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Outrageous Startup Growth Took Bronze at the Readers’ Favorite International Book Award Contest
Grateful for this one. The Readers’ Favorite International Book Award Contest gets thousands of entries from over a dozen countries every year. We’re talking NYT

Outrageous Startup Growth Just Won a Gold Medal. Here’s What That Means to Me.
I don’t usually stop to celebrate wins. There’s always the next thing to build, the next problem to solve. But this one felt worth pausing

100 Million Users Later, Here’s Why Most Customers Still Don’t Stay
Damon Lembi brought me onto the Learn-It-All Podcast to talk about something that doesn’t get discussed enough in the growth conversation: retention. Getting users is

What Swiping Right on a Dating App Can Teach You About Growing Your Business
Carly and Joe had me on The Life-First Solopreneur to dig into something that sounds counterintuitive until it clicks: the psychology behind why people swipe,

Chris Voss Gave Me 34 Minutes. Here’s What We Talked About.
Chris Voss had me on The Chris Voss Show, one of the longest-running daily podcasts in the world with an audience of over 24 million

I Got Kicked Off the App Store. Here’s What Happened Next.
Dean and Maxwell Rotbart had me on Monday Morning Radio to mark their 700th episode, and we spent nearly an hour getting into something I

I Harnessed My Jealousy and Built Something. Here’s How.
Rick Tocquigny had me on Success Made to Last Legends, and we covered a lot of ground in a short amount of time. Listen to

Your Brain Knows When You’re Faking It. So Does Your Customer.
Wrote a guest post for thoughtLEADERS on something I think about constantly when building products and brands: authenticity isn’t just a buzzword. It’s biology. Read

How Psychology Cracked the Code to Growing a Startup to 100 Million Users
The team at Founders Podcast had me on to talk about something I’ve spent the better part of 20 years figuring out: why some products

Marc Champagne Asked Me Why Some Ideas Spread and Others Die. Here’s What I Said.
Marc Champagne had me on Behind The Human — a podcast that unpacks the stories and mental fitness practices of people living at the top

Most Founders Think They Have a Product Problem. They Don’t.
Kayvon had me on The Vault Unlocked for a 45-minute conversation that got into the mechanics of why startups actually stall — and why the

Cornell Never Let Me Into Psych 101. It Didn’t Matter.
I majored in computer science at Cornell. I tried, more than once, to get into an intro psychology course: waitlists, lottery systems, the whole bureaucratic

I Got Asked 9 Questions About Growth. I Had Answers for All of Them.
Eric Dye had me on Enterprise Radio, and we packed a lot into 16 minutes — the kind of questions I think every founder and

I Wrote About Selling Your Startup for a Magazine With 100K+ Monthly Readers. Here’s What I Said.
I recently published a piece in CEOWORLD Magazine on one of the questions I get asked most: how do you actually position your startup for

I Went on a Podcast and Said Empathy Is a Superpower. I Meant It.
I recently joined Dr. Richard Shuster on The Daily Helping podcast, and we got into something I think about a lot but don’t always say

Even a National Bestseller Can’t Get A Catchy Headline in Hometown Paper
After months of followups, my local area paper, the Williamsport Sun-Gazette, covered the news about my book. In a funny twist, the headline they went

May 2026 Reader Reviews for Outrageous Startup Growth
One weird thing about publishing a book in 2026: a lot of the conversation around it ends up trapped inside platforms. Amazon reviews. Goodreads comments.

I Built a Viral App From a Small Town With No Resources. Here’s the Philosophy Behind It.
Anika had me on Your Brand Amplified, and we got personal in a way I don’t always go in interviews. Listen on Apple Podcasts or

What a Day at Otto Bookstore — Thank You, Williamsport
I’ll be honest. I wasn’t sure what to expect going back to Williamsport. Book launches can be a lot. The performance of it, the signing

Tomorrow I’ll be at Otto Bookstore in Williamsport, PA — come say hi!
This Saturday, May 30th, from noon to 2pm, I’m heading back to Lycoming County for a book launch and homecoming at the Otto Bookstore, and

What Netflix Can Teach Small Businesses About Pricing
Your pricing page isn’t a menu. It’s a decision environment, and most small businesses build theirs by accident. Netflix didn’t. Look at their U.S. lineup:

6 Million Users. Zero Ad Spend. Here’s What Actually Drove It.
Sophia Matveeva had me on Tech for Non-Techies, and we got into something I don’t always unpack in this much detail: the exact psychology behind

5 crazy stats about books that blew my mind, and one that made me genuinely grateful.
I’ve been digging into the publishing industry numbers since my debut book landed on the USA Today bestseller list. I pulled the actual data. Here’s

What Your Customers Aren’t Telling You: Using Psychology to Close More Sales
No customer decision happens in a vacuum. Every choice they make, whether to buy, to hesitate, to abandon a cart, is shaped by the environment

We’re #6 in the Country — USA Today Just Made It Official
Outrageous Startup Growth: Uncovering the Secrets of User Psychology to Scale Your Success landed at #6 on the USA Today Bestseller list for business books.

The Exit I Regretted: Why I Bought My Company Back
Selling your company is supposed to be the finish line. For me, it was the beginning of one of the strangest chapters of my career.

The 100 Million User Secret: What Psychology Can Teach You About Scale
When growth stalls, most founders start looking outward, at their ad spend, their budget, their competitors. I think that instinct is almost always wrong. The

We Built the MVP in 3.5 Hours. Then It Hit 1 Million Users.
Mark Wormgoor had me on the CTO Compass Podcast, and we went deep on the origin story I don’t always tell in full, from fixing

The Price of Rapid Growth: What I Learned After My Startup Crashed
Going viral before you’re ready doesn’t feel like winning. It feels like losing control of something you built with your own hands, in real time,

The Unicorn Delusion: Why Chasing a Billion-Dollar Myth is Breaking Your Brain
Unicorn status. Billions raised. Front page of TechCrunch. That’s the scoreboard most founders are handed on day one, and almost nobody stops to ask who