Many of you are using Substack to grow your audience, let people get to know you, and build trust over time. So let’s share some Substack love today. If you are on Substack, drop your link below. Then go follow a few people in the thread. Let’s show each other some love over there, too, just like we do here.

After a wonderful few days with my dad!! We spend time together having meals, waking in nature, and driving through small foothills towns. I forgot how beautiful CA is! The trip was so positive, I am so glad that I passed through the emotional slump and booked this trip! I’ve also been taking the Claude and Amazon PPC course each morning and can’t wait to put it all into action for myself and VIP clients soon! But I’ve got to catch up first! I’m missing today’s class! Tomorrow is the last day. How’s your week going so far?

I was in the shower this morning thinking… not about work, not about tasks… just about going home. I’m boarding a plane to California in a couple of hours. I’m going to see my dad. I haven’t seen him in two years. I’m not allowed in his house. He’s a hoarder. It’s complicated. I’ll be staying nearby at his girlfriend’s house. They’ve been together for 40 years. My dad and I are going to the foothills for a couple of nights to just be outside together. And I can feel it… all kinds of emotions coming up. Today isn’t a normal Sunday. It’s about regulation. It’s about breathing. It’s about reminding myself that being with him is enough. Not fixing anything. Not making it perfect. Just being there. I’ll keep you updated along the way 🤍

I decided to start reading The Artis’s Way by Julia Cameron! Have you read it before? If not or if you want to read it again, read it with @Katya McEwen, her crew in Oracle Connections and me! She’s designed an awesome interactive artifact (that’s free!) to go along with it. Grab it in her classroom! And if you join her free group today, you can join @Evelyn Weiss tonight (again for free!) to learn about creating Claude artifacts. I don’t know of anywhere you can get this training for free except on this call! The timing of the workshop is great for Europe and the Middle East, I will be sleeping here in Colorado. 😊 So back to books, what are you reading right now? Want to read the Artist’s Way with us?

I watched a “day in the life” of Codie Sanchez today. You’d think it would be packed with big business moves like most of her videos are. She’s amazing! But what she talks about instead? Time. Sleep. Simple food. Exercise Journaling. Protecting her home life. And it hit me… Most of us are continually looking for the next business strategy…when what we really need is a life that supports our brain first. Because stress makes everything harder. Decision making. Focus. Follow through. I’ve felt that. On the days my home life feels calm and grounded…everything in my business is easier. On the days it doesn’t…even simple tasks feel heavy. So here’s what I’m sitting with today: Where I am → building, learning, figuring things out in real time Where I want to go → a business that works because my life works Not at the expense of it. Not by pushing harder. But by building in a way I can actually keep going with. I’m curious… 👇 Where are you right with life right now… and where do you want to go?