by Mack Munro | | Growth, Story
It’s March 1973 and I’ve just gotten my very first eye exam. The eye doctor dilates my eyes, which is unfortunate because we’re about to have a special afternoon watching The Ten Commandments at a movie theater. I wasn’t born yet when it came out originally in...
by Mack Munro | | Growth, Story
I’m sitting in the treatment room at the orthopedic department of Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. It’s early 2012. For years, my left hip has been in throbbing pain. It’s bothered me on and off since I was stationed as an oral surgery technician in Long Beach in 1989. ...
by Mack Munro | | Growth, Story
It’s a Spring morning in 2011 and I’m standing outside the Verizon Center in Washington DC. I’m here for an event called Get Motivated! It’s part rally, part sales pitch with a bit of religion thrown in right before lunch. For just $1.95, I purchased one ticket and...
by Mack Munro | | Growth, Story
It’s a Tuesday evening in late 1999 and I’m picking up our three-year-old son Dustin from the Stepping Stones daycare center he attends in Munford, TN. I’ve just finished another long day at my first job after the Navy, U.T. Medical Group in Memphis. Barb is picking...
by Mack Munro | | Blog, Growth, Story
It’s a Saturday evening in 2004 and our eight-year-old son Dustin and I are watching a UFC fight. This is the first one he’s ever seen. Dustin is a wrestling fan. Not the boring kind of wrestling they do in the Olympics where a guy has someone in a hold for five...
by Mack Munro | | Blog, Growth
It’s late afternoon on Wednesday, January 25, 2025, and I’m heading towards BWI airport after a very important meeting in Gaithersburg, MD. Lisa, myself, and our good friend Kate did some strategic planning for my company and now I’m driving back. The plan is to...
by Mack Munro | | Growth, Story
“What does your calendar look like for February 21st through the 25th?” Barb has just asked me a loaded question. If I say I’m free, then there’s no excuse for me not wanting to do whatever she’s asking. “Why do you ask? “Just answer my question.” I look at the...
by Mack Munro | | Growth, Story
“I’ll tell you a story you’ll never forget…. a story about you…. and your cigarette” It’s 2008 and my daughter Allison, all of six years old, giggles uncontrollably as my dad sings that line as sort of a sea-shanty tune in ¾ time. I remember it well. He sang the...
by Mack Munro | | Growth, Story
It’s early Friday evening on July 13, 2012, and I’m at an airport bar at LaGuardia Airport in New York. Outspoken Vice President Joe Biden has publicly called out LaGuardia as “third world.” He’s not wrong. This place is a dated, crowded, dirty, depressing dump of...
by Mack Munro | | Growth, Story
It’s the Fall of 2019 and I’m on one last road trip before the end of the year. As I’m standing in the TSA line at BNA, a thought crosses my mind. What will I do when I stop traveling and lose all my precious status? As of now, I’m TSA Pre-Check along with CLEAR. I...
