sometimes I think it's pretty damn crazy how we find it so hard to just be ourselves… when actually it should be the easiest thing in the world shouldn't it… I read someone's post and I'm like… hmm that aint them… that doesn't match the voice I heard when we chatted… or I see a photo and I go… that doesn't even look like them ffs… and I sit there going what's wrong with the real version… and obvs I get it… I'm sure to some extent I've been there done it meself… we all have a moment where we shrink the real bit because it feels safer… 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗶𝘁… why are SO many people blending in… same copy… same hooks… same AI generated energy banners… same offers… same brags… same fakeness… and look I'm not saying everyone doing this is doing it with bad intentions… most people genuinely don't even realise they're doing it, I reckon… 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗲'𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗻'𝘁 𝘄𝗲… we've been taught that fitting in is safer than standing out… that following the formula is smarter than trusting our own voice… that copying what works for someone else is the sensible move… and I'm gonna be properly Mimi style honest with u right now because that's just how I roll innit… even saying this bit out loudish feels a bit exposing… because most people would just quietly disappear and come back when everything looked shiny again and pretend naif all happened… I myself have been struggling to show up a lot lately… struggling to connect the way I really want to… because I totes cannot play the performance game… I cannot sit there writing a fake urgency countdown post when nothing is actually urgent… I cannot pretend a launch or summat is going amazingly when it isn't… I cannot comment on stuff that feels false...overly AI-generated from top to bottom...feels like I am speaking to a robot and not a human... I cannot do the version of this where I smile through it just for the sake of fake a$$ nothingness 𝗶𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗺𝘆 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝗹𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝘆𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗶𝗳 𝗜 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝗶𝘁… 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁…

OOOFFF... I've been proper down a rabbit hole this morning and honestly I wasn't even planning on writing about this… Me little brain just started doing brain things over coffee and I ended up having this really juicy convo starter inside 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗥𝗢𝗢𝗠 about why people drop off communities, courses, challenges... all that kinda stuff... and then I realised... hang on a minute... this isn't actually about communities at all. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗣𝗘𝗢𝗣𝗟𝗘. 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸. And honestly I think understanding THIS will make U better at business than another bloody marketing strategy ever will… Because have U ever noticed how ridiculously excited we get at the beginning of stuff? New business. New planner. New gym. New community. New course. New mentor. New notebook etc etc because apparently buying another notebook is gonna solve all our problems We get SO buzzing. “Yup defo this is it." "This is gonna change everything." "I'm ALL IN." Then... well... life does lifen doesn't it Couple of days later the dog's been sick vom, or someone's emailed, U've got washing to do eewww, your kid needs picking up, U're just tired af, U've forgotten where U even put the bloody notebook and suddenly the thing U were SO excited about is sat there gathering dust. And here's the thing... years ago I'd have called people flaky. I probably would've said people don't commit. Buuuuttt? I don't actually believe that's what's happening anymore. I reckon this is where we accidentally stitch ourselves up. We watch something... read something... listen to something... and we think "OOOFFF... that's bloody brilliant stuff… I'll do that tomorrow." Then tomorrow becomes Wednesday. Wednesday becomes next week. Next week becomes..."Ahhh fck it... I'm behind now." Tell me U've never done that because I know I bloody have heaps. Loads of times. And the mad bit is... nothing actually changed. The training didn't get harder. The community didn't change.

Definitely not something I want. Definitely something I’m working on. Definitely not something I want to label myself as… but I know I just fricken did… So last night I went to a local live music event with this new EPIC man in my life who’s from here in Bali. Not a big concert or out like that. Just local musicians, friends, beers, good vibes… and I was like… right… bite the bullet, Mimi. Go and do something uncomfortable for once instead of making excuses, u got this eeekkk I could already feel the anxiety brewing before we even left. Thirty minute scooter ride… and I’m already overthinking shit a lot Then we walked in. It was this bigish warehouse space. All the lights were on. Maybe 25 or 30 people sat around tables drinking arak and beer. 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗺𝗲𝗻…. Ekka knew people straight away. A few came over to say hello. He introduced me. Obvs there’s a language barrier because I don’t speak Indonesian (gotta sort this out..note to self) and then my brain just went… 𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗧. I’m the only girl here. 𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗧. I'm the only bule (that's what they call us foreigners here) here. And then… oh my dayz… I spiralled. Like PROPER fcking spiralled. The only way I can describe it is... imagine walking into an arena where U don't know a SINGLE person. Everything's unfamiliar. Everyone already knows everyone else. And it feels like there's this massive af spotlight following U around the room. Like everyone can see u. Everyone's looking at u. Everyone's judging u... even though they're probably not pfffttt That's exactly what it felt like. 𝗜 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝘁 𝗦𝗢 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗱. 𝗜 𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗻'𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗻. 𝗜 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝗻. What do I do with my hands? Do I put them on my hips? Behind my back? Do I smile? Am I smiling too much? Am I standing weird? Why am I just STANDING here? Then it got even more ridiculous because my brain clearly thought, "Let's throw absolutely EVERYTHING at her while we're at it." Why didn't I wear my Vans? Why have I got sandals on? Why am I wearing shorts? I should've worn trousers. Do I look like an idiot? People are gonna think... who the fuck is SHE? Why is she here?

Lucy and I met early in 2025. Lucy came on a vacation to Bali and, through an epic, beautiful mutual friend, we made that connection and we met. And what it was... was INSTANT. Just right. Laughed. Easy. Raw. Real. ZERO pretentiousness. It felt like we could just be ourselves. Just totally, in a flash, instant, and 4 me thats special af On that very same first catch-up over a Bintang, the local Bali beer, we talked about creating a retreat. It's probably one of the fastest decisions I've ever made that just felt so fricken RIGHT, because we were so aligned in our realness, our rawness and our values. Bringing beautiful people together without the performance, without the judgement, just being totally ourselves. We also acknowledged the highs and the lows that we all go through in life, because we all face them. We all have past traumas. We all have insecurities. We all have limiting beliefs. We all have things that we're working through, and that's what makes us damn HUMAN. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗔𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗙 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗻…𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝗹𝗶 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗮 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗿…𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝗴𝗲𝘁… Just a few months later, early in 2026, we held our very first retreat and we had a bunch of amazing women come and join us. Some had known each other before, some had never met. And honestly, it made me feel really good because it matched EVERYTHING this was about. Again, just being real. Being open. Facing the moments instead of pretending everything's perfect. We laughed. We cried. We broke through things that had been holding us back. We had some incredible transformations. Some easy. Some definitely not easy. But that's the way life is, hey? IT EBBS. IT FLOWS. We did yoga. We chuckled. We stretched ourselves. We did breathwork that broke down tears and let out trauma. We experienced sound healing that was so deep and nourishing that you came away feeling like you were floating, with an inner peace you maybe hadn't felt for a long time. We had nights out. We experienced new things. Melukat water blessings. Meeting the cutest monkeys in the Bali Monkey Forest. Seven days of PURE CONNECTION. Connection to other people but, most importantly, connection back to YOURSELF.