Learning through passion

I realize my content has changed dramatically in the last several years. After spending 8 years in the business lending sector, it's no wonder it did. I have personally consulted several thousand businesses in the oil and gas, trucking, construction and manufacturing sectors. I've been directly involved in billions of dollars in transactions, and that is no exaggeration. I’ve gone from being a pipsqueak salesman with no business education to a serial entrepreneur grossing seven figures a year (this year, anyway) with multiple businesses actively being managed and scaling.

My growth has been enormous, though it is a mere shadow of the businesses I work with. I am everything compared to who I was eight years ago, and I am nothing compared to my clients.

Thousands of economically technical conversations directly with the owners of those firms, men and women who are the BEST and brightest in their fields, some owning businesses that gross in the hundreds of millions per year, has had a profound effect on my opinions of our current state of affairs.

Seriously, you didn’t expect me to stay the same bright eyed and bushy tailed kid, right? The tall, naive kid in the middle of the group decided he wanted to make a name for himself, and to do that he would have to learn, learn, and never stop learning. And that’s exactly what I did, and now I am the most viewed voice on oil and gas invoice factoring in ALL of LinkedIn (unless I'm very unaware of someone else). I have made a name for myself purely from applying the many lessons I was offered under the tutelage of my clients. My business school was the digital board rooms of several thousand businesses with billions in combined revenue.

And yall, what I’ve learned is ugly.

I have been exposed to levels of corruption I didn't think possible when I was just an ignorant kid out of college. I have personally witnessed depravity, greed, hatred, and madness at the highest of levels, and have witnessed how that rhetoric demolished the lives of the businesses I received testimony from.

I am not some genius. I simply hold the cumulative opinions of the thousands of experts I have queried over the years. That knowledge has enraged me with a passion to pursue change. I am deeply involved in all of the businesses I work with and develop close relationships with almost every one, but more so than this, I CARE about my clients. I care that they’re being treated unfairly, lied about, businesses tossed aside like dirty straw. It infuriates me. And so, I have become some kind of pseudo-activist, posting whatever I learn as I learn it because I TRULY believe in what I say.

Pursuing the truth and in the process attempting to help my people by spreading facts has become a deep passion of mine. More So than this, I have begun meeting with a local congressman whom I intend to learn as much as I possibly can from. He is an excellent, Christian, moral man with an impeccable track record of standing for truth. I will passionately pursue impacting my community better through learning from interactions with him and applying those lessons.

Many people mistake passion for madness, simply because they lack passion in the subject being discussed. They see the passion but dismiss the discussion because they are stuck in the bias of self-relevance–meaning, their view of madness and passion are based only on their OWN passions. Yet, without passion, there is no learning. No change. No growth. Without passion there is no DESIRE to learn, grow, and so it is absent. In that absence grows a mistrust for those that openly share deep passion measured only by their lack thereof, and therefore deem the subject not notable. In this habit, they do not learn

I invite you to learn. Join my passion for truth even if you don’t share my conclusions. Seek deeply the answers that are hidden just beneath the surface of convenient lies. Speak loudly your findings, invite discussion, stand firm in your stance until your logic is bested. Invite intellectualism back into discussion of historically “political” subjects, and powerfully push your bias aside while openly considering alternate realities.

I invite you to a better world, where the best ideas are the ones applied, and not the most “socially acceptable”

I invite you to learn, change and grow, just like I did.

Please join me