The $100K Raise Request: My Bold Email to the Boss
It’s been years since I’ve had to ask for a substantial raise. The last time I did, it resulted in a $60,000 increase. Since then, I was either compensated fairly or, as an entrepreneur, benefited from growing profit distributions. But that dynamic changed when I sold my company—first a 60% stake, then the remaining 40% […]
Bombs Away – My Letter of Resignation
The time has finally come for me to start engineering my exit. From the start, my business was built to sell. First and foremost, it was a milestone I wanted to be able to check off my goals list. But in addition, it has been an incredible wealth accelerator and proved to be a very […]
Ambitiously Lazy
I’ve often thought of myself as an opportunist who is ambitiously lazy – and I’ve even described myself this way to those in my close circle. If I had a spirit animal, it would be the lion. “Mother Nature abhors waste. That’s why she encoded every cell in your body with programming that instructs it […]
