I Was Almost 18 and Facing a Felony
Before the restaurants, before the finance firm, Joel Steele was a teenager caught up with the wrong crowd - and one…
$800K in Debt at 24: My Biggest Mistake
Joel Steele set out to build the next nationwide fast food chain. By 24, he was buried in roughly $800,000 of debt and…
Title: $800K in Debt at 24 and Ready to Give Up | Joel Steele
Joel Steele set out to build the next McDonald's. Instead, by age 24, he was sitting on roughly $800,000 of debt in…
The Pilot Light That Saved Me After $800K in Debt
Joel Steele's switch went from on to off the day his restaurants failed. What brought him back wasn't a plan. It was a…
$800K in Debt at 24 - Here's What He Missed | Joel Steele
At 24, Joel Steele was buried in roughly $800,000 of debt (in today's dollars) after his healthy fast food restaurant…
MIT Grad Couldn't Find Her Spark in Tech -- Until AI Helped
Finding the overlap between what you can do, what you want to do, and what others will pay you for -- that's the hard…
4 Types of Mistake-Proofing: Prevention, Detection, Mitigation, and Warnings
What's more effective than a warning sign? Almost anything. Mark Graban walks through four types of mistake-proofing…
She Left Tech Because It Felt "Soulless" -- Her Favorite Mistake
Irna Hutabarat Athans walked away from technology entirely because it felt empty and soulless. Despite her MIT MBA,…