I understand completely. That’s why I take Friday’s off during summer. (well, most of them anyway) If you don’t step away you forget why you’re here.

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you really should have left out the tagline for the photo and let people’s minds run wild. It would have made for a much more interesting comment section this morning.

After about (what 5?) years of knowing you, this is the first time I’ve seen you take a real unplanned and well deserved “vacation” from everyday life. congratulations on your reality check.

I hope this puts to rest the questions about how Vlad does what he does in the 24 hours a day. I’ve known the man since high school and.. well, you just have to meet him to understand.

I think Vlad can see the future. I really do. I have no other explanation for how someone can forsee so much stuff, good or bad, at least in his job.

Hey Vlad, nice ass

Wow…

I’m glad I’m not the only one who has not taken a true break in a long time. I wish there was a simple way to step away without it all going to hell.

Dear Friend,

I’ve wondered when this post would come up. In the few years we’ve worked together I’ve never known you to be anything but on the ball. As of late I’ve seen you work at a whole new level and I just wondered what the end was going to look like.

Secretly, I figured it was either this post of utlimate epiphany or an outright “fuck it, I’m rich” post. FWIW, I’m glad this is how you’ve been able to look at it.

We all know what the last year has been like at OWN. Mo money, mo problems. But you’ve been able to work through them all, work through them all in a way that I’ve never been able to comprehend.

I look at OWN, I see all the pieces that are there, I see what has been built. I think you have a phenomenal opportunity to take this to the next level and I know you want to. I have no doubt SM will power you through to the top. You, quite simply, are the man.

I would urge you to take another week off. Put together a game plan. Put together a process, a new business plan. Remember that stuff is not written in stone.

You go Vlad!

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> < !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> Vlad, I can't tell you how happy I am you have come to this conclusion. You've been such an asset to our city that I don't think a dozen people could replace all you do. While I can imagine there are dozens of "monkies" on typewriters under you we have never even remotely considered doing business with anybody else. For the entire city with an IT department slighly larger than your entire company to be so dependant on a vendor is almost unheard of. Its a pleasure to know you, pleasure to do business with you and know that no matter how complex things get we can always "call Vlad" to get out of trouble.

Don’t knock yourself for pursuing excellence and putting 110% of what you got into all you do. What you’ve for us has been nothing short of astounding and we appreciate every bit of hardcore labor you put in.

Reflection is great, taking time off to clear your head is even better. I cannot wait to see what this does for ExchangeDefender.

Vlad is the man.

We don’t do any business yet, but with this kind of testimonial and so many people singing your praises you’ll be hearing from me on Monday.

Glad to see you’re well, keep on running young man!

Welcome back to Florida Vlad. We’re happy to have you back. Eager to hear what you’ve brought back.

Glad you’re safe and back in Florida. Great catching up with you at WWPC, you certainly got a heck of a lot more out of it than I did.

It was a pleasure to finally meet you. You’re one funny boy

Ok, you are not allowed to scare me like that again. It almost ruined my entire weekend with that post title. I saw your other post yesterday and thought.. man, Vlad is having it rough.. so naturally, when I read the title in my feeder I thought “oh no”

So do we still have jobs or what? Got the email and the meeting request for tomorrow, ought to be interesting. I knew we were changing direction, I just didn’t figure it was this personal.

My guess is that he just wants to throw some chairs at you guys

WB Vlad!!!

I missed this blog so much. I realize I’m a total loser but this is one of the things I refresh a few times a day to see what you’re up to.

I’ll get on the back of the compliment train and say that nobody out there writes as sincerely and openly as you do about what is going on in your life. One look at the Vladvisory and you think “wow, what an asshole” but when you read this type of a post you understand that it is just the profound display of who and what you are.

Thank you so much for being brave enough to show.. everything. You have my unending respect.

How very transparent of you

Welcome back home. Does this mean you’ll be taking it easier and finally come to visit? I would so love to see you. We’ve got this Exchange problem… hahahahaha

Pleasure seeing you at WWPC. You’re a riot.

Welcome back to Orlando. Glad you had your epiphany we look forward to you kicking more ass for us in the future!

Take it easy, relax… you make enough money to take Friday’s off

Vlad, you scared the crap out of me man!

Glad you had a good time in Boston nice to hear Susanne taught you a few things. Hopefully none of them will make Katie kill you

Congratulations on parting of the clouds. Does this mean you will take your long overdue advice for yourself to work on bigger and better things and stop playing with the rest of the kids in the mud?

Whatever is next for Vladmeister you know I got your back boy so let me know.

.NetMan.

Looks like you had an interesting time. Wonder what Susanne you learned from Susanne that made this big of a change in attitude, I’ve never known you to do anything but 200% of what is needed.

IDDQD - Doom God Mode

This is why I try to take Mondays off. Really, 90% of the problems you will encounter happen on a Monday because people are doing 50 things at once and its easier to make something your problem when it really is not. Training people not to count on you on Mondays for every little thing is a bit difficult, I do paperwork on Mondays and since I started doing that I found it that a) people like to see me more and b) there is a lot less tension and c) the week goes by much smoother because your Monday doesn’t feel like a fireman shift.

Now I understand as well… Why you didn’t return my last 2 emails after mind blowing my customer service experiences for 2 years now.
You were the guy picking up my phone calls after 1 ring, answering my e-mails at 5 in the morning on the weekend, at past 11 at night… I never waited for an answer. You were up when I was.

See I got used to it: It’s Vlad. I talked to my friends about you: “This guy has some genius in himself”

I always wondered what was your recovery system though.

I am glad you found a balance within yourself and a truer happiness.

So we need total disconnection from technology to connect to who we are. Last time it was a dead cell battery creation. Next time a hurricane or a conscious decision…your choice.
Regards.

You da man!

Glad to see you cooled off a little, I’ve come to expect only the best out of you.

I wasn’t going to say anything to this because as Vlad’s client I don’t feel right sharing our details but since this is almost a tribute to Vlad’s skill I have to say this.

Vlad saved our butt and elevated us past all the other competing vendors.

How?

CEO of the company had a problem and I couldn’t figure it out. I couldn’t even tell them what was wrong. Vlad picked up the phone, called the CEO, straightened the issue in 30 seconds flat.

That didn’t make me look great but they were proplexed that a CEO of one company would call them and fix their problem on the spot. If you’re surprised why Vlad still answers the phone, thats why. Since then we got contracted on a number of projects with that company all thanks to who we know.

Thanks Vlad!

Vlad,

as we both know - this was also true for me last week - my world is still on its end, but both yours and Suze’s support, plus that or Robbie, Chris, Dave and James has helped me remember what is right.

We will do a show soon and chat more. The photos are awesome - I wonder how many people are saying - who is the other bloke

At least I found my mobile when we walked back to this spot an hour later!!

seeing ya man

Dave

Thanks for using my photos Vlad - glad I contributed something. Sounds like we both went through the same kind of epiphany. I had a penny dropping analogy in my presentation and that related to something that went on in my business about a year ago. After last week, another one dropped and I’m busy re-organising myself and looking at a real strategy for growth now. I’m going to start my own blog in the next couple of weeks - not going to call myself chicken guy though…

Glad you got some fresh air, from time to time you need to be disconnected. Good lesson for anyone.

I am curious if this actually impacts you enough to start implementing all those changes we’ve been talking about for months. Really, I hope you do.

Welcome back, glad to have you back in Florida after back to back conferences. See you at the group meet next week.

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