A Note From Bryan...

I want to start this post off with an apology for me. I recently lost a very close friend as he was waiting for an organ transplant, only to find out that another friend and mentor Dirk Facer, one of the best members of the local media and a longtime friend of high school athletics, passed away two days later awaiting an organ transplant as well. The grief broke me, and unfortunately, I shut down in the midst of it. It has been a challenging year for me personally to say the least. I suddenly lost a job that I'd sacrificed and rearranged my life around as a way of committing more fully to it, losing a podcast that I’d built from the ground up into a 100,000 download/year juggernaut and moving away from family and friends to Farmington, where I knew no one and spent most of the time by myself. I watched people I considered friends turn their backs as I looked to find a way forward in the turmoil. Grappled with starting a new business and going out on my own to pursue some kind of stabi…