What's up family? Some of you came here with the intention of getting funding for your business, but I am about to drop some non-funding, funding information for you that you probably didn't consider. If you haven't picked up the Business Grants Starter Guide on my website, I dropped it here WITH EXTRA GEMS for free. Now, you get grant information for your state for free. Take these gems and start applying today, family. I will be dropping more information that helps you get organized and get money for your business over the next few weeks. I want every single one of you in here to thrive, and you will because you wouldn't be here if you didn't believe in yourself. Let me know what you struggle with right now in the comments so we can get that worked out for you.

I went quiet for a bit — lost my grandmother and needed the time. I’m back, and I’ve got something for you. Real talk…. You’ve probably posted something you were proud of and watched it get 12 likes. You’ve probably thought about running ads and then remembered you don’t have $500 to just throw at Facebook and hope. Maybe you even tried ads once and it went nowhere. I get it. Both my ad accounts got banned from a Meta error. Not my fault, no warning, just gone. I had to figure out how to grow without spending a dime on ads. That’s how I made $7K+ in under 6 months and grew to 10K followers on Facebook. No ads. I haven’t even been consistent posting toward the past 2 years. I slowed way down and it keeps paying me 4 years after monetization. I put everything into a guidebook. Every mistake, every pain point, every learning curve is written out. And I’m not making you pay $17 for it. It’s $7 in this group only. Because if you’re still guessing what to post, still watching your reach die, still wondering why nothing’s working, you don’t need more content. You need the thing that actually worked for someone who’s done this twice, successfully. Stay tuned, I will be posting it in here before the end of the day. Be sure to grab it!

Someone finally sets up their email automation, feels accomplished, and then... nothing happens. No replies, no clicks, no sales. And they think the automation is broken. It's not broken, it's just empty. Automation is the delivery system. It's not the message. If what's inside those emails doesn't sound like you — doesn't make someone feel seen, doesn't build any kind of relationship — then the automation is just efficiently delivering nothing. Think about the last time a brand's welcome email actually made you feel something. Chances are, it didn't sound like a brand at all. It sounded like a person talking directly to you. That's the bar. So before you ask "Is my automation working?" ask "Would I want to receive these emails?" If the honest answer is no, that's your starting point — not the tech, the words. This is exactly why I built the email automation course the way I did. It's not just "here's how to connect Zapier to Mailchimp." It's "here's what to actually say once it's connected" — because that's the part that determines whether someone buys, replies, or unsubscribes. If you've been putting off automation because it feels technical and overwhelming, that's normal. But the technical part is the easy part. The words are where the real work — and the real results — live.