- I Am a Coach Who Writes
Business strategy and decisions
2026
- May 14
- #96
If I built my tech company again today . . .

- May 7
- #95
Your company is copying you

- April 29
- #94
A truck driver bet on Sam Walton. 20 years later, retired with $700,000

- April 23
- #93
I under-invested in demand for years

- April 16
- #92
I studied Sam Walton for months. Here’s how his mind worked

- April 10
- #91
Your replies made me think

- April 2
- #90
Slow sales?

- March 26
- #89
People say, “You are a strong woman”

- March 19
- #88
If rockets can be standardized, so can your business

- March 12
- #87
My Take On Delegation

- March 4
- #86
Why I Started CEO Mastery

- February 26
- #85
The Best Meeting I Hosted

- February 19
- #84
Want to Grow 10x?

- February 12
- #83
What’s Your Founder DNA?

- February 5
- #82
Muji vs Red Bull: What strong brands refuse to do

- January 29
- #81
I Paused Execution to Think Long-Term

- January 22
- #80
Why I started wearing a hairband on my wrist

- January 15
- #79
What ‘Shoe Dog’ Reveals About Growth and Risk

- January 8
- #78
I misjudged time

- January 1
- #77
One KPI for 2026

2025
- December 18
- #76
A Year-End Reset for the Founder Who Thinks Long-Term

- December 11
- #75
My Biggest Inspiration in Business (and What Founders Forget Today)

- December 8
Made to Stick for Founders: How to Craft Ideas People Remember

- December 8
Radical Candor for Founders: How to Care Deeply and Challenge Directly

- December 4
- #74
We change our tools, and then our tools change us

- November 27
- #73
How to Work With a Co-Founder (Part 2)

- November 26
Crucial Conversations for Founders: How to Communicate Under Pressure

- November 20
- #72
Choosing Co-founder? Read This First

- November 13
- #71
Love him or hate him, but you can’t ignore him.

- November 6
- #70
Celebrating 70 editions + a gift for you

- November 5
Man’s Search for Meaning: The Leadership Guide Founders Don’t Know They Need

- November 4
Eat That Frog!: The Productivity Playbook Every Founder Needs

- November 4
The Power of Now: How Founders Reclaim Clarity

- October 30
- #69
How Smart Founders Actually Decide (Part II)

- October 28
Surrounded by Idiots: A Founder’s Guide to Managing Different Personalities

- October 23
- #68
Eliminate Stupidity Before Chasing Brilliance

- October 16
- #67
You’re Running 2 Businesses, But Managing Only One

- October 14
Grit: Why Successful Founders Outlast the Odds

- October 9
- #66
Your Team Isn’t Telling You the Truth

- October 8
The Art of Thinking Clearly: Cognitive Biases Every Founder Must Avoid

- October 2
- #65
10 Founder Fundamentals That Matter More Than Growth Strategy

- October 2
- #63
Rest in Peace

- October 2
The Godfather: Leadership Lessons Every Founder Should Learn

- September 25
- #64
How to share your doubts with team without losing authority

- September 24
Trust: The Founder’s Hidden Growth Engine

- September 13
Build Better Days: 4 Books to Boost Founder Focus and Output

- September 6
The Obstacle Is the Way: Stoic Leadership for Founders Who Want Calm in the Storm

- September 4
- #62
People: Asset or Liability?

- August 28
- #61
Customer Delivery Slowing Your Growth?

- August 21
- #60
3 Mistakes About Revenue Growth

- August 16
The First 20 Hours for Founders: Learn Faster, Lead Smarter

- August 14
- #59
I never thought of this until someone tried to buy my company

- August 7
- #58
Don’t hire to grow. Design to grow.

- July 31
4 Bedtime Books Every Founder Should Read

- July 31
- #57
2-Question Business Audit

- July 24
- #56
7 Revenue Levers: Diagnose Before You Scale

- July 17
- #55
Revealing Unsaid Lessons Behind My Two Exits

- July 15
Built to Sell Summary: 7 Lessons for Founders Who Want to Build a Buyable Business

- July 10
- #54
180 Degree Turn

- July 3
The One-Liner That Sells: How StoryBrand Helped Me Clarify My Offer and Close Faster

- July 3
- #53
What if you’re just tired?

- June 26
Reclaim Focus, Transform Outcomes: Deep Work by Cal Newport

- June 26
- #52
You lose profit through unseen cracks, and here’s how to discover it.

