I hosted my first Podcast at the Pyramid Club in Center City Philadelphia this past week. The Podcast is called “Trophy Moments & a few Firsts, with Keith Baldwin.” On the Podcast I cover two topics with my guests for 30 minutes. One is looking back at the “Trophy Moment” of my guest’s life for […]
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It hit me like a sledgehammer as I sat talking to a contemporary in my industry this past week. They were looking for me to possibly take over their business. He was aging (over sixty) and was tired of the 60-to-80-hour weeks of hard work in running his business. He had worked in it (not
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A business colleague of mine sent out a request to my national industry group this past week to “Chime In” and asked “What is your favorite BOOK?” She asked the group to… “Share one: One that you’ve read again and again, or that had a profound impact in your life and/or your business“… “Or share
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Tomorrow is my 65th birthday. WOW. 20’s is old when you are a teenager. 30’s was “over the hill” when you were in your twenties. 40’s and 50’s seemed decrepit in your thirties. 65 is OLD at any time, unless you are 65 – which I now find myself. Now my 87-year-old Mother, who we
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This is a picture of me from July 1st, 2020. I was about to embark on a first for me, that started my journey of A Leap Year of Firsts – flying a plane. I had committed to doing this in front of a room full of one hundred people on December 5th, 2019 –
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I attended my FIRST Titan 100 photo shoot interview yesterday after recently being nominated and selected for the 2023 Titan 100 class for Philadelphia. Ok, what is a Titan 100? As described by the awarding organization … “A Titan is a person of exceptional importance and reputation. Albert Einstein was a titan in the world
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After over 17,000 steps on my walk this morning I happened upon a war memorial in a nearby town. The memorial had a walkway through a little garden containing a sculpture with a fountain that led to a few etched granite panels with different quotes from legendary leaders. After my eight-mile walk, I read the
We went LIVE with SOLAR this past week on my building in Northeast Philadelphia at Spike’s Trophies Ltd. YAY! I posted the image above on my social media. It has been a LONG and winding road to get here. The planning process for this started a few years back, at the end of my Leap
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This past weekend I drove two hours to the Delaware Water Gap to climb Mount Tammany on the Appellation Trail. I have started to hike daily in a quest to get back into shape. I wanted to challenge myself with something other than my flat old man morning walks of a few miles or so.
Prepping for an unthinkable long-shot quest of a “first”… Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro Read More »
I was fortunate to be selected to participate in the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business program a half dozen years ago. The program is a free condensed version of a MBA program, sponsored by Goldman Sachs. It is intended to have you come out of the program with a detailed business plan to grow your
