Entrepreneur / Builder / Nashville
05 things in progress
I build things.
Businesses. Products. Brands. Ideas I can’t leave alone.
I’ve been an entrepreneur for more than 20 years. This is the home for what I’m building now, what I’m learning along the way, and the occasional opportunity to work with me one-on-one.
Currently building
These are the things occupying my brain right now.
Some are established businesses. Some are experiments. All of them are real.
Valerie McKeehan
Art + Education
An art, education and creative business I’ve built alongside my wife, artist Valerie McKeehan. Courses, memberships, products and a community built around helping people make more art.
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Plumb
Print + Commerce
A human-first approach to print-on-demand. Better economics, better products and actual relationships between the people making things and the people selling them.
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Drift
Software
A tiny sleep app that generates brown, pink and white noise mathematically in real time.
No loops. No ads. No subscription. Just sleep.
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Tinsel & Tunes
Media
Christmas radio and media for people who believe December probably isn’t long enough.
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Electric Spectacle Symphony
Music + Spectacle
An experiment in music, spectacle, and what happens when “too much” is exactly the point.
Nashville / 2028
There will almost certainly be another one.
The through line
I like the part where something starts becoming what it could be.
Naming it. Shaping it. Seeing something in your head and figuring out how to make it real. Pulling the pieces together. Finding the angle. Making the first version. Or taking something that already works and seeing the bigger thing hiding inside it.
The stretch between “there’s something here” and “look what this could become” is where I’m happiest.
And, increasingly, I’m documenting that part instead of pretending I had the answers before I started.
About
I’m Mak.
I’ve been an entrepreneur since I was 20.
Over the years I’ve built product businesses, education businesses, brands, software, media projects and a fairly impressive graveyard of ideas that taught me something.
I’m particularly obsessed with positioning, customer psychology, untapped potential, turning vague ideas into actual things and figuring out what the next move should be when everything feels muddy.
I live in Nashville with my wife, Valerie, and our family. Valerie is an artist and entrepreneur, and a lot of what we’ve built has been built together.
These days I’m also sharing more of the process publicly while it’s happening, including the parts that aren’t neat yet.
I’m less interested in looking like an entrepreneur than actually building something.
Ambition / Clarity / Next
Sometimes I help other people build theirs.
I work one-on-one with a small number of founders, creatives and operators who are already moving but want sharper thinking around where they’re going.
This isn’t accountability theater, motivational yelling or a canned 47-step framework.
We figure out what you’re actually trying to build, what’s getting in the way and what the next move is.
I work best with ambitious people who are willing to think differently, make decisions and hear an answer they may not have expected.
Who I’ve worked with
My work has included leaders, founders and creatives ranging from Fortune 500 executives and Grammy Award-winning artists to multi-million-dollar founders, internationally recognized visual artists and small business owners.
Want to work together?
I’m not always taking new clients.
If you’d like to know when I open a coaching spot, join the waitlist. I’ll reach out when there’s an opening or something directly relevant to working together.
Building in public
I’m showing more of the messy part.
Ideas. Experiments. Things that work. Things that absolutely do not.
Follow along while I’m figuring it out.
Mak McKeehanEntrepreneur / Builder
Nashville, Tennessee
© 2026 Mak McKeehan
Keep building.