by Jessie Barber | Jan 15, 2021 | Leadership, Owner
Coach Tripp would wear us out in the weight room every time. Some days were a real treat when practice was scheduled immediately after the weight room…ughh. I had one job, throw the ball upside down and backward over a distance of 45 feet in less than .7...
by Jessie Barber | Jan 4, 2021 | Employee, Finance, Owner
Through our work with business owners, we have seen some who have had access to significant money. Not all, but some. A few weeks ago I was on the phone with a business owner who has what some would consider to be “life-changing” money…meaning, he wouldn’t have...
by Jessie Barber | Jan 4, 2021 | Owner
The latest headline declares “Business closures surge by 200% as coronavirus hammers US economy, study finds.” We have all experienced a force majeure (a cool word I heard a lawyer use the other day and thought I’d give it a shot with you here:) of sorts in the last...
by Jessie Barber | Jan 4, 2021 | Owner
Ahmaud Arbery was killed on February 23rd, 2020 while jogging through the streets of his neighborhood. Ahmaud made a subconscious judgment call based on his context to run in public on that particular Sunday. Two men, very different from Ahmaud, made a decision to...
by Jessie Barber | Jan 1, 2021 | Mission, Owner, Vision
Sometimes we can get lost in the repetition of the process, a good thing, to the neglect of humanity that can be found in our words. Your team wants to know what you are thinking. They want to know your ideas, your plans, your real-time thoughts, and your...
by Jessie Barber | Dec 30, 2020 | Owner
One of the great Jewish leaders from 600 BC can provide eerily familiar insight and history into our modern day reality. Jeremiah (a major prophet within Judaism) was surrounded on all sides by media who were seeding a society with confusion and false realities. In...
