What do you do when you meet someone who has been right about every technology wave of the last 30 years?

You listen.

I recently sat down with Peter Swain in Boise — he flew in from London, which is no small thing — and the conversation has been running through my head ever since.

Most of us have been in that meeting… where someone new comes in and starts cutting things. Meetings get canceled, processes get scrapped, and systems get rebuilt from scratch. It feels decisive and efficient, but according to Nate Amidon, it might be exactly the wrong move.

Most of us have been asking the wrong question about our mortgage.

Harrison George grew up on a thousand acres in the East Bay, moved to Idaho on 45 days' notice with woodworking equipment and 17 articles of clothing, and somewhere along the way became a loan originator licensed in 48 states and DC. His family's company, CMG, is the largest privately held mortgage company in the United States. They recently purchased a bank in Wisconsin, now known as Bank CMG. Harrison describes it simply: the anti-bank bank. "We want you to feel like you're a person," he says, "and not just a number."

Mark Martin was a studio tech. His job was to tear down the session, make the safety copies, and leave. Instead, he stayed for hours, pull up the multi-tracks and ask questions nobody told him to ask. What compressor are they using? What's the ratio? What's the threshold? Why is it set that way? He wasn't assigned this or paid for it…he just couldn't leave without knowing.

Closing the Gap Between Where You Are and Where You Want to Be

Jake Blanchard has worn a lot of hats. He's a management consultant, a cybersecurity sales lead, a former healthcare supply chain specialist, and someone who has parachuted into organizations ranging from $5 billion retail companies to university health systems to help them do what they simply couldn't figure out how to do on their own.

Everyone Wants Freedom. Nobody Wants the Saturday Call.

There's a version of entrepreneurship that gets shared a lot online. You set your own hours, you answer to nobody, you're at your kid's soccer game while your phone quietly generates income in your pocket. It's compelling. It's also, for most business owners, mostly fiction.