November is a heavy shopping month + Kid-friendly/oriented month (sweet treats and global celebrations). Its also a great month for small business owners and professionals. November is also the month to celebrate men's health and wellness with the #Movember movement. FYI - I'll take shout outs in the absence of gifts for my birthday. On a real though, the irony that Nov 4 is also Stress Awarness Day is hilarious to me. What days will you be acknowledging?

So excited for #DigitalIQ with @anniepreneur this week - via the link in my bio. For almost a decade, Annie P. has harnessed her Hulk-like disdain for hard-sales, tacky self-promotion, and overly competitive sleazeballs as inspiration to help people find better ways to grow their small businesses.  She's guided hundreds of people toward making deeper connections, lasting impressions, and friendlier, more lucrative transactions and conversations. Join us tomorrow live!

Proof of Life: Been on a little hiatus catching up on client work and genuinely taking better care of myself. As entrepreneurs/solopreneurs is so easy to fall into the loop (trap) of self-sacrifice being equated to survival. We give and give and give and its easy to lose focus of your so-called why, when all you've been able to focus on is your how: How will you pay staff... How will you cover bills... How will you meet deadlines... How will you survive the week... I don't have specific answers, I'm still trying to figure this shit out. I'm exhausted and my body literally told me - its time to pause or suffer the consequences - lies, it actually dealt me a few of those consequences. So for once, I'm listening and choosing my battles. I'm also dealing with a professional loss of sorts and grieving that too, while being triggered by my parents' upcoming birthdays and Dad's memorial ahead of my birthday and that of my partner and son - a lot of shit is happening - couple that with the global economic and political climate. The sad part is I know its insane to expect anyone to be ok. We see the humanity and frailty in others but ignore it in ourselves - at our own detriment. In the meantime, I'm supporting clients, working on new strategy, prepping for another Design bootcamp, setting up a new offering and I'm still available via DMs for queries/support. I'm quiet, but haven't disappeared. More content to come in the near future. But be honest with me, when was the last time you took a little break? I know its next to impossible to do so, so rather select (like I did) what you're taking a break from. You want to do it all, but frankly, we just aren't capable of doing it all at once. So what will you 'sacrifice' towards your self-preservation? #HonorYourHustle #StrategyMaverick #ShadowConsultant #DigitalIQ #DigitalMarketing #BrandCoach #SolopreneurBootcamp

Can ya help a girl decide? ? Take a look on my profile and see - I like to play around with my grid from time to time - I'm getting a tad tired of the alternating black and teal. I'm still playing around with the other colours in my palette but what do you think I should do about my background?