PRINCIPALS

Steven

Steven Shapiro

PRINCIPALS

Steven

Steven Shapiro

PRINCIPALS

Steven

Steven Shapiro

PRINCIPALS

Steven

Steven Shapiro

PRINCIPALS

Steven

Steven Shapiro

When I went off to boarding school in Massachusetts, I fancied myself a better student and athlete than most. After six weeks among the best and brightest, reality set in.
You must work harder and smarter to achieve.
I had to immediately reset my sense of self and learned that success doesn’t always come easily. I had to work really hard to keep up with other more talented students and athletes—a real surprise and life-changer. It was an essential lesson that has shaped my personal and business life: “You must work harder and smarter to achieve.”
Steven
After I graduated from the University of Miami with a B.A. in Communications, I joined a company making TV commercials, including Spanish-language commercials for the U.S. Hispanic market. We opened branches in Central and South America. Within a year they made me a partner. I managed the business while the other partners were on location. Often I would edit film at night.
Steven
Because we worked smarter than the competition, the company became the most dynamic film production enterprise south of New York, a blessing and a curse. We wore so many hats, it was all-consuming. Eventually, I wrote a proposal to the partners showing how they could make certain changes and generate more money for themselves by buying me out, which they did.
I drew on skills I had developed in the film industry.
When Ron and I started building homes together, I drew on skills I had developed in the film industry. “Pre-production” became planning, design, scheduling. “Production” became coordinating and building the homes. “Post-production” became taking care of the client afterward. There were a thousand steps in making a TV commercial and about the same number to build a home. Back then, a home took six months to construct, compared to two weeks to deliver a TV commercial. You do the stress analysis! I didn’t miss show biz for a minute.
I work so I can play. Fishing and golf trips are great therapy for me. I try to go somewhere interesting twice a year—I prefer remote locations that allow me to disengage and experience the pure delight of “being in the moment.” The “present” feels loud there. For me, few things are more palpably pleasurable and spiritually cleansing than being in a remote stream or lake with unspoiled surroundings, wonderful friends—and fish that have seen few people, flies, or lures.
In the early years, Ron and I would fish in Alaska, going to places without phones or fax machines—no way for people to get in touch with us. Thanks to cell and satellite phones these days, it is much harder to disengage.
I work so I can play.
My five-year-old grandson said, “Grandpa, fishing is a lot like doing nothing.” Upon reflection, I realized he had the perceptiveness of Thoreau, who said, “Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
Steven-and-grandson
When I went off to boarding school in Massachusetts, I fancied myself a better student and athlete than most. After six weeks among the best and brightest, reality set in.
You must work harder and smarter to achieve.
You must work harder and smarter to achieve.
I had to immediately reset my sense of self and learned that success doesn’t always come easily. I had to work really hard to keep up with other more talented students and athletes—a real surprise and life-changer. It was an essential lesson that has shaped my personal and business life: “You must work harder and smarter to achieve.”
Steven
After I graduated from the University of Miami with a B.A. in Communications, I joined a company making TV commercials, including Spanish-language commercials for the U.S. Hispanic market. We opened branches in Central and South America. Within a year they made me a partner. I managed the business while the other partners were on location. Often I would edit film at night.
I drew on skills I had developed in the film industry.
I drew on skills I had developed in the film industry.
Steven

Because we worked smarter than the competition, the company became the most dynamic film production enterprise south of New York, a blessing and a curse. We wore so many hats, it was all-consuming. Eventually, I wrote a proposal to the partners showing how they could make certain changes and generate more money for themselves by buying me out, which they did.

When Ron and I started building homes together, I drew on skills I had developed in the film industry. “Pre-production” became planning, design, scheduling. “Production” became coordinating and building the homes. “Post-production” became taking care of the client afterward. There were a thousand steps in making a TV commercial and about the same number to build a home. Back then, a home took six months to construct, compared to two weeks to deliver a TV commercial. You do the stress analysis! I didn’t miss show biz for a minute.

