This hospital recliner is murdering my back. It’s 11:24 PM. Ted Lasso’s playing on a tiny speaker. My 82-year-old grandmother is relaxing after birthday cake and our terrible rendition of “Happy Birthday.” Today is my Mamaw’s birthday and we got the whole crew together to celebrate her with a surprise party in the hospital dining room. It was exactly as heartwarming as it sounds. The Sweet Matriarch of our family 🤎 If you asked most of the youtube business gurus they’d say I should be home...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
112 people. That’s how many creators joined The Creator’s Club in the last 48 hours. The doors are now closing over the next few hours and I am going to begin to approving members in a few. And honestly? I’m more then thrilled by the response. I am so excited to see how this community helps people to finish the things that matter to them and for us to all pursue these meaningful goals together. It will be incredible to see more people follow through and create the life and business they want...
3 months ago • 8 min read
I bought a business I didn’t believe in. Here’s why that decision revealed the deepest problem in the creator economy, and why solving it might be the key to everything you’re trying to build. When I purchased Create & Go, I had zero faith in the product model. It wasn’t the information. The content is excellent. I used it to build my own success. Watched friends like Kelan and others cross $100K months using the exact frameworks. The problem wasn’t what was being taught. The problem was what...
3 months ago • 10 min read
MAN. Y'all sure know how to keep a man to his word. LOL. I'm reading through ALL of the responses asking where the link is, and reminding me we're an hour past launch time. I love the enthusiasm, truly, so much. This was my first email launch without Lauren, and man, do I miss that type A personality! She is DEARLY missed, and I appreciate y'all bearing with me on this.I have been sitting here for almost an hour in agony, looking at this video processing... The video I ended up recording was...
3 months ago • 7 min read
So yesterday I told you about our big pivot at Create and Go and introduced CreateOS, the “operating system” for creator businesses I’ve been building for the past 14 months. Today, I want to share WHY this matters so much to me and why I believe it’s the missing piece for most creators. The Most Embarrassing Day of My Creator Career It was 3:42 AM. I was sitting at my desk, surrounded by empty coffee cups, staring at my computer screen through bloodshot eyes. The launch email for the updated...
3 months ago • 7 min read
Something happened last week that damn near got a tear out of me. I was sitting at my desk, staring at my screen, about to close my laptop for the day, when I got a text from my developer who was fixing an issue found during beta testing: “It’s ready. I reviewed the bugs you found, and it’s good to go.” Those words hit like a freight train after 14 months of me building, tweaking, scrapping, rebuilding, pulling my hair out, and questioning if I had completely lost my mind. CreateOS, the...
3 months ago • 5 min read
I’ve been working on this project — the product, the brand, the site, and the system for nearly 20 months now. It started as a redesign.Turned into a product.Then it became a philosophy.Now? It’s a system. A movement. And a launch that’s finally ready. And for the longest time, I wasn’t sure when to stop.20 months.Thousands of notes.More “one last tweaks” than I can count. Not because it wasn’t “done”, but because I kept imagining how much better it could be. Every week, I’d think:“One more...
3 months ago • 5 min read
Let’s talk about that moment in the creator's journey that feels... kinda embarrassing. That “WTF am I doing with my content” stage. You know — the part where you’re writing blog posts, staying busy, publishing stuff, maybe even getting some traffic, but deep down it feels like you’re aimlessly throwing content at the wall and praying something sticks. Two creators in our group said it perfectly: “I started making content but I feel like I have no sense of direction in the monetization of my...
5 months ago • 6 min read
Hey there! Over the last couple of weeks, I've been sharing a couple of discoveries of unexpected benefits of the new product that I'm working on for our audience, CreatorOS. I've talked about... Creating solutions (rather than products), how a lack of awareness does NOT mean a lack of commitment, and how to rethink about the work that you cannot see (and therefore the progress you are making). Today, I want to share my third and final discovery with you! Before I share that discovery, here...
6 months ago • 2 min read
