My name is Mike, I worked for 6 & 1/2 years in the furniture industry with a promotional furniture & mattress company based out of South Carolina. I gained experience and wisdom from that phase of my life, but I’ve moved on. In my time there I began at the bottom and finished at the top. When I was first hired I did grunt work for a husband and wife who sold mattresses from the back of an office as their side hustle. By the time I left, the company was pulling in an estimated $25,000,000 in revenue.
I started sweeping floors (literally) and as the company grew and I proved my worth was more than just manual and I eventually became the VP of Operations. My final days saw me hold the position of GM for 3 stores in the pilot city managing 3 store managers, 10 +/- sales people, and 2 delivery/warehouse people. Over the years I accumulated a laundry list of experiences.
This blog is about my personal journey, mostly from the business side of my life, as I seek to learn each day. A wise man once told me that, “teaching is the final step in learning. If you can repeat what you know and teach someone else, that’s full knowledge of a subject.”
In 2015 I published my first book (Believe EG21: Play Like There Is No Tomorrow) and I’m slowly grinding through a couple more. After the book, I spent two years in healthcare IT learning about the challenges of healthcare and B2B sales.
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