Uncomfortable Preparation

Pictured: Regan (niece/dancer), Ava (niece), Caryln (daughter/dancer), Kara (daughter/dancer), Lauren (niece/dancer) This past weekend was Milwaukee’s Irishfest, held on the Summerfest grounds on our beautiful lakeshore. Milwaukee Irishfest is the largest Irish festival in the world which is pretty awesome. Interestingly before I met my wife Michele, I’d never been to Irishfest, and now I haven’t missed for seven years […]

Uncomfortable Naming Rights

For those of us living in Milwaukee, the downtown area has been booming. Many new restaurants, music festivals, start-up businesses and the new Fiserv Forum have popped up. What’s the Fiserv Forum you may ask? It’s the new home of NBA superstar Giannis and the Milwaukee Bucks. Initial reaction to the name was needlessly overreactive (that […]

Uncomfortable Addition

I’ve never owned a dog before because situations and circumstances prevented me from owning one. In addition to the fact that we never had one when I was a kid, I didn’t have a reference point to truly know what I was missing. As you may have guessed, we will be the proud owner of […]

Uncomfortable Aaron Rodgers

Note: This story originally referenced Shark Week 2023 on the Discovery Channel. For those that are totally unaware of what’s happening on this planet, Shark Week just ended a few weeks ago on the Discovery Channel. And none other than Aaron Rodgers, the Packers’ franchise QB, went face-to-face with the most terrifying animal in the open […]

3 Ways the SPEARity App has Improved My Productivity

Can you remember back to when apps first starting showing up? I can and I was pretty resistant to using any. They seemed unnecessary to me. But, I was wrong. I can’t remember what the first app was that I used, but now it seems like I have an app for pretty much everything. I […]

Customer Experience Starts with Leadership

You have probably heard the term “customer experience”. In fact, it’s been floating around a lot of places lately. They are talking about it on the news, on LinkedIn, in books, and just about everywhere else. But, many CEOs, entrepreneurs, and business leaders are still wondering what it is exactly. They wonder how it’s any […]

Break Down and Achieve Goals With the SPEARity™ App

The English author, George Eliot once wrote, “Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together.” This is what goal setting is all about and one of the most common things that people get wrong when trying to set goals. People often think of goals as these big […]

How to Overcome Impostor Syndrome

I heard a statistic today that 70% of people in America suffer from Imposter Syndrome. If you haven’t heard of this before let me explain it. Imposter Syndrome is that feeling you get when you are doing a job putting on a front that you know exactly what you are doing but inside you feel […]

Why We Love Monday and How You Can Too

It’s Monday! Do those words put fear in you? Does a sense of dread start to creep in on Saturday night because you know that you only have one day left to enjoy the weekend? If you feel like this, you are not alone.  Hop on social media on Sunday and Monday and you will […]