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Average is boring.


I create. I write. I speak (up) publicly. I care. I engage. I consult. I challenge the status quo because average is boring. I fail forward. I think I’m a pretty good time. I thrive on exploring the unfamiliar. I’m a hell of a storyteller. And, I still say, “Please,” “Thank you,” and “You’re welcome” because my single mom raised me well.

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View fullsize On the mornings when my alarm goes off at 0430, these are (some of) the men I workout with in “the gloom”—outside, rain or shine. Kinda like a cult minus the warped religion, spiked Kool-Aid, and cringy group sex, and less violent
View fullsize Actual footage of Cindy Lou Who stealing the Grinch’s heart💗
View fullsize Listen to my fourth annual Year in Review mixtape on @spotify. 🔗jasonley.com/portfolio/music 🎧 Two special shoutouts. First, to my dear friend, unsolicited mentor, and the dude who does it with more integrity than most, @theincrediblehult. I sha
View fullsize Thankful that I got to take my mom to see @realdarylhall, one-half of @hallandoatesofficial, with the @livefromdarylshousecom band at @devoshall on the biggest bar night of the year, that my brother wants to hang out with his sister-in-law, and that
View fullsize My original intent to volunteer at the @grwinefestival in 2016 was selfish. I was trying like hell to network my way into the beer industry in any capacity. Breweries told me I should start working for distributors. Distributors told me I should star
View fullsize My biggest concert regret was selling two tickets to see @pearljam at @masonicdet, 3.29.94, so that I could go see @clutchofficial the same night. Since, I’ve seen Clutch more than a dozen times (MUCH respect). And, as a form of irrational pen
View fullsize Emery turned ✋🏻 earlier this month, and I had to miss it because I was out of town for work, so we celebrated her before I left with a gorgeous fall day playing in the sun, laps around our pink-and-black decorated apartment, making bracelets and dra
View fullsize Being responsible for managing on-site presence for @G4Kegs at multiple annual industry events nationwide—sometimes happening concurrently—has the natural potential to make working remotely 2300 miles from our company’s HQ challengi
View fullsize …and we couldn’t leave the city on such a gorgeous fall day without drinking some of its beer, too. ☀️🍁🍻 📸10.29.22 #detroit #detroitmichigan #detroitmi #detroithustlesharder #detroitvseverybody #easternmarket #easternmarketdetroit #
View fullsize When we first started dating, I was the marketing & promotions manager for an entertainment website in Detroit that blessed me with access to countless random adventures in the city, and @dontdeley was always my +1. Now, anytime we get to return,