I work so I can play. Fishing and golf trips are great therapy for me. I try to go somewhere interesting twice a year—I prefer remote locations that allow me to disengage and experience the pure delight of “being in the moment.” The “present” feels loud there. For me, few things are more palpably pleasurable and spiritually cleansing than being in a remote stream or lake with unspoiled surroundings, wonderful friends—and fish that have seen few people, flies, or lures.
In the early years, Ron and I would fish in Alaska, going to places without phones or fax machines—no way for people to get in touch with us. Thanks to cell and satellite phones these days, it is much harder to disengage.
I work so I can play.
I work so I can play.
My five-year-old grandson said, “Grandpa, fishing is a lot like doing nothing.” Upon reflection, I realized he had the perceptiveness of Thoreau, who said, “Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
Steven-and-grandson
Steven
When I went off to boarding school in Massachusetts, I fancied myself a better student and athlete than most. After six weeks among the best and brightest, reality set in.
When I went off to boarding school in Massachusetts, I fancied myself a better student and athlete than most. After six weeks among the best and brightest, reality set in.
You must work harder and smarter to achieve.
You must work harder and smarter to achieve.
I had to immediately reset my sense of self and learned that success doesn’t always come easily. I had to work really hard to keep up with other more talented students and athletes—a real surprise and life-changer. It was an essential lesson that has shaped my personal and business life: “You must work harder and smarter to achieve.”
I had to immediately reset my sense of self and learned that success doesn’t always come easily. I had to work really hard to keep up with other more talented students and athletes—a real surprise and life-changer. It was an essential lesson that has shaped my personal and business life: “You must work harder and smarter to achieve.”

After I graduated from the University of Miami with a B.A. in Communications, I joined a company making TV commercials, including Spanish-language commercials for the U.S. Hispanic market. We opened branches in Central and South America. Within a year they made me a partner. I managed the business while the other partners were on location. Often I would edit film at night.

Because we worked smarter than the competition, the company became the most dynamic film production enterprise south of New York, a blessing and a curse. We wore so many hats, it was all-consuming. Eventually, I wrote a proposal to the partners showing how they could make certain changes and generate more money for themselves by buying me out, which they did.

After I graduated from the University of Miami with a B.A. in Communications, I joined a company making TV commercials, including Spanish-language commercials for the U.S. Hispanic market. We opened branches in Central and South America. Within a year they made me a partner. I managed the business while the other partners were on location. Often I would edit film at night.

Because we worked smarter than the competition, the company became the most dynamic film production enterprise south of New York, a blessing and a curse. We wore so many hats, it was all-consuming. Eventually, I wrote a proposal to the partners showing how they could make certain changes and generate more money for themselves by buying me out, which they did.

Steven
I drew on skills I had developed in the film industry.
I drew on skills I had developed in the film industry.
When Ron and I started building homes together, I drew on skills I had developed in the film industry. “Pre-production” became planning, design, scheduling. “Production” became coordinating and building the homes. “Post-production” became taking care of the client afterward. There were a thousand steps in making a TV commercial and about the same number to build a home. Back then, a home took six months to construct, compared to two weeks to deliver a TV commercial. You do the stress analysis! I didn’t miss show biz for a minute.
When Ron and I started building homes together, I drew on skills I had developed in the film industry. “Pre-production” became planning, design, scheduling. “Production” became coordinating and building the homes. “Post-production” became taking care of the client afterward. There were a thousand steps in making a TV commercial and about the same number to build a home. Back then, a home took six months to construct, compared to two weeks to deliver a TV commercial. You do the stress analysis! I didn’t miss show biz for a minute.
Steven-Collage
I work so I can play. Fishing and golf trips are great therapy for me. I try to go somewhere interesting twice a year—I prefer remote locations that allow me to disengage and experience the pure delight of “being in the moment.” The “present” feels loud there. For me, few things are more palpably pleasurable and spiritually cleansing than being in a remote stream or lake with unspoiled surroundings, wonderful friends—and fish that have seen few people, flies, or lures.
I work so I can play. Fishing and golf trips are great therapy for me. I try to go somewhere interesting twice a year—I prefer remote locations that allow me to disengage and experience the pure delight of “being in the moment.” The “present” feels loud there. For me, few things are more palpably pleasurable and spiritually cleansing than being in a remote stream or lake with unspoiled surroundings, wonderful friends—and fish that have seen few people, flies, or lures.
I work so I can play.
I work so I can play.
Steven-fish
In the early years, Ron and I would fish in Alaska, going to places without phones or fax machines—no way for people to get in touch with us. Thanks to cell and satellite phones these days, it is much harder to disengage.
In the early years, Ron and I would fish in Alaska, going to places without phones or fax machines—no way for people to get in touch with us. Thanks to cell and satellite phones these days, it is much harder to disengage.
My five-year-old grandson said, “Grandpa, fishing is a lot like doing nothing.” Upon reflection, I realized he had the perceptiveness of Thoreau, who said, “Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
My five-year-old grandson said, “Grandpa, fishing is a lot like doing nothing.” Upon reflection, I realized he had the perceptiveness of Thoreau, who said, “Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
Steven-and-grandson
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