Jeremy Has No Plan
I'm Jeremy.
No plan, just a lot of curiosity and not enough time.
I'm married with three kids. Chelsea and I have been together for nine years, which means I've spent about a decade figuring out how to be a partner and a dad at the same time I've been figuring out everything else. You don't get ready for any of it. You just start and figure it out, which, if you keep reading, is kind of my whole thing.
I spent years at Walmart corporate, then jumped into mortgage origination — a completely different world. That same year I met Chelsea. So while I was learning how to talk to people about the biggest financial decision of their lives, I was also figuring out how to be with someone. Both of those started from zero.
When mortgages ran their course, I bought a digital marketing agency. I'd never done SEO. Never written a line of code. Never logged into a website backend. I learned all of it after signing the papers, the same way I've learned everything else: by doing it badly until I stopped doing it badly. We got married in 2020. Theo showed up in 2021. Olivia in 2023. The business was growing while the family was growing and I was figuring out all of it at the same time.
Now I'm training to be a home appraiser while still running the agency, because apparently one thing at a time has never been how I operate.
Outside of work — or maybe alongside it, the lines are blurry — I'm into 3D printing, laser engraving, woodworking, hydroponics, programming, politics, finance, history, and whatever else catches my attention on a given Tuesday. I'm working on a book called Starting From Zero, which is less of a title and more of a lifestyle.
This site is where I write about all of it. The career stuff, the dad stuff, the things I'm building, the things I'm reading, the things I'm figuring out. I don't have a five-year plan. I've got curiosity and a decent tolerance for looking stupid.
That's worked out fine so far.