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Purple Cow Brands, 13612 Midway Road #601, Farmers Branch, TX (2025)

07/03/2025

Hard conversations are just that... hard.

They often show up at the worst possible moments. They demand more mental and emotional energy than we sometimes feel we have to give. And yet, they’re inevitable in all areas of life.

How do I be a good leader in those moments?
How do I respond with humility, not ego?
How do I address what happened without insisting on my own way?

This is one of the hardest parts of my job. I’m an emotional person by nature. I feel deeply. I care immensely. And when things are tough — whether it’s conflict, change, or disappointment — I tend to react quickly. It weighs on my heart and my mind.

Even though I want nothing more than to see every person and situation flourish... sometimes they don’t. Sometimes we have to agree to disagree. And that’s okay. That’s part of business. But handling those moments well — in the midst of the pressure — that is what reveals your character.

Here's to learning. Learning to allow the outcome to be what it is.
To sit with it. And still move forward.

To every leader out there, here’s your reminder:
Leadership is hard.
If it were easy, everyone would do it.
Give yourself grace.
Reflect on the values that keep you aligned.
And never, ever stop loving what you do.

Cheers, my friends.
We love you all.

06/29/2025

WHY ARE WE YELLING?!

Seriously, why is everyone yelling?

So many voices.
So much noise.
Telling you what to do.
What to chase.
What to drop.
What you have to do to succeed.

The world says the grass is greener after quitting your day job.
But the truth? It’s just different grass. And you still have to mow it.

Starting something new doesn’t make life easier.
It just gives you a different kind of hard, one that’s yours to carry.

It’s a lot.
A lot of learning.
A lot of mistakes.
A lot of noise.
But also? A lot of growth. A lot of wins.

And a lot of head trash too:

Am I really good at this? Is this helping anyone? Can I keep doing this long-term?

That doubt shows you care. That you're still trying to serve with integrity even while the world screams, “Do more!”

“Can you do my social media?”
“Can you set up my CRM?”
“You should post 3x a day to grow.”

None of those are bad ideas. But they’re distractions. Distractions from what I do best. Websites. SEO. Graphics. Brand Design.

Everything else? It’s noise.
And in this season, noise is the enemy of excellence.

I’m not trying to be everything.
I’m trying to be trusted.
And that starts with focus.

You don’t need to post constantly.
You need to build something worth listening to.

So let the noise pass.
And keep building.

06/27/2025

Unlimited revisions. Unlimited regrets.

I saw a post that made me pause:

“My last guy did it for $1,600.”
“Awesome. You should reach back out.”
“Actually… he’s out of business.”

It stuck with me.
Because I’ve seen how that story plays out.

Someone else reached out needing hourly WordPress updates.
“No thinking. Just doing.”

I told him gently, if there’s no creative or strategic work, and budget is the main driver, Fiverr might be a better fit.

He replied, “Well… this could actually be a great opportunity for you.”

Here’s the truth:
People don’t actually want cheap.
They want confidence.
They want clarity.
They want to feel heard.

You’re not paying for tasks.
You’re paying for thought.
For someone who can carry the vision with you.

We’ve learned the hard way! not all money is good money...
And we’ve walked with clients who found that out the painful way.

06/19/2025

You really should thank your boss.

When you go from a salaried role to running your own business, you quickly realize how much you were shielded.

There were buffers in the corporate world:
Project managers. Admins. Account leads.
People who absorbed the chaos so you could focus on the work.

But when you run your own business?

You’re the:
- Creator
- Therapist
- Lawyer
- CFO
- CEO
- Strategist

It's really hard to wear that many hats. It wears on anyone to be in that many roles at once. Today I hit a wall with a tough client situation and found myself spiraling.. second-guessing, questioning, feeling drained. My anxiety kicked in and my ADHD obsessed over it.

So rather than just take that feeling alone, I called one of my other clients to ask if this was true.

He laughed and said three things that brought me back:

1. Not all money is good money.
2. Not everyone is a fit.
2. Can we pray? And we did.

That’s what this is really about.

Most of our clients are incredible! People we pray with, laugh with, build with. People who remind us why we started Purple Cow in the first place.

We're not just building brands.
We're building a community. Raw. Real. with depth.

And we move forward—together.

What about you?

Who’s one client that’s been more than just a transaction for you? Tag them and let them know! :)

06/06/2025

Change is hard.
Not the cute kind.
Not the trendy kind we pretend to love when we rearrange our living room or get a new job title.
I mean real change.
The kind that breaks you open.
The kind that makes you question who you even are anymore.
The kind that costs something.

