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October 30, 2024
Entrepreneurship As A Radical Act Summit
My loves,
Are you that beautiful, brilliant creative who squashed down all those delicious, artistic dreams to survive in the corporate grind?Ohhh, I see you! I know exactly how it feels to be a creative soul trapped in the daily beige of office cubicles, endless Zoom calls, and “corporate values” that don’t even slightly vibe with who you truly are. 🌈
If you’ve been catching yourself daydreaming about a different life — one where you actually *get paid* for all those magical gifts you have (even if the world doesn’t quite “get it”) — well, I have a special invitation for you!
Breaking Free: Entrepreneurship As a Radical Act SummitThis is for you if you’re craving a path out of the corporate world into the joyful, aligned business of your dreams, but you’re not sure where to start. I’m teaming up with Becca Camp, CEO & founder of Fearless Femmes, to help you break free with intention, purpose, and a little sparkle. 🌟
Here’s What You’ll Learn:
🌞Ditch the Hard Route: You don’t need to exhaust yourself throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. No more spinning your wheels trying to make it as a solopreneur without guidance, support, or a map.🌈Embrace the Strategic and Aligned Path: Imagine creating a blank calendar where you get to decide exactly how to spend your time — and then building a beautiful, heart-centered business around it. It’s about starting with your dreams, values, and desires, and creating an income stream that actually aligns with them.💗Create a Life & Business on Your Terms: This summit is about learning to build a business that not only replaces your corporate income but expands it! I’m talking six to seven figures doing what you love — on your own terms and time.Meet My Co-Pilot in this Journey:
Becca Camp is the real deal! She’s an ex-Silicon Valley powerhouse turned soulful business leader who’s created a thriving, creative career while working *less than 20 hours a week* (yes, you read that right). Together with Becca, we’re bringing you a powerhouse summit of inspiring, real stories and game-changing strategies.
If you’re ready to break out of the corporate world and finally start living that beautiful, creative life you were made for, this is your moment!
Sign up now! ✨The summit is FREE and runs Monday, November 11th to Friday, November 15th✨. Interviews land right in your inbox each day.
➡️SIGN UP FOR THE SUMMIT HERE⬅️(P.S. You’ll also get a bundle of free gifts from us when you register! YAAAY!!!!! 🎁✨)
Can’t wait to see you there and witness you take that gorgeous, glorious leap!
With love,
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September 20, 2024
Witch Talks Podcast
Darlinghearts!
I just had the most magical time chatting with the fabulous Hana O’Neill on the Witch Talks Podcast from The Suburban Witchery ✨.
We dove DEEP into the glittery, glorious world of success in spiritual business—and lemme tell ya, it was pure magic! 🪄
We talked about how this unicorn-loving, barefoot hippie (yep, MEEEE 🦄!) has managed to GROW and GROW her business income year after year by building a creative business straight from the heart.
No dodgy tactics. No soul-sucking hustle. Just pure integrity, creativity, and a whole lotta soul! We’re talking business with spirit—WILDLY profitable, deeply aligned, and filled with joy!
You CAN be successful AND stay heart-centered ❣️, my loves.
It’s totally possible to build a soulful biz without burning out or compromising your values!If you’ve been dreaming of turning your spiritual gifts into a thriving, joyful business, this episode is for YOU! 💫✨ I’m so excited for you to dive in and get all the juicy goodness we shared.
Listen to the episode HERE, and prepare for your heart (and biz) to get a BIG ol’ magical upgrade!
Prefer to watch? Too Easy, babes–catch the video HERE!
Big magical love,
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September 19, 2024
The Magical Story of how we found our Next Home!
I took this photo 6 years ago not far from our new home. We’ll be walking back through that land again… this time with much taller children!
My loves,
A few months ago I shared with you our news that we had decided to move back to Canberra. This will be our third time living in Canberra – our first was as a young couple and second as a family with young kids. We lasted 5 years away the first time, 6 years away the second time. It’s a special homeland for us.
The next part of the adventure has unfolded, and I wanted to record it here and share it with you because it’s been such a miracle.
Goddess photoshoot at Lake Burley Griffin, 2006
We’ve been looking at property for most of this year, and it was by far the most frustrating and long-winded housing search we’ve had. That’s saying something considering it was for our 10th house in 14 years! For many, many months we couldn’t find a single house that met our requirements.
