1/ On How Short Life Is A few years ago, I was walking around in a blizzard in SoHo (New York). It was late, midnight, and it was beautiful. Some friends, about 15 blocks away, called: "come over?" It was late, it was cold, was tired, thought "maybe not worth it" but then...

Some days, parenting is hard. Sometimes, it feels like you don’t have enough gas in the tank to do “bedtime” at the end of the day. When I get into those exhausted & frankly ungrateful moods, what I’ve started to do is something I first heard from Alex Hormozi: I close my eyes

Books I’ve read over last few years: 2023: Parenting - Andy and Sandra stanley Am I being to subtle - Sam zell Die with zero - bill Perkins 2022: became a father, no books. 2021: The hard thing about hard things - Ben Horowitz High output management - Andy grove Turn the

One of my favorite episodes from Acquisitions Anonymous Podcast podcast - Michael Arrieta and Garden City is an inspiration of what I’m looking to do in SFL in the future. Buy amazing family-owned businesses, apply modern technology, bless your employees and apply a Chikfila/Publix customer service

I haven't always had the information required to make good decisions and lead our organization effectively as CEO. The list of information I want to see every month has evolved over the years. The monthly reports I get now include: - turnover and retention data - safety

Daddy, pick me up? Daddy, can you push me? Daddy, take me fishing? Dad, how about a catch? Dad, can I get a ride? Dad, can I use the car? Dad, can I have some money? Dad, should I take this job? Dad, what do you think of her? Dad, how do I do "this"? Dad, do you want to grab

Officially closed on the salon suite franchise acquisition today. After sending the wire, small part of me thought the sellers could have just said April fools… First one down and hopefully more to come, onward and upward!

Wrapped up our first week post-acquisition of the franchise! A lot of little issues but nothing to complain about. New tenant management system up and running - got our first weekly payments deposited this morning so that feels nice. Got to grab this chunk of change yesterday

Wrapped up first month post-acquisition of the salon suites. Bad: -Unexpected ac issues & repairs ($$$) -First tenant turnover -Handyman/Contractor issues ($$$) Good: -raised rent to market for new tenants (got 2 sharing a suite, so charging extra as well) -new tenant

My sister recently launched her marketing agency (social media management, content creation, video editing) - one of her clients is our franchisor, producing content and social media management and here’s example of her work. If interested reach out and can connect you :)

How would you monetize a 500k follower Instagram/fb page geared towards vegan/vegetarians? Currently just monetizing on sponsored posts (<200$ a post, I think undervalued). Found this page deal off market at amazing price and about to buy it. Worst case I can flip it if unable to

For those hitting the ocean and waves this summer. This is really simple. You can spot a rip current. Unfortunately, it's where it looks easiest and safest to enter the sea. This is because the rip current is looping around and pulling back OUT. Hence no waves rolling IN. NEVER

Something every adult should learn to protect a child

It’s been 6 months since we acquired our business. Here’s everything that went wrong: -Got sued -Homeless person behind shopping center harassing wife -Tenant turnover + drama + missed rent -Water heater issues and repair (side note, $350/hr w/ min 2 hours for a technician, good

The time you can hold your child in your arms is never long. By the time they reach the upper grades of elementary school, children begin preparing to leave emotionally. The child who once clung to me so tightly that they wouldn’t let go now tries to squirm away the moment I

Me after bedtime every night for 2 boys under 5.

A chance meeting that changed my life... On July 14, I got a message that stopped me in my tracks: It was from a man named Wade Lytal. His 8-year-old daughter, Kellyanne, was one of the 27 little girls who lost their lives in the tragic flooding at Camp Mystic on July 4.

Just closed the 2nd location last week! Time to stabilize and long term buy the 3rd :)

Claude code has been blowing my mind. I was able to spin up a pretty neat iOS app yesterday and iterate it until it looked like something I could never build lol. Next step deploying to AppStore. MusicAttack - play the notes on piano/guitar, defeat the enemies. Check the