AboutLanceIntroPage

The guy with the blue shirt on in the picture has been through a lot. You will to as "the boss" of your own business. It doesn't matter if you run a one truck lawn business, a ten employee website development company, or a manufacturing company, you will experience pain. What pain you ask? Physical, emotional, psychological, financial, social as well as hassles, late payments of bills and many more experiences on the road to becoming a success at your business.

If you think that wealthy people have no pain, your wrong because they do. It is just in different areas but they have it. You may think that poor people have a lot of pain and they do also but they bring a lot of it on themselves. You may think that the "middle ground" is safe from pain but guess what, its not! I am here to tell you that no matter what pain you experience The BOSS™ is here to support you, counsel you, encourage you, train you, and most of all love you through it. Just as I love my wife and daughter unconditionally I will love you unconditionally as a brother or sister in Christ. But, I will also hold you accountable for your actions if your business partners or family don't. As "the boss" of your own business demands will be placed on you that you may not like. But you will have to sacrifice and give up things because that is how you will get more. You may feel discourage at times but I will hit you between the eyes with what you need to know and what you must do to get to where you want to be, which is the next level of success with your business.

It doesn't matter if you are 18 years old and have tattoos on your arm, or you are 35 and only know how to look pretty, or you are a 55 baby-boomer wallowing in a pity party because you never changed jobs and are in a 20-year rut at work, or that you are 72 and think your business life is over. I will show you that you can do anything you set your mind to. If you can conceive it and believe it then you can achieve it with the help of The BOSS™.

Bill Gates and Michael Dell were somewhere in their late teens-early twenties when they got going and never finished college; Colonel Sanders was 59 when he started Kentucky fried Chicken, Coco Channel was 76 when she created "Channel No. 5" and Tiger Woods became the youngest golfer ever to win the PGA Masters Tournament.

Just remember to: stay focused, stay in touch with your loved ones, remain humble, have plenty of fun on the way, be serious and be crazy, work hard, pray hard, embrace God, and do the best at what the best is God gave to you!

Lance's Story & Witness

I was born in Oneonta, New York. I lived in upstate New York until age six when my family moved to Detroit, Michigan. My dad was an engineer in the connector division of Bendix Corporation. In 1958 Bendix gave him the choice to move to "snowy" Chicago or "sunny" Florida. He choose Florida to sell connectors for the new space program at Cape Canaveral.

I grew up in Winter Park, Florida and played all sports in school. I loved the sports competition and discipline. My high school to college transition was a trying time because I went through four colleges to complete my undergraduate degree and worked thirty five jobs to get the money to pay for it. My parents divorced during this period and my father died at age 52, just six months before I graduated from the University of Tennessee. Before his death he was honored as the Bendix Corporation's Top Field Engineer in America. He was very smart and a good father except when he drank. I will always remember his cheering for me when I hit my first home run in Little League, when I was the pitcher with the most wins and home runs in Pony League, and at the Kumquat Bowl Championship when I was quarterback and we won in the ninth grade.

I loved my parents but did not understand what a professional drinker my dad had become. And, I did not understand how it affected his job, my parents marriage and his relationship with me, my brother and my sister. My brother, joined the Air Force when he left high school so I rarely saw him during his 20 year stint. My sister got married early and lives in Florida.

High school is when things became frustrating and I got hurt playing football and my dad's drinking started creating family problems. When I entered college he divorced my mom after 27 years of marriage and was fired from Bendix. He then started a business manufacturing his own design of connectors and hired a WWII Veteran to work for him. This man had lost both legs and walked with prosthetic legs. He had a cute four year old daughter that was born with an appendage growth on her left leg. I mention this because it really touched my heart that my dad was so willing to help someone with obvious challenges. I respected him very much for this and learned a lot from it.

My mother was always loving and the spiritual leader in my family. I remember always going to church with her. It is because of her teaching that I have always worked on strengthening my relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. She taught me how praying for help and guidance would always get me through the challenges I face.

Upon graduating from U.T. in 1970 the Viet Nam War was being waged and I knew I would be drafted. Since I wanted to use my education I applied for and was accepted into the Naval Officer Candidate School and Flight Training programs. After receiving my commission and starting flight training I learned that I had fulfilled my military obligation and could request an early out. I was given an Honorable Discharge and moved to California to figure out my life. I had always worked out and kept up my punting skills in football and decided to enter my name for a tryout with the Los Angeles Rams. Only one person signed with the Rams out of 240 guys at the tryout. This is when I gave up on my football dream and refocused on what I was going to do. A few months later I decided to join the U.S. Peace Corp and was assigned to Ethiopia, in East Africa. I was there two years teaching family hygiene, developing a sports program for kids and setting up a hybrid farming plot for corn and experimental chicken raising. I wrote a plan and got $5,000 in funding from the British Relief Organization, OXFAM, to help pay for the program. While in Ethiopia I had amoebic dysentery many times, a bad case of typhoid, a kidney stone, I fell off a motorcycle and broke my leg, and I was treated by a Swedish Mission hospital doctor for a sever case of Malaria, which I almost died from. This taught me that you never know how much you can take until you have to take it!

