Sherri L. Combs’ The Just-In-Case Plan Wins Indie Book Award
Sherri L. Combs is a senior advocate, author, and founder of the Silver Streak movement, a nationwide initiative focused on helping older adults avoid scams, find trusted resources, and prepare for aging. Recently, her book, The Just-In-Case Plan, won a Next Generation Indie Book Award for Social Change. Combs has shared plans to travel to […]
“SURRENDER” and Why Entrepreneur Carroll Patrizi Says Letting Go Is the New Strength
By: Shawn Mars Letting go is not something most entrepreneurs are taught to do. The instinct, in business and in life, is to push harder, hold tighter, and carry more. Carroll Patrizi spent decades doing exactly that, building a career that crossed banking, real estate, construction, and media, before she arrived at a different conclusion. […]
Houston Entrepreneur Sherice Sheppard Continues Expanding Her Reach Through Film, Media and Storytelling
By: Sherice Sheppard For many people, filmmaking is a dream. For Sherice, it became a decision. As the founder of HustlHER Film & Media and the creator of Pillow Talk Houston, Sherice has spent years carving out her own lane in entertainment. What began as a media platform eventually evolved into film production, allowing her […]
The Business Owner’s Complete Business Loan FAQ
Business loan questions cluster around a small number of recurring themes: how to qualify, which product to choose, how long it takes, and what it actually costs. This guide answers all of them in one place. The most common business loan questions are also the most consistently unanswered by the lending industry itself, because lenders […]
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Talks Future of AI Development
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discussed AI development, superintelligence, the Stargate project, and the future of human intelligence during a recent interview, offering updated remarks on the direction of artificial intelligence research and the infrastructure required to support increasingly advanced systems. The conversation addressed the progress of AI models, long-term technological goals, and the potential effects […]
The Private Credit Desk Is the Bottleneck. The Next Stack Has to Remove It.
By Roberto Pernicone Private credit has become one of the most important financing channels outside traditional banking. Yet for most lenders, the real constraint is not borrower demand or available capital. It is the desk. A loan file rarely moves cleanly. A borrower reaches out by email, text, broker referral, or intake form. From there, […]
The Bus Has No Driver: Why HR May Be the Missing Seat in AI Adoption
At the SHRM Annual Conference in 2025, Ryan Kohler asked a room full of HR professionals a question that cut through the noise around artificial intelligence. Who is responsible for AI adoption inside your company? The answer should concern every executive team. More than half the room chose nobody. That answer captures the central problem […]
Why Auto Repair Shops Need a Business Line of Credit More Than Almost Any Other Small Business
Auto repair shops operate in an environment where the size and urgency of expenses are almost entirely unpredictable, the timing of revenue is often constrained by insurance cycles, and the difference between a profitable week and a cash flow crisis can be a single major repair job and a delayed insurance payment. Walk into an […]
Welcome Home Co. Treats Every Sale Like Its Own Project
By: Matt Emma John Pecchia has spent more than two decades helping people buy and sell homes across Minnesota and Wisconsin, and in that time, he has learned that selling a house is rarely just about the house. It is about the worry that comes with it. The questions about what to fix, what to […]
How Melissa Shevchenko Is Redefining Women’s Fitness Through Empowerment and Self-Trust
The FitGirlsRock founder on why the diet industry keeps failing women, and what real transformation actually looks like Walk into any conversation about women’s fitness and the same script tends to play out. The body is the problem. The body is the project. The body is the thing that needs to be smaller, leaner, harder, […]