Kids are back in school, and there's a ton happening in the CLASSIFIEDS this month! @Steve Gast This one's for you!

One of the things I love most about what I do is helping purpose-driven entrepreneurs showcase their expertise to help others and build their businesses. So it means a lot to be selected as one of this year's Oh Yes I Can Women in Business 2026 campaign, She Means Business: 30 Women in 30 Days! I started my online business after having two kids in my 40s during COVID and needing to have more flexibility in my life, not because I was fleeing the 9-5 cubicle. I loved my previous career - it was very rewarding! But moving into the online space allowed me to take all the education, experience, and expertise I had built over 25+ years and use it to help others do the same thing. September 22 is National Women in Business Day, but Oh Yes I Can Women in Business decided one day wasn't enough. Throughout September, they're shining a light on 30 women from the OYIC community, and I'm honored to be one of them. And, I'm in some great company! You can meet all 30 women in this year's eMagazine: https://canva.link/83fj2my29s2luhc Thank you so much to VIP member @Traci Poe for including me in such a meaningful way!

Every time I look at my email analytics, I'm shocked by this number. Mostly because it took almost no effort to send this many emails, thanks to automation. Most of the emails sent in the past 3 years were from a lead magnet and automated nurture emails after the lead magnet was delivered. These emails brought in sales to my digital products, sales to my KDP planner, views to my YouTube channel, listens to my podcast, and connections with my ideal client. If you know you should be sending emails but you just don't know how to get started, come to my Email Marketing 101 workshop next week. I'm going to walk you through how to set up a free email provider, set up your sender email correctly, create an opt-in form, and set up your first automated emails. This 90-minute workshop will be packed with goodness. And even better, you can join me on the 7-day free trial to attend live or watch the replay. Here are the details: 👇 🗓️ Next Event: Email Marketing 101: Setting Up Your First Email Automation Date: Thursday, August 27th @ 2:30 PM EST Get your free seat here 👉 Save Me A Seat

Leaderboards. Challenges. Bonus 1:1 Calls. Better onboarding. A new Start Here. Posting more. Posting less. More live calls. Less live calls. Adding GIFs. Taking the GIFs away. Ringing the bell? Not ringing the bell because maybe you rang it too much 😅 Rewriting the same welcome post for the fifth time. Staring at your community wondering why they’re all acting like NPCs 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣 At some point… it gets really hard to tell the difference between making intentional changes and just hoping the next tweak finally lands. Engagement by Design opens tomorrow. Thirty days of looking at what your community is actually telling you before changing something else. No canned case studies. We’ll use the communities inside the sprint, figure out what’s really going on, and decide what experiment is actually worth running next. If you want the details before I post them publicly tomorrow, send me a DM. Question… 👇🏻 What’s the change you were most convinced was going to fix engagement… and what happened instead?

There’s a really fucking annoying part of building the business you keep saying you want… At some point, your actions have to agree with you 😂 You can want more money, more freedom, better clients, offers people actually buy, content people understand, and a business that fits your actual life. You can want the whole damn thing. But wanting it really badly while repeatedly doing everything except the shit that would help build it is a fantastic way to stay in almost. And almost can look VERY productive 😈 Researching. Tweaking. Learning. Planning. Reorganizing. Changing the offer again. Saving a bajillion posts for later. Spending an unreasonable amount of time trying to figure out the perfect way to do something you probably could’ve already tried twice. The shit that would actually give you some useful information is still sitting there waiting for you to do it… Send the email. Make the offer. Post the thing. Ask the question. Follow up. Launch the weird idea. Let somebody actually see the thing you’ve been fucking with for three weeks. Enter from stage left… Fix Your Funk. It’s a business community for neurodivergent, neurospicy, multipassionate, nonlinear entrepreneurs who already have plenty rattling around upstairs and would really like to turn more of it into something tangible. We figure out what’s actually getting in the way, what makes sense to do next, and how to get out of the mindfuckery tornado long enough to fucking do it 🙌🏻 Messy AF action. Evaluate. Refine. Keep fucking going. If you’ve gotten exceptionally good at almost doing the things that could change your business, come find us in Fix Your Funk. 👇🏻 What’s something you know would move your business forward that you’ve been almost doing for way too fucking long?