THE THINKWITHAD FAQ

ThinkwithAD is a creative and strategic platform founded by Adam Dudley. It explores personal growth, clarity, identity, discipline, and the mindset behind building meaningful work and long-term vision.

ThinkwithAD publishes long-form writing, essays, reflections, and ongoing series centered on transformation, creative thinking, and personal evolution. Some content lives directly on the website, while deeper series are published through Substack.

ThinkwithAD is a publication platform.
While some pages read like essays or guides, others serve as entry points into larger, ongoing bodies of work and long-form series.

Most long-form series connected to ThinkwithAD are published on Substack in dedicated sections. The ThinkwithAD website acts as the central hub that introduces, frames, and contextualizes those projects.

BECOMING is an ongoing biweekly series published through ThinkwithAD’s Substack. It focuses on personal evolution, identity work, and the internal architecture of transformation. The series is written in open-ended chapters and unfolds in real time rather than as a fixed book.

ThinkwithAD and the StoneGate Cinematic Universe are separate projects created by the same founder. While they may share thematic elements such as discipline, identity, and creation, each exists in its own lane and serves a different purpose.

BreakGround Innovations (BGI) is a digital design and development studio founded by Adam Dudley. BGI focuses on web development, e-commerce, branding, and creative technology solutions. While BGI is a standalone business, ThinkwithAD often documents ideas, insights, and frameworks that inform the creative and strategic thinking behind ventures like BGI.

Yes. ThinkwithAD occasionally features stories from builders, creatives, and everyday people who are navigating real growth — entrepreneurship, career changes, personal transformation, resilience, and major life pivots.

If you want to be featured, come with the real story: what happened, what it cost, what you learned, and what you’re building or rebuilding now. ThinkwithAD is less interested in perfect success stories and more focused on clarity, honesty, and lessons that can help other people move.

Stories that work best usually include:

• A turning point (a shift, loss, pivot, breakthrough, or wake-up call)
• A lesson learned through experience (not theory)
• A clear “before vs. after” transformation
• Practical insight others can apply
• A real human voice (not a press release)

To submit your story, use the ThinkwithAD website contact option or email us directly at [email protected]. Please include enough detail for us to accurately create and shape your feature, including:

• A clear summary of your story (what happened, what changed, and where you are now)
• Key moments, challenges, and turning points (dates/timeframes help)
• The main lesson or message you want readers to take away
• Any links that add context (optional)
• How you’d like to be credited (name, business, or anonymous)
• Images you want included (photos, screenshots, or related visuals)

If it’s a fit, you’ll be contacted with next steps.

ThinkwithAD is for people who think deeply about growth, identity, creativity, and long-term development. It resonates with builders, creatives, and individuals navigating change, reinvention, or quiet seasons of personal growth.

Content is updated on a rolling basis. Some series follow a set publishing cadence, while others are released as new ideas and projects are ready.

You can stay updated by visiting the ThinkwithAD website for new pages and platform updates, and by subscribing on Substack for free at thinkwithadpulse.substack.com, where new chapters, series releases, and major updates are published and sent directly to subscribers.

Select projects may eventually be curated into print or physical formats if there is strong reader interest. Any future releases will be announced through official ThinkwithAD channels.

ThinkwithAD was founded and is led by Adam Dudley.

Yes. ThinkwithAD is intentionally built as a long-term platform.

What began as a writing-focused publication is designed to expand over time into a broader storytelling ecosystem. While written work will always remain the foundation, future growth includes additional formats such as podcasts, filmed interviews, long-form video, and in-person conversations.

ThinkwithAD operates as a virtual-first platform, with expansion centered around:

• A small, intentional team of writers and contributors
• Virtual operations for research, editing, publishing, and coordination
• Rented studios and creative spaces for podcasts, interviews, and video production
• Travel to different cities and locations for on-site interviews and story features
• A growing multimedia library that lives alongside long-form writing

Rather than committing to permanent office space, ThinkwithAD is built to remain flexible—using studios and production environments when needed, and operating remotely the rest of the time.

Long-term, the vision is for ThinkwithAD to live as a unified platform where writing, video, interviews, and ongoing series exist together under one roof. The format may evolve, but the intent remains unchanged: disciplined thinking, honest perspective, and work built for the long game.