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Aloha Reader, Someone I've never met is throwing a birthday party, and somehow I still ended up with a goody bag — and so did you, if you want it. (Full disclosure: I've always loved celebrating people — it's something we made a point of raising our daughter with too, celebrating the small stuff, the wins, the things you worked for and finally finished. A birthday counts. Making it to another year is an achievement. My own birthday is coming up in September, so I'm already in party mode — and a bash I get to celebrate AND benefit from? Even better.) My colleague Allison Hardy is celebrating her 42nd birthday by giving away 60+ free resources from experts across the online business world, instead of asking for gifts herself. Allison's 42nd Birthday Bash Bundle is packed with trainings, templates, workbooks, and tools built to help coaches, creatives, and online business owners grow smarter — not louder. I contributed to this one, and I got to hop on a call with a couple of the other contributors beforehand. A few I'm genuinely excited to grab myself: Kristen Robinson's Giveaway & Bundle Bootcamp — we ended up geeking out over both being military spouses building businesses on our own terms, and her resource is exactly what it sounds like: a step-by-step system for growing your email list with real, buyer-quality subscribers through giveaways and bundles — no ad spend required. Jessie Kwak's No Rules Book Organizer — if you've got a book idea living in scattered notes and half-finished docs, this workbook helps you actually map it out: your core idea, your reader, your central promise, and the spine that holds it all together. Here's how to grab it all:
Mahalo, P.S. Allison put together 60+ contributors' worth of free resources to celebrate turning 42, which is either extremely generous or proof the rest of us should be asking for cake and silence instead. Either way — go grab the free gifts before they're gone. |
Think of this email as having your work bestie sharing what they found on social media, in their emails, what tool they used to make the job easier, and community besties that may be of value for their (your) network. Techie Bestie Activate. (*sips coffee*)
Aloha besties, I can tell a client exactly what their business needs with my eyes closed. Ten years of doing this and it's practically reflex — I can look at someone's setup and see what's leaking, what's duplicated, what's quietly costing them six hours a week. I'll build it out, map it, hand it over, and they'll say "how did you see that so fast?" And then there's my own business. Not because I don't know better. Because I don't always have the time. I'm in everyone else's backend all week,...
Aloha besties, Confession: I'm writing this from my actual real-life vacation. The one I'm not supposed to be thinking about work during. And yet — here I am, hitting send on purpose, because this is the whole point. So let's talk about why you'd even want this thing. 😑 Because "I'll just figure it out" is not a plan. You've tried the out-of-office message. You still checked Slack from the pool. You've tried going full radio silence. You came home to 400 unread emails and a client who thought...
Aloha friend, So it's September, which means my feed is full of "my September challenge" posts, and something in me went — I want in, but not like that. Watch Here Here's the short version: I started building myself a 30-day list of things to fix before my birthday (the 24th, don't ask how old). Then I looked at the list and realized it was just a to-do list wearing a cute outfit. So I scrapped the "challenge" part and kept just one question, for the whole month: What would make this feel...