Looking back, I think that was down to two reasons:
1. Obv, the housing crisis that’s hitting so many countries globally.
2. We were being too strict with our search parameters.
I’m still glad we’ve had this journey though – I think it’s taught us patience, and led us to where we need to be.
Me, 18 years ago
Originally when we started looking, we decided that one of our kids would be going to a well-regarded public high school that has a very strict catchment area. One of my best mates lives in that catchment, and her kids go to the same school, so I thought it was the simplest, best solution.
But then… we couldn’t find a house to rent or buy that worked in the area. The catchment area suburbs has smaller homes and block sizes, and is super expensive due to its proximity to the city. We knew we needed single level because my back shits itself on the regular and I can’t manage stairs during those flare-ups, and enough room for my husband and I to work from home.
My first studio in Canberra
It’s interesting, because at the same time, our kid was telling us that she didn’t actually really *want* to go to that school. Her whole life she’s been in small schools (her primary school had 50 kids total, and her current school has 400 across both primary and high). When we were looking at a high school with 1,000+ students, it felt too overwhelming for her.
Usually we get our kids to collaborate and co-sign on the big decisions in their lives, but I wasn’t listening this time. This might surprise you (ha!) but I’m quite headstrong and determined, and when I feel like I’ve locked and loaded a decision, I don’t usually revisit it. Thank goodness I have a husband who is sensitive enough to listen to our kids, and strong enough to push back on decisions when they aren’t right.
During our homeschooling time in Canberra, collecting autumn leaves
Once I wasn’t so fixated on one school, it felt like all my blinkers were off, and I could see the wide expanse of freedom and possibility again. We realised it was better for us to look for a private school that fit what our kids wanted, and pay the private school fees because they were cheaper than a higher mortgage from buying in the catchment area suburb anyway!
And what we realised was the next right thing was for the girls to go back to the smaller alternative school there that our eldest used to attend. Both kids were totally on board with the decision, and it felt aligned. Our enrolment interviews were positively delightful, and I was so impressed by both the deputy principals.
On a friend’s farm near Canberra
So with all the options opened up to us again, we surveyed all the suburb possibilities and housing options. Again, we couldn’t find what we were looking for. We knew we were getting closer, but we weren’t quite there yet. Eventually, my husband asked me if we should consider moving back to the small estate we’ve lived in previously and loved. It’s quiet, surrounded by beautiful nature walks and views to the beloved Brindabella mountain range. It’s further out of the city than we were originally looking, but we felt like it was worth it for what we could get there.
But again: there were literally NO houses for sale in there.
That night, I went to bed and prayed:
For me, I have found that in prayer, it works best for me to ask questions instead of demand things. Instead of saying “MAKE IT WORK”, I ask “What can I do differently to help it work?”
It feels less forceful to me, and reminds me to be open to doing things differently.
That night, I received a simple little message back from my guides:
Post in the Facebook group of the estate.
I thought it was a slightly odd idea, but trusted it anyway. And the next morning, I did. I explained we had already lived in the estate, and that we’d like to buy there again, but there wasn’t anything available on the market. I asked anyone who was looking to sell in the next 6 months to reach out to me.
Art journal page, Canberra, 2005
Within hours, I had four messages of people looking to sell, and two of the houses fit what we were looking for.
Delighted, I told my husband. And here’s where the beauty of co-creation comes in.
He asked me to message a friend of mine who lived in the estate just to ask how the estate was going.
I’d met this friend in a serendipitous way years ago – I was walking around the Old Bus Depot Markets (an icon in Canberra), and she had a stall there selling beautiful soy candles. She recognised me because she loved my workbooks, and we totally hit it off, yapping away at a million miles a minute. And then we realised we lived around the corner from each other in the same small estate. I love when that happens! So we became friends, and I visited her house when we lived there.
My love on a Canberra bushwalk, 2006
So I reached out to Carrie to let her know we were coming back, and asked her if there were any major changes to the estate as we were looking to buy in there again. And her response was:
“Oh, that’s funny… we’re looking to sell our house this year.”
And of course, her house was the exact size we were looking for, with an enormous deck that we could see ourselves laying out like lizards on to soak up the sun, and a huge backyard with a veggie patch.
So we made an offer, and they accepted.
