After writing about a dozen blog posts in 2016, I started to film video content in early 2007. Back then, there weren’t many video bloggers and video wasn’t as optimized for search engines as it is today. As with most of my business ventures and projects, I started from scratch. I used a Logitech video […]
From Unknown Blogger To Writing For TIME, HBR, Fortune, Forbes & The Economist
I never considered myself a writer and was never given positive reinforcement by my teachers growing up that I would be a good writer either. I was never able to sit still when I was a little kid so it was nearly impossible for me to read a book cover to cover and unlike today, […]
From Interviewing Unknowns to Celebrities Like Donald Trump
When I was in College back in 2006, I was taught that networking was about exchanging a resume for a job instead of actually building a relationship. As a result, it took me eight months and forty interviews, to secure a job upon graduation. I had an incredibly extensive resume with eight internships, seven leadership […]
From Zero To 5 Million Blog Readers And Global Syndication
When people ask me for my true inspiration for becoming an entrepreneur, it was my original blog, “Driven to Succeed“, that I started on October 4th of 2006. The blog was built on the Blogspot.com platform, which was popular from 2004 to 2007, before WordPress rose to prominent. After I graduated College in May of 2006, […]
From Stage Fright In High School To A 6 Figure Global Speaking Business
During my sophomore year at Newton South High School, when I was sixteen years old, I was tasked with memorizing a speech on the topic of “affirmative action” and then presenting it to my English class. At my High School, every student is required to give a presentation on a topic of their choice as long […]
From 6 Years of Struggling In Book Publishing To New York Times Bestseller
A lot of people ask me how I got into publishing and how I was able to get both books published by well known publishers. In the interest of transparency, and helping people, I wanted to give a first hand account of how I went about going from no deals to two deals before turning […]