“I don’t know that I believe everything happens for a reason.” Courtney Clark didn’t say that lightly. She said it as someone who survived cancer. Then survived it again. And then survived a brain aneurysm...

What happens when your passion collides with reality? In this episode of Through the Dip, I sit down with Mark Kuster, founder of Work Lab in Grand Rapids, to talk about the highs and lows...

For a long time, I thought being professional meant holding it all together. Smile. Deliver. Keep your personal stuff out of it. But in talking with Jude Charles, I realized something different: Sometimes, the most...

What if the thing that looks like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity… is actually a trap? When starting Jackson Hewitt, John thought he struck gold: a deal that would double his company’s footprint overnight. Instead, he inherited...

Doug Booth’s company started in a storage unit that was robbed before day one. There was no insurance, no justice, but a new mindset he calls cheerful expectancy, the belief that you show up, even...

What do you do when the floor caves in right after you’re handed an award for being the best? That’s what happened to Dr. Andy Neillie. One moment he was flying around the world as...

I sometimes reach a point where I think, “Can I even keep doing this?” When it’s hard to get out of bed, hard to feel creative, hard to show up. When the voice in your...

I had the chance to sit down with Salem Thyne recently, and wow, what a conversation. He took me behind the scenes of EVA, a virtual reality experience so advanced it honestly made me question...

Daryl’s story hits like a gut punch, not just because it’s raw but because it’s one so many entrepreneurs quietly live through. In his mid-twenties, he’d already built a solid crop consulting business after splitting...

I don’t know about you, but when there is a problem, I usually start looking at other people before I remember to look at myself. More often than not, I would avoid a lot of...

I just got to interview the incredible Brittany Whiteneck. She took a simple kitchen hobby (melting wax, pouring candles, doing the craft fair grind) and turned it into Antique Candle Co., a huge multimillion-dollar company....