About once a week—sometimes once every two weeks—I find myself in the same kind of conversation. A coach from the lacrosse community reaches out, not to talk about drills or defensive rotations or how to run practice more efficiently, but about something completely different:
“Joe, I’m trying to get my business going… can you give me some direction?”
Some of you know this about me. Some don’t. Before LaxPlaybook existed, before any of this became a community, I built an online education company from scratch. I eventually sold it, and today I get to enjoy the results of years of hard work, long days, and a lot of uncertainty.
But it wasn’t always comfortable.