If your ability to sit down and write anything related to your business or school looks more like—SQUIRREL! Then welcome, my unfocused friend. I literally just left writing this blog to check on a notification I got, so please know, these are my best techniques. But I’m imperfect, just like you! So, you’re at that […]
The Hard and Wonderful Things We’ve Learned This Year.
Today is Thanksgiving. Well, not when you’re reading this. But, when I’m writing this. I’m sitting alone out on my back porch overlooking our tropical backyard. It’s pouring rain. The pitter patter of the water hitting our gutters offers me the type of soundtrack you often bought back in the day when The Nature Store […]
Not Your Average Gal Services
2021 was a year of reframing what sort of impact I’d like to have with Not Your Average Gal. As most entrepreneurs can attest to, there’s a pretty specific pattern: excitement, generating ideas, networking, busting ass, and then maybe an unexpected lull in projects, followed by dread and finally a full-blown existential crisis. Rinse and […]
I’m Here to Validate Your Social Media Break
Collectively, we’ve all considered it. We’ve all wondered what it would be like to just peace out and go back to the days when our every move wasn’t posted in some form on the internet. Some people we know have even—gasp—done it! Social media specifically feels so…smoke and mirrors. You know those yearly holiday cards […]
Have You Tried a Hard Restart? A Lesson in Grace.
I knelt alongside the shards of broken glass now strewn across my kitchen floor when it happened. That tight wad of stress, knotted in my stomach, suddenly became undone. My brain, clenched in fight-or-flight, finally released its tight grip. My body said softly to me, “Enough.” It gently nudged me while I was on my […]
The Hawaii Life: One Year in
It’s beyond hard to believe we moved to Hawaii over a year ago. One year of gentle waves, coqui frogs, mild (and not-so-mild) earthquakes, a volcanic eruption and, you know, adjusting to life 4,500 miles away from our former home, in the middle of a pandemic–one that your husband is on the frontlines of–and also, […]