Hey Reader,

A couple of days ago, I was watching a guy dressed as a bunny pitch a paintable Easter Bunny product he had created on Shark Tank. As the sharks started making their offers, it made me think about how simple products like Post-Its and Spanx have become these multibillion-dollar brands, and yet we have all been sold this idea that making money has to be hard and complicated.

This is not to say that selling doesn't take work and involves a lot of different parts. But I do think we tend to overcomplicate the process in our minds.

At its core, selling anything and making money is about creating or finding a product or service that has value or that fulfills a need for other people.

When you see it from this perspective, as just an exchange of value and not as something that has to be hard, negative, or even greedy, you allow yourself to start wanting to make more money as well.

Not because you believe money will make you happier or that it will change everything.

But because you know that money gives you more possibilities, more freedom, and more choices. And you're ready to expand who you are. You're ready to think bigger, to move differently, and to stop apologizing for desiring more.

A lot of us, women specifically, have been conditioned to think we shouldn't want more money (or at the very least that we shouldn't talk about it) becuase that would mean that we're too greedy, too off-putting, too ambitious, "too much".

I want you to challenge that belief.

If you, like me, want to make more money this year, I want you to counterattack this story that 'you shouldn't desire money' and instead, ask, "Who says making money is a bad thing or even that it has to be hard?"

Money is simply a tool.

And I now believe that when we have more of it, we can use it to support and pour it back into our families, our friends, our communities, and into making an impact on the world around us.

So, in case you needed this reminder, as I did myself earlier this week, here it is:

Instead, ask yourself:

"How can I make it easier?" "How can I make money a steward of goodness and positivity?"

My take on regret

Lately, I have been thinking about regret, and I believe our biggest regrets are not really about the outcomes we didn’t get or the goals we didn’t accomplish. I think regret is made up of all the things we didn't allow ourselves to try and experience.

Our biggest regret is about the people we didn’t give ourselves the chance to become.

Our biggest regret is not necessarily about being more “successful” or making more money.
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Our biggest regret is wishing we could have been less afraid, less doubtful, less careful, and definitely more courageous and more honest with our lives.

To be honest with ourselves about what we want to experience in our lives and then to allow ourselves to go after it.
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That’s what really keeps us awake at night. The knowing that there could have been many other versions of us, if only we had been more willing to try.

I made a carousel post in IG about the multiple versions that exist of us, the more we allow ourselves to the magic of discovering them. Check it out here.​

Consistency is what builds trust

James Clear delivers a simple ingredient to building more trust in your relationships, whether personal or professional, and also provides a good reminder that the way to develop more self-trust and confidence is by building the evidence of who you say you are and who you want to become.

4 life lessons

I loved this emotional last message from Eric Dane, star of Grey's Anatomy and the X-Men, to his two daughters about the lessons he had learned about life.

The 4 life lessons:

1. Live in the present. Stop replaying the past. Stop worrying about the future. Your life is happening now.
2. Fall in love (with someone, yes) but also with something that gives you joy. Find that thing that excites you, that makes you want to wake up every day, and then, really go for it.
3. Find your people and allow them to find you. Choose your friends wisely, then show up for them often. They are the ones who will guide you and support you when you're lost.
4. Keep fighting. In life, you will encounter unnumerable challenges (health or otherwise). Don’t give up. When you fall, learn to get back up again every time.

​Watch this short video for some extra life inspiration.​

A simple reframe for the coming week

Whenever you feel like you have too many problems and hardships in your life, can you start looking at them as puzzles to figure out and solve instead?

To change the word from problems to puzzles.

Because puzzles are exciting. They can be fun and engaging. They give your life more texture.

So, this is a simple way we can use to lean into curiosity and see challenges as the things that keep us engaged and excited in our daily lives.

P.S. What if small moments of connection had the power to change how you feel in your life right now... without needing to make big changes in your day-to-day? That's what small, intentional acts of kindness do. In this episode, I tell you why we underrate the power of kindness to transform our lives, our mood, and how we can use it to regulate our emotions and transform how we feel. 🎧 Listen here on Spotify. Or Apple Podcasts.​

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