This is not the announcement I ever wanted to make.
For years, I have poured a tremendous amount of myself into helping business owners, physician practice owners, entrepreneurs, and Christian leaders to build stronger organizations, serve people better and create businesses with greater purpose.
D14 was never simply a collection of websites, books, courses or services to me.
It became part of my life's work.
Unfortunately, multiple health concerns have increasingly affected what I am able to do consistenly.
There are good days, difficult days, and down-right terrible days.
After a great deal of deliberation, I have had to accept that I can no longer responsibly operate D14 as an active business, serve clients, or maintain the commitments that come with running these entities.
So, reluctantly, I am closing the business operations of D14 Agency and all associated D14 Businesses.
But I don't want everything we built to simply disappear.
While I am closing the commercial operation, I have decided to keep the D14 Biblical Business Academy Community open.
And from this point forward...
There will be NO paid membership levels.
The CEO & The Carpenter course & materials are completely free, like rest of the Community and resources.
YES - Even our famous 9-Step Forever Practice Program is FREE
The courses and educational resources currently available within the Community will remain available to members at no charge.
If my health allows, there will undoubtedly be days when I feel well enough to sit down at my computer and create something new—a lesson, an observation, an article, a video, an AI resource, or simply something I believe may help a fellow business owner.
When those good days come, I hope to continue adding things to the Community.
But there will be no publishing schedule, no promises of regular new content, and no expectation that I must produce something every week or every month.
That is an important distinction for me.
The business is closing.
The library of ideas does not have to.
If you are a business owner, entrepreneur, ministry leader, physician, or simply someone who believes business can be about more than making money, you are welcome to join us.
One of the reasons I want to leave this Community available is because I believe much of what is already inside it will remain useful for many years.
Artificial intelligence is moving at an extraordinary pace.
Marketing technology changes almost daily.
Automation platforms come and go.
Search changes.
Social media changes.
Advertising changes.
Software changes.
And the speed of that change is only going to increase.
I believe businesses of every size—from the one-person company to the multinational corporation—will struggle at times to understand which technologies matter, which are distractions, and how to keep up.
But technology is only part of business.
Human nature doesn't receive a software update every six months.
People still want to be treated with respect.
They still want to trust the people they do business with.
They still respond to leadership, integrity, communication, service, relationships, value, and purpose.
And for those of us who approach business through our Christian faith, the foundation goes back much further than any modern business book.
The principles behind The CEO & The Carpenter began more than 2,000 years ago.
Jesus didn't teach social-media strategy, artificial intelligence, funnels, CRMs, or automation.
He taught principles involving stewardship, leadership, service, responsibility, relationships, integrity, faithfulness, humility, courage, and the way we treat other people.
Those principles haven't become obsolete.
They won't.
There is a reason books written decades ago continue to sell today.
People still read Think and Grow Rich.
They still read How to Win Friends and Influence People.
Those books were written in another era entirely. The technologies their original readers used to communicate, advertise, sell, hire, manage, and operate businesses would seem ancient today.
Yet people continue reading them because their most important lessons were never really about technology.
They were about people.
That is how I feel about much of the material I have spent years developing.
Some of the tools contained in a course may eventually change.
A screenshot may become outdated.
A software platform may add a feature.
AI will certainly become more capable.
But the underlying questions remain:
How do you serve people well?
How do you communicate value?
How do you become someone worth trusting?
How do you lead?
How do you make difficult decisions?
How do you build something that matters?
And perhaps most importantly:
What kind of person are you becoming while you build it?
Those questions do not expire.
Closing these businesses is difficult precisely because I still believe in the work.
I still believe many small businesses desperately need better guidance.
I still believe physicians and medical practices can build stronger practices without sacrificing the reason many of them entered medicine in the first place.
I still believe entrepreneurs need practical strategies instead of endless hype.
And I deeply believe Christian business owners need places where they can talk honestly about the intersection of faith, leadership, money, employees, customers, growth, responsibility, and stewardship.
If my circumstances were different, those are people I would continue trying to help.
That is what makes this decision painful.
But there comes a point when we have to recognize the difference between what we desperately want to continue doing and what we are realistically able to continue doing.
I have reached that point.
I cannot promise the consistency required to operate these businesses properly.
So I am choosing to close them rather than pretend otherwise.
I can't promise you that I will personally be inside the Community every day.
I can't promise a new lesson every week.
I can't promise what my health will allow me to do next month.
But I can leave the door open.
I can make the work already completed available.
I can keep the Community available without charging people to enter it.
And on the good days, when I have the ability and the desire to create something useful, I can share it there.
Perhaps over time the Community becomes something I never anticipated.
Maybe people learn from the courses.
Maybe business owners help one another.
Maybe a pastor discovers something useful for a business-owner group in his church.
Maybe an entrepreneur finds one idea that changes the direction of his company.
Maybe someone reads a lesson from The CEO & The Carpenter and begins looking at employees, customers, money, leadership, or stewardship differently.
If that happens, then keeping this Community alive will have been worthwhile.
To everyone who has read one of my books, watched one of my videos, taken one of my courses, followed something I created, encouraged me, challenged me, prayed for me, or simply spent a little time listening to one of my ideas:
Thank you.
More sincerely than I can probably express here.
Closing D14 is not something I wanted to do.
But I believe it is something I need to do.
The commercial businesses and services are ending.
The selling is ending.
The client work is ending.
But instead of locking the doors to everything that has already been created, I would rather give people access to it.
No complicated membership levels.
No monthly fee.
No sales pitch once you get inside.
Just the resources, courses, conversations, ideas, and whatever else I may occasionally be able to contribute in the future.
It costs nothing.
Take what is useful.
Learn what you can.
Share what you learn with someone else.
Build a better business.
Lead people well.
Serve people well.
And if you're a person of faith, never forget who the real CEO is.
The business may be closing.
The mission doesn't have to end here.