By Sadie Hess, Founder, and CEO Empty Tank The tank is empty. In more ways than one, or two, even five. We are tired, we have less to show for our hard work, and if we are honest with ourselves, we are a little more cynical about our world. We have had more disappointments than…
By Sadie Hess, Founder and CEO 25 Year Milestone As many of you know, I started this company when I was 23 years old, so it seems impossible to believe that Compass has reached the 25-year milestone! Many years ago, when Joanne and I started Compass, we never could imagine that 2 companies would emerge,…
By Sadie Hess, Founder and CEO Something BIg We are in the process of doing something big! (Something we haven’t done in about 15 years here at Compass.) We are going to open a new department at Compass! Not another office, as we have been doing. This will be a department that supports the whole…
Written by Cassandra Sales “Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.” – Helen Keller The Light Shines the Brightest Courage is strength in the face of adversity. It is the ability to see everything going on in the world right now and not allowing it to affect your joy….
By Cassandra Sales Hallmark Movies Christmas season has passed and if you are anything like me, you binge watched just about every Hallmark Christmas movie ever made. They all have the same plot. Fancy city girl goes back to her small home town and ends up falling in love with the boy next door. Those…
By Aaron Zint Road Trip Entertainment It was 1990-something and I was riding along as a bored 7-year-old in the front seat of my family’s minivan on a road trip. This was back when the only entertainment during those long drives was either the car radio or staring out window. Thank Jobs for the creation…
In this episode of our History Series, Eric & Sadie talk about Dreams and how they became part of our culture (and history!) at Compass!
By Aaron Zint #ifyoucanreadthissentencethenyouareprobablyusedtoreadinghashtags Grounded in a Hurricane Your connection with other people will keep you grounded in a hurricane, whole on the chopping block and sane in a crazy world. A hundred years ago our friend options were confined to our family circle or the fifteen square miles around us. Cars and phones expanded…
by Cassandra Sales All Those Goals It’s April, which means we are done with the first season of 2019 and on to the next. All those goals we had January 1, while some of us have committed to them, others have already either amended them or just stopped working on them all together. Why is…
by Sadie Hess When I started in this field over 20 years ago, I worked in the field alongside of many different field staff. I met all kinds: Oversharers. People just biding their time. Excellent, caring individuals. And the worst type: bitter people. Gallup will call these individuals actively disengaged. Disengaged just aren’t sure yet….