We joke that we’re basically a copy and paste family for hers – she’s a hippy business owner with an IT musician husband, just like us. Her two creative daughters went to the same alternative school as our two creative daughters are going to. They are just further along the journey than us, with grown up kids who’ve flown the nest and gone on to do amazingly cool things.
It really does feel like the most magical, serendipitous way we’ve ever bought a house before.
Journal page made in Canberra, 2006
Our new home is just around the corner from our old home we sold 6 years ago. Chris’ cousin and his family (with two daughters close to our girls age) lives just around the other corner. We’ll be close again to some of my oldest and dearest friends. We’ll be surrounded by art galleries and libraries and and bushwalks through some of the most magical land I’ve ever walked on. I can’t wait to re-introduce my teen and tween to the joys of exhibitions and concerts and city cultural attractions. It feels like another grand adventure, another chapter in the love story that is life.
Canberra has been such good fertile ground for creativity for me before…
We’re finishing up the school year here, and heading off in November. We’ll drive our way down through the inland route, the same way we drove in 21 years ago when we first moved to Canberra, full of young love and wanderlust. And, as magic and miracles go, we’ll arrive back in Canberra on my 42nd birthday. It feels like the best gift I could receive. Douglas Adam’s famously said that the answer to the mystery of the universe is 42, and that feels potent and true.
In Canberra’s Brindabella mountains on my birthday 18 years ago
I’m excited to see how our live will change and bloom in new and old and different ways when we’re back in that beautiful land.
And I’m so so grateful that I got to be here too, in all of this. It all feels like such a deep and dear gift. From the tropical seas to the alpine mountains and beyond, this earth is holy and I adore her.
Thank you for sharing it all with me.
With love, as always,
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Grounded Magic Podcast
Oh my stars, darlings!⭐
I’ve just had the most delicious chat on the 🪄Grounded Magic Podcast with the beautiful souls April and Sabrina, and it’s out NOW!
We gabbed about how I first started creating collages back in boarding school days—yep, lil’ creative me was whipping up magic and sticking it in my journal, sharing it with the 20 girls in my dormitory! That was my first ever creative community.
It was like my own magical cauldron of inspiration – for me AND for the girls around me!
I shared all that juicy goodness today, and you can listen to it right HERE 🪄
These babes at Grounded Magic—April Terreau and Sabrina Marie Chase—are all about bringing magic out of the clouds and into everyday life. They talk to folks all across the magical, spiritual spectrum and blend magic with science and social science (um, YES PLEASE).
Every episode is about how we can work magic into our daily practices in super DOABLE ways! You’ll leave with a head full of ideas, entertained, and ready to sprinkle magic into your everyday life (however the heck YOU want to define it!).
I’m so excited to share this with you, my loves, and I really hope you enjoy the convo as much as I did!
With so much magic,
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September 13, 2024
Why Mothers (& Everyone Else) Need To Kick Perfectionism In The Cahones.
Hola panda bears,
So we’ve been talking about some big stuff lately. Like how to ninja chop fears + how to quit freaking out about love.
Hello my darlinghearts,
It’s really, really hard talking about the hard parts of life and motherhood. I don’t like people to worry. I don’t like anyone assuming I need help.
When I write, I’m very happily standing in my power place, seeing what is going on for me, and healing things that don’t feel right. It’s what I do. It’s what gives me joy.
And I can understand how easily that
I’ve heard it all my life.
“Leonie, stop being so hard on yourself.”
And I’d stare at them, without blinking, thinking:
“Don’t you know? If I stop being hard on myself, I am going to get NOWHERE and do NOTHING with my life.”
When I got an A+ for an art assignment in Year 12, my mum asked me how I felt about it.
“I’m pissed Mum. Last time I got an A++. Why wasn’t this one good enough this time?”
There was a long exhale from my mum.
“You know it means the same thing, right? An A++ doesn’t really mean anything right? An A+ and an A++ are the same thing you know?”
“I know. It’s still not good enough though.”
I graduated from school as the School Captain, School Dux, the best student in every subject I studied, and with an OP of 2. {Where I live, you are graded with an OP of 1 to 25 – 1 being the highest}.
For years, I had recurring dreams that I would be able to go back to high school so I could get that elusive OP of 1.
(Seriously, when I think about it, I really should be Mrs Sheldon Cooper. Or at least be a client of Lenard’s mum. /end Big Bang Theory references for THIS POST. But I make NO promises about future posts. They could well become my favourite Lenard montages! With animated Howard gifs!)
