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From Diagnosis to Debut Novel: Ray Hartjen on Storytelling, Steel Towns, and Second Chances
What do you get when you cross a marketer, musician, cancer patient advocate, and espionage novelist? You get Ray Hartjen. I had the pleasure of
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From Afterburners to Apollo: What a Fighter Pilot Taught Me About Creative Grit
Every once in a while, I sit down with someone whose life feels like a movie script waiting to happen. And then, halfway through the conversation, I
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Money Is A Battery
Here is a pretty simple analogy. If money is a battery, how does that change the way you look at it? Before we get too deep into this, lets consider
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Fabric and Fun: What Kira Klinger Taught Me About Creativity, Grit, and Making Your Own Luck
Every once in a while, I sit down with someone who reminds me why I started this whole “hammer to Hollywood” journey in the first place. Someone
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Debt: Friend, Foe, or Just a Tool in Disguise?
We love to slap labels on things. Debt? Oh, that’s “bad.” Or wait, maybe it’s “good” if you’re building credit. Or “ugly” when it
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Second Chances, and Fixing Your Old Work
Every once in a while, you do something sneaky. Not illegal-sneaky, not “hide the body” sneaky — more like the creative version of quietly
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Bend, Don’t Break: What I Learned from Talking with “Santa for Nerds” Paul Pape
Every once in a while, I meet someone whose story doesn’t just inspire me — it re-calibrates something in my brain. Not because they’ve lived
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When Hollywood Hammers Back: What Richard Moon Taught Me About Surviving the Creative Life
I wanted all day, rather than just one hour to pick this man’s brain. Richard Moon is one of those people. If you don’t know Richard yet, you
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From Hammer to Human Connection: What I Learned Talking with Wes Towers
Today, I interview a man who works with people in both the world I came from (Construction) and the world I’m entering (Creative). Wes Towers,
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From Hammer to Hollywood: What Max Shippee Taught Me About Story, Survival, and the Creative Life
Every once in a while, I sit down with someone whose creative journey feels like a mirror held up to my own—only with a few more plot twists, a
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