When I returned to the U.S. I went to graduate school at the University of Central Florida and received a Masters in Counseling Psychology. I then worked with an Entrepreneur helping him open five counseling centers in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. When that relationship ended I decided to open my own counseling center and named it: Counseling & Personal Growth Center. After that I started a training company and raised $50K from investors to fund it. This led to my first experience of being betrayed in business. After raising the money and launching the business my partners changed the locks on the door and voted my out of the company. I pursued them legally for two years and got $20K returned to the investors. Following that I wanted to leverage my talents so I opened a business consulting company in Orlando, Florida and called it the Business Development Center. Because of the services I offered I needed to learn about funding companies. In order to do this I needed to find a financial guru who could teach me and I did.

I read an article in "Success Magazine" about the late Jim Howard, a Harvard graduate, owner of Symbax Business Services in New York City, former owner of the 6th largest public relations firm in America for 18 years, and the "Nixon for President" PR campaign managing firm when President Nixon was elected. Jim sold his PR firm and started Countywide Business Services. It was a company that did business valuations, funding and business acquisition and sale consulting. The article said Jim helped negotiate the purchase and sale of 300 businesses in a five year period and that he had developed a substantial reputation in political and business circles. I figured out how to contact him and was able to negotiate an agreement to pay him $30K in advance for one week of training in New York City. This was in 1986. That meant I had to write a business plan, raise the money and go to New York City to be trained by him. To do this required my sincere commitment. I made the commitment and a year later raised $2.5 million for my client and received a very nice bonus for that. Every time I went to New York City I would meet Jim at the Harvard Club for lunch and mentoring.

Over an eight year period I consulted with and was an executive for a number of companies. These experiences and the mentoring I received from Jim played a key role in my thoughts and ideas for developing The BOSS™ program.

My experience includes the pain from being forced out of two companies. The second resulted in a divorce I did not want, bankruptcy, and having my entire life turned upside down. At that time my brother was working as a consultant in Indonesia and called to invite me to visit him. I did and wound up staying there for six years. While there I met and married the most beautiful person in my life, Renny, my wife.

My first Indonesian contract was as Director of the MBA program for IEU Institute Of Management, a top ten private university. It was and is owned by Abdul Gafur, former Minister of Sports under former President Soeharto. In 2006 Bpk. Gafur became Governor of Maluku. His wife is Kemala Motik one of the wealthiest families in Indonesia. Both are very politically well known and active. After a year at IEU the Indonesian government changed the university system motivating me to do other things. My wife and I purchased P.T. Cosmorindo Megah a licensed business consulting, import and export company. I worked on development projects for education and science training and GOI water projects funded by KFG - Germany, World Bank and Asian Development Bank. In 1996 I negotiated a multi-million dollar pro-basketball deal for Indonesia. It required that we provide funding, marketing and pro-basketball support from the U.S. My partners were the Indonesian pro basketball league (KOBATAMA/PERBASI) and the brother of Bpk. Harmoko, the Minister of Communication. Bpk. Harmoko was also the President of DPP Golkar. This was President Soeharto's political party and he was the "Chairman" of the basketball organization. After eighteen months, ten round trips from Indonesia to the US, investing $300,000 and traveling all over the U.S. and Indonesia the deal came together. But then on November 1, 1997 President Soeharto appeared on Indonesian national TV with Paul Wolfowitz, former Ambassador to Indonesia and Chairman of the International Monetary Fund. He announced that the Indonesian economy was in a tail spin and the next day 29 major banks in Indonesia would be closed. The reason given is that it was the "ripple effect" from the devaluation of all Southeast Asian currencies starting with Thailand.

In January 1998 I returned to Orlando with my wife but remained hopeful that part of our project could be salvaged. It was an "exclusive" licensing agreement with P.T. Dong Joe, an Indonesian/Korean joint venture manufacturing company to market Spotec sports shoes in the U.S. However, President Soeharto was forced out of office in May 1998 and the country went into a turmoil so we were not able to return or salvage the deal. Three months after arriving back in America our beautiful daughter Tiffany was born. This was truly God's blessing for us after all the dislocation and losses we experienced during this time period.

I started working on The BOSS™ as a concept in 1998 and in 2001 began putting my plan together. From January to March 2001 and August to October 2006 I had a paid for business talk radio show daily in Orlando. I called it "The BOSS™." From 2002-2004 I toyed with ideas about the method and platform I wanted to use to deliver The BOSS™. In 2005 I started developing this website and wrote the initial draft business plan. In 2007-2008 new developments called for a change in the original website appearance. It also needed to focus more on the platforms for delivering The BOSS™ services. At the end of 2008 I had to do another update to the website due to changes in the Internet and to initiate the plan to do search engine optimization.