by JJ Crass | Nov 27, 2023 | Newsletter
Happy ThankstGSO Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Not the part about it being a celebration of a mythic event where my ancestors bilked the indigenous population of their land and then begged them for assistance to survive. I can’t change that part. I can...
by JJ Crass | Oct 13, 2023 | Newsletter
Small Business or House of Cards? As my daddy used to say, Lordamercy — what a week! Does your business have those weeks? Weeks where you think you’re on solid ground, moving forward and then some crazy thing happens and suddenly it feels like a house of...
by JJ Crass | Sep 27, 2023 | Newsletter
Coworking: The Social Solution In an informal poll on LinkedIn, 34% of the respondents said they often felt lonely. In 2018, the Kaiser Family Foundation reported that 60 million Americans often or always felt lonely or isolated — and that was before the...
by JJ Crass | Aug 18, 2023 | Newsletter
When I’m looking for inspiration, I often take a walk through our tGSO garden. Its beauty rarely fails me, and today was no different. I was thinking about how unsuited I am for networking, which is a major component of any business. I’m that person in the...
by JJ Crass | Jul 17, 2023 | Newsletter
Be Authentic: Help us build a fun place to work where we can share our interests and talents. Shante’ and I recently had the pleasure of speaking to the Rotary Club of Greensboro about transform GSO, and while we talked about all the obvious things, like...
by JJ Crass | Jun 20, 2023 | Newsletter
Juneteenth? Hunh? I think I’ve mentioned one or 25 times that I was born and raised in Houston, TX. If you already know about Juneteenth, then you’ll understand why, when I was living in Minnesota in my late 20s, I was gobsmacked to discover that hardly...