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Dear Monday
Dear Monday is a podcast about the decisions that change the shape of your life. Most people talk about opportunity in terms of upside — growth, freedom, financial potential. But far fewer conversations sit with what lives underneath those decisions: the obligations, the constraints, the commitments that are difficult to unwind once they're made.
This show exists in that space.
Each episode explores the realities behind ownership — business ownership, franchise investment, career exits, and other high-stakes commitments that reshape financial and personal life.
I spent years inside franchise ownership and deal advisory — walking prospective owners through the discovery process and watching how the industry was designed to move people toward decisions, not through them. Dear Monday is what I built for the moment in between.
The conversations are reflective, structured, and grounded in one principle: Clarity before commitment.
Rather than motivation or hype, Dear Monday offers disciplined thinking about risk, responsibility, and the long arc of a decision. The kind of thinking that belongs in the room before a contract is signed.
Because once it is — the real work begins.
Dear Monday
S1E21 Foundations: Growing in the Dark w/ Nicole Denae
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This episode is part of Season 1 of Dear Monday—the foundation of the show. These conversations centered on facing life’s demands with courage. As Dear Monday evolves, newer episodes focus on clarity before commitment and the decisions that shape what Monday requires.
Did you know that much of the work that happens in our lives happens in the dark? GOD has planted abundant life (greatness & fulfillment) inside all of us--in seed form. And that seed is often cultivated in the dark. What truths will you hold onto when darkness covers your seed and you can't see the light of day?
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE EPISODE:
- The dirty word called "surrender"
- How to see your own potential & answer the call of greatness within
- There is an assignment that only you can fulfill--how to recognize it
Today, remember that God does some of His best work IN THE DARK!