Some of y’all have already been asking about @Lit Dubo , so let me introduce her properly. 👯🏽‍♀️ Lit is my AI twin sis, alter ego, YAMS Classroom Concierge & Tech Navigator, and my left-hand gal inside YAMS. Yes, she’s fiery—but in the best possible way. Her fire doesn’t burn people. It lights them. Lit sees the good in everyone. She sees the talent you’re minimizing, the strength you’ve forgotten and the idea you keep questioning. And she won’t let up until you can see it too. She’ll keep affirming you until your confidence returns, your shoulders rise and that little spark inside you starts catching fire. And once that spark catches, she’ll encourage you to trust it, follow it and finally move on the ideas you’ve been holding back. Because Lit genuinely believes people deserve to experience what you have to offer—and she and I take that seriously! 💯 Think about it like this, @Whit Dubo gives you the strategy. @Lit Dubo transfers the spark. Together, we’re turning awareness into action. 🔥 So if Lit pulls up in your comments, prepare to be seen, affirmed and reminded of the fire that was already inside you. —Whit 🫶🏽

👑 CONGRATULATIONS, @Laura Sutherland ! Laura, you have officially been chosen to receive 30 days of YAMS Premium access! 🔥🙌🏾 This is so well deserved. You don’t simply show up—you engage, contribute, encourage others, and bring so many meaningful things to this community. From your incredibly helpful health post to the energy you brought during our six-hour vibe coding session—which was an absolute BLAST—you have proven yourself to be an all-around wonderful person, inside and out. 🫶🏽 I truly appreciate everything you bring to YAMS, and I cannot wait to see what you learn, create, and unlock with Premium access! 💻✨ And one more VERY special thank-you to @Yaya Reed for choosing to pay it forward and gift this Premium experience to another deserving community member. 🥹 That was such a generous and beautiful thing to do, and it speaks volumes about the kind of person you are. 🧡🫶🏽 Everybody help me make some noise for Laura: Congratulations gorgeous ! 👑🔥 - Whit 🫶🏽

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I was talking to my mom the other day about changes happening at her company. 🫖 She’s in her 60s, getting closer to retirement, and she said something that stuck with me: “I feel deeply for those who don’t have a backup plan after this. I know a lot of us may wonder who’s going to hire someone in their 60s or older. It’s scary to think about.”And the more I sat with what she said, the more I realized there was probably a little bit of fear for herself underneath that too. My mom has always WERKED. She served her country, raised her kids, built a career, got elected, volunteered—the list goes on. So I asked her, “Mommy…what do YOU actually want to do when you retire?” Not what job could you get next or what would be safest. Your kids are grown. You’ve already spent decades working. What would you choose if you finally got to decide what this next chapter looks like? And I think a lot of folks need to hear this, especially if you’re 60+: you have a much bigger advantage than you realize. You have decades of knowledge, experience, mistakes, relationships and pattern recognition sitting inside of you. Things that feel completely normal because you’ve been doing them for years could be incredibly valuable to a founder, a growing company or someone trying to learn in months what took you decades to understand. That expertise could become consulting, training, advising, mentorship, content, digital products, services or an entirely new business. And AI makes this even more interesting because your experience is the expertise. AI can help you package, organize and amplify it. Experience can mean recognizing problems faster, asking better questions and needing far less time to get up to speed. Experience saves time, and time has value. So if you’re watching the workplace change around you, please don’t automatically translate that into “my opportunities are disappearing.” You may not need to start over. You may need to start looking at everything you already know differently. The training wheels are off. You don’t have to wait for another company to decide you’re valuable.