Over the last several years, I’ve been lucky enough to partner with a few really good ones. I knew they were good when I met them, and they were even better, over time.

I’ve got a Shout Outs area here on the site, but in particular, over the last couple years, I’ve been able to understand, achieve, overcome, grow, win, laugh and not cry, with the special help of a few good ones:

Kit Casey, Steph Curran, Flo Balsiero (the namesake of our pack, Hustle & Flo) and Laura Skaggs. There were others too for sure—this partnership just held up longest.

As Hal Riney put it:

“ This business is not a work of committees. It’s not a work of formulas. It’s not a business about any of that. It’s not big agencies or anything else. It is simply a few really good people. And if you’re lucky enough, as I have been, to have a few of those people around you, you can probably succeed—cuz there aren’t a whole bunch of them—I’ll tell you that. There are a lot of people in this business, but damn few really good ones.