The Un-Commonly Common Story Of How One Man Went From Homeless To Worth M…
I once saw Jimmy Buffett at a gas station. It was cool but it wasn’t an opportunity. Allison Krause came up behind me in line at a coffee shop – just a day after selling out Bridgestone Arena with Robert Plant. She was cool. Our conversation, “hey Allison how are you?” “I’m good, doing good” me…
I’m in Nashville onstage at a pretty cool venue playing a set of my original songs. The place still had a fair amount of people in it. I was on my last song. I was tired and it was a long drive home. Everyone was loving the show though, and what was supposed to be…
“My most public yet of my many humiliations” … Seinfeld SE8/EP9 … Have you ever been “embarrassed”? I once caught myself “dancing” in a mirror. I was so into the song I forgot what I was doing … next thing I knew, I was out of control, and following that, I was in the mirror catching…
Sylvester Stallone is a bad ass. The guy just understands the struggle. The guy was so broke at one point he reportedly even sold his dog. He used his early experience to write several of the best stories in the history of cinema. – Have you ever lived and breathed something? Ever been the underdog? I…
I was about to drown. I was going under over and over again and at one point, I started staying under. I was trying my best to get up. Struggling. I couldn’t breathe and water was going up my nose. I had never skied on water before so I didn’t know what to do in…
I spent my entire life wanting to be wealthy. It was the only thing that was going to make me happy. When I was 12 I picked up the first ever Forbes 400. I was mesmerized. I couldn’t put it down. I read it over and over and over. I took notes on the people….
We had 80,000 fans, up from 20,000, less than a year later. That’s when I made my pitch. The real money was going to come from the website. Imagine having 50 branded pages (branded meaning an oil change place, a tire center, a mechanic, whomever) each paying $1,000 a month to basically maintain their own…