Oct 16, 2025 | Stress Management
Let’s start with the facts: I have eight speaking events in fourteen days.This week: two virtual events and the closing keynote at NSA Ohio in Columbus.Next week: two symposiums and two workshops in Boston — we’ll be talking about stress and AI (yes, you can use AI to...
Sep 27, 2025 | Stress Management
I’ve talked about starting a podcast for years. April 24, 2021: I bought three Kindle books on podcasting. I read half of one. Not because it was bad — that half was actually pretty good. I just didn’t take action. November 27, 2022: Black Friday. Bought another...
Aug 25, 2025 | Stress Management
The day stress poured down on me. Literally. 🪜 March 1998. The first warm day in a long time. My wife Beth and I decide to take our two-year-old Kenny out to play in the yard. When we get out there I tell Beth I’m going to unclog our front gutter. All winter long the...
Aug 5, 2025 | Stress Management
📖 Story: Jet Skis at 50 (From my book “Fry Your Chickens!”) (From my book Fry Your Chickens!) It’s a warm day in July. We’re on our annual South Carolina family vacation. I’m sharing a beach towel with my wife. I’d recently hit a milestone birthday. The...
Jul 23, 2025 | Stress Management
I asked ChatGPT to channel Simon Cowell and give me a brutally honest review of my speaking career — specifically how I stack up among Ohio’s top humorous keynote speakers. The feedback? Let’s just say it was equal parts inspiring and… slightly painful. Here’s...
Jul 16, 2025 | Stress Management
How I turned a game show loss into one of the most valuable lessons (and keynotes) of my life. Senior year of high school, I was on our quiz team. We weren’t just answering questions in a classroom — we were competing on a televised academic tournament out of Toledo,...