- June 24
Command Without Cracking: Lessons from The Hard Thing About Hard Things

- June 17
The Lean Startup: The Cure for Idea Overload

- June 13
Growth as Grace: How Mindset by Carol Dweck Helped Me Redefine Success

- June 12
- #50
A Gift For You: 12 Ways You Can Exit Your Business, Successfully.

- June 5
- #49
How to Reduce Key-Person Risk in Delivery

- June 5
Playing The Long Game: How The 7 Habits Build Lasting Business Success

- June 3
Outsmarting Your Brain: How Thinking, Fast and Slow Improves Business Decisions

- May 29
- #48
3 Phases of Business Wealth (Most Founders Get Stuck at #1)

- May 29
From Small to Significant: How Good to Great Principles Scale Self-Funded Companies

- May 22
- #47
Why Great Management Outperforms “Leadership” Every Time

- May 17
From Chaos to Consistency: The Checklist Manifesto’s Framework for Business Excellence

- May 15
- #46
Famous for One Thing

- May 13
From Growth Mode to Wealth Mode: Business Lessons from The Psychology of Money

- May 10
Atomic Habits for Business: A Founder’s Guide to Business Growth

- May 8
- #45
Busywork. Liability. Asset. What Are You Really Building?

- May 1
- #44
Why You’re Still the Bottleneck (Even With a Team)

- April 24
- #43
Exit #1 Was Luck. Exit #2 Was Strategy.

- April 23
Building a Monopoly Business: Zero to One’s Framework for Startup Founders

- April 17
- #42
Are You Paying the ‘Growth Tax’? [+ Valuation Tip of the week]

- April 10
- #41
Revenue Engine: Old formula vs. New formula

- April 3
- #40
I Built a 200-Person Company. My New One Has 0 Employees (Here’s Why)

- March 28
Escape the Founder’s Trap: How The E-Myth Revisited Creates Self-Running Businesses

- March 27
- #39
Why Your Ideas Stay Stuck in Your Head [+ Tip of the Week]

- March 25
Profit First: The Money System That Actually Works for Entrepreneurs

- March 25
The Power of Strategic Elimination: How Essentialism Transforms CEO Decision-Making

- March 23
Building a Remarkable Business Without VC: Lessons from Small Giants

- March 20
- #38
How I’m building a monopoly in my 3rd business

- March 13
- #37
Clients ghosted Jay until he changed these 5 words

- March 6
- #36
My acquirer slashed my post-sale commitment from 12 months to 30 days. Here’s why.

- February 27
- #35
Why great hires fail in startups — and how to prevent it.

- February 20
- #34
From 17-hour days to 4hr days + 22% growth

- February 13
- #33
Why Founders Delay Their Own Success

- February 6
- #32
[Part3] The 6-week guide to implementing your Operating Model

- January 30
- #31
[Part 2] The system that saved my sanity (and my company)

- January 23
- #30
[Part 1] Why adding more people makes everything slower (and how to fix it)

- January 16
- #29
From Bali, With a Humbling Lesson…

- January 9
- #28
How to Micromanage (And Not Be That Boss)

- January 2
- #27
The 15-minute ritual that powered my 2 businesses

2024
- December 12
- #26
The Revenue-Profit Matrix: Are You in the Danger Zone?

- December 5
- #25
How I Lost My Big Client and Team (I Never Saw It Coming)

- November 28
- #24
Why Your Innovation Efforts Stall – and How to Fix Them

- November 21
- #23
From Founder’s Brain to Company OS: A Tactical Guide

- November 14
- #22
Growth, Rapid Growth, Hyper Growth

- November 7
- #21
Make Clients Never Leave: 4 Steps to Become Irreplaceable

- October 31
- #20
How to run Strategic vs Operational Meetings differently

- October 24
- #19
How I Doubled a Client’s Revenue in 12 Months with Unusual Revenue Growth Strategies

- October 17
- #18
The First 72 Hours: How to Set Your Newly Promoted Leader Up for Success

- October 10
- #17
Train Your Tech Sales for Consultative Selling

- October 3
- #16
The Science of Trust: How to Transform it into Profit

- September 19
- #14
What’s Holding Your Business Back?

- September 12
- #13
The Million-Dollar Blindspot: Turning Financial Foresight into Your Superpower

- September 5
- #12
Beyond Barbie and Big Mac: The Surprising Secret of Business Models

- August 29
- #11
Maximizing vs. Satisficing

- August 22
- #10
Don’t scale your business. Scale your business model.

