Hey Community family — I owe you an explanation and an update. 💛 First, I want to apologize for my absence. Those of you who have been here a while know I don't disappear without reason. Life handed me a significant one. My 14-year-old daughter has been critically ill and in and out of the hospital for the past month with a severe case of necrotizing pancreatitis. It has been one of the hardest seasons of my life, and my focus has had to be entirely on her. We are heading home today, but we are far from done — this is going to be a long road to recovery. I'm sharing this not for sympathy, but because you deserve to know why I've been quiet and what to expect going forward. Here's where things stand: I am going to start showing up here again. I've missed it, and honestly, creating and teaching is part of what keeps me grounded. What I cannot promise right now is a consistent posting schedule. Serenity's health has to come first, and some days that will mean I'm here and some days it won't. I'd rather be honest with you about that than overpromise and disappear again. What I'd love for you to do while I'm getting back on my feet: The Prompt Lab has 15 modules of solid foundational content just waiting for you. If you're new, start at Module 1 and work through it. If you've been here a while, go back and revisit something. There's always something that hits differently the second time around. Ask questions in the community. Engage with each other. Share what you're working on. You don't need me posting every day for this space to be valuable — the resources are here, and so are you. I built this community because I genuinely believe in what we're doing here. That hasn't changed. I'm just navigating life at the moment, one day at a time. Thank you for your patience. Thank you for being here. I'll see you soon. 💛 — Mel

Hey everyone! I've pushed the Focus & Flow event scheduled for tonight until Friday. We are still at Children's hospital with my daughter. We are anticipating discharge tomorrow and I should be available by Friday evening for the session. I'll be adding an additional session for those that can't make it on Friday.

Hey everyone. I'm going to need to push back the Focus & Flow event for this week. We are entering day 11 at Children's Hospital with my daughter and will hopefully reach all benchmarks this week for release by Friday, but it's still going day by day as her situation keeps evolving. I moved it to show VIP only at the moment. I'm working remote from her bedside via my cell at the moment. The last nearly 2 weeks I have not had the focus I need for the community as I've been focused on coordinating her care and learning about necrotizing pancreatitis, which she has now as a result of gallstones. Once we are out I'll reschedule it and potentially be making it a weekly or bi-weekly event. 2026 has definitely been challenging between my mother's stroke in January and now this issue withy daughter, but we'll keep going. I'm going to try to pull my laptop out later while she rests and share some tips and resources. Please, in the meantime, post questions, tips, advice. Help one another. Review course materials. There is so much stuff to learn already.

Hey everyone. Been quiet the last few days again. I'm sitting at Children's Hospital with my daughter. She's got some medical issues going on at the moment (we've been in the hospital since Thursday). All will be okay, but she'll be having surgery later this week. I *might* need to delay the planned Focus and Flow event for the 8th, depending on timing. I will update as soon as I know for sure. In the meantime: Are you having success with a specific tool? What's your favorite and how does it fit into your workflow?

The Pro plan has made my life so much easier. The consistency I receive from this tool, the adherence to my brand guides and voice, the ability to take the workflow we just completed and turn it into a skill so I can repeat that task later just by calling on it. My favorite tool: Cowork. This alone is worth the $20/mo fee in my opinion. I run the Claude desktop app, I go into my projects and I execute. Well, Claude executes, but I approve the workflows and help refine the visions. The files are dropped back into the designated folders on my computer once complete. Need to make a revision? No problem. The file is updated. ChatGPT has been used once in the last week. Gemini gets used daily for my W2, but for my business I'm finding myself going there natively less and less often. Perplexity still comes in clutch for research to feed in for projects, however that is what Perplexity is built to do. It's the Chrome killer. It truly is.