Many voices. One Flagrant.
Recently Jen and I were listening to Mike Birbiglia’s Working It Out (Apple Podcasts, Spotify), a podcast hosted by the actor/comedian/storyteller wherein he invites guests to work out new material with him. In episode #86 Putting On Your Art Eyes Mike collaborates with Illustrator and Graphic...
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January 4, 2023
Recently Jen and I were listening to Mike Birbiglia’s Working It Out (Apple Podcasts, Spotify), a podcast hosted by the actor/comedian/storyteller wherein he invites guests to work out new material with him. In episode #86 Putting On Your Art Eyes Mike collaborates with Illustrator and Graphic
December 29, 2022
This pairs extremely well with Dad’s Carrot Cake Recipe. Ingredients 8 oz Cream Cheese 1 stick Butter (Unsalted) 1 lb Confectioners (Powdered) Sugar 1 teaspoon Vanilla Directions Soften Cream Cheese and Butter by letting them sit out for ~an hour
December 28, 2022
There’s nothing new under the sun and my Dad was not a recipe writer or, honestly, someone all that interested in baking or cooking. He was just a man who would get it into his head that there was a particular thing he’d want to make and that would become a driving force for a while. For a time
December 26, 2022
On Christmas eve we celebrated the holiday with my side of the family with a potluck, white elephant gift exchange, decorations, and lots of family. Christmas has always been a time when my Mom went all-in to make sure the kids in her orbit had a good time. It was sometimes a point of contention
December 20, 2022
As I write this I’m sitting in a coffeehouse at a communal table with a German professional who apologetically caught up with her family back home over a video call and a student taking notes for her marketing degree. Milwaukee’s Stone Creek Coffee house, a Certified B-Corp has a lot going for
October 21, 2022
Jen and I took a trip to California to attend two conferences here in October. RailsSaaS took place in Hollywood October 6-7 and her Growth Accelerator Intensive is scheduled for October 23-24th. In the meantime, we decided to take a week and co-work with our colleague Joyce Hu based in the Los
October 7, 2022
Skip To: The Internship Structure IN MAYA’S WORDS: Q&A 5 THINGS WE LEARNED FROM MAYA The disposable, coffee-fetching intern trope is, thankfully, dying. It’s been a minute since we all watched the movie Big, but Stranger Things swept in to remind us that all experience levels can solve
July 6, 2022
When I first started at Flagrant, I was moved (and a little weirded out) by how much freedom we all had. We could just…bring ideas forth? And discuss desired outcomes? And contribute something meaningful to the culture? WHAT IS THIS, SOME KIND OF SICK JOKE? I thought long and hard about what
June 23, 2022
How many times has a project leader told you to “think different” while carving out no time, structure or community to allow it to happen? Workplaces often only reactively innovate in times of churn, when knee deep in the thick of a problem that needs a pivot, fast. Did you fix it
June 3, 2022
When your job is to be the expert and advise other people, it can feel super awks to share your missteps. Yet if we always knew what we were doing, that would mean we were never growing. Or experimenting. Or honing our resilience. So how do we normalize and learn from the oops? By making it as
May 31, 2022
Yayyy! We’re back from visiting Portland for RailsConf 2022!! It’s been a while since I’ve traveled to Portland and THIS trip was super special to me for many reasons. 5 days and 4 nights of awesome people, good fun, yummy foods, deep conversations, and MOST IMPORTANTLY I got the opportunity
May 13, 2022
“Who would name their company Flagrant?” you might ask. After all, the word “flagrant” has a ton of negative connotations. If you fill in the blank “flagrant __”, you might come up with: flagrant violation, flagrant foul or flagrant disregard. Let’s face it — Flagrant is a weird thing to name
April 5, 2022
No one wants to read about another company’s summit. Shit, most companies don’t want to read about their own summit. What IS helpful to read is how a “non-essential” investment like a summit can light a thousand soul fires inside your company. Especially if your company is remote-first. The
March 31, 2022
Hey, how ya doin? Whatcha been up to over the last 2 years which totally count as dog years? This is a soul-check from your friends at Flagrant, who have been doing a lot of growing over the last 30 months. We started Flagrant in the thick of WTF times. And though it’s been hard,
March 11, 2022
Behind Amanda Gorman’s crackling poems, Malala Yousafzai’s bullet scars and María Belón’s fight against a friggen TSUNAMI are the voices of powerful allies who empowered the shit out of their sisterhood. We shudder to think what the world would look like without women supporting women. And as
