An About page that isn't quite clicking? A decision you've been going back and forth on? Something you've created that could use a fresh set of eyes? Or maybe something's finally working, and you'd love to share what you've learned! It's Build Room Wednesday over in Skoolology. ❤️ Todd and I set aside time every Wednesday for members to bring whatever they're working on and figure things out together. No presentation. No required Zoom call. Just real conversations, questions, feedback, ideas, and a little celebrating along the way. And some of the best conversations happen when members jump in to help each other. We have wonderful builders with all kinds of experience and perspectives, and I love seeing those connections happen. You can join the conversation in the feed or ask to talk something through by DM, text, or call. If you've been wishing you had a few more people to bounce ideas around with as you build your Skool community, we'd love to welcome you. ❤️🐼 Skoolology

I retired after more than 30 years in education. I thought I had a pretty good idea of what came next. I didn’t. 😂 Long COVID changed what I could do and how I could work. Some days it still does. And there’s something humbling about going from knowing what you’re doing…to figuring things out all over again. Maybe you know that feeling, too. Life changes. Plans change. Something you thought would work doesn’t. Or somewhere along the way, you realize you’re not finished yet. Somewhere in the middle of my own figuring-it-out, Todd and I found Skool. And we started building. No grand plan. We were learning as we went. Pretty soon, I became fascinated by all the other people here doing the same thing. People with an idea they believe in, trying to turn it into something real. Trying things that work. And plenty that don’t. 😂 Wondering why people join and disappear. Whether to change something or give it more time. Whether they’re doing too much, not enough, or simply the wrong thing. Building a business while also living an actual life? I understand that one. Todd started digging into the research. I started asking entirely too many questions. 😂 And somewhere along the way, Skoolology became our little community-building lab. We don’t have all the answers. We’re figuring things out, too. But we’ve learned that sometimes the best next move isn’t another strategy. Sometimes it’s slowing down long enough to understand what’s actually happening. At 60-something, I’m a beginner again. Some days that’s exciting. Some days I wonder what in the world we’ve gotten ourselves into. 😂 But I’m still curious. Still learning. Still building. And if you’re figuring out your next chapter while you build yours, too… I think we probably have more in common than you think. 💜

A potent, onion-free version of the classic immune and circulatory folk vinegar. Horseradish and garlic carry the fire in onion's place. 1serving Ingredients - 0.5 cups horseradish root, grated - 0.5 cups fresh ginger root, grated - 10 garlic cloves, smashed - 2 hot peppers (cayenne or jalapeño), chopped, seeds in - 2 tablespoons turmeric root, grated - 1 lemon, chopped with peel - 1 cinnamon stick, broken into pieces - 1 teaspoons black peppercorns, cracked - 3 cups raw apple cider vinegar, to cover - 0.3 cups raw honey, to taste Steps - Load the jar: Combine 0.5 cups horseradish root, grated, 0.5 cups fresh ginger root, grated, 10 garlic cloves, smashed, 2 hot peppers (cayenne or jalapeño), chopped, seeds in, 2 tablespoons turmeric root, grated, 1 lemon, chopped with peel, and 1 teaspoons black peppercorns, cracked in a clean quart jar. Pack them down, you want density here, not air pockets. - Cover with vinegar: Pour 3 cups raw apple cider vinegar, to cover over the mix until everything is fully submerged, at least an inch above the solids. If it's not fully covered, top off with more vinegar. Exposed bits will spoil. - Seal and infuse: Seal with a non-metal lid ~ vinegar corrodes metal, so use plastic, a canning lid with wax paper underneath, or parchment between jar and metal ring. Store in a dark cabinet at room temperature. - Shake it daily: Give the jar a shake every day or two. This is what keeps the extraction moving and prevents anything from sitting exposed above the vinegar line. - Strain: After 4 to 6 weeks, strain through cheesecloth or a fine mesh strainer, pressing the solids to get everything out. Compost the spent roots, they've given what they had. - Sweeten and bottle: Stir in 0.3 cups raw honey, to taste to taste, starting with less and adding more, fire cider should still bite. Bottle in glass, store in the refrigerator or a cool dark place. Notes: Potency dial: for more heat, double the peppers or add a small piece of habanero.

…𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙙𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙚𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙝𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮’𝙙 𝙜𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪?⁣ ⁣ Yesterday’s Quiet Time asked me a question I wasn’t expecting to hit quite so hard:⁣ ⁣ 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦?⁣ ⁣ And almost immediately, Holy Spirit brought an old hurt back to my attention.⁣ ⁣ There was a time when I wanted something deeply from someone I loved.⁣ ⁣ So I tried to do the right things.⁣ I made the right choices.⁣ I loved well.⁣ I gave.⁣ I showed up.⁣ ⁣ And underneath all of it was a hope I didn’t really know how to name at the time:⁣ ⁣ 𝘐𝘧 𝘐 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴, 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘐’𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘐 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥.⁣ ⁣ More specifically…⁣ ⁣ “𝙄𝙛 𝙄 𝙙𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨, 𝙄 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙙 — 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙖𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣.”⁣ ⁣ Oof.⁣ ⁣ Because suddenly I could see it.⁣ Doing the right thing wasn’t the problem.⁣ Loving someone wasn’t the problem.⁣ Wanting affection wasn’t the problem.⁣ ⁣ The painful part was that I had quietly made someone else’s response the proof that I was loved.⁣ ⁣ So if I gave enough…⁣ loved enough…⁣ did enough “right” things…⁣ ⁣ maybe I’d finally get the response that made me feel safe in that love.⁣ ⁣ ⁣ And when I didn’t?⁣ ⁣ Well, you can imagine what that did inside me.⁣ ⁣ Today, instead of trying to fix that old hurt myself, I brought it back to Holy Spirit.⁣ ⁣ I asked:⁣ ⁣ “𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘥𝘰 𝘐 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦?”⁣ ⁣ And this is what came:⁣ 𝗜 𝗮𝗺 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱, 𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗺𝘆 𝗚𝗼𝗱. 𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀.⁣ ⁣ ⁣ That changes the equation.⁣ ⁣ Because courage doesn’t have to mean becoming harder.⁣ ⁣ It doesn’t mean caring less.⁣ ⁣ It doesn’t mean loving people less deeply so they can’t hurt you.⁣ ⁣ For me, 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗮𝗺 𝗮𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱…. instead of making the “right” choices while quietly hoping someone else’s response will prove that I am.⁣ ⁣ And this is exactly the kind of work we’re beginning to explore inside 𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗗𝗢𝗠 𝗣𝗘𝗔𝗖𝗘 & 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗬.⁣

When life gets full, which area tends to feel it first? 🎢 We're already carrying a full plate most days. Then a new unexpected need arises. The business demands more than we planned for, a loved one goes through a crisis, or something breaks down (literally or figuratively). Without margin, that could be the thing that tips us over. The areas that matter most to us are often the first to get pushed out. We're heading into the final stretch of the year now, the pace picks up, the calendar fills, and the weight of the holiday season tends to show up fast. If we're not ready, it can catch us off guard. On October 5, I'm hosting a masterclass here in The Skool Classifieds, 𝗦𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗥𝗵𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗺𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲. We'll explore what it takes to build rhythms that hold steady in the middle of real life. I'd love for you to join us! Which area tends to feel most affected first for you? ⬇️