I’ve hired business consultants, life coaches, professional coaches, leadership coaches, personal trainers, financial coaches, and the list goes on and on…

Many of these coaches are highly skilled in their technical field, highly empathetic, and great communicators.

My problem is that most of them didn’t:

I’m a strong-willed, intelligent, bulldog of a human, and I need a Pro Wrestler to throw me outside of my comfort zone, pin me down when I misbehave, and know instinctively when I’m bullshitting excuses and force me to eat my own shit.

I rarely found those coaches, so I became what I needed for myself and for others who need it.

Since I was 8, I have been the person that people come to when they need to figure shit out and get things done.

I've had priests, physicists, plumbers, and CEOs calling me for years, asking for help:

But most importantly, I get called to ensure the plan gets implemented.

It’s my job to find ways to hack the system.

After working with 2,100+ businesses, it has become "my thing" I do for other people. It’s safe to say that in this incarnation I’m here as an “enabler” and I’ve got the skills to do it.

I was in the middle of a therapeutic psychedelic trip… That's always a good way to start a professional document. 😆 In a moment of lucidity, I "came to" and realized I was pulling at my hair while yelling at a coat rack:

“I JUST NEED TO FIGURE THIS SHIT OUT!"

You know that vibe in your own life?

Staring blankly at a flashing cursor on a Word doc of the new business plan, going around and around in the same cycles of being stuck, looking at monthly sales, and asking yourself why you're not getting any traction.

It's usually an emotional cocktail 🍸 of:

Yea, that vibe. That’s what we’re talking about.

Unfortunately, the coat rack didn't have very insightful feedback, so I had to figure it out myself. And even more unfortunately, I had been trying diligently and aggressively to figure it out for a long time; it just wasn't happening.

So, I had to turn to other people around me to figure shit out and they did!

I might be one of the people you need when you’re feeling like “I JUST NEED TO FIGURE THIS SHIT OUT.”

No. That’s because a Certified Life Coach is a meaningless piece of paper that you can get from a weekend course where you pay some rando $500 to give you a paper. There is no governing body to ensure quality standards in the coaching world, but there are 100s of different groups that will take your money and then give you a piece of paper.

No. While I worked in Ann Arbor, Michigan, home of the University of Michigan, which has one of the top 10 MBA programs in the USA, costing $250K for a degree, I found I had dozens of MBA graduates walking into my office to ask me questions. Me, a lowly bachelor's degree holder from Thomas Edison University. MBAs are outstanding if you want to be in middle management for a Fortune 5000 business. But if you want to be in the scrappy entrepreneurship world, the 2 years, $250K, and gallons of stress hormones are better spent elsewhere.

Also, while I’m ranting… My BSBA in Business Development was functionally useless to me when I started and sold my first business. 95% of what I learned I learned on the job, and the 5% of what my degree taught me was not worth the time/money/stress that it took to learn.

The primary difference between myself and a business consultant is that I do the work, and a business consultant just tells you what to do.

Me: Much of the work I do myself. I'm a productivity nutcase and know how to move a metric ton of work over the finish line.

Your Staff: Daily, I'm meeting with the staff of my clients in a project management role to help them implement the changes that need to happen.

Contractors: Occasionally, I find third-party contractors, who either have a reduced cost or an increased skill set to solve the problem on our behalf. It's my job to find, vet, and manage them.

My Team: I've got an entire Rolodex of people that do good work and I trust to get the problem solved. None of them are my staff. Some of them are subcontractors, and some of them are just outside vendors.

I do deep implementation work, not quick consulting and PDF writing, so I limit the number of projects I'm working on.

There is not an industry or demographic that I exclusively work with. If you name the industry, I've probably done some work in it. I've worked for companies that made $50 a year, and I've worked for companies that made more than $50 million a year.

Most of my clients I choose based on psychographics, not demographics. Psychographics include soft skills like your values, mindset, and communication style.

I'm based in Detroit, Michigan, and work with my team and my clients mostly remotely. However, I've been known to travel for intensive multi-day work sessions with clients after a few weeks.

I don't find it wise to force people to keep working together when it's no longer a good fit.