@Bill Widmer @Rex Loyer — Happy 1,000. In the coffee business, we track "Tasting Notes"—the specific, distinct flavor profile of a roast. Numbers tell you how much you served, but tasting notes tell you how it felt to drink it. To celebrate this milestone, I went back through the community logs to analyze the "Flavor Profile" of the culture you two have built. I found that Focus Founders doesn't just taste like "productivity." • It has notes of Resilience: Like @Alison St. Romain finding the strength to "not break and run away when things get hard." • It has notes of Triumph: Like @Amber Kay crushing it as a single mom and finding "tears upon tears of gratitude." • It has notes of Momentum: Like @Jorick Sikkes tracking the countdown down to the final 16 members. Attached is a "Menu of Evidence" commemorating the first 1,000 members. Thank you for building the shop. The beans are excellent.

I just sat down with @Amber Kay, a single AuDHD mom of 3 and member of the Focus Founders Accelerator, to talk about how she: - Quit her 9-5 and went full-time as an entrepreneur - Made $1,600 more in the first month of launching her business than she ever did working her job - All while working the same or fewer hours - With zero experience running a business Amber shares how she followed a voice inside her head that saved her life, signed a contract with herself to make the transition, fought self-doubt and perfectionism, and MADE. IT. HAPPEN! She is such a badass human being and a wonderful soul. I watched this woman buy a homeless man a sandwich when she could barely afford one for herself. I'm so honored to give this woman the credit and spotlight she deserves, and to be helping her build her dream life one brick at a time! 👉 Join the Accelerator waitlist here to be notified when it reopens. (With special guest appearances from @Natasha Fernandez and @Brice Cavanaugh!)

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Thanks again, @Amber Kay for sharing today. I'm inspired by how well you're doing with your business, thank you for giving us AuDHDers hope! In relation to the anxiety stimming, mine was similar. In the past I would play Subway Surfers on my phone while smoking a cigarette to calm down. My cigarette smoking eventually turned into vaping. Even though I've quit both now, I still carry immense shame and embarrassment for those behaviours. I'd always known I had an oral fixation but never connected it to stimming and anxiety regulation. Thank you for reminding me of this today, and for helping me to process the shame I'd been carrying. Like @Bill Widmer said, we're a group of weirdos bonding together to form a new normal. I'm feeling pretty bonded with you after today's interview! ☺️

Mark your calendars! This Tuesday at 1PM CST, I'll be interviewing @Amber Kay to get the full inside scoop on how she quit her shitty 9-5 to go full-time as an entrepreneur and out-earned her job in the very first month. I posted about Amber's story a few day's ago, and a bunch of you asked for an interview. So we're gonna do it! We'll talk about things like: - How she manages a business while raising 3 kids by herself - How her AuDHD impacts her day-to-day and the systems she created to cope with it - What her experience inside the Focus Founder Accelerator has been like and how it's helped her - And more! Got questions for Amber? Drop them in the comments on this post! We'll also do the interview live, and there will be opportunities for you to ask questions at the end of the interview. Mark your calendars! P.S. How sick is this Avatar-inspired cover photo ChatGPT generated of us doing a podcast together?!