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My 2025 Year in Review: Ten years in

Josh Doody — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:15:16 +0000

My business and my book, Fearless Salary Negotiation, both turned 10 this year. This is my 11th annual Year In Review, and my first was My 2015 Year in Review: Using the stair-step approach. I feel sort of at a loss as to what to say about that. Ten years feels simultaneously like such a […]

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My 2024 Year in Review: Regaining momentum

Josh Doody — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:11:21 +0000

It took a couple of years, but it finally feels like I’m running a business again. When I saw the first signs of a downturn in my business back in 2022, I had no idea it would be a two-year slump. Six months? Sure. A year? hard to believe, but within the realm of possibility. […]

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My 2023 Year in Review: Still here

Josh Doody — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 16:37:08 +0000

Although this is a Year In Review post for 2023, it will mostly pick up where my 2022 post left off. I finally got around to publishing that post in June and had already been through almost half of 2023 when I published it, so I won’t recap all of that time and will probably […]

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My business is struggling. Here’s my plan to save it.

Josh Doody — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 15:27:29 +0000

My 2022 Year In Review was very late to publication. In fact, it’s still not published as I write this in early June of 2023, although I plan to publish it before I publish this piece. Why? Because it feels bad. The sub-title is “A weird year” and 2022 sure was a weird year. I […]

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2022 Year In Review: A weird year

Josh Doody — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 15:06:03 +0000

NOTE: This post is a sort of sister post to My business is struggling. Here’s my plan to save it. This Year In Review sets the stage for that one. Well. Paraphrasing an old friend who has since passed on: “I’ve experienced a lot of years, and that was one of them.” 2022 turned out […]

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My 2021 Year in Review: An incredible year

Josh Doody — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 20:13:31 +0000

My 2021 was fantastic both personally and professionally. My business grew by about 35% even though I didn’t really make any changes. Personally, I had a great time here in Gainesville, learning new things, making new friends, and just enjoying my community. On the business side of things, the two-fee pricing structure paid off in […]

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My 2020 Year in Review: Riding it out

Josh Doody — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 22:13:44 +0000

I want to resist the urge to start this post talking about the pandemic but, since I write these posts for posterity, I think I have to start there. It was a weird year that affected my business life much more than my personal life, but the pandemic’s effects were felt throughout the year. My […]

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It’s been five years since I quit my day job

Josh Doody — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 14:55:11 +0000

This is the story of the first five years of the Fearless Salary Negotiation business. I initially shared this as a Twitter thread, and I’m publishing it here because it’s a personally significant document and it might be interesting to other folks as well. This is exactly as I wrote it in that Twitter thread, […]

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Big Strides in Breck

Josh Doody — Tue, 05 May 2020 14:50:32 +0000

2020 brought another amazing ski trip and it went much better than I hoped. Yes, it’s been nearly two months since I actually got back and I’ve been trying to finish this writeup the whole time, but things have been…strange since then thanks a little thing called COVID-19. It’s weird to look back on the […]

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My 2019 Year in Review: Finally paying myself back

Josh Doody — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:50:51 +0000

What a year. Looking back on the past 12 months, most of what stands out is personal stuff and business stuff is secondary. That’s surprising because my business still grew by a substantial amount, but the day-to-day struggle and grind of bootstrapping something from nothing has given way to something more like tending a garden […]

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