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Slow Sunday Feature
Keeping It Real (and Really Vintage) with Kelly Szabo A conversation on calling, caregiving, and the sacred work of secondhand Editor’s Note There are creators you watch for tips, and then there are creators you return to because they make you feel grounded.Kelly Szabo is both. I’ve known Kelly online for years now, long before…
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Manic Monday, Time, and the Spaces We Can’t Control
After today, there are only a couple of Mondays left in this year, and it feels like time has been moving as fast as the Millennium Falcon jumping to hyperspace. One moment you’re planning, the next you’re wondering how the calendar flipped so quickly. Somewhere along the way, the days began to blur, and now…
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Tuesday Tip: Getting Personal — Faith in a Broken World
I was in college when I first began to seriously wrestle with faith. Raised in an atheist household, I had become a Christian in high school, much to the dismay of my father, who warned me of the dangers of organized religion. He believed faith was a crutch for the weak. I believed something deeper…
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Manic Monday, Rewritten: The Resolution That Changes Everything
We talk a lot about Resolution Blueprints for business. The goals. The strategy. The quarterly plans. The scalability. But what about your personal life? What about the space you wake up in, work inside of, and try to rest within when the laptop finally closes, if it ever really does? Working from home can be…
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Create Your 2026 Resolution Blueprint Today
HELLO YOU, YES YOU WITH BIG DREAMS AND ZERO TIME. LET’S TALK ABOUT YOUR 2026 RESOLUTION BLUEPRINT Joe Goalberg would walk into your living room, see the overflowing laundry basket, the half-written content calendar, the cold coffee on the counter, and he would tilt his head the way he does when he knows you are…
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ThrowbackThursday | Keyboard Warriors & The Cost of Disrespect
Mike Tyson once said:“Social media made y’all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it.” As a Gen Xer, I can’t help but nod in agreement. We grew up in an era where you had to say things face-to-face. You knew there were consequences if your words cut…
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The Algorithm of Outrage: Not Every Headline Deserves Your Peace
We live in a time where outrage is currency. Social media feeds us headlines designed to spark emotion, arguments, and clicks. The more heated we get, the more the algorithm wins. But here’s the truth: not every headline deserves your peace. Parasocial Relationships and the Illusion of Intimacy With the rise of social media, we’ve…
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Tuesday Tip: When Identity Becomes Religion and the Revival That Follows
I’m 51 years old, a Gen Xer who grew up believing in liberal ideals. For most of my life, I thought I understood what it meant to be a Democrat: fighting for fairness, standing up for the underdog, and pushing for progress. But over time, I began to see a shift. For me, the change…
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I Was 17 When I First Heard Gloria Steinem Speak–It Felt Like a Rallying Cry. Now It Feels Like a Warning.
I was 17 the first time I heard Gloria Steinem speak at a rally for young women. We were told we were powerful.That we could do anything.That we didn’t need men, and we certainly didn’t need to raise them. Back then, it sounded like a revolution.Today, it sounds like indoctrination. 💔 Nobody Asked the Children…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Pop Culture, Love, and the Truth About Marriage
Having to navigate the shattered shards of my parents’ marriage made me skeptical about love from the beginning. Their subsequent debacle of relationships left the kids as casualties, and I carried that distrust into adulthood. Later, working in VIP Services on the Las Vegas Strip, I saw another side of broken vows—men gleefully repeating the…
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Narcissists in the Wild
“You’re special. Different. I see you.”—Joe Goldberg, YOU “They love the spotlight. They charm a room. They always come back until you figure them out.”—Every survivor of a narcissist, ever We’ve All Met Him. Sometimes he looks like a brooding bookstore owner with a tragic backstory (Joe Goldberg).Other times, he stands on the world stage…
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Hello, You. Social Media Was Made for Narcissists
Hello, You. (Read in your inner Joe Goldberg Voice)Scrolling again, aren’t you? Feed after feed, story after story. You tell yourself it’s just to “stay connected,” but let’s not lie to each other. Social media isn’t just a connection, it’s a stage. And on this stage? The narcissists are the headliners. They thrive here, don’t…
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