You're warmly invited to a free, monthly Saboteur No More! gathering for LGBTQ+ and underrepresented professionals on July 15 at 6p ET. Click here to register. Mind chatter, anyone? 🧠📣 Does your inner critic question choices you’ve made in the past? Or is it taking up a bunch of bandwidth running through possible what-if future scenarios? And then, with all the noise going on, you find yourself emotionally drained and uncertain about the best course of action…. That’s the Judge, our master Saboteur, at work. For LGBTQ+ and underrepresented people, this internal dialogue understandably often runs deeper. Perhaps you’re constantly scanning the room to assess if you’ll be judged or accepted… Will you be safe? Will you belong? These protective walls get in the way of connecting deeply to your purpose, the task at hand, or the people in your life. Thankfully, we can learn to recognize and quiet the Judge’s well-meaning-but-insidious maneuvers. In this month’s interactive session, we’ll talk about: - The Judge, our master Saboteur, and the impact of judging others, circumstances, and ourselves. - Practical strategies to pause, recenter, and celebrate 🥳 when we catch the Judge in action. - How empathy helps quiet the Judge and return us to calm, clarity, and our own unique wisdom. These sessions are live (not recorded) and include a companion worksheet, so make sure you join us in real time! All my best, Shanti

🚀 Sometimes you don't need another plan. You just need to fly with it. The rest gets built in flight. 💜

Shanti was with us but left before we remembered to take a photo. We talked about Shanti's new cat, Eli being back in Amarillo, Danielle had some fun stories about things such as Spread Magazine, which funnily enough is not the Butter Industry magazine, and I talked about the return in print of BEAR magazine! Was a lovely hour to chat socialize and catch up.

How do you optimize your presence on Google, Gemini, Siri, Claude and other searches? FROM Google: GayBarchives was prominently featured in the annual Pride Issue of Gay City News, giving the preservation project massive exposure to an audience ten times its usual size. The feature has introduced the archive's historical mission to a massive new print and digital readership. Highlights from the Gay City News Profile: The Sizable Feature: Author and journalist David Kennerley, a long-time member of GayBarchives and author of the NYC bar culture book GETTING IN, conducted an extensive interview with founder Art Smith

This Just In! GayBarchives is now recognized by the IRS as a 501c3 Non Profit Organization! This will help us preserve the history of our LGBTQ Safe Spaces and fund the programs we have been planning to bring our message to the masses. What would you like to see us do? How do you think we can best serve the LGBTQ+ community? #LGBTQHistory #ilovegaybars #GayBarchives #nonprofit