My path is the same, but now I know its name. In 2024, I started down this course. Stumbles turned to steps. Discovered action beats talking. Learned from mistakes. Grew in confidence. Still I felt all over the place. Put words to paper and uncovered clarity. In 2025, I’m building a media company. Again, it’s not a different path. We just found an SMB sign. Let me explain. I’ll get to some specifics at the end. First, it’s the comma mindset. I’m a business, man. Nine months ago I started sharing about my journey here. There’s power in posting on this platform. I’m bullish on it. Are you? So why not flip the efforts into some kind of SMB? —— Sweaty guys: wut? Me: A media company. —— IDK what the company looks like yet. That’s okay. Doesn’t matter. We are the media now. Some of you sweaty guys caught on to this before me. I see what you’re building. Glad to be with you. Journeys are better together. If you’re not with us, would love to have your follow @SMBjourney as I go further on this path. Right now I’m creating a wheel. Adding spokes one at a time as I go. Here’s the 3 spokes of today and then 1 in development: 1. X I want to share with others what I’m doing. I don’t care about monetizing my account. I do care about growing my account. Connect with more people and build strong relationships in my network, The rest will take care of itself as I stay consistent here. 2. Writing I’m writing one page per day. I think I’m on day 90 or so. This project will create my content library. Sometimes I share the pieces right away. Some of it I may never share. The idea here is to write for writing’s sake. It’s my favorite way to communicate. I want to get better. 3. Podcast I started my podcast as a way to connect 1:1 with SMB people and provide a platform for more journeys to be shared. No plans to change this. I may switch up the format some and work on improving production value. But the SMB Journey purpose stands. And the WIP spoke: 4.Local newsletter I’m keeping details on this under wraps for now. Stay tuned. All these spokes play off each other in similar and different ways. I’m pumped media is the common hub that brings them together. I’m no expert. I will share the stumbles as the wheel rolls. We’ll fail. Maybe we’ll figure out how to revenue. We’ll fail more. That’s okay. Who knows where this path leads? The journey is what counts. What will you build this year?

@trentjhughes @trevizo_gabe @mattressguy_ Yeah talk to Nick

@BrianMSkinner I’ll just RT it tomorrow morning. And I’m trying to practice launch before it’s ready

@BowTiedMarmott Same.

@siddjash Yeah the alpaca pictures can wait.

@Simpli_FI_Life It was much needed. Working to make it a regular thing

@Simpli_FI_Life appreciate it! the reply game seems to never end. it's fun though 👊

@HallamStanton I like this, Hal.

@DaneSuave See this is the take that I got worried about

@HallamStanton It is time

@AdamMarkleySMB The stroller left in the parking lot has a detachable seat. Baby was safe in car. Don’t kill my luck tonight

@AdamMarkleySMB @adamislucky @skylarromines @JesseTinsley I mentioned raccoons on a video last night. Soemthing is going to happen.

@NahuelHilal Man didn’t know this part of your story. Solid message here. Helpful reassurance to me.

@NahuelHilal Yikes

@BowTiedMarmott No doubt. She helps me kill more foxes than I ever could alone.

@mattressguy_ So much winning

@joebensonx

RT @SMBjourney: Am I allowed in here?

@EndresenHeather @bethanyjbabcock Came here to say this even though I'm not a broker. Feel like Bethany's posts always have layers to them

@JasonPeck Thanks for the push! This kind of pressure actually works really well on me if you pay attention around here. Also, that's rad you had North Hills on lock. That'd be a sweet market