The Daily Bet on Yourself
Here is something that only my old friends know about me. When I was 23, I spent a year at a musical theater school in Italy. I learned to tap, do ballet, and took acting classes.
I used to sing. I did musicals in high school, sang throughout college (yes, acapella) but also choirs and solo performances. When I moved to Italy at 22, I continued through private lessons and masterclasses. It was ...
How I kept myself in maintenance mode
I’m coming to the end of my six-week slow down. It wasn’t a six-week vacation (I wish!); it was an intentional, lighter version of business. And I took it for two main reasons.
The first is personal. I am not very good at pacing myself. When I’m in something, I’m in it. It’s how I have burnt out from multiple jobs, and it’s why sometimes I get to mid-December or mid-May and just want to crawl ...
(Try) to stop chasing the shiny new thing
A few months ago, I got a wave of replies to one of my newsletters. "You should put these on Substack." "Have you thought about monetizing this?"
I got excited. Maybe there was a new way to share my work that I hadn’t thought of. Maybe I could avoid the hard work of actually building a business! Then I realized I’d been here before (womp, womp). I’d thought about Substack and the pattern was th...

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