#MondayMinutes + Updates
What a year this has been.
On January 28, I flew to Harrisburg, PA, because my sister informed me that our mother was not likely to make it through that weekend. She ended up having the Momdacity to hold on til February 12. I was in PA in a sort of indefinite manner. I had been doing my Monday Minutes there and was keeping up on things, but then I got back to OR and things sorta fell apart.
My house was a disaster. I'd spent 3 months on hands & knees, scrubbing and cleaning it from top to bottom...only to return to it being utterly left to its own devices. That socked me in the gut and left me reeling in a depressive state for a number of months.
I was also throwing myself full-force into my role as COO of The Asylum Project [https://theasylumproject.org], a grassroots nonprofit that Jonanthan Jones founded. The mission is to help members of the LGBTQIA+, BIPoC, and Disabled communities relocate from the U.S. to friendlier EU countries, starting with Portugal as a landing zone.
Then, I also started my own consulting business [https://meritworksinstitute.com] with a 6-Week Skill Transference Bootcamp that is currently in a Soft Launch phase. If you're interested in learning how skills from your hobbies can be translated or reframed into skills for your corporate life, check it out! [https://meritworksinstitute.com/6week-skill-transference-bootcamp] It's available for $149 until January 1, when it will be offered for my actual rate of $349. As part of the development for this Bootcamp, I also came up with a mini Oracle deck that I hope to have available soon for download via Deckible! You're gonna love how it works (but I'm not going to say anything until it's live)!
I just produced a show here in Coquille on Saturday. It was much better attended than my last 3 combined, so that was nice. Everyone had such a good time, too.
All of that said, the focus of my #MondayMinutes has shifted a bit. I'm exhausted. I'm burnt out. I'm overwhelmed. I'm dealing with emotional grief, physical grief, and so much more. I'm building community and focusing on helping others who are also dealing with stress and burnout. I do Lives, periodically, on TIkTok with Fridays being the night I do my live #WeekendWhispers theme (I couldn't get into doing that for OnlyFans, so I let that go). Instead of a YouTube channel with full-length videos, I have a substack [https://ceoshowgirl.substack.com] that has more in-depth articles on various topics that I use for MondayMinutes and the like. It's completely free, so feel free to check it out. If you'd rather I post that content here, I'm happy to do so! Just let me know in the comments.
Thank you all for sticking with me on this. I promise I will get back to the Podcast proper soon. There's so much to do with Asylum Project, and Jonathan and I are both on the burnout spectrum. My goal is to have weekly MondayMinutes posts available to everyone (since I post those on TikTok), Weekly Recap posts for my paid supporters, a monthly freemium Meritworks Update post, a monthly Meritworks supporters post, and of course, the monthly podcast episode once I'm able to get those going again.
That is my year-to-date. Thank you for your understanding, and I will see some of you on Friday for the Weekly Recap! I need a better name for that...
