To Inspire:   My colleagues Jodi Picetti and Angie Eversole joined me earlier this week in hosting 35 women (clients and friends) for our firm’s annual bus trip to the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville. There we spent the day with 35 remarkable women – many of whom are serving long sentences for very […]

To Inspire: Many of you are familiar with “blue zones,” places in the world where high percentages of men and women living there age gracefully with few health issues well into their 90s and 100s. As a Christian, while I look forward to the life to come, I also desire to live well now for […]

To Inspire: As we celebrate our nation’s birthday, I thought our readers might appreciate reflecting on the life of retired Colonel DeBow Freed, West Point Class of ’46. Many of our readers may recall I received my undergraduate degree from Ohio Northern University. Dr. Freed served as ONU’s president from 1979 to 1999. I had […]

To Inspire: Dear Clients and Friends – what a joy to spend Wednesday evening with Archie Griffin, our featured guest for our Spring Wealth Summit. Perhaps the best comment ever made about Archie came from his coach, Woody Hayes. He once shared, “He’s a better young man than he is a football player, and he’s […]

To Inspire: Team USA hurdler Dylan Beard is not your average elite athlete. As an unsponsored athlete, Dylan trains as hard as any Olympic hopeful, but when he’s not training, Dylan works behind the deli counter at Walmart. Dylan surprised the track and field world with an incredible win in the 60-meter hurdles at February’s […]

To Inspire: New Year’s resolutions are tough. As we’ve discussed here before, more than 90% of resolutions fail – often by the time February rolls around. And while there are some tips and tricks to help stick to a New Year’s resolution, social psychologist Janina Steinmetz says making a summer resolution instead could turn out […]

To Inspire: I’ve been so moved by the pictures and news stories of the men (now in their late 90’s and early 100’s) who were part of the D-Day Invasion of Normandy 80 years ago this week. Perhaps you saw the pictures of France’s president bestowing France’s highest military honor upon a number of these […]

To Inspire: The actor Tom Hanks says when he first hit it big, offers started streaming in, and he quickly learned a valuable lesson. To do the work that he wanted to do, to tell the stories he wanted to tell, he had to learn to say a difficult word: no. Hanks said in an […]

To Inspire: I had lunch today with a friend I hadn’t seen for at least 7-8 years. We served together on a board overlapping for a couple of years as I finished my tenure, and he was just beginning his. I loved catching up on his life and learning some new things about him. Like […]

To Inspire:   In 2023 a 15-year-old fan of billionaire William Buffett approached him at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting and asked a simple question, “How do you avoid mistakes in life?” And while this very much seems like a big, complex question, Buffett had a short and simple answer, “You should write your obituary […]