Sail Future is a Sarasota, Florida based nonprofit that seeks to help high-risk youth in the juvenile justice system find a way out through sailing programs that teach leadership, teamwork, and responsibility, while pairing the youth participants with mentors. In the early part of 2015, a generous philanthropist donated a 65-foot MacGregor sailing vessel to […]
Guest Post by Kristen Moran: Greece 2015 with Sail Future
The following blog post was written by my friend and frequent travel partner Kristen Moran about her own perspectives on sailing through the Greek islands with Sail Future. In March 2015, while wearing a Shamrock sling to support my still slightly broken shoulder, I received an email from a close friend, Francisco, inviting me […]
Innovating for the Common Defense
“You have a choice in life: to be or to do,” says Benjamin Kohlman, repeating a line from one of his favorite authors, John Boyd. “Many people chose to be and pursue accolades and honors and the right degrees and the right checks in the block. But to do is something far more useful.” Several […]
Finding Time on the Orange Line
On the fourth episode of my podcast, Agents of Innovation, my guest was Dan Lesniak, founder of Orange Line Living. In a nutshell, Orange Line Living has become the number one real estate selling team in Arlington, Virginia, selling twice as much as any other real estate agent or team in 2014. In addition, they […]
Podcast Episode 3: Steve Everett Finds a Market
On the third episode of the Agents of Innovation podcast, my guest was Steve Everett, a musician who lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Steve was born in Albany, GA and raised in North Carolina, where he also studied music at Appalachian State University. In addition to playing music venues across the country, Steve talked to us […]
Podcast Episode 2: Living the Dream
The second episode of my podcast, Agents of Innovation, features two unique guests who are pursuing entrepreneurial efforts while living the dream. Our first guest is Jean-Yves Aubone, a professional tennis player who is out playing on the ATP Tour, mostly on the Challengers and Futures levels. He’s ranked around 461 in the world and […]
Are You Willing to Fail in the Pursuit of Your Passion?
I have launched the Agents of Innovation podcast, featuring conversations with entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and artists. In the first episode of my first podcast, I interviewed Isaac Morehouse, Founder & CEO of Praxis, as well as Nick Gill, a musician who was raised in south Alabama and now lives in Nashville. Both of these two young guys […]
Florida Corporations and Big Media Want to Expand a Program That Doesn’t Work
Some members of the Florida media are beginning to act irresponsibly – no, recklessly – when discussing the issue of Medicaid expansion. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel editorial board wrote an opinion piece today titled “Dancing on graves of poor people” and the Miami Herald ran a story claiming “850,000 people stuck in coverage gap – […]
My 2014 Year In Review: From Sea to Shining Sea…and then some!
In contrast to how fast this year went by, the last few weeks of 2014 have been a little quieter and slower paced for me. This has allowed me to reflect on how many great new places I have been and how many experiences I have been able to enjoy with amazing friends and family […]
Our Magical Trip to Ireland: An Overview
It’s hard to know where to start to describe the weeklong trip my mom and I took to Ireland on October 4-11, 2014. My first overview is simply to say that Ireland has everything this boy can dream of: green pastures filled with cattle and sheep; pubs filled with Guinness and whiskey and with people […]