This story isn’t about what you might expect. Even though it is about what I’ve learned the past year since launching my first entrepreneurial adventure – Lucas Partnering – it isn’t about leadership, marketing strategy, or tips on being on your own. No, this is about what I’ve learned about the community I’ve lived in for the past 30 some years...Peoria, Illinois.

In this, the latest chapter of my career, now nearly a year old, I vowed that I would stay true to myself and when I felt I had something to share, I would. Regardless of how it might appear to the outside world. I think it is important for others who might be having similar thoughts. I think it is important for my teenage kids to know being vulnerable and transparent leads to a more fulfilling life. And I think it is important for my own psyche. So...

Six months. I’ve been an entrepreneur and a business owner now for six whole months! After 30ish years in the ‘corporate’ world, it still feels odd to type that sentence out and see it on the screen.

The following is the third in a series of articles sharing lessons learned from the digital marketing journey of a leading 90-year-old industrial manufacturing icon (Caterpillar Inc.). If you see similar challenges in your company, don’t despair, you’re not alone.

This week...9/11 actually (more on that in a minute)...marks the five month mark of losing my job. Much has transpired since then...much.

We’ve all heard it. Maybe we’ve all said it. Sadly many of us may have had it said directly to us. And of course ‘it’ is, ‘it’s not personal, it’s just business’. Well I say BS. It’s a lie.

Part 2 of The Digital Marketing Journey of an Industrial Giant.

A series of lessons learned.

Part 1 of ‘no one knows how many just yet’