- August 15
- #9
Seal the Deal: The Power of Stakeholder-Centric Proposals

- August 8
- #8
High Employee Turnover? Implement the Stay Interview Strategy

- August 1
- #7
80/20 of Tech Sales: Multiply Revenue, Minimize Effort

- July 25
- #6
Flywheel Effect: How to accelerate your business growth

- July 18
- #5
How to Maximize Value of your Business

- July 11
- #4
Rapid & Responsible Growth: Your 3-Minute Guide to Scaling Smart

- July 4
- #3
7 Must-Have Skills for Tech Founders: Are You Missing Any?

- June 27
- #2
Lessons from selling my tech company.

- June 20
- #1
From Engineer to Entrepreneur to Exits

All Topics
1:1 CEO Coaching
Get clear on your numbers, sharpen your offer, build a leadership team, and grow with confidence.
2026
- May 14
- #96
If I built my tech company again today . . .

- March 26
- #89
People say, “You are a strong woman”

- March 12
- #87
My Take On Delegation

- February 12
- #83
What’s Your Founder DNA?

- January 29
- #81
I Paused Execution to Think Long-Term

- January 22
- #80
Why I started wearing a hairband on my wrist

- January 8
- #78
I misjudged time

2025
- November 27
- #73
How to Work With a Co-Founder (Part 2)

- November 26
Crucial Conversations for Founders: How to Communicate Under Pressure

- November 20
- #72
Choosing Co-founder? Read This First

- November 5
Man’s Search for Meaning: The Leadership Guide Founders Don’t Know They Need

- November 4
Eat That Frog!: The Productivity Playbook Every Founder Needs

- November 4
The Power of Now: How Founders Reclaim Clarity

- October 14
Grit: Why Successful Founders Outlast the Odds

- October 2
- #65
10 Founder Fundamentals That Matter More Than Growth Strategy

- October 2
- #63
Rest in Peace

- October 2
The Godfather: Leadership Lessons Every Founder Should Learn

- September 24
Trust: The Founder’s Hidden Growth Engine

- September 13
Build Better Days: 4 Books to Boost Founder Focus and Output

- September 6
The Obstacle Is the Way: Stoic Leadership for Founders Who Want Calm in the Storm

- August 16
The First 20 Hours for Founders: Learn Faster, Lead Smarter

- July 31
4 Bedtime Books Every Founder Should Read

- July 3
- #53
What if you’re just tired?

- June 26
Reclaim Focus, Transform Outcomes: Deep Work by Cal Newport

- June 24
Command Without Cracking: Lessons from The Hard Thing About Hard Things

- June 13
Growth as Grace: How Mindset by Carol Dweck Helped Me Redefine Success

- June 5
Playing The Long Game: How The 7 Habits Build Lasting Business Success

- May 17
From Chaos to Consistency: The Checklist Manifesto’s Framework for Business Excellence

- May 1
- #44
Why You’re Still the Bottleneck (Even With a Team)

- March 28
Escape the Founder’s Trap: How The E-Myth Revisited Creates Self-Running Businesses

- March 27
- #39
Why Your Ideas Stay Stuck in Your Head [+ Tip of the Week]

- March 25
The Power of Strategic Elimination: How Essentialism Transforms CEO Decision-Making

- February 20
- #34
From 17-hour days to 4hr days + 22% growth

- February 13
- #33
Why Founders Delay Their Own Success

- January 16
- #29
From Bali, With a Humbling Lesson…

- January 2
- #27
The 15-minute ritual that powered my 2 businesses

2024
- December 5
- #25
How I Lost My Big Client and Team (I Never Saw It Coming)

- November 21
- #23
From Founder’s Brain to Company OS: A Tactical Guide

- November 14
- #22
Growth, Rapid Growth, Hyper Growth

- October 3
- #16
The Science of Trust: How to Transform it into Profit

- September 12
- #13
The Million-Dollar Blindspot: Turning Financial Foresight into Your Superpower

- August 29
- #11
Maximizing vs. Satisficing

- July 4
- #3
7 Must-Have Skills for Tech Founders: Are You Missing Any?

