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For a step-by-step path to creating, marketing, and launching your first five or six figure product, read: Collaborate: The Modern Playbook for Leading a Small Team to Create, Market, and Sell Digital Products Online. In the fall of 2013, I resigned my commission in the US Army. It was a pretty great moment, I’m not […]
I got an email last week from a Resistance Member asking about Pay What You Want consulting.  She wanted to know two things: Does it work? and... How well? Both fair questions. As you probably know, I’m currently doing a test run using Pay What You Want pricing for my consulting services (sorry, all booked […]
This post is all about how to start, finish and ship a project (product or service). To help, I created a guide and workbook:  Get the "Quick Start Guide + Workbook" here. In February, I had the pleasure of speaking at The Game Changers Live event in Sydney, Australia. I gave a presentation on how to […]
Myrmidons! My brothers of the sword! I would rather fight beside you than any army of thousands! Let no man forget how menacing we are, we are lions! Do you know what's waiting beyond that beach? Immortality! Take it! It's yours! Troy Creators have a dilemma. We want the freedom to create whatever, whenever we […]
“Once you decide on your occupation... you must immerse yourself in your work. You have to fall in love with your work. Never complain about your job. You must dedicate your life to mastering your skill. That's the secret of success...”  – Jiro Ono (Jiro Dreams of Sushi) *   *   * For the […]

Passion, Ferocity and Defiance

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Have you ever wanted to bring an idea to life? Maybe it was an idea for a science fiction book, or a simple blog on a topic you’re passionate about, or maybe even an idea for a startup or small business… What happened? Did you bring it to life?  Did you manifest the vision?  Is […]
Last week, while making a pit stop in Singapore, I was given the opportunity to sit down with a group of passionate entrepreneurs to teach the Lean Startup techniques I used to create Insurgent Publishing from scratch. *Quick shout out to Resistance Members Coralie Dell’Ambrogio and Bryan Long for putting the event together*! During my […]
Last week, I released the first-ever publication from my boutique publishing company: Insurgent Publishing. It’s called The Creative Entrepreneur, and it’s a semi-annual, donation-based business and arts journal. As you can probably guess from its name, it’s all about helping entrepreneurs (and creatives of all types) start, run, and grow their small businesses using creative […]

Jumping out of Helicopters

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“30 seconds!” The Jump Master’s yells, his voice muffled under the pulsating blades of the helicopter just feet above my head. This is a preparatory command – it means we’re about to jump. The helicopter finishes turning, straightens its flight path, and stabilizes as it flies over 60mph through the air. “30 seconds!” we echo.  […]

Life is for the Unreasonable

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For the past two months my wife and I have been vagabonding through New Zealand. Vagabonding is probably the best word for it – the majority of the time we’ve been living out of our backpack and a tiny red hatchback (The Getzya!). The first weekend here, we rented a car (buses are too expensive and […]
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