It was a cold winter day in Seattle, during a pandemic. I had summoned a couple of my friends and people I respect over for a meeting. We were going to discuss an idea.
I pulled out our camping chairs onto the front lawn because it was better protected from the wind coming off the water and we discussed an opportunity we all saw for us to start a business together. All of us had run or were currently running other businesses and so the thought of starting something anew was not foreign to us – but because of this we took pause. Do we really want to sign up for this again?
As I type this I haven’t “worked” in 23 months. It’s been really nice, not surprisingly. Beside the demands that a toddler and a newborn put on me I have really been able to structure my days to my liking. Which is another way of saying – I squeeze personal hobbies in between naps and playing with my son. If you follow me on my social media channels you are also aware that we’ve spent a good amount of time travelling the west and going to Michigan. In fact, we have put over 25,000 miles on our Airstream trailer and out of the last 18 months we have lived out of it for at least 6 of them. It’s been a blast!
But ideas don’t stay away for ever, they return, and some of them are good enough that they continue to return and then the pieces start to come together and then you find yourself one night buying a website and registering an LLC. It’s funny how that works.
So stay tuned! I can’t talk about my plans just yet but hopefully within a month or two I will be able to!
Cheers!
p.s. the name of the this site has now changed. I’m no longer and (ex)entrepreneur…