Hey Cohort 2 humans and newbies just dipping your toes in 👋 Quick share to celebrate a tiny-but-mighty win... I put my **Brave Britches** on this week and picked up the actual phone 📞 (yes, the scary one) to ring the manager of my local Community House about running mosaic workshops there. The kind of dream that's been quietly living in my "one day when I'm braver" pile for *years*, while my ADHD brain helpfully offered 47 reasons not to. Coffee meeting locked in for next week. 🎉 Now here's the bit I want to share with you... This isn't a launch. It's not a grand opening. It's just a market test. A bite-sized first nibble of something my Week 5 Ikigai work helped me see is part of *why I'm here*: turning discarded pieces into something beautiful, with people, for community. The big dream? A mosaic legacy. The actual action this week? One phone call. One coffee. That's the whole game, isn't it? We don't get to the dream by *doing* the dream. We get there by doing the next 10-minute thing that scares us just a wee bit. So, my lovely lot: **what's your Brave Britches phone call this week?** The thing that's been sitting in your "one day" pile, quietly waiting? Pop it in the comments. I'll cheer you on. 💪🎨 Debz x

I’m spinning for sure. I received the numbers for my student loan payments after all the changes. It’s literally the same amount of my hours payment! I’m avoiding everything. I’ve recoiled to this space to vent. But I’m avoiding all real life. I just don’t see any way that it’s going to happen. I haven’t said anything to my husband yet. Tomorrow is the day we sit down to budget and I am spiraling. Worst case scenario kind of shit. I can’t face it. I don’t want to deal with it.