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How This Year Turned My Fear of Aging into Readiness
2019 year in review: Reflections on parenthood, success, goals, business, love, and turning 30 in 2020.
5 min readDec 23, 2019
2019 Highlights
- We bought our first house. My wife and I officially ended our nomadic travel nursing spree. For almost two years we moved to a new city every three months — Phoenix, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Salisbury, and finally Richmond, Virginia.
- We had our first baby. Our beautiful bundle of dance moves daughter Brooklyn joined us on February 11, 2019.
- I published stories in CNBC Make It, Trends, and Forge Magazineand interviewed the CEOs of Dippin’ Dots, Stone Brewery, Gumroad, Unsplash, and RealtyMogul.
- I made over $7,500 in one month from writing on Medium. My online courses reached $20,000 in revenue.
- I gave up my 6-figure freelancing career.
- I cofounded a VC-backed tech company called Hopin.
- I went to London. First time in Europe.
- My app Party Qs was redesigned and tripled in monthly revenue.
- My Medium publication Entrepreneur’s Handbook grew to 116k followers (from 80k). It’s the 30th largest publication on Medium out of 10k+.
