💼 UNCONVENTIONAL CAREERS

From Maxed Credit Cards to Wealth Activation

🔥 Opportunity: Securing the bagggg

🔎 Case Study: Shamina Taylor, 7-Figures+

Before I get into this, I want to preface by saying that this is WOO AS F*CK.

If you told me 3 years ago when I was a Corporate baddie that I’d swap out my serious money practices for one of dancing and drum circles, I’d call BS.

But here I am.

Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it.

I met Shamina through my first business coach when I had the gut feeling that I needed to work on my money stuff internally.

“There’s no way I’m working THIS HARD and only making THIS much?!”

Sound familiar?

Though I wasn’t necessarily drawn to Shamina as an individual, I DO resonate with her story.

She, just like me and many of you, said f*ck it to her successful career (lawyer) because it no longer felt aligned, and put EVERYTHING on the line to pursue an alternative life.

…And that looked like maxing out every single credit card she had until it worked (AND while being a single mother with a mortgage).

Now, she’s bringing in 7-figures and helping others do the same all because of one thing: an energy shift.

This story isn’t all too uncommon with entrepreneurs (both in the saying f*ck it but also the woo-woo).

Money IS spiritual (Dan Koe said it best)

And if you aren’t tuned to the right frequency, much like you would a radio in a car, all you’ll pick up is static (aka blocking the flow of money).

I highly recommend you check out Shamina’s Wealth Activation Meditation (I listen to it often) to help you tweak your frequency and check out this list of books from this creator to help you with comingling the tangible too.

Are you embracing woo in your money practice? Or is that something that just feels TOO out there?

⚙️ TOOL SPOTLIGHT

Money is a touchy subject… so using AI versus judgy humans and biased, soul-sucking institutions is a win-win in my book 🤭

Dispute.Ai - Repair your credit with all 3 bureaus

Wally.me - Personal finance platform that helps people track and manage their finances

Cleo - The world's first AI chatbot assistant dedicated to personal finance

Rocket Money - Take control of your subscriptions

YNAB - Change your relationship with money without the guilt

🤖 CHATGPT

Since we’re on the topic of money, we’re going to leverage ChatGPT to help us with the tedious task of budgeting.

Feel free to tweak the prompt below based on your money, time, and energetic restrictions.

Prompt of the Week:

️ 🎧 PODCAST

Have you REALLY learned your lesson if you hold resentment about the challenge you went through? 🤔

This has been a huge perspective shift for me to grapple with this past week.

I’ve always been super proud to have faced the struggles I have because, in my mind, it’s made me who I am (this is in fact, true).

But the problem was, I was still holding on to the story of what it meant to face the struggle in the first place instead of ONLY taking the wisdom away from that experience.

The wisdom from the experience is what makes you YOU.

But the situation ITSELF doesn’t.

On this week’s episode, I talk about how I was attaching my struggles to my identity (especially with money) and how I’m working to rewrite the stories I keep telling myself about all buckets of life to change up the narrative.

In what way are you discrediting your success because of the past? What stories are you still holding on to and which are you WILLING to change perspectives on?

🤑 MONTHLY MONEY

As per usual, I reserve one newsletter to give a recap of the previous month - how much we made, what’s working, what’s not, and what we’re working on.

Projected means what I anticipated bringing in.

Confirmed means not paid yet, but had verbal confirmation to be paid out.

Paid means what I actually brought in.

Breakdown of my revenue for November:

Projected: $6,284 // Actually Paid: $3,439

🤔 Why The Difference?

1. Thanksgiving Delays: Things get weird around the holidays so this wasn’t completely unexpected. New clients who were supposed to start at the end of the month wanted to wait until after Thanksgiving.

2. Changing Business Models: Now that I’m going full force with CQ, I knew that I needed to make space in my world to do that, and that meant offboarding freelance clients who were no longer aligned. That was about ~$2,250 in income I ‘gave up.’

3. Change in Project Needs: An existing client is utilizing me in a new way, so there’s a waiting period as handoffs happen.

Client Work: $3,389 // Affiliate Marketing: $50

📊 Work Breakdown:

• Social Media & Marketing Work - $2,997

• Podcast Production - $392.59

🔮 Projections for December:

Projected: $21,997 (as of today) // Paid (so far): $5,000 // Confirmed: $3,497

🏆 Goals For December:

• Reintroduce podcast interviews (it’s been mostly solo the past year)

• Put a new business budget practice in place

• Create more products and offerings

• Finalize my goals for next year with a quarterly plan to make it happen

• Sell out our first Quitter Program (2 out of 6 spots have been taken!)

🥲 Current Pain Points

• I don’t have low- or mid-priced products or services available at the moment. This leaves a serious gap in supporting the community (that’s y’all)

• Now that I’ve finally replaced my corporate income (YAY) I need to do some serious cleaning up from the past 2 years (NOT YAY)

• Being a nomad for the past 8 months is really starting to bother me and I want my home, routine, etc in ATX ASAP.