by RogerM | Nov 12, 2026 | Grit & Perseverance, Growth & Mindset, Networking & Visibility
My father always had cash in his pocket. My mother always had a needle in her hand. He was a natural salesman. He could walk into a room full of strangers and walk out with friends, orders, and somebody else’s lunch money. He made good money. Some months, very...
by RogerM | Nov 9, 2026 | Grit & Perseverance, Growth & Mindset, Networking & Visibility
I saw a sign the other day… A chalkboard outside a restaurant, the A-frame kind propped on the sidewalk, with the title Reasons we have received bad reviews. Beef bourguignon did not contain cream. Customer unable to get a table when we weren’t open....
by RogerM | Nov 2, 2026 | Grit & Perseverance, Growth & Mindset, Networking & Visibility
Somewhere around 2009, a woman in Wrentham, Massachusetts, watched a stranger stop at her mother’s front door. He was a subcontractor sent by Lowe’s to install shades in a unit at Pond Meadow. Nothing special about the job. A few windows. A few brackets....
by RogerM | Oct 26, 2026 | Grit & Perseverance, Growth & Mindset, Networking & Visibility
The other day I was scrolling my feed and I stopped on something a woman had written. She was in her forties. Her heart had been broken. And she was honest about the part most people won’t say out loud: she still wanted a companion. She still wanted love. But...
by RogerM | Oct 19, 2026 | Grit & Perseverance, Growth & Mindset, Networking & Visibility
A Brazilian friend posted something in a WhatsApp group this week, and I had to read it twice. He’d written about how it’s been a struggle his whole life to learn English as a second language. How as a kid it was all the “the book is on the table” journey,...
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...
