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Leadership and mindset guidance for law firm owners navigating growth, difficult decisions, accountability, confidence, and life beyond the office.

Mindset Shifts Part 1: From the Dark Side to the Light

January 22, 2026

I want to get super real with you right now, I hope you’ll join me for this conversation about mindset shifts from the perspective of how I have run my law firm. Without getting too into the concept of evolutionary biology and human development (see if you can link to an article for more on

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10 Tips for Gift-Giving (That Aren’t About You!)

January 21, 2026

What do Leslie Knope, Oprah Winfrey, and my wife buying me a straw have in common? They nail the art of giving the perfect gift. Leslie Knope, the queen of thoughtful gifts, knows how to personalize every single present she gives. Remember that time she tormented Ron Swanson by making him think he was getting

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Charting the Course (to Mt Doom): Turning a Goal Into a Plan to Get There

January 21, 2026

I want to run a 7 figure law firm!!! Said by so many people, that it’s basically lost all meaning…and here’s what it misses… If you give me $1,000,000.01 or more I can help you run a 7 figure firm. Or if you’re miserable while doing it? What’s the point? Or if it’s just from

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Your Purpose and How to Get There – or how 2 Japanese Traditions Shaped my Life Without me Knowing it

January 21, 2026

I love food. Boom. There’s the newsletter. Kidding aside, I went out to eat with a friend at an AYCE Brazilian restaurant and we ended up feasting and chatting for almost 3 hours. During that time I had one of the greatest eureka moments of my life. We were talking about Japanese history (as one

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End of the Year Holiday Cheer

January 21, 2026

What do Dan Sullivan, Captain America, and 2024 Jordan Ostroff have in common? They all understand the power of reflecting on past achievements to fuel future success. As we approach the end of 2024, it’s the perfect time to celebrate how far we’ve come and not just set our sights on the adventures ahead and

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Introducing “LEI’D Back Life” – My New Podcast!

January 21, 2026

What do Hawaiian shirts, entrepreneurship, and intentional living have in common? Well, if you’ve been following me for a while, you know they’re a few of my favorite things. That’s why I’m excited to announce my brand-new podcast: The LEI’D Back Life – where we’ll be “Loving Entrepreneurship and Improving Daily” the lives we want.

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Unlocking the Secret to Lasting Relationships in Law: The Fantastic Five

January 21, 2026

According to me (and anyone who wants to agree with me)…networking is doing WHAT you want to do with WHO you want to do it with. Ideally I don’t have referral sources in one bucket and friends in another and colleagues in a third…the goal is that all of these are all the same bucket.

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Writing Your Obituary – Planning Your Life Legacy

January 21, 2026

What do Aristotle, Alfred Nobel, and Back to the Future’s Doc Brown have in common? Aristotle gave us the timeless wisdom of finding balance in life (and as Will Durant famously summarized, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”).  Alfred Nobel, didn’t die in 1888, but his

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Why You’re Still Doing Too Much (and How to Fix It)

January 20, 2026

What do the Challenger space shuttle explosion, The Avengers for most of Infinity War, and your Tuesday morning chaos have in common? They all look like failures, but when you drill down we find that they’re really just symptoms of unclear communication, fuzzy ownership, and/or way too much falling on one over-caffeinated person. Back when

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Real-Life Respawns

January 20, 2026

What to do when you totally screw something up. So what do you do when you blow it? Look—we all screw things up. I don’t care how smart, strategic, or spreadsheet-savvy you are. You’re going to misread the market, hire the wrong person, skip leg day, send an email to the wrong “Mike,” or pour

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And it’s not easy to build a successful business while maintaining a sense of control over your life, either. That’s why I’m here, to help you create the kind of life you will love to live. Yep, you can have your cake and eat it too. Who would want a cake they can’t eat? (even if I am more of a cookie/brownie type guy).

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