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Why You Should Start Living in the Past

You can't know where you're going until you see where you've been

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Rick Lewis
May 09, 2024
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It was 2009. 

Despite having been a successful corporate comedian for years I couldn’t find anything funny about losing all my gigs when the economy crashed, the event industry collapsed, and corporate America slammed on the brakes.

I anxiously erased the canceled gigs off my whiteboard calendar until it was blank. With two…

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