Blogs/Resources

Why Ego Is the Most Expensive Thing a Business Owner Can Carry If you run a business, ego is not a personality quirk. It is a line item. It shows up in the truck you financed to look successful, the hire you would not coach, and the partnership that fell apart because...

The One Moment That Shapes a Career Some people can trace their entire professional life back to a single moment in childhood. Not a diploma. Not a lucky break. One small moment that revealed who they already were. For Mike Kirby, that moment happened at 14, standing...

Everyone wants the overnight success. Almost nobody wants the 40 years it usually takes to get one. That tension sits at the center of this conversation between Sean Kirby and his father, Mike Kirby, the founder of Performance Financial. Sean set out to record what he...

There's a 92-year-old client who comes into my office, and every time he sits down across from me, he pulls out the same photograph. It is bruised. It is battered. He has been carrying it for over seventy-five years. It's a picture of his wife. She is sixteen in the...

The pool was perfect. In-ground. Exactly the way my wife wanted it. I'd already made the calls, run the numbers in my head, and convinced myself I could scrounge up the cash. Then she looked at me and asked one question. *"What's our list say?"* The list didn't say...

Last summer, I almost bought a pool. I'd come home from a swim with the kids, dialed up a contractor, and gotten a quote for the exact in-ground setup my wife wanted. It was very expensive. We could not afford it. The slightest. But in my head I was already running...