Category: Personal
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It’s 12:45 on a Saturday night…
It’s 12:45 on a Saturday night, and I do know where I’m at. I suppose technically, it is a Sunday morning, and contrary to how this story would have gone a year ago–or six months ago, for that matter–I’m sitting in a semi-dark condo, alone, with what remains of a small bottle of tequila that…
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Stan Collins Portfolio of Past Marketing Projects
Society Florence June 2013 It was sometime around early 2013 in Florence, Alabama when Stan Collins and Chris Brown started Society Florence. It began as a website to keep up with what bands were playing at which bars on any given night. The University of North Alabama was engulfed in a deep culture of music…
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Thoughts On Wanting More and How To Get It
Thoughts On Wanting More and How To Get It – Stan Collins Originally Published on Dec 4, 2017 I originally wrote this post in a brown leather traveler’s notebook which doubles as my wallet and business card holder. I used a Mont Blanc fountain pen and a custom blue-black mixture of ink that I extracted…
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A New Chapter in Life and Business
Stan Collins – A Rollercoaster Lifestyle This past year has easily been the most chaotic rollercoaster ride of my life thus far. The highs were amazing but the lows nearly pushed me to my breaking point. This won’t be the post that I dive deep into the disaster that consumed the last company that I…
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Thoughts on Work, Goals, and Perspective
(Originally posted on June 25, 2020) When I was in grade school, the general idea as I understood it, was that we were to do well in school so that we could get into a good college, so that we could get a good job, and make a lot of money, and then it would…
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The Disaster That Brought Me To Phoenix
The Disaster That Brought Me To Phoenix – Stan Collins Originally published on October 15, 2018, regarding events of 2015. I regained consciousness in a puddle of my own blood. I could see out of only my right eye and I feared for the worst. “Where the hell am I?” I was in a daze…
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His Faith In Dreams – Poem
5/1/17 My dear, you clearly haven’t seenthe terrors that make up my dreamsI promised me I’d never try again, We know exactly what takes placeWhen so called friends get their sayIf everything is doomed, then why begin, The deed is done but scars remainThe love, the sex, the bars, the painIt taught me things but…
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The Freedom Experiment Part 2: Journey To The Ranch
THE FREEDOM EXPERIMENT PART 2: JOURNEY TO THE RANCH – Stan Collins One evening, after a week of indecision, interviews, drunken nights, and hungover mornings, I got an unexpected call from a friend. “Hey man, are you free for the next week?” “Well yeah, I suppose so,” I responded. Eight hours later, I was on…
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The Freedom Experiment: Part 1
Personal Freedom THE FREEDOM EXPERIMENT: PART 1 – LIVING A LIFE OF ULTIMATE FREEDOM – Stan Collins A RISKY EXPERIMENT INDEED (This post was originally written on 8/13/2018 and serves as a preface to the recent events that make up the bulk of The Freedom Experiment.) Very few of us live in an actual state…
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The Mayan Goddess – Poem
They were all fixated on the goddess as she strolled through the venue. To whom had she come there to see? How long might this mystery continue? Every head turned towards her and every mind thought the same. How glorious it would be to meet and whisk her away. I had found what I was…