- June 20
- #1
From Engineer to Entrepreneur to Exits

All Topics
1:1 CEO Coaching
Get clear on your numbers, sharpen your offer, build a leadership team, and grow with confidence.
2026
- April 23
- #93
I under-invested in demand for years

- April 16
- #92
I studied Sam Walton for months. Here’s how his mind worked

- March 19
- #88
If rockets can be standardized, so can your business

- February 19
- #84
Want to Grow 10x?

- February 5
- #82
Muji vs Red Bull: What strong brands refuse to do

- January 29
- #81
I Paused Execution to Think Long-Term

- January 15
- #79
What ‘Shoe Dog’ Reveals About Growth and Risk

2025
- December 18
- #76
A Year-End Reset for the Founder Who Thinks Long-Term

- December 11
- #75
My Biggest Inspiration in Business (and What Founders Forget Today)

- November 13
- #71
Love him or hate him, but you can’t ignore him.

- November 5
Man’s Search for Meaning: The Leadership Guide Founders Don’t Know They Need

- October 30
- #69
How Smart Founders Actually Decide (Part II)

- October 23
- #68
Eliminate Stupidity Before Chasing Brilliance

- October 8
The Art of Thinking Clearly: Cognitive Biases Every Founder Must Avoid

- October 2
- #65
10 Founder Fundamentals That Matter More Than Growth Strategy

- August 7
- #58
Don’t hire to grow. Design to grow.

- July 17
- #55
Revealing Unsaid Lessons Behind My Two Exits

- June 17
The Lean Startup: The Cure for Idea Overload

- June 5
- #49
How to Reduce Key-Person Risk in Delivery

- June 3
Outsmarting Your Brain: How Thinking, Fast and Slow Improves Business Decisions

- May 10
Atomic Habits for Business: A Founder’s Guide to Business Growth

- April 23
Building a Monopoly Business: Zero to One’s Framework for Startup Founders

- February 27
- #35
Why great hires fail in startups — and how to prevent it.

- February 6
- #32
[Part3] The 6-week guide to implementing your Operating Model

- January 30
- #31
[Part 2] The system that saved my sanity (and my company)

- January 23
- #30
[Part 1] Why adding more people makes everything slower (and how to fix it)

2024
- November 28
- #24
Why Your Innovation Efforts Stall – and How to Fix Them

- July 25
- #6
Flywheel Effect: How to accelerate your business growth

All Topics
1:1 CEO Coaching
Get clear on your numbers, sharpen your offer, build a leadership team, and grow with confidence.
2026
- April 10
- #91
Your replies made me think

- April 2
- #90
Slow sales?

- March 19
- #88
If rockets can be standardized, so can your business

- March 4
- #86
Why I Started CEO Mastery

2025
- December 8
Made to Stick for Founders: How to Craft Ideas People Remember

- December 4
- #74
We change our tools, and then our tools change us

- November 6
- #70
Celebrating 70 editions + a gift for you

- August 28
- #61
Customer Delivery Slowing Your Growth?

- August 21
- #60
3 Mistakes About Revenue Growth

- August 7
- #58
Don’t hire to grow. Design to grow.

- July 24
- #56
7 Revenue Levers: Diagnose Before You Scale

- July 10
- #54
180 Degree Turn

- July 3
The One-Liner That Sells: How StoryBrand Helped Me Clarify My Offer and Close Faster

- June 26
- #52
You lose profit through unseen cracks, and here’s how to discover it.

- May 29
- #48
3 Phases of Business Wealth (Most Founders Get Stuck at #1)

- May 15
- #46
Famous for One Thing

- May 13
From Growth Mode to Wealth Mode: Business Lessons from The Psychology of Money

- April 17
- #42
Are You Paying the ‘Growth Tax’? [+ Valuation Tip of the week]

- April 10
- #41
Revenue Engine: Old formula vs. New formula

- April 3
- #40
I Built a 200-Person Company. My New One Has 0 Employees (Here’s Why)

- March 25
Profit First: The Money System That Actually Works for Entrepreneurs

- March 23
Building a Remarkable Business Without VC: Lessons from Small Giants

- March 20
- #38
How I’m building a monopoly in my 3rd business

- March 13
- #37
Clients ghosted Jay until he changed these 5 words

2024
- December 12
- #26
The Revenue-Profit Matrix: Are You in the Danger Zone?

