Over the last few weeks, I’ve found myself waking up in the middle of the night thinking about cash flow… Not because anything is necessarily wrong. In fact, most of the things keeping me awake are actually good things. The problem is that they all seem to be happening at the same time.

Looking back on Failure Lab Atlanta, the event I had no business producing, and how that leap set the stage for building The 601 Group.

In early 2015, I did something wildly out of my comfort zone. I read an article about a new event called Failure Lab, launched in Grand Rapids, Michigan. They had hosted a program at East Grand Rapids High School, my alma mater, where people stood on stage and told raw, vulnerable stories of failure.