This Thanksgiving, I'm Thankful For...

You :)

I started this newsletter in February 2021 with a handful of friends and a promise to “send them something” twice a week.

All I wanted was to figure out what kind of writer I wanted to be. And I had finally realized that I couldn’t answer that question by thinking about it. I needed to write and publish a lot of pieces in order to figure that out. And so I began.

Within a few weeks, I realized I was always talking about coaching, so I signed up for a coaching certification at the same school where my favorite coaches got certified.

In October 2021, I launched my coaching business.

Now, a little over a year later, I’ve worked with dozens of clients and crossed the six-figure mark in my business.

I’ve been consistently productive in my creative work in a way I have always dreamed of…but thought was impossible for me.

(Thank you to my own coaches for showing me that “I’m not productive” was just an unhelpful story I was telling myself, and NOT the truth. Even if I fought you for weeks before believing you.)

I’m hard at work on the next iteration of my coaching product, and I can’t wait to share it with you guys next year.

And… I still have the exact same human brain that gets confused, afraid, stressed out, and self-blame-y all the dang time — every single day, guaranteed.

The best thing about following your dreams isn’t that it makes you happy.

It’s that it makes you finally stop changing your external circumstances and sit your butt down and work on your thought habits.

Because it’s your thought habits — your habitual way of perceiving the things around you — that are making you happy or unhappy. It was never the circumstances.

Living the life you actually want just puts the spotlight on those thought habits once and for all, so you can stop running away from yourself and get to work :)

So thank you to all of you — for reading, listening, sharing, liking, commenting, booking consults, and especially for quietly lurking along without ever speaking up but quietly implementing everything I’m saying in your life (I know you’re out there :)

I’m some kind of weird human being that does better with an audience than without one.

Stand-up comedians get on stage to work out their material in front of a crowd.

I come here and write — and I’m doing the same thing.

Thank you for following along while I figure it out.