Chris Field

Who else thinks sales is something we should be teaching juniors and seniors in high school? There really needs to be a life skills class for teens. Sales, leadership, personal development, personal finance.

@MrNicolasForero Book

In 2023, I decided not to work for a year. In the months that followed, I questioned everything about how I'd been spending my time. By conventional measures, I'd been successful. I started working at nineteen. By twenty-two, I'd helped companies generate millions in revenue, working remotely from Lisbon and Mexico City with startups in California and New York. None of it felt like enough. Someone from St. John's College told me to talk to Michael Strong. Within minutes of our first conversation, I understood why people who work with him stay for decades. Here was someone who had spent thirty-five years taking young people who were anxious, disengaged, and depressed and helping them become happy, self-directed, and whole. Not training them for test scores. Developing them as complete human beings. I joined his school as an executive. I shadowed his classes. I kept notes on everything he said across decades of writing, podcasts, and interviews. Those notes became Raising Free Learners. 1,000 people have it already. If you want a copy, comment "book" below.

@KHendersonCo @SMB_Attorney @Sam_Rosati Which part is the April Fools joke? Kevin leaving or Eric liking Kevin?

@SMB_Attorney @Sam_Rosati

It's with a heavy heart that I announce that I've made the difficult decision to step away from SMB Law Group. When @SMB_Attorney, @Sam_Rosati and I set out to build a new kind of law firm almost 4 years ago, I never dreamed where it would take us. And where it has taken me is to into the searcher seat myself, having recently closed on the acquisition of @SupremeWrapsDFW. So as of today, I'll be stepping down as a partner of @smblawgroup and working full time with my wife as the operators of Supreme Wraps. Thank you all for your support and the wild ride these past 4 years!

@podcastnotes @ccmembersonly Encino Man is on the list. Amazing recommendation. Biodome was even better.

@ChrisField @ccmembersonly Should add Encino Man and Biodome

@podcastnotes @ccmembersonly

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@simplesamtx Love this! Congrats on the great year. Did you start or buy the company? What's the most surprising thing about owning a cabinet shop? What's the hardest?

Our little mom and pop cabinet shop produced just under a million dollars worth of cabinets this past year. My wife and I. My brother and his wife. Just the 4 of us putting out custom cabinets and install. We own our equipment. We pay our bills. We don’t owe anyone any money. We have no business loans. Makes me proud that in the world we live in we somehow make it work for our family. It’s hard physical work and not every day is peachy. We still have a lot to learn but we are still surviving and happy to be able to work as a family. 5 years in and each year gets a little better. If you’re little like us have faith and keep grinding. Find peace in what you’re doing and just understand it’s going to be full of ups and downs but if you just keep pushing and adapting you have a chance to do something that plenty dream of doing. Life is a balance of family, fun and work. It may not last forever but feeling very blessed this morning.

@tessak22 I love the idea of peaceful homeschooling. We started this fall with our 3rd graders. So far so good! Never going back. I'm interested in your software. Open to a call?

I accidentally built really great homeschool software. Just helped a local family switch to it today that was struggling through miacademy curriculum. And their 8th grader left excited about her schoolwork that included her interests in the assignments. My 10 year old used it to teach my 3 year old a kindergarten math skill that he mastered through the IXL integration. And now she can make us dinner because she asked to learn about cooking. Anyone I know have experience in the eduction space? I think I need to find a co-founder that can play the CEO role. Education and parents are not my forte. I just care about making really great software products that help people. I think the strongest next phase is integrations. The IXL integration was simple, but a game-changer for our family instantly. I think Selah (peaceful homeschooling) could really help distribute small homeschool curriculums built by educators, too. People are raving about it and parents are begging for it once I tell when about it. There's something here, and I know from experience because the current homeschool landscape is patched together and very confusing for parents. Selah makes it peaceful.

@ianncushing Roof

Roofing is super slept on when it comes to cold email lead gen If you own a roofing co and want to see how we are generating commercial roofing leads, comment "roof" and I will show you

@shawngorham He makes any location look amazing.

A cycling friend has been in Bentonville all week riding bikes - he has raved about it Are we sleeping on Bentonville?

@myscifi @flowidealism I'm interested in seeing this OS and can beta test it if you want feedback.

@flowidealism Im about 3/4s the way through designing/implementing my homeschool-os which is a series of Markdown files and instructions usable by any llm to generate custom lessons and teacher guides both A)according to your specifications and B) up to standards/exemplars you set.