Again and again, I heard it:
“Leonie, stop being so hard on yourself.”
My spiritual mentor has said it over and over again.
My astrology reading from the amazing Chris was pretty much one giant message:
Your job is to be easy on yourself, Leonie.
Ha! I thought. So NOT going to happen! I have things to DO people!
If I don’t stop pushing and judging, I’m going to be nothing. Even worse, I’ll be the F word:
Failed.
It’s like I don’t trust my natural way of being. In the last couple of years, I had only two speeds:
RUN! and burnout.
Here’s the current list of things I judge myself on:
Whenever my back is sore and I put Mermaid Daughter in the stroller to walk up town.
Whenever I buy food that is not organic.
Whenever I grocery shop. I always think that I should cook more and make healthier & healthier food.
Whenever I buy anything. I worry about spending money.
Whenever I am on the toilet and Mermaid Daughter wakes up and cries {even though Chris always goes in to her to try and resettle her}.
Whenever Mermaid Daughter cries.
*
My love and I are doing Talking Stick everyday.
This morning, I got the cahones to tell him about the judging of myself I did on a daily basis.
And in that way of his, he said:
I didn’t even know. All those times we walked down the street with Starry in a pram, I was thinking: “This is a nice day! We’re walking down the street!” And you were thinking “What will people think? Her baby is in a pram! I should be holding her!” That must be exhausting to be thinking that all the time hon.
And it is.
No wonder I’m feeling drained.
It’s a whole lot of shoulds.
Today, when I was out, I tried something new.
After nearly 28 years of one thing, it’s time to try another.
Everytime that familiar feeling of MUST DO BETTER! SHOULD SHOULD SHOULD! DO DO DO!
I thought instead:
What is easier? What is the easiest way I can do this?
And everything got simple.
I’d just notice, and make a choice, and just stick with it.
I held Mermaid Daughter when it felt good.
When my back hurt, I gave her to Chris, or put her in the trolley.
I felt anxious walking through the supermarket, trying to decide what to eat.
Again I thought:
What is the easy way?
And for right now, today, the easy way was buying ready made organic risottos.
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Ignite Your Side Hustle Summit
Hola gorgeous biz besties,
Have you ever felt that tickle in your tummy? That little nudge from the universe saying, “Hey! It’s time to start that thing you’ve been dreaming about!”
That’s right, darlings – I’m talking about your side hustle! It can be thrilling and maybe a bit terrifying (like when you’re standing on the edge of a cliff, knowing you’re about to fly!). But listen up, because I’ve got something super juicy to share!
I’m absolutely over the moon to be part of the:
✨Ignite Your Side Hustle Summit✨It’s happening from 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟕-𝟏𝟗! ✨ This is your chance to finally cut through the overwhelm, the endless Googling, and the “Where the fuck do I even start?!” moments.
Here’s the deets you *need to know*:
🌟 WHAT: The Ignite Your Side Hustle Summit – a free event designed just for you!📅 WHEN: September 17-19🦄 WHO: Me, alongside 15 ahhhmazing speakers, spilling our best tips for launching your side hustle with ease, joy, and some serious badassery.💝 WHY YOU SHOULD BE THERE: Because you’re ready to step into your magic, build your biz, and make some serious moolah!I’ll be speaking on 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐁𝐮𝐲 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬, dishing out practical, no-fluff strategies to help you build a rock-solid mindset, grow your audience, and set up your biz for success! And the best part? It’s FREE! 🎉
So, don’t sit on the sidelines, my lovely – grab your ticket today! Your dream biz is waiting for you to say YES!
CLICK HERE TO GRAB YOUR FREE TICKET!
See you at the summit!
Big love,
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September 10, 2024
The Seriously In Business Podcast
My gorgeous friends,I recently had the absolute JOY of being a guest on The Seriously In Business Podcast with the fabulous Jacqui Nauton—business coach, brand designer, and all-around kickass entrepreneur. And let me tell ya, we had a BLAST chatting about one of my fave topics:💖Building A Thriving Membership Community💖
If you’ve ever wondered how to create a membership model that’s not just wildly successful but also aligned with who you are (and won’t make you want to pull your hair out from stress), then you’ll want to give this episode a listen!
