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Today is my last day at Stagwell.
Today is the culmination of a journey I started 18 years ago with Vince LaVecchia and then JD Hooge to start and build a truly exceptional agency where we put quality of work and quality of humanity on equal pedestals. I’m so very proud of our journey. I’m also very grateful to every person that helped us along the way.
Today is also the fulfillment of a promise I made to myself to punch out by 50 and spend dedicated time with my family. I’m not looking for sympathy, but I understand now that doing what I’ve done has aged me in ways that are hard to quantify. I have traded time for money. I have traded presence for hustle. I don’t regret these decision, but I also don’t think they’re sustainable for the kind of relationship I want with my children.
Lastly, today I’m doing what I’ve been trying to do since I was 18, get back home. I have spent my whole adult life just trying to get home. Trying to be where my heart is. Trying to sprint back to not miss a thing, a moment, “I love you”, funny joke or hug. This started when I was an 18 year old Marine trying to get home from all ends of the earth and it has continued until today. Today I’m home.
So with that, goodbye professional world. I’ll probably see you again, but if I don’t, just know I got what I came for and I tried to give you as much as you gave me.
JML