Something is happening in education that most people have not noticed yet, and I believe it is worth understanding, even if you never change a single thing about your child’s schooling. To understand what is happening, it helps to know what came before. In 1920, there were about 200,000 school districts in the United States. For most Americans, the one-room schoolhouse was a reality. Districts were small, local, and responsive to parents. By 1970, due to the school consolidation movement, that number had fallen to about 20,000. Today, there are public high schools with 2,000, 3,000, or even 5,000 students. They are monstrosities. New York City schools spend approximately $40,000 per pupil each year. The results are mediocre at best and catastrophic at worst. For the first time in American history, that monopoly is beginning to crack. Educational Scholarship Accounts now allow families in multiple states to use public funds for private education, tutoring, homeschool materials, and other educational services of their choice. If you had a ten-student microschool and could access that money directly, you would have $400,000 a year to educate ten students. The resources exist. They always have. They were simply locked inside a system that could not use them well. At the same time, the homeschool and microschool movement has grown tremendously. These are not isolated families doing worksheets at the kitchen table. They are organized communities of parents, often led by mothers and former teachers, who saw their children struggling and decided to build something better. Learning pods allow families to share the teaching load. I know families in which each mother watches the children one day a week, and the kids rotate among homes. Microschools bring eight to fifteen students together with a skilled guide. The models vary, but the underlying principle is the same: small groups, meaningful relationships, and genuine learning. What has not changed, and what technology cannot replace, is the human element. A child needs adults who know them, who take their thinking seriously, and who create an environment where they feel safe enough to take intellectual risks. A child needs peers who share their curiosity and hold them to a higher standard. A child needs to feel that what they are doing matters, that their education is not merely preparation for some future life, but a meaningful part of their life right now. This is where I have spent thirty-five years: building environments in which the human element is the foundation and everything else serves it. Small seminars where every student speaks every day. Mentorship relationships develop over the years. A culture built around genuine intellectual engagement rather than compliance or credentialing. I am sharing this because I believe we are at an inflection point. The families who understand what is happening and act on it in the next few years will give their children an extraordinary advantage. Not an advantage measured merely in test scores or college acceptance letters, though those often follow, but one measured in how their children think, how they relate to others, and how they approach the world. Putting more money into the system will not change it, because the problem is structural, not financial. Every meaningful change in education has come from families and educators who chose to build something new outside the existing structure. That movement is now larger and better funded than it has ever been. If you are curious about what this looks like in practice, or if you simply want to talk about your child’s situation, reply to this email. I have been at this for thirty-five years, and I still find every family’s story worth hearing.

@jspujji @pageman GA

My companies close $20M/year on 30-minute Zoom calls. I had an ex-McKinsey consultant reverse-engineer exactly how: – Sales call recordings – Sales scripts – Lead gen systems Reply with “GA” and I'll DM you the copy. Free.

@BarryRoland19 Do you have a mic in my house? Grind the coffee beans the night before so I don't wake up the kids. Pour coffee into French Press, hear my 5yo climb out of bed 3 mins later. Sprint upstairs to try to get to him before he wakes up my wife.

Day in the life of a late 30s guy in the suburbs (Sunday edition/2 kids): 6:00am— tip-toe downstairs to make some coffee before everyone wakes up. notice an injury you acquired while you were asleep. 6:10— take your first sip of coffee. take a deep breath and— 6:11— hear your wife yelling your name to come and get the 4yo bc she just woke the other one up 6:11— pretend you don’t hear her so you can have just one more sip of coffee in peace 6:11— “I know you hear me! Hello???” 6:12— take your kid downstairs. “What would you like for breakfast sweetie?” “I want pancakes daddy. I love pancakes!” 6:13— make a fresh batch of pancakes for the family. 6:20— “here are your pancakes sweetie :)” “I don’t want pancakes” “huh? You literally said ‘I want pancakes daddy’, and that you love them?” “PANCAKES ARE YUCKY” 6:21— take a third sip of your coffee. it’s cold. your wife yells your name again from across the house.

@WorkflowWhisper Playbook

I built 31 automations for clients last year. Every single business needed some version of the same ones. So I put them all in one playbook: ✅ 31 workflows organized by department ✅ The exact prompt to build each one ✅ Which 3 to start with (save 10+ hrs/week) ✅ From "I should automate" to running in minutes Comment "PLAYBOOK" and I'll DM it to you.

@mwmoedinger @DallasAptGP Do you know anybody that fits the bill? Who would he interview first?

@DallasAptGP An architecture firm owner in a small American city who's slowly but surely converting her business revenue into RE that she owns and operates, while also converting social media/podcast following to paid consulting gigs?? 👀

I tweeted about the Pumpkin Porch lady and Chris did an episode now I tweeted about Golf Ranch and Chris dropped an episode What should I post about next? Proud to be an investor in Golf Ranch

@dan__rosenthal Microsite

I stopped sending text-only outreach to my best prospects. Instead, I built personalized ‘microsites’ using Gamma's API and Clay: Each microsite pulls in the prospect's company colors, logos, ICP research, TAM breakdowns, and a customized proposal with a scheduling link. (and it’s all 100% automated) This way, every prospect sees a custom proposal before we ever get on a call. I documented the full workflow so anyone can set this up: • Clay template for account enrichment (importable) • Gamma API call format for microsite generation • Auto-branding logic for colors and logos • GTM analysis prompt structure • Scheduling link integration Comment "MICROSITE" and I'll send it over. PS - The template is reusable. Once it's set up, you can generate a new microsite for any prospect in minutes.

Some great advice for our next generations.

@BrentBeshore Yeah, but you are our loser. And you can't hear all the insults with your ear plugs in.

Woke up after 8 hours of glorious sleep, pulled the ear plugs out of my ears, made coffee, then read, prayed, and meditated on my life and the day ahead. Hopped on X to realize I'm a total loser.

"The beautiful, terrifying thing about the Christian faith is that it doesn’t begin with our performance. It begins with a God who loved us while we were still a mess." This is a must read post, especially for guys between 30 and 50. @BrentBeshore thank you for writing this.

@BrentBeshore Amazing piece. So much wisdom and love poured into the page.

@jamesclift @yoheinakajima Durable

Introducing Durable. The first AI business builder that replaces your 9-5 income. RT + comment “Durable” and we'll build your business for FREE.

@ianncushing Exterior

We do so well for pressure washing / gutter cleaning (via cold email) that I might just start and scale one to $50k/mo this year just to prove a point.. If you want my business plan, comment "Exterior" below and I will DM it to you.