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Today, I'm thankful for full circle moments and core memories being unlocked.I loved playing sports as a kid, but I wasn...
10/09/2026

Today, I'm thankful for full circle moments and core memories being unlocked.

I loved playing sports as a kid, but I wasn't a natural athlete. Youth baseball and soccer introduced me to team sports, but I wasn't particularly gifted at either. It wasn't until a summer rec league swim meet in 3rd grade that I found any success at all in sport, and that was following my first race—a 25 free—where I got to the other end of the pool before everybody else and they gave me a blue "Heat Winner" ribbon. From that moment on, I'd found my sport, I was a swimmer.

Fast forward seven years and I traveled from Southern Indiana up to Columbus North for my first high school sectional meet and experienced my first big-time natatorium with a packed crowd of spectators. Little did I know at the time that I'd marry a North graduate and eventually put roots down in this city.

Fast forward again to last night, my son is participating in his first swim meet at that exact same natatorium in what's now his hometown of Columbus. First race: 25 free. He earned the opportunity to experience that same joy of winning I discovered more than twenty years earlier by getting to the other end of the pool before any of his competitors.

Where he goes from here is up to him. I won't force him to love the sport that was mine for so many years, but I'm excited to see him excel in swimming at an age years younger than I ever competed and have the opportunity to share insights and lessons from my years in the pool. Beyond that, I'll support whatever passion for competitive sports or other extracurriculars he finds and will always cherish where it overlaps with my own formational years. I'm a coach at heart, after all, so I think this is a natural tendency to want to be able to guide your child from a place of experience and expertise. His knack for baseball at an early age is something I don't share with him at all, but it's been just as joyous to watch in these earliest seasons.

Getting to experience the world all over again through my son's eyes is the greatest gift, especially when his victory allowed me to experience a full circle moment that filled me with immense gratitude and pride.

What fills you with gratitude on this Friday? Share it with us, join the TGIF. movement.

10/08/2026

New episode of Making More is out, and this one stuck with us.

Early in the conversation, Billy asked Brian Franz what he wanted listeners to take away. Brian is Vice President at Envision3, a family-owned printing and packaging company near Chicago that ranks among the top 200 printers in the country. He had every reason to talk about the business.

He talked about progress instead.

Anyone can make progress, he said. He admitted it sounds like a cliché, then explained that he has watched it hold true in his own life, personally and professionally, and that helping other people move forward is what gets him out of bed now.

Then he tied it to the word that runs through the entire episode. Legacy. Not the end-of-life kind. The kind you are building today.

"Legacy starts today for everybody."

That is a good question for any business owner to sit with. If legacy starts today, what are you actually building? And is the way you spend a normal Thursday pointed in that direction?

Brian's answer shows up in how he lives. He started on the production floor because he wanted to get to know the business has family had built. He caps his lifestyle and sends the rest to feed children in Nicaragua through Nourish International, where he now serves on the board. He gets forty minutes in the gym at midday, and when the day gets away from him, he runs with his daughter in the stroller instead.

In the full conversation we get into the craft hiding inside an industry most people never think about, how a family business grows while private equity consolidates everything around it, and what he hopes his kids understand someday about the way he works.

Listen or watch now, follow or subscribe where ever you enjoy podcasts, and share with a leader you know. Link in the comments.

Invites still going out, have you received yours?Nominate a Columbus area business owner today and we'll reach out soon ...
10/06/2026

Invites still going out, have you received yours?

Nominate a Columbus area business owner today and we'll reach out soon to confirm they'd be deserving of a seat at the table.

On this Friday I'm delighted to share some thanks with our faithful committee members for this year's Columbus Walk To E...
10/02/2026

On this Friday I'm delighted to share some thanks with our faithful committee members for this year's Columbus Walk To End Alzheimer's.

For the meetings and the dedicated work in between them, thank you for helping us plan and coordinate a successful Walk season of team recruitment, onboarding sponsorships, and fundraising leading up to a terrific event day experience for all those that will join us this Sunday, October 4th, at Mill Race Park Amphitheater.

Volunteering your time and energy for this cause means the world to me and I know it's appreciated by all of our staff partners at Alzheimer's Association Greater Indiana Chapter.

