The Honest Mic

Gaylen Wilson's life has not been one comeback. It has been a series of forced reinventions. Farm failure. A collapsed stockbroker career. Years of alcoholism. Twenty years sober. 9/11 wiping out an industry. A Walmart...

Estelle Gibson is a CPA. She spent 40 years in accounting and finance. She knew money. She understood numbers. She understood the rules. And she still handed over her financial power during her marriage. After her...

You'll spend hours at the gym. You'll watch what you eat. You'll track your steps. And then you'll spend zero minutes thinking about the organ that runs everything — the one that determines how you think, feel, and...

Why do some teams thrive while others struggle? Even when they have talented people. Even when they have good intentions. Even when they have plenty of resources. That question has been David Lengyel's obsession for...

The more clients, conversations, and AI tools you manage, the harder it becomes to keep important context from getting lost. Your AI forgets. You forget. And the decisions, commitments, and client history that actually...

Sam Shargo started his first company at thirteen. Entered college at sixteen. Joined the military at seventeen. And then spent two decades building, scaling, and selling multiple companies, including a technology and...

Stagnant careers shouldn't happen to good people. But they do. You're doing the work. You're hitting the targets. You're the one everyone relies on. And somehow, the promotion goes to someone else. The meeting moves on...

Gloria Vanderhorst started her practice as a psychologist working with preschool children — mainly boys. Female teachers saw their exuberance and physical energy as problematic. They were labeled hyperactive or...

Nancy Ensley has spent decades in professions that demand empathy and discernment. Nurse. Hospice specialist. Legal nurse consultant. Coding specialist. Teacher. Supervisor. Helping people navigate life's most critical...

Tammy Corwin was abandoned at the age of two. Later adopted. At twenty-two, she was convicted and sentenced to sixty years in prison for a crime she did not commit. She entered prison as a young woman and did not walk...

Liz Coleman works with women who look successful and steady from the outside but can't remember the last time they truly relaxed. The ones stuck overthinking every decision, always on, unable to switch off even when...

Dave Letterfly Knoderer started on the circus as a teenager. He spent three decades training horses to the Haute École level. He became an award-winning performer on dancing horses. He recovered from alcoholism. He...

Roy Osing took a startup to a billion dollars in annual sales. Not a company he joined after it was already winning. A startup he helped build from its early stages to a billion. He's a former president and CMO with...

Hogan Shrum loves what AI can make possible. And he really hates the way a lot of the industry has decided to get there. The pressure on agencies, brands, content studios, and creators to make more work, in more...

Todd Krause spent two decades in institutional finance — building a $2B fund administration firm from scratch and helping launch a $14B Bank of America business unit — before buying a struggling cleaning company in...