Once upon a time it was just me in my basement. It was a little dark, kinda lonely, and the hustle was really real. 

Slowly over the years I have built a team that’s dedicated to fellow entrepreneurs and business owners. My team gets jazzed up about empowering via knowledge sharing, giving free resources, and what I hope is inspiring material for you in your business journey.

Because my team has grown, so have my leadership skills. I went from doing everything, to determining how to delegate tasks that felt precious to me, and as if I was the only one that could, or should, complete them. Once I found one amazing team member, others followed so that today, we have a Clockworked business with employees who are All In. Priceless.

Here’s the team that takes my systems and runs with them to optimize your experience as a business owner. And, instead of giving you our biographies, we thought it’d be fun to hear about some experiences that make us who are.

Kelsey – President, World Traveler, Singer of 80’s songs you forgot about

• Worst job ever:  Customer service rep. at Vermont Teddy Bear Company. Nothing against the company but just the volume of calls and being the receptacle for people’s complaints.
• Favorite trip I’ve ever taken: I simply cannot choose a favorite. I love them all, but I will say my trip to Panama as it was my first solo trip and it made me re envision my life and myself, I suppose. 
• Dream adventure: Oh gosh. I’m kind of a dweeb when it comes to adventures. If you mean in the sense of activities, I will say whitewater rafting, but the mild version. 
• Favorite hobby: Reading.

Yours truly:

• Worst job ever: My worst job was working for the company that acquired mine. I had no direction. Just “be billable.” My job was to fill in the blank – whatever the company needed at the time.
• But my grossest job, if you want that, was reconditioning jukeboxes. I loved the job… but it was gross. I would dismantle a jukebox from the 60s or 70s that was at a bar. Then clean it out. The interior of the box was covered with tar from smoke and would use degreasers to get it off. This black tar would just drip out. It was so gross. I knew I would never smoke after seeing that. I was 13 when I started that job, and did it all the way until college.
• Favorite trip I’ve ever taken: My favorite trip with my family was to Camp Kennebago in Maine. We saw moose. We went for hikes. We boated in a beautiful lake. The views were awe inspiring. And the stories… my god do we have such great stories from that tip.
• Dream adventure: I want to fly a glider airplane. I just need to devote the time to it… and need to ensure it’s safe. So for now, it is a one day thing.

Amy – Project Manager-Book Derivatives and Masterminds, Office Manager, CSO (Chief Snacks Officer)

• Worst job ever: Office Manager for a surgeon with a mood disorder, who changed up his desired office procedures daily. It wasn’t any fun trying to protect my staff from his irrational behavior and belittling ways.
• Favorite trip I’ve ever taken: European tour of France, The Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland with my husband and sons.
• An adventure I want to try: I’d love to try out living my life in a tropical location by the water or in a quaint town in Europe for a year or so!
• Favorite hobby: Decorating. When I’m in a creative mode, I easily forget everything else I ought to be doing (including eating, and that’s saying something for a girl with the nickname Biggie Snacks! Ahem.).

Jenna – Content Creation, Copywriter, hater of abbreviated words and needless capitalizations

• Worst job ever: I can’t say one job was the “worst”, because any experience has led me to where I am now and I couldn’t be happier. I will say, when I was nineteen I walked out on a boss that was pretty crummy to his employees. Now, I was living at home and had that luxury – but I also found a new job that afternoon.
• Best trip – My cousins and I hopped on  a tour bus with senior citizens in Italy – and could hardly keep up with them. Rome, Naples, Sorrento, Capri, Amalfi, Pompeii, Vesuvius. I’d go back in a heartbeat!
• Adventure I’d like to try: Living completely off the grid in the woods.
• Favorite hobby – Hikes with my son and puppers.

Corde – Project Manager, Fix This Next, Cliffy Clavin of trivia

• Worst job ever: Was not the “worst” but the most tedious – I thoroughly cleaned a local hair salon and did their towels on Sunday mornings every week. It killed any plans I wanted to have for the day as it took me close to 5 hours to complete.
• Favorite trip I’ve ever taken: One of my favorites was when I went to England and Scotland with my brother well before I was married in the mid 90’s.
• An adventure you want to try: See the Northern Lights / The Aurora Borealis in person.
• Favorite hobby:  JUST started needlepoint.

Jeremy – Video Guru and Boss of All Things Worth Eating

• Worst job ever:  Before becoming a chef I was working my way through line cook positions. Applebees had a dishwasher position so I took it hoping a line cook spot would open up as promised. It never did and I washed dishes for 3 months every day after school till 11p and on weekends basically soaking wet for 6-8 hours and covered in food.
• Favorite trip: Kennebunkport Maine. It is so beautiful driving along the coast and stopping at small fishing towns. Not to mention the lobster is extremely fresh!
• An adventure I’d like to try:  I love the idea of skydiving, but my extreme fear of heights has prevented me from taking the plunge. I’m thinking I will gather the guts in the next few years to go for it.
• Favorite hobby: Toss up between cooking and riding motorcycles. Cooking is a lifelong lesson that is exciting to play around with new techniques and ideas and riding is viscerally engaging in all of the senses at once.

Erin – “The Doc” Master scheduler and in house fixer of pants

• Worst job ever: CVS Cashier
• Favorite trip I’ve ever taken: Camping road trip in the Baja Peninsula
• An adventure you want to try: Visit Turkish mosques to look at mosaics
• Favorite hobby: Sewing

Adayla – Project Manager, Instigator of adventures

• Worst Job Ever: Not actually my worst job ever, I loved it so much! HOWEVER, when I worked in wildlife rehab I HATED working with wild vultures, because their defense mechanism was vomiting on you. Being covered in vulture vomit for a 10 hour day was the most uncomfortable and horrid experience ever. Also the stench…
• Favorite I’ve ever taken: I went to Belize! I was in the jungle, tracking jaguars and doing all sorts of other awesome wildlife research.
• An adventure I want to try: I spend ALL of my free time from work rock climbing. I want to do a multi-pitch climb on Mt. Mizugaki in Japan.
• Favorite Hobby: This is a hard one… just kidding… rock climbing is my personality.

Izzy – Digital Creative Director

• Worst job ever: Ironically both my favorite job (*ahem* aside from this one, of course) and worst job were at cafes. While the best was for a wonderful independent business, the worst was at a chain that will remain nameless. My last day there was so toxic, I left crying.
• Favorite trip you’ve ever taken: This is a hard question, but probably the most beautiful place I’ve visited was Pulau Sibu, Malaysia. We island hopped on kayaks and set up camp on some really gorgeous beaches.
• An adventure you want to try: I really want to go to a surf camp! I’ve taken one-off lessons a handful of times, but I’d love to go back to Australia and join a month-long camp.
• Favorite hobby: I have too many hobbies, so this is another hard question. I’d probably say collecting and learning about vintage fashion…or always keeping my nose in a book.

Consider creating your own Meet The Team page if you haven’t already. It’s been such a wonderful experience to learn things about my team that I didn’t know!

Wishing you health and wealth always,

Mike