by RogerM | Sep 26, 2026 | Growth & Mindset, Networking & Visibility, Unseen Work
A few years ago, my wife Ana joined an online English meetup group to polish her conversational skills. Students were paired completely at random. She was matched with a woman named Natalia, who lived in Russia. It started as standard small talk—just getting to know...
by RogerM | Sep 26, 2026 | Grit & Perseverance, Growth & Mindset, The Daily Grind
I’ve started this message a dozen times in my head. And every time, I run out of words before I run out of emotions. So let me just try this again… My mom spent her last days at ICESP—São Paulo’s largest cancer center in the largest city in Brazil....
by RogerM | Sep 15, 2026 | Grit & Perseverance, Networking & Visibility, The Daily Grind
The clock ticked slower there. In that wing of a medical center in São Paulo, time stopped being in a hurry. You heard every tick. You felt the space between them. And you would have given anything to fill that gap with something other than what was coming. My mom...
by RogerM | Sep 4, 2026 | Grit & Perseverance, Growth & Mindset, Unseen Work
The odds of dying in a car crash are about 1 in 95. Yet we all jump in our cars every day and go on with our lives without questioning it. The odds of dying in a plane crash are about 1 in 11 million. And somehow… people are still scared to fly. The odds of winning...
by RogerM | Aug 22, 2026 | Grit & Perseverance, Growth & Mindset, Unseen Work
I didn’t start writing to become an author. I started writing to sell window shades. That’s the honest truth. I needed to promote my business, and someone suggested starting a blog. So I sat down and did it. In broken English, a language that wasn’t...
