Building In The Margins
You’re paid well. You have a family. You’re exhausted. Every rational person will tell you now is ‘not the right season of life to start something new.’
But you want to build something that’s yours. Something that doesn’t disappear if your boss restructures the org chart or your company gets acquired. At the same time, you can’t afford to blow everything up to do it.
This newsletter is dispatches from someone doing exactly that—building his 2nd Act without torching his first.
I run the global recruiting team for a scaling tech company. I’ve been helping people navigate career transitions for 17 years. I’m married and have 3 boys (ages 6, 4, and 2). By every conventional measure, I'm the last person who should be building a side business from 5:00-6:45 AM every morning. But I'm doing it anyway.
I’m not teaching this from the other side. I’m documenting it in real time.
What You Get:
Every week, I send field notes from building my 2nd Act. These come straight from the course modules I’m creating for the 2nd Act Protocol—frameworks on how to build without torching your day job, your family, or your sanity.
You’ll get the systems that are working, the mistakes I’m making, and the actual collision of trying to build something meaningful while working full-time and raising three kids who still need you to wipe their butts.
This is real-time: not “here’s what I figured out 5 years ago,” but “here’s what I fucked up last week (and how I’m fixing it).”
Who This Is For:
If you’re looking for someone to tell you to quit your job and “follow your passion,” I’m not your guy. Same for the 23-year-old entrepreneurs who can move back in with mom and dad when their ideas flop.
If you’re creating something new while working full-time, raising kids, and trying not to torch everything you’ve spent a decade or two building, you’re in the right place.
This is for people who can't afford to burn it down, so they're building in the margins instead.
Find Me Elsewhere
I write daily on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikerradice/
YouTube: (Coming soon)
