Cause life happens in the uncomfortable.

The view from the floor, surrounded by dogs, coffee and adderall. 

The Price of Your Cowardice

The Price of Your Cowardice

“Bode, you seem angry. You should take a break.” I’m not angry, I’m f*cking nuclear.  I’ve spent my career fighting for small businesses, standing up for vulnerable populations, and building

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We Don’t Do Marketing

We Don’t Do Marketing

(If I hear this one more time, I'm gonna throat punch someone.) If I had a dollar for every time a technical or contracting company said, “We don’t do marketing*,”

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I Can Do All Things Through Adderall & Shaken Espressos

I Can Do All Things Through Adderall & Shaken Espressos

"Can a person live on iced, shaken espressos only?" I texted my best friend, Sue. "Yes," she responded. That, right there, is why Sue is my best friend. The past

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You Are the Face of Your Business—Start Acting Like It

You Are the Face of Your Business—Start Acting Like It

It was standing room only. Business owners packed into a room to talk about something most of us avoid like the plague: ourselves. Not our services.Not our logos.Not our team’s

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Middle aged woman wearing a shirt that says "As Strong As the Woman Next to Me"

Hey, I'm Bode.
Writer of musings.

Thanks for swinging by to check out my dogs, my ideas, my super fresh perspective and all the things that annoy me in life.

I can’t wait to share all the things you never knew you needed to know.

Have You Heard?

8THIRTYFOUR Integrated Communications.

We’re going to tell you your site is bad, your messaging is jargon, and stock photography from the 90s is burning our eyes. A trifold will not get you a client, and cold calling makes people hate you.

We do the kind of work people remember—and the kind of relationships built to last.

Just over here managing ADHD however I can.
The BBB aka Big Brutal Blow
(pic is how I feel)

This isn’t just policy failure—it’s a moral failure. 

You are cowards, every single one of you who voted for this, who looked the other way, who put self-preservation ahead of the people you swore to serve. You have chosen to please a tyrant instead of protecting your districts. You have made it clear: small businesses, vulnerable populations, and working families are expendable to you.

If you’re not standing with small businesses, you’re standing in the way of Michigan’s future.

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