About

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I’m Jeff Dolan. I grew up mostly on the coast of North Carolina in a God-fearing military family. Jesus was my first love, then followed art, rap music, poetry, video, investing, girls, and board sports. After playing bass in a rock band throughout high school and college, running a Web design company, and graduating with a multimedia journalism degree from UNC-Chapel Hill, I was ready to start my dot com, find my bride, live the dream, and leave my legacy. Then I grew up.

I joined a dot com instead, learned words like single, rat race, and taxes, and generally went through a quarter-life crisis along with all my friends who were told we could change the world. We of course went on to witness the aftermath of 9-11, the dot com and real estate bubble bursts, and the extreme narcissism of the “i” culture. We quickly realized that the world is not a place that is very receptive to being changed. It likes going to hell in a handbasket. Especially making documentaries about it.

But dreams die hard and God never fails, and just when my life felt like it was stalling out, I found my future bride. She had no idea it was love at first sight. In about a month, I sold my place, got a new job, and moved to Nashville to marry her. The rush of giving up all you have for all you want is like no other! I liken it only to finding Christ.

I am now living the dream in Music City, with a few adjustments, and working on the legacy part. I’m a work in progress. And the struggle can be hard sometimes. These days I value simplicity. Health. Good stories. Community. And getting involved locally doing meaningful work. Just being here has revived my creativity in so many ways. I believe God gave us creativity so that we can find new ways to love people and share His grace despite the chaos of these last days. I hope this site is one way we can get to know each other and share our stories.

“If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don’t do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children, you hurt me, you hurt the planet, you shame the angels who watch over you and you spite God Almighty, who created you and only you with your unique gifts, for the sole purpose of nudging the human race one millimeter further along its path back to God.”
—Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

Credits

This site is powered by Matt Mullenweg‘s WordPress. The theme is an evolving Second To None child theme by the creative Daniele Alano, and it sits on top of the Thematic framework by Ian Stewart. Disqus allows you to own and manage your own comments. Thanks also to the numerous WordPress Plugin authors who do amazing work. Without their their collective help, I would still be messing with code right now instead of creating.

Legal

All photos, videos, documents, quotes, words, art, music, design and other content is credited appropriately and used with permission with all respect to the creators and the law. All other content is created and copyrighted by Jeff Dolan. All rights reserved. Please only use my content with permission. My intent is to do good and not harm. I adhere to full disclosure where appropriate. I am responsible for this site, its content, my personal views, and my good and bad opinions. I am not responsible for any externally linked content that may change or my readers’ misinterpretations of anything communicated on this site.

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