I used to be terrified of it.
Terrified of what would happen if I finally told the truth.
If I admitted I was struggling.
If I stopped performing and started healing.
What if everything burned down?
What if it wrecked me?
What if the change ruined everything I’d built?

But here’s what I didn’t know then.

Sometimes the breaking is the building.
Sometimes the wrecking is the rescue.

I didn’t walk into therapy brave.
I walked in exhausted.
I waited until I hit my mental breaking point—until the pain of staying the same finally outweighed the fear of changing.

And it didn’t fix me.
But it freed me.

I met myself for the first time.
The messy me.
The moody, joyful, angry, overwhelmed, grateful, depressed, hopeful me.
The real me.
And it was the healthiest thing I’ve ever done.

Because the lie we’ve been sold—the one the enemy would love for us to keep believing—is that healing is found in hustling.
That more stuff means more security.
That if we just hold on a little longer to the paycheck, the car, the title, the approval… we’ll finally feel whole.

But we’re not whole.
We’re tired.
We’re addicted to survival.
We’re losing ourselves in the chase.

I quit my job and started Purple Cow Brands not to prove something, but to reclaim something.
To learn how to serve.
To become a bondservant to the process of growth, even when it meant leaving behind the safety nets that used to define me.

And let me be clear:
This isn’t about telling everyone to quit their jobs and build a startup.
Some of you are called to stay.
To build light inside of corporations.
To show up with excellence and make space for the Kingdom in boardrooms and Zoom calls.

But whether you stay or go—just promise me this:
That you’ll ask Jesus what He actually has for your life.
Not what the world has sold you.
Not what culture has told you to chase.
Not even what your past self imagined success would look like.

Because the house, the car, the boat, the handbag—
they won’t hold you when your soul is unraveling.

But Jesus will.
And He will call you—again and again—into the kind of change that heals.
The kind of change that sets you free.

So if you needed permission today:
This is it.

Quit the chase.
Quit the pretending.
Quit the narrative that says you need six figures to feel secure.

And start chasing your calling.
That’s where the peace is.
That’s where the growth lives.
That’s where Jesus is waiting.

Let everything else fall into place.

05/01/2025

The truth? You’re not losing because of your product.
You’re losing because you see everyone else as the enemy.

I was sitting on my couch tonight when a text came in from a friend and business owner.
It was a simple referral.
But it reminded me of something powerful:

We are surrounded by good people.
People who believe in collaboration.
People who open doors for each other.

The idea that we’re all “competition”? That’s broken thinking.
It keeps small businesses stuck in isolation.
It fuels ego over growth.

Who told us we had to protect our vision by isolating it?

We are not a threat to each other just because we’re separate.
There is enough work.
Enough clients.
Enough opportunity.

What if we started sharing strategy?
Exchanging tools?
Building each other up — even when we offer similar services?

I believe we’d all grow faster.
Not just in business, but in mindset, too.

Tag someone you’ve collaborated with.
Or someone you want to.
Let’s keep rewriting the narrative... together. 😃

04/30/2025

The truth. it's a still, small voice.

This weekend I had a bit of a back and forth online.
Some loud voices came through, as they do.
But here’s what truly amazed me:

The quiet majority showed up with grace.
People from all walks of life opened the conversation with curiosity.
They didn’t agree on everything, but they leaned in with open minds.
That was humbling.

It reminded me how easy it is to get caught up in the noise.
To fixate on the most critical voices in the room.
But that’s not where growth lives.

There’s a line from Jesus Revolution I haven’t been able to shake:

“The truth is often quiet.”

And I think that’s true.
The real stuff... the truth, the growth, the healing, the becoming. it’s often soft.
It doesn’t yell.
It doesn’t demand.
It invites.

Every day you choose to grow, in your spirit, in your business, in your relationships, the loud voices will still be there.
But when the dust settles, you get to ask:
Was that the truth?
Or do I need to sit a little longer to find the deeper one?

For me, this week, that answer came through stillness.
Through gratitude.
Through people who asked honest questions instead of throwing fast opinions.

If you're building something meaningful, I want to remind you:
The quiet truth is still truth.
And it's worth listening for.

Have you been there too?
When the loud voices try to drown out your growth?
I’d love to hear, where are you finding the quiet truth in your journey lately?

04/29/2025

If you had asked me at 18 where I thought I'd end up...
I would have never imagined this.

