My name's Mike Koehler, I'm a 49-year-old business owner from Oklahoma City with some experience in mental health. When I launched a digital marketing agency in 2010, I made many wrong choices, including how I managed my time and measured success. Eventually, after a breakdown and hospitalization, I learned about the importance of family, faith, perspective and sharing the burden. Now, many years later, my business is thriving, and I work every day to hold precious my family and my contentment.

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Grew up a nerd playing Dungeons and Dragons in the 80's; Dad worked at the newspaperPre America Online; he had a Texas Instrument computer and then an Apple II GS; met other nerds to play D&D on Bulletin Board Services (BBS) which was like a text based forumIn High School he and his friends made movies; they had a big bulky VHS camcorder and his dad had video editing equipmentIn college he didn't take the time to party like in the movie Animal House; he was working all the time and covering college sports on the weekendsHis first job was a Newspaper in Oklahoma; he started learning about this new thing called the internet; eventually was in charge of the online piece of the whole newspaperDrove around in a snowstorm live streaming and live chatting on the roads around town; like a tornado chaser without the tornado; folks could request them to drive a different road on live chatAfter working in a PR agency for about a year; decided to start his own businessLearned that the "fake it til you make it" idea just didn't work for him; he felt compelled to lie about how the business was doing because the truth didn't seem cool enough; had a breakdown and ended up in the hospital depressed and suicidalHis wife, business partner and their employees saved his life and his business while Mike worked on his recovery

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