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Marty (he/him) has a mission to explore,
encourage, empower, and envision a better world by both learning from others
and sharing lessons that he's learned in his own experience. As a natural leader, storyteller, change maker, and team builder
with a meticulous eye for detail, Marty's ability to frame the big picture
while polishing the fine print has brought him success as an in-demand editor
and columnist, as well as a marketing, communication, mission, and vision
coach.
With a BBA in marketing, Marty has spent the majority of his 30-plus-year career in the mailbox, print, packing, shipping, logistics, and business center industry, managing and owning/operating businesses, guiding industry associations, coordinating regional and national events, presenting as a speaker, panelist, and lead instructor at conferences and summits, sharing his stories and advice in leading publications and forums, and organizing his communities to make positive changes. Marty has also spent time outside of his home industry as a high-end Manhattan-based real estate stager, 5th Avenue window dresser and visual specialist, athletic and special event merchandise concession lead, office products sales and bid coordinator, K-12 substitute teacher, itinerant pastor, and ordained wedding officiant.
In 2023, Marty retired from shopkeeper life and sold his popular and growing business, Uncle Marty’s Shipping Office, which has since been rebranded simply to Uncle Marty’s by its amazing new owners and expanded to a multi-location chain serving the greater Ithaca, New York community. Soon after the business sale, Marty moved to Southern Delaware to be closer to family and also stepped down from his positions as Director and Co-Founder of the Collegetown Small Business Alliance and Director of Communication and Advisor to the Board of the national non-profit Association of Mail and Business Centers (AMBC), for which he was also founding board member, as well its first official board chair.
It’s now Marty’s privilege to lean into his love of
adventure with the ability to work remotely from anywhere his travels take him.
Semi-retirement allows him to focus on writing
and coaching projects through various platforms as well as his role as
Communication and Vision Lead with AYM High
Consultants, which frequently takes
him to new corners of the country to help businesses of all
sizes—as well as the individuals running them—grow into their best selves.
Marty continues to serve as Editor and Producer of MBC Today, the mailbox, print, packing, shipping, logistics, and business center industry's leading publication wherein his advice column, Ask Uncle Marty™, is a favorite among readers. He’s also working with a close friend and colleague on an exciting motivational podcast that will launch soon (stay tuned!) When he’s not traveling, Marty leans into his love of the arts and enjoys volunteering (and occasionally appearing on stage) at a number of local theaters…and also helps out when he can at other community resource centers.
Through it all, Marty counts it a true honor to serve
as a voice, influencer, helper, and mentor in his communities and on growing platforms.
He is very grateful for new opportunities to have discussions and receive
lessons to keep growing, discovering, and making forward-moving changes. As a
cancer survivor who, through grace and intense chemotherapy, overcame an
aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2013, he believes wholeheartedly in silver
linings, hoping to use his bonus years to spread optimism, positivity, hope, joy, good-neighborliness,
and gratitude.
While neither of his siblings had children, Marty takes the honorary title of “uncle” bestowed on him by friends and cousins very seriously; he’s honored and blessed to be “Uncle Marty” to dozens of amazing humans, and now a new generation of great-niblings are making uncleing nearly a full-time job…and it’s the best job he’s ever had.
To read some of Marty’s column pieces, essays, answered reader-submitted letters, stories, and musings, and to
learn more about his coaching, speaking, and consulting availability, please visit askunclemarty.com. While you’re there, please subscribe to his free periodic newsletter. You may also follow
him on Instagram and TikTok @askunclemarty.
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About the Ask Uncle Marty™ column(s):
The Ask Uncle Marty™ column is two-fold. There’s a print version shared bi-monthly in the MBC Today magazine, both online and in print. This is a smaller, curated collection of essays and answered reader-submitted letters in an advice-column format—primarily business advice as it relates to the mailbox, print, packing, shipping, logistics, and business center industries on which MBC Today is focused. And then there’s a much larger collection of works shared at askunclemarty.com, which includes many of the MBC Today column pieces, as well as works published elsewhere in other publications and blogs, and is not always business-focused, as it comprises stories, shares, essays, letters, and musings on life, faith, and more.
