I had the pleasure of connecting with @Micah Walker today! ♥️ Here's my biggest takeaway from the call: I’ve been stuck in a really painful loop: I'm all-in on building my dream business, but the financial pressure to make it work right now is intense. I felt like getting an interim job meant I was "failing" or giving up on the dream. My biggest takeaway from Micah is this: You can't build a sustainable business from a place of desperation. She pointed out that it's almost impossible to "detach from the outcome" when your survival brain is screaming about paying the bills. People can feel that desperate energy. And even worse, if you force your passion to be your only lifeline, it will quickly turn into the very thing you resent. The reframe that changed everything for me was so counterintuitive: The people who often succeed the most are the ones who don't need the business to work right now. Getting a job isn't failing the mission. It’s a powerful, strategic move to protect your passion. It creates the stability to show up from a place of service, fun, and true alignment, not from a place of "I need to make a sale or I can't pay my bills." I'm feeling so much lighter and more hopeful. It's the permission I needed to build this thing sustainably, not desperately. Has anyone else felt that conflict between your passion and the pressure to make it "work"?

So I haven't been inside this group for a while. My pregnancy wasn't easy. But it was so worth it. Last week my baby girl was born. And I am already back learning the skills to start helping clients even better. Meet my baby Joymilla. 😊

2026 & 2027 is gunna be loads more IRL in-person meetups to bring these connections into real life! so drop where u r in the world 👇 gonna use this post to come back to to reach out when I’ll be near you! p.s. comment on anyone who is near you! make friends!!!!

wishing you the happiest of birthdays @Joel Manalo ! hope today is a good one! everyone drop in the comments the most absurd/non-traditional ways to say happy bday to someone 🤣

today i had this thought... "what if there are peeps that don't even know the free mini biz course exists?!" so this is my PSA to this community - there is a FREE course for you here in the lab & u should check it out :) and if you don't have access yet, comment your favorite thing to do as a kid & we will unlock it for you!! let's bring the childlike play back!