🦋 💜 🌿 How are you doing? Man, I love fall. It is amazing how the shift to September brings a certain smell and feeling in the air. It screams fall to me and I love it. Even though I am in Wisconsin, a state where winters can be very intense, and this shift means winter is coming, I still love fall so much. The other big news in my life is that my baby has been standing and scooting along our furniture. And standing in the crib when he should be sleeping, Oy. Don't get me started. I have been...
about 2 months ago • 9 min read
🦋 💜 🌿 How are you doing? I feel a deep urge to share a story with you.There's one revelation that not only changed the course of my career as an entrepreneur and writer, but has also changed my life. When I started my business, I began working 50 hours a week and did everything I could think of to be successful. After a year of this, I still wasn't making much money so I knew I needed to do something different. One day I started writing letters to the soul of my business. I was inspired by...
2 months ago • 5 min read
🦋 💜 🌿 How have you been? The last few months have been so full of mom milestones for me as I watch my little baby grow up: he got his first tooth, began to crawl, said his first words (Hungry, Hello and Up!), went to the pool and so much more. I'm popping in because I wanted to make sure you saw my latest interview, the first I've recorded since I became a mom! Slow, Steady Growth with Andrea Hylen You can apply this slow, steady approach to life and writing. As an editor and book coach, this...
3 months ago • 1 min read
🦋 💜 🌿 How have you been? I am back for my monthly-ish update on postpartum life as a writer, entrepreneur and new mom. Things are going pretty well. I have survived my son's first cold, and all the exhaustion that entailed. Luckily neither the baby nor us, his parents, got any extreme symptoms, but we certainly had little rest for a week. I've had some great news that my client, friend and mentor Andrea Hylen has completed and published her book Follow the Clues! I'll share about that below....
5 months ago • 2 min read
🦋 💜 🌿 How have you been? I am popping into what has turned into a monthly-ish update on postpartum life as a writer, entrepreneur and now mom. It's been extra busy as now both my husband and I have begun working. Our baby is now almost 5 months old. I watch the baby more since I work at home, and breastfeed. We've been ironing out some help the past few moths to open up more time for me to work and do necessary things. There's always something to do! Since my life has changed drastically...
6 months ago • 4 min read
🦋 💜 🌿 How is your week going? This month my husband returned to work after paternity leave so we've been making a lot of adjustments. Some days are harder than others. Being a mom, I'm holding a lot of balls in the air, and while I certainly have my brains at work daily, I just don't feel like I have a lot of writing ideas top of mind day to day the way I used to. It's strange because for the past 25-ish years that I've been publishing my writing online, I've rarely been low on ideas. In fact...
7 months ago • 6 min read
🦋 💜 🌿 How is your week going? This week an old post I wrote on facebook started circulating again. It got a lot of comments. It was me announcing that I needed space from Instagram and facebook. It's funny because I wrote it a year ago, and have been enjoying how not-on-my-radar posting on Facebook feels. I love the mental space. But some people just noticed it and responded to it like it was new that I wasn't on there as much. Someone said they wanted to hear updates about what I was up to....
9 months ago • 6 min read
🦋 💜 🌿 How is your week going? I hope you have been well -- two months ago I had a baby! He is healthy and currently being held as he sleeps by his dad. Wild Violet Photography I wanted to shoot you a quick email while I can. It's been crazy around here with a newborn, as you may imagine. Immediately after the birth, I not only had to start learning how to take care of my little baby, but I also had to heal from rather severe wounds from birthing him. I didn't get out of bed unless absolutely...
9 months ago • 2 min read
🦋 💜 🌿 How is your week going? I'm going to have a baby this week! It will happen naturally or it will be induced because my doctors don't want anyone of my advanced age (38, thank you very much) to go past her due date. So I'll be holding a baby by Christmas!! This is my last email before all hell breaks loose lol. I'm super excited and happy to be going through this huge life change of becoming a mom with the positive community of folks I have around me, including my friends, my family, my...
11 months ago • 2 min read