There is a saying I keep coming back to: broken crayons still color. Six words. That’s all it is. But every time I sit with it, something in me exhales. Because if I’m being honest, there are seasons where I have felt exactly like that. Snapped in half. Worn down to the paper. Tossed back […]
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Stop Waiting to Be Picked You’ve done the work. You have outperformed. You’ve been patient. It’s time to stop waiting for someone else to recognize what you already know. You know the feeling. You’ve hit every metric, led every initiative, and showed up in ways that weren’t even in your job description. You told yourself
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Multiplier? Diminisher? Accidental Diminisher? I have read a lot of leadership books. Most of them get skimmed, nodded at, and shelved. Multipliers by Liz Wiseman is not one of those books. It is the rare read that made me stop mid-sentence and think about specific conversations I have had with my own team, in a
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Detroit Trade Day 2026: The People Made the Trip I spent a few days in Detroit this month, most of it built around the 15th Annual Detroit Field Office Trade Day at Huntington Place. On paper, the trip was about compliance content: executive order updates, exclusion orders, supply chain security. In practice, the part that
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Know Your Value. Refuse to Accept Less. There’s a specific kind of quiet that happens when you realize the trade you made on purpose, taking less than you were worth for the sake of an opportunity, a foot in the door, a chance to prove something, never got renegotiated. It just kept compounding. You kept
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Gravitas, authenticity, and visibility — woven into one. Picture a Black manager walking into a quarterly business review. The deck is sharp. The numbers are clean. He has done the work. But the moment he opens his mouth, a familiar calculation begins to run in the background — How loud is too loud? How direct
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Let me set the scene. I came up through engineering. I studied it, lived it, and parlayed it into a career in tech — including building my own startups. If you had told me then that I would one day be leading U.S. Customs brokerage operations for a major international trade company, I probably would
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On the quiet discipline we keep forgetting There is a small word tucked into the Psalms that most readers skip over. Selah. Scholars still debate exactly what it meant to the original audience, but the working consensus is that it was a kind of musical or liturgical direction — a signal to pause, to lift
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Year 38: Progress Over Perfection Today I turn 38, and before I say anything else, I want to give thanks to God…for the opportunities that have come my way, for doors that opened when I didn’t even know I needed them to, and for the growth I’ve experienced this past year in ways I’m still
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Why I treat growth as a discipline, not a destination. Obviously I am a little late posting… Every January, I ask myself the same question: what do I need to learn this year to become the leader my team, my family, and my future self actually need? It is a deceptively simple question, but the
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