I hope this 11/11 was good to you and opened up lots of opportunities both personally and professionally. Today, my business partner and I received an accepted contract from our very first client, and we sent out a proposal for another client. Woohoo!! What about you? We’re only a couple days into the week, anything we can celebrate with you?

A little while ago, I shared that @Shauna Lindsey and I are launching a new business helping overwhelmed entrepreneurs scale by taking the minutiae of building off their plate so they can focus on the vision. In the last week we... ✅ registered our business with the IRS and Hawaii DCCA ✅ finalized our Partnership Agreement ✅ had our first Clarity Call with a referral lead ✅ submitted our first client proposal ✅ purchased our domain ✅ set up our website (not as easy as you'd think...) ✅ set up our email ✅ set up our CRM Phew!! And that's not even all of it! It's definitely not easy, but it gets to be this simple. What moves have you made this week? Big or small, we celebrate forward motion here!

That was the question that popped into my head while I was doing my daily asana/yoga practice. {Stick with me on this one, kids. It’s a long one 🙃} It actually stemmed from a conversation that I had with an old friend on Saturday. He was talking about one of his trips to Korea, and he shared how their mindset is so different in Asia. Here, we’re always so surprised and upset when things go wrong/not according to plan. But up there, they have a calm understanding that things going awry is always a logical possibility. And it was almost as if that query on my mat was subtle foreshadowing for how my morning was going to go… I won’t get into the details, but let it be known that the morning **DID NOT** go as planned. 🥲 As I laid there with my fussy 11 month old, at 11:30A, trying to put him down for the THIRD time, I found myself getting pulled into the resistance of, “what is.” Getting mad because so much time had been wasted, and I just wanted to be working! I finally sat down at my computer, feeling tempted to say, “Screw it. The whole morning is gone and I have less than 2 hours before the girls come home from school. I might as well just give up and try again tomorrow.” But something inside said, “Just stick to the plan. Maybe you started a little late, but just stick to the plan and run down the list [of to do’s].” I’m writing this at 8:50P, and for the first time ever, I’m actually super surprised that things went well! I finished everything on my list (and then some) in record time… AND I got dinner on the table on time! Trust me, that’s a solid win for me. 😅 If you made it this far, go ahead and drop a 🥳🥳🥳 in the comments, that way I’ll know who’s a G, in the group. 😂 Kidding, kidding. But in all seriousness, tell me, how do YOU respond when the plan goes to 💩? Does it vary between scenarios and people??

@Shauna Lindsey and I recently decided to start a new business venture together— amidst running our other business(es) and keeping up with our family responsibilities 🤪. After making the decision to go full force with this, our first steps were: 1. Leveraging AI to create a business plan for structure and alignment (reviewed, edited, and personalized TOGETHER) 2. Established NON-NEGOTIABLE weekly, standing meeting with each other to maintain momentum and accountability 3. Booked/invested in a call with our business mentor to get expert perspective on opportunities and blind spots 4. Established mission statement + core values so we ALWAYS have a guiding light for what to do and why. We’re crazy excited to get this off the ground and I want to bring you guys on this crazy journey with us! For those of you who already have an established business, what were your foundational first steps after deciding to open up shop?? ⬇️Drop your answers below! ⬇️

I recently wrote a long, raw email to a business influencer that I’ve been following for years. I briefly proof read it and then hit send. An hour or two later, I read it again and noticed a bunch of typos and errors and was immediately mortified (per my MO), but then that was quickly quieted by the thought, “Well, at least she knows that it wasn’t AI generated!” 😅 The rise and normalization of AI has allowed me to embrace, appreciate, and welcome the imperfection of human nature. I’ve come to soften the rigidity around typos and grammatical errors, because I used to see those as proof of my incompetence, lack of professionalism, and credibility. But now, it’s proof of my authenticity and human-ness, and I love that 🥰