The Measuring Post

"It is a recognized fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more easily than in our own." - Leonardo da Vinci

"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain." - John Locke

She scaled her business from $3,000 to 7 figures with zero outside funding, and now she's teaching other women founders how to do the same. In this episode of The Measuring Post, host Joe Masa sits down with Khryzza Kelley, CEO of CoWorq and founder of On Fridays We Scale, and Chantelle Lisette, founder of She Is Worthy Community, to talk about their upcoming in-person event, SEEN Mastermind, happ...

"You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog - he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't discuss ice with a summer insect - he's bound to a single season." - Zhuang Zhou

"If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price." - Haruki Murakami

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. - Confucius

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. - George Bernard Shaw

This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors. - Lauren Oliver

"Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement." - Albert Camus

"Devote the rest of your life to making progress." - Epictetus #thedailymeasure #themeasuringpost #dailymotivation #podcast #selfimprovement

20 years from now, you'd give anything to be: this exact age, exactly this healthy, and back in this exact moment. Now take a second to enjoy it now. - Rich Webster

Decisions, not conditions determine what a man is. - Viktor Frankl

"The scariest thing is to fully accept yourself." - Carl Jung

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of your life is to give it away. - Pablo Picasso

My most profitable journey began when I was shipwrecked. - Zeno

Announcing the launch of The Daily Measure, a daily motivational podcast brought to you by Joe Massa of The Measuring Post. 

Joe Massa sits down with Dr. Chidimma Abuka, Executive Director of Global Co-Leadership Development and Change Management at Polymathes Consulting and author of "Co-Leadership: One Role, Two Leaders," to explore why leadership doesn't have to rest on one person's shoulders. They dig into her Dualist Co-Leadership System framework, how companies can assess readiness for co-leadership, the role of e...

In this episode of The Measuring Post, host Joe Massa interviews Ramiro Moreno, the founder of DWD2 Clean Air. They discuss the often-overlooked importance of breathing clean air and how Ramiro pioneered a way to clean automotive and home AC systems without dismantling them. Ramiro shares his journey from discovering a foul odor in a car in the late 1970s to launching a successful business twenty...

Ron Harris, MBA, FLGPE, MBE, is a multi-time author, financial educator, and founder of Financial Literacy Group, LLC. He holds a master's degree in global marketing and communications from the University of Essex in the UK and has spent more than two decades studying how money moves through economies around the world. His mission is to bring the same financial tools and strategies that banks and...

Janna Scott didn't set out to build a software company. She set out to answer a simple question her clients kept asking: are my crypto taxes accurate? So she ran an experiment. She took one wallet with 350 clean, simple transactions — straight buys, sells, and conversions — and ran it through every major crypto tax product on the market. Fourteen products. Some of them backed by multi-billion doll...

Sean Martin sang his first opera at seven years old in a 5,000-seat tent in Mendocino. By twenty, he was an airborne infantryman jumping into Iraq on the 18X special forces fast-track contract. He came home with a Combat Infantryman Badge, the death of his best friend Jeff Bisson on his conscience, and PTSD the Army barely recognized. What the military taught him about turning on a "seventh gear"...

Gary Preisser grew up thinking there were only three real professions: teacher, lawyer, or doctor. Numbers came easy, so he ended up in tax prep, where he made an early discovery that shaped his whole career. People got excited about big tax refunds, and Gary had to break the news that they'd just loaned the IRS money for a year at zero interest. That moment defined how he thinks about wealth: the...

Shannon Fernando-Rubera was rejected from all 13 medical schools she applied to in 2007. Instead of reapplying, she got on a plane to Kenya and lived in Kibera, one of the largest informal settlements in Africa. That detour became her actual calling. Fifteen years later, the organization born from that rejection, Alabaster International, has spread to Kenya, Ethiopia, South Sudan, and Sri Lanka, b...

Ben Millan pulled back the curtain on what most financial advisors won't tell you about retirement planning. After pivoting his practice to focus exclusively on seniors during COVID, he developed a contrarian philosophy: forget the famous 4% rule and chasing a magic dollar amount. The only number that matters is your income gap , the difference between your guaranteed monthly income (Social Securi...

Trish Steele joins The Measuring Post to share her seven-decade journey from childhood trauma to becoming one of the most recognized advocates for domestic violence survivors in the country. After losing her father as a young girl, losing 70% of her hearing at age five, and enduring years of abuse from her stepfather, Trish built a life defined by resilience, not victimhood. She went on to fulfill...