Happy Monday and a big welcome to all the new faces! 👋 @Jenn Brockman @Kristen Lavery @Adelina Rosa @Stella Sky If you haven’t already, please pop into the Welcome Thread and introduce yourself. I’m so excited you’re here and really looking forward to learning and growing together. A few quick life updates, because January has been… a lot 😅 Many of you know that at the end of last year I was finishing up recording an album that was supposed to be released this spring. Right after Christmas, though, I got some pretty terrible news (which you can read all about here). Long story short, the album is in limbo. I’ve had an initial consult with an attorney, but honestly, I just haven’t had the bandwidth to fully tackle that yet. Once the album was wrapped, I had planned to pour my energy into writing my book with @Krista Brea -- and if you’re even thinking about writing a book, I cannot recommend her community enough! The book is still coming, it's just delayed at the moment. On top of that, I kicked off the year with a 5-day liquid fast after being inspired by @Lucas Oliveira to take my health more seriously… which then rolled straight into a modified Daniel Fast. That’s a whole other story 😂 So January has been this strange but good season of resetting, cleansing, catharsis, healing, and recalibrating. ANYWAY… back to the album, or lack thereof lol... I had all this leftover creative, musical energy with nowhere to go. One of the songs that didn’t make the album kept speaking to me. I played it for a friend and, half-jokingly, she said, “You should make a musical out of this.”

I work in the service industry so I get tips in apps all the time. Venmo is my favorite! But I noticed with digital money I treated it like it wasn’t really there. It became an invisible money that I would go use when I wanted to “shop and scroll” for comfort or escapism. After MJ’s influence of giving every dollar a job. I now use the digital money as part of my “meal train” giving for people who need support in daily life struggles. I made a Rule: every tip has to go through the 70/30 split and what is left can go back into the digital wallet after I’ve accounted for it as income. I spent years leaking money because of a refusal to “look” at my habits and take responsibility for my actions. Wow what a gut check. I hope my story inspires you to set some new rules and stop the money leaks. Are there any areas where you are leaking? How do you allocate digital funds? Do you have rules for them?

I recently took your enneagram quiz turns out I am a number 9. I actually went and purchased the full report it had many interesting insights. I met another skooler and he is very big into enneagrams which is cool that now I somewhat understand mine 🤣 What is yours?