When it comes to getting things done for your biz, you obviously want the quickest, highest quality, easiest thing to use at your disposal. Sometimes these services are totally free, or sometimes you pay a bit to get some great features and turnarounds. I couldn't run my day-to-day biz without these five fine young cannibals. 1. CANVA I discovered this app/website about a year ago and it changed my life. Canva features the easiest design tools you'll ever come across, availab

As a standup comedian for over a decade, the energy and laughs of the crowd are what feeds me to stay on stage and keep telling jokes. I'm at a point in my career where I'm doing the least amount of standup that I've ever done since I started in 2006, but all that "stage" time is replaced with trivia time, as I'm hosting a new place at least 5 out of 7 nights of the week, if not all 7 at certain times. I was thinking about the equivalents of what makes it fun for me to keep h

About two years ago, a co-worker of mine named Teddy Canon called me in his office to show me a new business venture he was working on. He was motivated, passionate, and excited about his project and he showed me where some of it was stemming from:  a Gary Vee video. I had never heard of Gary Vee, but I checked out his podcast and decided to give it a listen, and from that day I was hooked. This guy spouts off such important ideals, backs them up with his own life and upbring

Every once in a while, I truly get stumped as a trivia host. This was one of those cases. I had my friend Randy Washington, singer, comedian, and all around great dude on Ep 78 of the Trivia with Budds podcast to chat and to do trivia on Giant Robots and Fictional Dogs, the latter of which was a topic picked by me. Little did I know, I knew almost nothing about Fictional Dogs, or at least Randy's take on making up questions about them! Listen to this clip for insight. It's ev

In addition to hosting live trivia events, I started a podcast of the same name about a year and a half ago. I've been an avid podcast listener since about 2009, when I discovered comedians I liked spent an hour a week talking into microphones and posting it for their fans to check out (ie Comedy and Everything Else with Jimmy Dore and Never Not Funny with Jimmy Pardo). It was like hearing the weekly thoughts of some of my biggest influences, and I loved it. I knew I wanted t