Here’s a sneak peek at what we talked about:
🕜 How I work less and earn more. I share how I only work 10 hours a week and still run the Brilliant Biz & Life Academy with nearly 5,000 fabulous souls, generating a jaw-dropping $11-12 million! Hint: It’s all about focusing on high-revenue activities and ditching the stuff that doesn’t matter.💖 Keeping it simple, sweetheart. You don’t need to charge a billion bucks or create endless funnels to succeed. I built my membership on a straightforward, accessible price point of $199/year and focused on delivering MASSIVE value with over 100 programs worth $10,000! No complicated launches needed—just joy, connection, and a passion for helping others.✨ Retaining happy customers. We talked about my secret to keeping members engaged and not overwhelmed.🚀 Affiliates over ads. Instead of throwing money at Zuckerberg, I’ve built a powerhouse affiliate program that harnesses the power of word-of-mouth marketing. It’s genuine, it’s powerful, and it’s a whole lot more fun!🔮 The magic of data + intuition. I lean into data like it’s my business bestie, but I also trust my intuition.Grab yourself a cuppa and head on over to listen to our full chat—it’s packed with golden nuggets of wisdom that you can start using TODAY to grow your own beautiful business, the fun way! 🎧💕
LISTEN TO THIS AMAZING EPISODE HERE!big love,
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September 7, 2024
What Dreamers Do Podcast
My sweet loves,
I’m so freakin’ excited to share this magical conversation with you today! 💫 I was invited by the gorgeous Carla Gover for a chat on her podcast, “What Dreamers Do”! In this episode, I open up about my wild and wonderful journey as a creative entrepreneur – from my early days in the Aussie government to building a multi-million-dollar online biz that I adore, while staying true to my values every single step of the way!
Here’s a taste of what we dive into:🌿 My humble beginnings with chat rooms and message boards (yes, we’re going waaaaay back, my loves!)💪 How I navigated physical health challenges while thriving in my business and creative world.🎨 The joys of running the Brilliant Biz & Life Academy with over 5,000 beautiful souls building their biz and life dreams.✨ How I’ve stayed committed to my values, championing artists and women to boldly share their art and voices.📚 Sharing my love for creating valuable (and free!) content on my website to help you on your journey!🌈 My deep admiration for the magical Sark – a beacon of creativity and spirit in my life.💖 Ditching imposter syndrome and embracing joy, worthiness, and pure creative bliss!🌱 Finding balance in business and life, and putting my happiness first.💸 Using wealth to create positive change and give back to non-profits I adore.Come join me on this heart-filled chat, loves! Let’s challenge self-doubt, break through those gender norms, and create success with joy, authenticity, and a whole lotta love. 🌟
Tune in now and let’s dive deep into this delicious journey together! 🎧
CLICK THE LINK HERE TO LISTEN TO THIS FABULOUS EPISODE
Links from the Show
Brilliant Biz & Life Academy
Leonie’s Free Resources
Website for the artist SARK
Big, vibrant love,
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August 25, 2024
55 Glorious Things I’ve Found Around The Interwebs Lately
Pookybears,
It’s important for me as a creative to make sure I’m consuming good quality creations… not just mindlessly scrolling. Here’s my scrapbook of all the things that have fed my eyes, heart, brain & soul lately. I usually collect all the things that inspire me in my art journal… consider this my digital version!
Filled with things I’ve read, things I’ve beauty, things I’ve watched…
Get yourself a big ole cup of tea… this is a long one!
You can find all the other posts where I’ve shared my digital scrapbook here.
This beautiful comic on babies.
I always adore Craig Mod’s careful documentation of Japan through words and photography.
Abigail Haplin makes such mystical art.
See what I mean??? I love this character of hers too.
Perimenopause! The board game!
Fan Fiction: a satire zine by Tavi Gevinson is weird and I barely understand it but I LOVE IT. I love when weird, wonky creations get made!
Oh my gosh. This series of photos of the Pyramids shrouded in mist are just incredible.
[image error]Delia Brown’s portraits of women are just divine. (Yes! This one IS of Justine Bateman!)
Celebrities and their Doppelgangers in Art
One woman keeps a reading log for 80 years! Gosh this thrills me.
Every newsletter/blog/letter/Willard from Susan Branch is a delight. I pour over each one with so much gladness, and want to be more like her when I grow up. I love her combination of words, photos and paintings. Pure magic. Here’s one. Here’s another.
