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When I was 16 years old I started a magazine called Real. It lasted a few years before everything blew up. From a lack of funding and being sued for millions of dollars, the reasons were plentiful and painful, and the lessons were priceless.

One of the things that came out of those rough moments was a handful of relationships that I am still connected with today. Not only did I meet the woman who would end up being my wife, I was also privileged to meet some others who played significant roles in Real magazine.

Two of these people, Shawn Stewart and Kevin Hendricks, have been working with me for the last three years. Shawn designed some early issues of Real and he is now the creative director for Personality™. Kevin was Mr. Writer Extraordinaire helping with the print and web version of Real. He is now a freelance writer who has done tons of stuff for Personality™, Foursquare, and CFCC, including the launch of Church Marketing Sucks in 2004.

I am ecstatic about the most recent addition from my “friends made during the Real days” club. Marcia Bartenhagen is joining my communications team at Foursquare and will be our associate editor. Marcia has spent the last several years at Strang Communications in Florida. She will be joining the Foursquare team in March and I can’t wait. Her role will be a far cry from her days writing the music/cutlure reviews in Real, but it will be a blast working in a more “grown up” context now.

We’re all still kids figuring this thing out. But it sure is fun!

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