Category: Goals

Couple of Highlights:

1. Two kiddos (girl/boy), turning 3 and 5 this year
2. Broke a 1:30:00 Half Marathon, PR is now: 1:29:09
3. Broke a 3:20:00 Marathon, PR is now: 3:11:45
4. Bought a 2021 Tesla Model 3 RWD (Finally parted ways with my Toyota Yaris after 15 years)
5. Launched Recreation Insider in December 2018
6. Passed the Series 65 (Uniform Investment Advisor Law Exam)
7. Started a personal finance blog
8. Built a few mining rigs to mine Ethereum (this was a fun project)
9. Lived in the same home for nearly 6 years now (this is a record for me)
10. 10 Year Anniversary of moving to Chicago coming up on May 1st

Some Career Highlights:

1. Joined Sprout Social in October 2016 and helped grow the business from the marketing front which eventually led to a successful IPO in December 2019
2. Joined Wyzant as their VP, Performance Marketing in September 2019 and helped turnaround the business that ultimately led to a successful exit (acquired by IXL) in February 2021
3. Joined ShipBob as their VP, Demand Generation in June 2021
   

Couple of Goals in the Next Few Years:

1. Qualify for the Boston Marathon (Need to break a 3:05:00 marathon)
2. Break a 5 minute mile in 30’s/40’s (did it once when I was 14)
3. Travel to Scandinavia, Ireland, Switzerland, Patagonia, Taiwan
4. Beat the market’s average return the next 5 years
5. Help scale growth at ShipBob to potentially IPO

So in early January, I could only do 3 pull ups but since then I’ve been trying to increase my reps and after about 1.5 months of training, I can do 10+. My goal is to be able to do 25 straight in the next 6 months or so.