Speaking of Susan Branch, I stumbled upon a profile of Mary Engelbreit this week. I didn’t know of her before – but I’m sure I’ve seen her art and books. I instantly spent some merry time down the rabbit hole of discovery. Her art is whimsical, and I love that she also has a range of “Engeldark” illustrations for when she feels snarkier. I LOVE how politically outspoken she is too… her Instagram is one part inspiration, one part activism! I think I’ll treat myself to some of her books as a housewarming present once we’ve moved.
[image error]Simple finance advice.$656,000 of frugal things I still love doing.The fascinating story of the typeface recovered from the River Thames.11 readers share their go-to recipes. (The comments are always a treasure trove of wisdom over on Cup of Jo too!)A blogger deciding to step away to have an offline life.We can have a different web.
Cal Newport’s Writing ShedWhy I Swear By My Year Of NoWhat explains the outsize success of autistics applying for college.This made me snort with laughter.Also made me cackle: upon seeing a Cybertruck in person for the first time.VERY important: 8 ways to call someone a couch potato.You don’t need to decant your groceries“Do you really want to spend your one wild and precious life putting marshmallows in jars?”
Creative wisdom from Austin KleonReading digitally in 2024. I read a lot on my Kindle, and only recently upgraded to a slightly larger Kindle, so I’m probably a few years away from needing another one. I’m fascinated by new developments though!How small claims court became Meta’s customer service hotline. It still boggles my mind that peeps can spend SO MUCH MONEY on Meta ads but get zero customer service.Cal Newport on ultra processed content.Instagram, I love you, but I hate you so.
Swiss Miss always finds the best prose. Here’s some more. And another. And another. Oh also this.Seven women on choosing to move to a different country.Hello from a past self.The student left:What the next 40-50 years will look likeFour couples who found love via adsThe end of Mr Beast Youtube eraThis was the best recap of Bridgerton S3 HANDS DOWN.Priscilla, Queen of the Rideshare Mafia. This was compelling.Emily McDowell’s Substack is a new obsession. Some of my favourites: When everything I owned imploded. The truth about going mega viral. My mom died.I love this OG blogger’s Substack as well: My toe finally healed and then I found out I was Autistic and fractured my ankle.Facebook groups I’m obsessed with: Dull Men’s Club and Dull Women’s Club.
The student left is the most reliably correct constituency in America. Over the past 60 years, it has passed every great moral test American foreign policy has forced upon the public, including the Vietnam war, the question of relations with apartheid South Africa, and the Iraq war. Student activists were at the heart of the black civil rights movement from the very beginning. To much derision and abuse, they pushed for more rights, protections and respect for women and queer people on their campuses than the wider world was long willing to provide. And over the past 20 years in particular, policymakers have arrived belatedly to stances on economic inequality, climate change, drug policy and criminal justice that putative radicals on campus took up long before them.
They have not always been right; even when right, their prescriptions for the problems they’ve identified and their means of directing attention to them have not always been prudent. But time and time and time again, the student left in America has squarely faced and expressed truths our politicians and all the eminent and eloquent voices of moderation in the press, in all of their supposed wisdom and good sense, have been unable or unwilling to see. Straining against an ancient and immortal prejudice against youth, it has made a habit of telling the American people, in tones that discomfit, what they need to hear before they are ready to hear it.
Native Youth Olympics! Incredible!I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this, but I howl with laughter every time:Alone Australia season 2 was as always riveting viewing.Watched this with my family, we were all FASCINATED:Go forth and make!We need your art, your voice, your offerings in the world!
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August 16, 2024
The Content Byte Podcast
Hey lovely humans!
I’m SO excited to share that I just had an epic chat with the brilliant Rachel Smith and Lynne Testoni on their podcast, The Content Byte this week!
We dove into one of my fave topics—how to market your biz without social media! 🚀
In this episode, I shared all the juicy details on:🙌 Why social media isn’t the only way (or even the best way) to grow your biz.✨ How to find your audience in magical places you might not have thought of.🧠 How to think outside the box and get creative with your marketing.🏖️ How to run a wildly successful business AND still have a life—yes, it’s possible!💪 Keeping that positive mindset cranking, especially when things get tough.🌱 The hidden opportunities you can snag during an economic downturn.📝 aaaand the power of the two-page marketing plan—because simple is sometimes the most powerful!It’s packed with all the Leonie-flavored goodness you love, plus some serious business wisdom.
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