AJ Weddle, Alesa McQueary, Bill Deweese, Hannah Crouch, Heather Baker, Heather Pickup, Ishna Kesti, Shawna Nester, Jessica Siscel, Jane Ferril, Maggie Sturgill, Michael McBride, Michele Zurface, Hannah Moore, Morgan Andis, Tammy Hanner, and Taylor Balser, thank you all so much for making my job easy and I can't wait to see you on Sunday!

What are you thankful for today?

Are you a business owner with a team? Do you know an owner of a local small-to-medium-size business? Reach out about an ...
09/30/2026

Are you a business owner with a team? Do you know an owner of a local small-to-medium-size business? Reach out about an invite to Sightline Forum. We're getting started in less than a month.

Today I'm thankful for coffee. You come to my job interview, "May I get you a cup of coffee?" is the welcome you'll rece...
09/25/2026

Today I'm thankful for coffee. You come to my job interview, "May I get you a cup of coffee?" is the welcome you'll receive. Black for me, iced latte for you, enjoy your sips where ever you go.

It's Friday, so that means TGIF and sharing what or who you're thankful for. Tag them in the comments and let's see how many ripples of gratitude we can create together.

09/24/2026

New episode of Making More is out and this one is worth your time.

Erin Mitchell is a fractional CMO and business owner who spent twenty years in corporate marketing before a layoff at CVS Health pushed her to finally start the business she had always talked about. In this clip she admits something I didn't expect: she was the worst marketing client she ever had. Her own first website broke every rule she gives her clients.

Three years later she knows exactly who she serves, and she is in the middle of rebranding her company to Grow Giants. The name came to her in the shower.

In the full conversation she gets into why saying no is the most valuable thing a marketer does, the campaign she delayed because both doctors went on vacation, the client whose whole problem was that nobody answered the phone, and what it is like to be a swim coach and a swim parent at the same time. That last part ends with a state title and an apology, in that order.

Listen or watch now. Follow or subscribe whereever you enjoy podcasts. Link in the comments.

This Friday, we want to hear what you're thankful for, !!If it's a person or a business, tag them in the comments.
09/18/2026

This Friday, we want to hear what you're thankful for, !!

If it's a person or a business, tag them in the comments.

Today, gratitude isn't the first thing that comes to mind on this day of remembrance, the 25th anniversary of a day that...
09/11/2026

Today, gratitude isn't the first thing that comes to mind on this day of remembrance, the 25th anniversary of a day that changed so many lives here in America.

Where were you on 9/11? What do you remember from that shocking day? When you tried to process the initial horror and the tragic loss of life we were witnessing on those planes and in the Twin Towers, at the Pentagon, what helped supplant the grief and sadness? Did you see the helpers? The people running towards Ground Zero in first responder uniforms.

Today I'm thankful for the police, firefighters, EMTs, and military personnel that leapt into action that morning and in the days and weeks that followed. They risked their lives in the immediate aftermath, some lost in the building collapses and, all these years later, we know they risked their health breathing in toxic chemicals that rose up out of the rubble and ashes while the rescue and recovery work persisted. For their sacrifices and willingness to put service before self, I am grateful. It's through that lens that I remember September 11th.

09/10/2026

I asked Umar Carter how much of the AI conversation is hype. He said some of it, sure, but the substance is real and we are not going back.

What stuck with me was what he said next. He grew up memorizing square root tables. Then calculators showed up, then Encarta, then Google, then ChatGPT. Every step freed up something. His worry is not that the tools exist. It is whether we use them in a way that keeps our ability to think for ourselves intact. He does not want those muscles to atrophy.

I will be honest with you. I use these tools almost every day. They allow me to do more in less time. So I am not throwing stones here.

But I also think this technology grew up faster than we were ready for. Everybody adopted it at once, oversight never caught up, and the data centers making it all possible use a critical amount of water and power. Those costs land somewhere, usually on communities that were never asked. I think about that more than I used to.

Not saying stop using it. Just saying it is worth knowing what it costs.

New episode with Umar is out now. He grew up on a farm in Jamaica, came here at twelve, worked his way up to CFO, and now gets up at 4:20 every morning. Really good conversation. Link below to Episode 21.

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