Hiding in the Bathroom at a BBQ
+🥂3 Business Bestie Brunch Spots Left — Early Bird Enrollment ends Sept. 1
Hi Friends,
I’m hiding in the bathroom at a pre-Fourth of July barbecue on the Upper West Side. Everyone else is in the backyard, milling about as people do.
Tomorrow I leave for a week of family vacation. I said yes to my mom’s invite in May, as a magical thinking Hail Mary of sorts.
Maybe if I get out of New York City to spend time with people I love, I will have a nonlinear breakthrough—a paradigm shift revealing how to dig my business out of this anxiety hole.
When I booked my flights, I hadn’t gotten The News from The (Former) Client yet. I just couldn’t take the mounting dread around whether they would renew or not without doing something—anything.
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🥂Business Bestie Brunch + Q4 Pop-Up Mastermind **3 Spots Left!**
Is one of them yours?
Join me and business bestie Sarah Young, founder of Zing Collaborative and author of Expansive Impact, on Sunday, October 22 for a three-hour brainstorming extravaganza with four other business owners, followed by a decadent buffet at DUMBO house.
The VIP day is supported by a three-month program that will surprise and delight you. Together with a small, curated group of Heart-Based Business owners, you’ll get a mix of 1:1 coaching and group calls to close 2023 strong, set a clear vision and strategy for 2024, and implement the most joyful, abundant next steps for you and your business.
📆 Early Bird Enrollment (and special pricing) ends on September 1, and the final deadline to enroll is September 15. If you’re interested in joining:
🪄 Here’s to building business blissfully! 🎉
Now onto this week's goodies . . .
💌 Time Well Spent Roundup
🎉 Featured
ICYMI: As I mentioned last time, I low-key launched a secret paid Substack on my 12-year biziversary in July:
My friend Jonathan got me to take a big gulp and officially share the news on his SPARKED podcast, taking listeners behind the scenes of this particular creative process in The Confidence Trap: Why You DON'T Need It To Do Big Things.
⚙️ Tips & Tools
Now that I'm making writing a more regular part of my process, publishing two personal essays each week, I've taken the plunge and gone pro on Grammarly. It's worth it!
It *always* catches what my dad calls "word fuzz" — places where I have incorrect verb tense, unnecessary extras, or missed a word entirely.* They also have a desktop app.
*For example, it suggested I remove "more" from the first sentence of this recommendation. I left it only so you could see that it is, in fact, word fuzz! Next time it would be gone :)
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💬 Quote
"If you know that God will always bring what you need, then you’re rich."
—Tosha Silver, Change Me Prayers
💭 Question
In what ways do you already have what you need?
In what ways are you already rich?
📝 Permission
To trust the timing of financial dips and client lulls in client work—maybe this moment is providing exactly the space you need to come up with something new—or even just to rest! Nothing new required.
🎙 Podcasting — Recent Episodes
Free Time:
210: ⛵️Knot a Care—Sailing the Free Time Seas with Joy and Ease
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Pivot:
332: IFS Part(S) Two—Understanding Our “Not Enough” Exiles and 328: Accessing Your True Self Through IFS With Adrian Klaphaak
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Thank you all for being here reading and listening — it means the world to me!
❤️ With Gratitude,
