Freedom, Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Scripture are my guiding lights.Small & local communities are in the fight of their lives. The ‘Truly-Local’ mission is to assist local communities, honest media, local businesses, and patriotic citizens in building upon their current synergistic strengths to enhance the vibrancy and economic conditions of their community. In order for each of these four components to survive, they all must thrive. You rarely see a thriving media or business base in a dying and non-patriotic community, it is nearly impossible. By finding the synergies between all four, we help build a solid foundation that supports the entire community. Just as a rising tide lifts all the ships in the harbor, the rising of a community, the honest media, local business and patriotic citizens lifts the entire community. My weekly column, "Building Main Street, not Wall Street" runs in 60+ news media products and is a start to building these local synergies. The synergies created through this synergistic column and process enhance the economic/revenue opportunities for entire communities.National and local media has changed dramatically in my 30+ years in the industry, going in different directions. While many of the National media companies have become government mouthpieces, we still have many local media companies trying to do a honest and great job. Those local companies can make a real difference in your community, it is those we focus on with Truly local. I am blessed to work with Econ Development teams, Main Street orgs, Chambers and Community orgs leading to a better understanding of the synergies possible between communities, business, honest media and their citizens.Saving communities, business, honest journalism, and patriotic citizens is my passion. This is ONLY accomplished when all four come together forging common synergies. They MUST balance traditional strengths, new strategies and true transformational disruption. Rules that govern honest media, business and community survival have changed! What was stability is now a rapid change. What was tradition is now enhanced innovation. What was consistency is now creativity, vision and shear determination. Incremental change is dead on arrival, only those changing through HIGHLY disruptive innovation will thrive. Are we willing to change?Communities are staring in the mirror at the "innovators dilemma", we must ask ourselves, can we overcome the traditional culture in our business or community? The real question becomes, what is looking back at us in that mirror?