1. What’s your favorite show?
The Office
2. What are your favorite movies?
The Matrix, Breakfast Club, and Back to the Future.
3. What’s your favorite hobby?
I love exploring new coffee shops.
4. What’s your favorite quote?
“The harder I work, the luckier I get.” Samuel Goldwyn
5. Do you have a favorite word?
Perseverance
6. Where is your favorite place?
I recently and surprisingly fell in love with Nashville, Tennessee.
7. Are you married?
Yes, to Kelly Russell, who just published her first book, A Girl’s Guide to Chicago.
8. Where did you grow up?
All over. I was born in South Bend, Indiana, but we moved all over the midwest and east coast before settling in the Chicagoland area.
9. Do you have a favorite book?
Yes, The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande.
10. What’s a surprising fact about you?
I sold vacuums door-to-door in college, and I sold so many that I was awarded a partial scholarship to Illinois State University