make the trip interesting. With the current ages of our kids one of those...
3 months ago • 4 min read
Get Clear. Take Action. Win Where It's Worthy Good morning! Three years ago this week I was soaking in my last days as a Nike employee. At that point there wasn’t much work left for me to do. It felt like I was retiring and getting to slowly say my goodbyes. On my second to last day I had five or six coffee (tea) chats with dear friends catching up and bidding my farewells. As that day was coming to a close, my team threw a party for me on patio outside the Serena Williams building. (I'm so...
3 months ago • 5 min read
Get Clear. Take Action. Win Where It's Worthy Good morning! Do you ever have days where you feel like you are SUPER productive? Almost like the world has slowed down but you’ve sped up and are crushing it. I do know that feeling… but earlier this year those days were feeling few and far between. Finally, two months ago I was at my wits end. I couldn’t string together any consistent deep work time. The meetings were endless. I was constantly being bombarded by the urgent over the important....
4 months ago • 6 min read
Get Clear. Take Action. Win Where It's Worthy Hi friends, Five years ago this week I received a phone call that altered my life forever. I wasn’t expecting it. I wasn’t planning for it. I definitely didn’t want it. But ‘the call’ came regardless. And the only thing I could do at that point was embrace the circumstances and make the best of them. MY LIFE-ALTERING CALL It was about 8:30am on a normal Thursday morning when I looked at my phone and saw my stepmom, Jan, was calling me. That was...
4 months ago • 5 min read