Language Enthusiast…
Chris is teaching himself Japanese and he is already fluent in Spanish from spending two unpaid years in Guatemala walking the streets, learning the culture, and most importantly teaching families in their homes how to positively change their lives.
Walking Encyclopedia…
Chris has a passion for pursuing knowledge in nearly anything, especially when it relates to good business and communication. Don’t believe it? Try him…
Family Man…
Chris is married to his high-school sweetheart and has two beautiful daughters who complete his life. They share many adventures together, and especially enjoy their time in the kitchen. You can follow these fun adventures on Chris’s cooking blog, www.TheCookingDish.com.
Biology Graduate…
and founder of his university’s first Pre-Optometry Society… and one of the only people who could eat popcorn and work in the lab at the same time.
Cow Milker…
If there’s one thing Chris knows from growing up in a farming community, it’s how to work hard and efficiently. Did you know that cows can milk themselves?
Human Octopus…
Chris’s ability to brainstorm and think from all angles has been compared to an octopus with 50 tentacles… not exactly flattering, but accurate.
Chris can be
completely random on command.
Music Aficionado…
Chris’s favorite music is classical; although, if you’re at a stoplight and Chris is behind you, it’s not uncommon to see him jamming to some modern beats in your rearview mirror.
Social Bug…
Chris enjoys participating and volunteering for community events. He recently played the role of Schroeder in “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” and also works with the youth in his church.
Favorite Color:
Green
Favorite Reads:
The 4-Hour Workweek, Linchpin, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Favorite Blogs:
Coppyblogger, The Art of Manliness, The Big Picture, Freelance Folder
Different and Loving it…
Ilene’s fingers were short and skinny, like the rest of her body, and her wrinkled skin stretched slightly over each knobby finger, bulged with arthritis and old age. She lay on her back, wrapped in plastic, moist with embalming fluids. I’d heard it was a heart attack that got her, but that was only rumor. To my right Wayde faced Ilene while buttoning up his lab coat. He swayed back to front, slowly. This was Wayde’s first time experiencing the bright lights, pungent chemical smells, and potentially dream-scarring sites of a cadaver lab.
I fastened each button on my white lab coat and wondered how that big stain wound up on it’s left-side chest pocket…some questions are best left unanswered, but I found a different pocket for my pencil. My thin plastic gloves easily slid onto my cold fingers. It’s not hard to feel cold in a cadaver lab, they keep the temperature below normal to preserve the bodies. Some people never get used to the temperature.
And for Wayde, who rivaled Ilene’s skinniness, it was the last straw –
– With his hands tucked loosely in his lab coat pockets, he looked overly casual when he bent over and smelled Ilene. He bent in slowly, real interested-like, until his lips touched her plastic.
It was… surreal. Not just for Wayde, but for me too—I couldn’t believe he’d just kissed Ilene.
Numb with disgust—and quite frankly more disturbed than I’d ever been—I watched in silent horror as Wayne’s head rolled off the wet plastic to the right and onto Ilene’s chest. It was then that I saw his pasty-white face and his glassy eyes. Wayde had fainted straight into Ilene’s cold, dead bosom.
Unbelievable yet true…
My name is Chris Mower (queue theme music); I’m a copywriter, usability designer, and an overall okay guy (so they say…).
That snippet of my life in a cadaver lab is true. If you and I get the chance to meet, I’ll tell you more about it and other stories of my adventures in science, travels, business, and writing.
Over nine years ago I started a journey to change lives through persuasive personal communication. Since then I’ve worked non-stop to learn how to create something so powerful that it compels you to change your life. This path hasn’t been easy, and it’s a continuous adventure that I love.
My Unquenchable Passion.
You see, I view the world from a unique perspective. I can take a project, research it more thoroughly than you thought possible, organize it, dissect it, re-arrange it, and then present it in a new compelling way. Having this “360-degree” vision is fun. In fact, I’m passionate about it—
—And this passion calls people to action.
And while I’m just one guy, you don’t have to worry. When necessary I mobilize teams ranging from writers and designers to programmers and together we create something worth bragging about.
But it doesn’t end there because that’s not enough.
A Disturbing Trend.
Let me be clear. If you accept just anybody’s work, your chances of getting a polished poop are pretty high. I’ve worked 1-on-1 with hundreds of people and I’m saddened to find that half of them are willing to settle for half-cracked quality just to finish the job and get paid. Another 40% of them do just enough to stay ahead of the previous 50%.
Shame on them. You deserve better.
This is why you need someone you can trust and someone with whom you can build a long-term, healthy business relationship. You need someone from the remaining 10% that will blow you away.