- November 14
- #22
Growth, Rapid Growth, Hyper Growth

- November 7
- #21
Make Clients Never Leave: 4 Steps to Become Irreplaceable

- October 24
- #19
How I Doubled a Client’s Revenue in 12 Months with Unusual Revenue Growth Strategies

- October 10
- #17
Train Your Tech Sales for Consultative Selling

- October 3
- #16
The Science of Trust: How to Transform it into Profit

- September 19
- #14
What’s Holding Your Business Back?

- September 5
- #12
Beyond Barbie and Big Mac: The Surprising Secret of Business Models

- August 22
- #10
Don’t scale your business. Scale your business model.

- August 15
- #9
Seal the Deal: The Power of Stakeholder-Centric Proposals

- August 1
- #7
80/20 of Tech Sales: Multiply Revenue, Minimize Effort

- July 11
- #4
Rapid & Responsible Growth: Your 3-Minute Guide to Scaling Smart

All Topics
1:1 CEO Coaching
Get clear on your numbers, sharpen your offer, build a leadership team, and grow with confidence.
2026
- February 5
- #82
Muji vs Red Bull: What strong brands refuse to do

- January 1
- #77
One KPI for 2026

2025
- August 14
- #59
I never thought of this until someone tried to buy my company

- July 31
- #57
2-Question Business Audit

- July 17
- #55
Revealing Unsaid Lessons Behind My Two Exits

- July 15
Built to Sell Summary: 7 Lessons for Founders Who Want to Build a Buyable Business

- June 12
- #50
A Gift For You: 12 Ways You Can Exit Your Business, Successfully.

- May 29
- #48
3 Phases of Business Wealth (Most Founders Get Stuck at #1)

- May 15
- #46
Famous for One Thing

- May 8
- #45
Busywork. Liability. Asset. What Are You Really Building?

- April 24
- #43
Exit #1 Was Luck. Exit #2 Was Strategy.

- March 6
- #36
My acquirer slashed my post-sale commitment from 12 months to 30 days. Here’s why.

2024
- July 18
- #5
How to Maximize Value of your Business

- July 11
- #4
Rapid & Responsible Growth: Your 3-Minute Guide to Scaling Smart

- June 27
- #2
Lessons from selling my tech company.

All Topics
1:1 CEO Coaching
Get clear on your numbers, sharpen your offer, build a leadership team, and grow with confidence.
2026
- May 7
- #95
Your company is copying you

- April 29
- #94
A truck driver bet on Sam Walton. 20 years later, retired with $700,000

- March 26
- #89
People say, “You are a strong woman”

- February 26
- #85
The Best Meeting I Hosted

2025
- December 8
Radical Candor for Founders: How to Care Deeply and Challenge Directly

- November 27
- #73
How to Work With a Co-Founder (Part 2)

- November 20
- #72
Choosing Co-founder? Read This First

- November 6
- #70
Celebrating 70 editions + a gift for you

- October 28
Surrounded by Idiots: A Founder’s Guide to Managing Different Personalities

- October 16
- #67
You’re Running 2 Businesses, But Managing Only One

- October 9
- #66
Your Team Isn’t Telling You the Truth

- October 2
The Godfather: Leadership Lessons Every Founder Should Learn

- September 25
- #64
How to share your doubts with team without losing authority

- September 4
- #62
People: Asset or Liability?

- June 5
- #49
How to Reduce Key-Person Risk in Delivery

- May 29
From Small to Significant: How Good to Great Principles Scale Self-Funded Companies

- May 22
- #47
Why Great Management Outperforms “Leadership” Every Time

- February 6
- #32
[Part3] The 6-week guide to implementing your Operating Model

- January 30
- #31
[Part 2] The system that saved my sanity (and my company)

- January 23
- #30
[Part 1] Why adding more people makes everything slower (and how to fix it)

- January 9
- #28
How to Micromanage (And Not Be That Boss)

2024
- December 5
- #25
How I Lost My Big Client and Team (I Never Saw It Coming)

- November 28
- #24
Why Your Innovation Efforts Stall – and How to Fix Them

- November 21
- #23
From Founder’s Brain to Company OS: A Tactical Guide

- October 31
- #20
How to run Strategic vs Operational Meetings differently

- October 17
- #18
The First 72 Hours: How to Set Your Newly Promoted Leader Up for Success

- August 8
- #8
High Employee Turnover? Implement the Stay Interview Strategy

All Topics
1:1 CEO Coaching
Get clear on your numbers, sharpen your offer, build a leadership team, and grow with confidence.
