Howdy Reader! If we're connected anywhere on social, you've probably seen this float by. But you're on my email list, which makes you VIP, the big cheese, numero uno. You're one of the people I actually get excited about telling the good stuff to. This is the brand new opening for The Maker's Table, the weekly live show I co-host with Katie Fawkes. Stop-motion plasticine, a cozy cabin, two makers at one table. Forty seconds total. Here's the thing I've been chewing on all week... Three years...
3 days ago • 1 min read
Howdy Reader! Quick question for y'all... When you scroll your feed lately, can you tell what's real and what's AI? Half the content in your feed right now is AI-generated. AI voices, AI avatars, AI scripts, AI thumbnails. And the audience is starting to notice. Here's the wild thing. In a world flooded with synthetic everything, the single biggest competitive advantage you have as a creator in 2026 is also the simplest one. Being a real human, on camera, showing up as yourself. That's the...
8 days ago • 1 min read
Howdy Reader! If you've been around these emails for a bit, you know I'm a book nerd. First thing in the morning, last thing at night, I've got a book in my hand. And that love started way back in grade school with a sci-fi series I could never quite remember. All I had were fragments. A boy gets a robot brother who looks just like him. They charge him up through a port in his belly button. Something happens at a swimming pool. That's it. That's all my brain held onto for forty-some years....
11 days ago • 1 min read
Howdy Reader! Quick question: how much of your story are you handing over to AI? This Friday, we're sitting down with Zac Brown, host of The Zac Brown Show. Zac just got back from his first Social Media Marketing World, AND he's writing a book called An Accidental Education. His whole approach is built around helping creators see their work as more than content. It's a world. It's an experience. It's a connection. We'll break down... → What he took away from his first SMMW as a creator → The...
15 days ago • 1 min read
Howdy Reader! If you caught my last email, you know I was supposed to be in Anaheim this week, soaking up Social Media Marketing World and taking the stage to talk about creating visuals with AI. Spoiler alert: I'm not in Anaheim. My back had other plans. Since I was already planning to skip the live show this Friday (because, you know, Disneyland), I made the call not to scramble for a last-minute guest and push through. Sometimes the smart move is to actually rest. Wild concept for me, I...
22 days ago • 1 min read
Howdy Reader! I was planning to send this email yesterday from somewhere over the country, flying the (hopefully) friendly skies to Social Media Marketing World. Life had other plans. For the last month or so, I've been heads-down preparing my talk. I was so excited to share some new workflows for creating images that I genuinely couldn't wait to get on that stage. Then, while doing some yard work over the weekend, I did something horrible to my back. Getting on a plane just wasn't happening....
24 days ago • 2 min read
Howdy Reader! Our co-host is in the hot seat tomorrow. For the finale of our Side Hustle Secrets series, we're flipping the script and putting Conor Brown in the guest chair. He is running two side hustles on top of a full-time corporate marketing career, and we are getting into it all. Conor is the founder of Vacation Kingdoms and the Director of Agent Development at Keys to the Castle Travel, where he has trained dozens of travel advisors. He is a former Walt Disney World Cast Member, a...
29 days ago • 1 min read
Howdy Reader! Apologies, it's been a hot minute since you've gotten one of my Tuesday/Wednesday emails. I've had my head down getting ready for Social Media Marketing World next week in Anaheim. If you're going to be there, hit reply and let me know. I'd love to grab a coffee and chat. My talk is titled "AI-Powered Image Creation: Create Professional Visuals in Minutes," and here's one thing I keep noticing as I put it together. Even with AI video exploding on socials, the craft of creating...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Howdy Reader! What if the secret to your side hustle was getting way more specific? This Friday on Creator News Live, we're sitting down with Stephen Cabebe to find out. Stephen is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, the author of Disney Ready: Your Pain Free Parks Survival Guide (affiliate link), and the host of the Happily Ever Active podcast. He built an entire brand called Fit for the Magic around one very specific audience: people who want to walk all day at Disney World and feel strong on...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read