When I started chaseheckendorn.com last November, my goal was to share ideas, test them publicly, and see what happens. I assumed that at some point, one of them would gain enough momentum to grow beyond the testing phase. After just seven months, I’m proud to announce my first project to move from testing > pursuit:…
The last few minutes of this podcast with Matt Chandler are an incredible listen. These guys discussed all sorts of challenging things we all face in life, but they ended with this simple message: If you don’t quit, you win. “I’m not going to judge my life by outcomes, I’m going to judge it by…
Late spring always gets surprisingly busy around our house. Between work, kids’ sports, end-of-year school commitments, and everything else that piles up in May, my wife and I usually find ourselves without much time to think about fitness. To top it off, Memorial Day weekend basically kicks off pool season in Dallas, which means summer…
So why the sudden interest in beans? For a long time, beans (aka legumes) have lived in a weird nutrition purgatory in my brain. In 2011, the first real diet I was introduced to was Paleo. At the time, it had a huge impact on the way I viewed food. And in Paleo world, beans/legumes…
Earlier this month I made a friend at church through a small group I recently joined. He’s one of the volunteer leaders, and we hit it off on night one. Not long after, we grabbed time to talk and I shared my (pretty unique) path of finding faith later in life… like within the last…
The Sober Psycho Challenge is the Ultra-Marathon of Sobriety Challenges. 1 Year, 365 Consecutive Days of Absolutely No-Alcohol. If a 30-day challenge is a 5K, this is a 60K aka 37 Miles aka Ultra!
For the past few years, my wife and I have been pretty enamored with the creator and influencer world. What really pulled us in came after our 2023 brand launch for a kids hat idea called Swap Top. As a brand new founder, I was searching for every possible way to promote our product. If…
I published a simple idea – and within a week, ChatGPT cited it. In the new world of AI, originality wins. Share your ideas and let AI connect you to your people.
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For the past few weeks, I’ve been trying to build a website into something that looked neat on paper – a marketing consultant. It makes sense, right? I’ve spent years growing brands like Swap Top, Shout It Events, The Urban Avenue. And people have been telling me I should “help others do the same” (which…
