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The Moment You Stop Waiting There’s a phrase I’ve heard my entire life: If you have an idea, go for it. If you have a

Getting Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable There’s a moment most people try to avoid at all costs—the moment when discomfort shows up and there’s nothing immediate

When Collecting Becomes The Substitute One of the hardest truths to accept in recovery—of any kind—is that sobriety doesn’t automatically rewire the brain. For many

Meeting People Inside The Feed There’s an uncomfortable truth at the center of the work we’re doing at Collectors MD. The very platforms we use

When The Algorithm Targets A Child There’s an uncomfortable truth we don’t talk about enough in the collecting space: the same platforms that claim to

Entering The New Year With Intention As this year comes to a close, I’ve found myself reflecting on just how much has changed in such

Setting The Tone For The New Year A new year doesn’t ask us to reinvent ourselves. It asks us to be more intentional about how

Accountability Is No Longer Optional Over the last few weeks, I’ve found myself doing something I never set out to do—scrolling through Reddit threads late

When Grading Becomes The Default More than 26 million cards were graded in 2025. Let that number sit for a moment. That isn’t just a

What We’d Change Isn’t A Feature, It’s The Culture As I read today’s CLLCT article asking industry leaders what they’d change about the hobby, I

Laying Down The Mask Recovery often starts with learning how to change our behavior—but it deepens when we learn how to stop hiding what we

The Image We Chase During active addiction—whether it shows up through gambling, compulsive collecting, or spending—many of us aren’t just chasing a “win”. We’re chasing