Running a branding and web design agency in Dallas.
Building something real and meaningful alongside my best friend.
Working with a team I admire.
Helping passionate founders bring their visions to life.

It’s wild when you stop and realize that you’re in the middle of building something worth bragging about.
Something that could last.
Something that leaves a legacy.

Tonight, I feel a deep sense of gratitude.
Gratitude for the people I get to walk this journey with.
Gratitude for Ben, my business partner, who shows up every day with strengths where I am weak, helping build a vision that's bigger than either of us alone.
Gratitude for the clients who trust us with their dreams and who, over time, have become friends.

There’s a line from The Office that always sticks with me:
"I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them."

I think we’re living in those days right now.

The late nights.
The hard conversations.
The little wins that nobody sees.
The relationships that make it all worth it.

This isn’t just business.
It’s a journey worth taking.

Here's to Ben, to our team at Purple Cow Brands, to our clients, to our friends, and to the future we're building together.

Are you in the good old days right now?

04/28/2025

Where do we draw the line with AI?

It’s a question I have been sitting with.
Wrestling with.
Turning over in my mind and heart.

Because we live in a world now where you can click a button, type a prompt, and the words will appear.
Content, marketing, sales emails, blogs.
It’s easy.
Maybe a little too easy.

And it begs a deeper question.
Are we still thinking?
Are we still dreaming?
Are we still pouring our own voice, our own story, our own vision into the things we create?

Or are we just pushing content into the world because we can?

Yes, I use AI.
I will never deny that.
WI harness it.
I sharpen it.
I let it sit beside us like a co-writer at the table.

But it is never the brain.
Never the heart.
Never the creative vision.

That part... the dreaming, the obsessing, the listening, the humanity — that stays fully, stubbornly, beautifully human.

If you are sitting with guilt, or wrestling with where to draw the line when it comes to AI, maybe start here.

Ask yourself:

Is it still your voice?
Is it still your passion?
Is it still your vision?

Or have you handed over the work you were made to do?

Because there is nothing wrong with tools.
But there is everything wrong with forgetting why you picked up the pen in the first place.

We do not create because it is easy.
We create because it is true.

AI is my co-writer.
Never my soul.
Never my vision.
Never my voice.

It will NEVER be me.

04/25/2025

Ted Lasso would make an incredible web designer.
Not because he knows code or Figma shortcuts.
But because the man is relentlessly curious.

He listens.
He asks better questions.
And he actually cares about people.
Honestly? That’s the whole job.

I’ve been working on a website this week for a luxury company.
It’s a newer vertical for us. Kind of a mix between luxury hotel vibes and project management systems.

Not exactly a plug and play combo.
And even though I know we’re good at what we do…
the beginning is always the hardest part.
You’re sitting there trying to design something that feels like someone else’s vision.
Something they may not even fully know how to describe yet.

That’s the hard stuff.
And it’s also the work I love.
So yeah, I’m giving myself some grace.
Letting myself be curious.
Letting the process do its thing.
We’ll get there. We always do.

And when it clicks, when the brand finally feels right,
it’s one of the best feelings in the world.
If it were easy, everyone would do it.

But it’s not.
And that’s why I love it.

04/23/2025

We had different visions. And it showed

Designing a full brand and writing copy from scratch is one of the most exciting parts of my job and one of the hardest.

Sometimes, the first version completely misses the mark.
Not because the work isn’t good, but because the vision isn’t fully aligned yet.
And when you’re working with passionate entrepreneurs… that moment can be tough.

But that’s the job.
We don’t just execute. We help people realize their vision.
And sometimes, that vision gets discovered in real time, together.

It’s sticky. It’s stressful. It’s growth.

Even as someone running a successful creative agency, there are still moments where I walk away thinking,
“Dang… I wish that first draft had landed better.”

But that’s life.
That’s branding.
People are complex. Their dreams are layered.
My job is to take all that complexity and turn it into a story their customers actually feel.

So if you’re in the messy middle, whether you’re the designer or the dreamer, don’t give up.
You didn’t fail.
You’re just not there yet.

Keep listening. Keep refining.
The vision will come.

04/12/2025

Designing for clients is one thing.
Designing for your creative, indecisive, visionary friend?
That’s another level.

You know who you are. You drove me a little crazy, LOL.
But you pushed me creatively.. and I love that!
And the final result is one of my favorite sites we’ve built.

This is what it looks like when strategy meets chaos.
Still friends. Still thriving.
Website? Absolute fire.

Can't wait to launch this one this coming week.

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