Will Roman
@willroman
Crafting bespoke quality boots in small batches @ChisosBoots • Previous startup acquired by @UpholdInc • Doing my best to build a meaningful life.
Lessons I Wish Someone Had Told Me Tomorrow I'm conversing with students in a university setting. The below lessons are what I'll be sharing with them. Anything you'd add? 1. All the old cliches are true. 2. Figure out which game you’re playing. a. If you’re driven to…
Julius Roman was orphaned at age three in Nazi-occupied Hungary. After escaping to Canada to work the tobacco fields, he would eventually marry, father three daughters, move to Texas, suffer the death of his young wife, recover and remarry, start a sole proprietorship, and raise…
Julius Roman was orphaned at age three in Nazi-occupied Hungary. After escaping to Canada to work the tobacco fields, he would eventually marry, father three daughters, move to Texas, suffer the death of his young wife, recover and remarry, start a small vending operation, and…
Sorry it's been hard to talk about this stuff but we are not ok still in Kerrville, TX since the July 4th floods. I got to drive through the whole area all the way past Hunt, TX and out past Camp Mystic yesterday with my team and am having trouble describing what I saw. There…
Every real commitment includes a grief process. Because to say “yes” to one path means letting go of the infinite imagined paths that never asked anything of you.
It is said that crisis doesn’t create heroes; it reveals them & I’ve been honored to have spent the last week working shoulder-to-shoulder among some of the most extraordinary-ordinary heroes I never expected to meet. There have been MANY individuals & groups organized across…
President Donald J. Trump & @FLOTUS visit Kerrville, Texas 🇺🇸 “Two words: unity and competence, if you were to ask me two words that I've seen here ... The way everyone has just pulled together. It's rare that you see this."
My colleague Aaron Parsley and his family were swept away in their home by the Guadalupe River. His harrowing story and their loss are described in one of the most important pieces @TexasMonthly has ever published. texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…
Anyone in Austin area have a camper trailer I can borrow? Headed to Comfort, TX and the flood zone to volunteer Friday for the weekend.
Our hearts are heavy for those in the beloved Hill Country of Texas. There are moments when the weight of loss just stops you in your tracks. No words feel right. No explanation feels fair or does justice to the immense grief and sorrow so many are feeling. That part of Texas……
Tonight the skies will thunder, colors will dance, and children across this country will look up with wonder. And while the Fourth is about more than fireworks… it’s also exactly about them. Some kids will run wide-eyed beneath the bursts; others will bury their faces in their…
married friends, your single friends need you otherwise they're getting advice from other single friends
much like muscles, willpower is forged by the force of its own expansion
and not a sales email nor sms in sight 🫡
Memorial Day. A day for reflection. Today is for the fallen. Those who gave everything and never came home. Let us honor their sacrifice and celebrate the dream of America they fought for. God bless our heroes.
My competitors sell mediocre mass-produced slop, but spend millions in ads telling people its high craft. It's a lie. It's infuriating. And I shall defeat them.
We must design our homes, our villages, our entire society primarily for the children. It is good and just and right.