Hey Reader! Every time Tzvi and I come back from a trip, somebody asks us some version of the same question: "So, which near-death experiences did you get yourselves into this time?" It's a fair question. We have a bit of a track record 🫣 Like that time during Covid when we went hiking in the Adirondacks without food, water, or gear, and hit a full-on blizzard by the time we got to the peak. We swore we'd never do something that stupid again. ...Until the story I'm telling on this week's...
20 days ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader! A few nights ago I was taking my supplements with dinner, fully on autopilot, when I realized (with a gasp of horror!) that I'd just swallowed my morning ADHD meds right along with them. It was 6:30pm, and I immediately started panicking about the sleepless night I was sure was coming. I take my ADHD meds first thing every morning because it's a stimulant, and my sleep is already a nightly negotiation with my anxiety and chronic pain. My very first thought, as soon as the pills...
27 days ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader! I spent 6 hours building a new desk for my office yesterday. It's beautiful and I love it and it makes so much more sense for the space. But... I really built it for someone else. In about a month, my husband and I are heading out of the country for 5 weeks, and we're house swapping with another family, which will save us a boatload of money on accomodations. I'm super excited, and I'm also overthinking every little detail 🫣 I've started looking at every corner of my house through...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader! I have a charcoal drawing of my brother Shaun hanging on my wall. I made it with my own two hands, eleven years ago, in a drawing class I almost didn’t take, because I’d spent the first 27 years of my life convinced I wasn’t an artistic person. Shaun was 20 years older than me, so we didn’t exactly grow up together, but I looked up to him and learned so much from him. He was one of the most magnetic and deeply talented people I’ve ever known: a musician, an artist, an...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader! A few years back, my husband Tzvi decided to leave his well-paying job (fancy title and all), with zero idea of what he was going to do next. Most of our friends thought he was nuts, and some of them told him so directly. I knew he wasn't. I've watched Tzvi make decisions like this for 17+ years. He has more clarity on his values than anyone I've ever met, so when something doesn't line up with what he stands for, there's no real question in his mind about what to do. He just...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader! I really didn't want to write this email. No, seriously. I had to bribe myself with a lot of doomscrolling and ice cream to get myself to finally open up this draft and just write the damn thing. Here I am, at 6:48pm on Mother's Day, a day that historically blows for me. And this year was no exception. Despite heroic efforts, I will never be a mother. That fate was sealed nearly 4 years ago. If you've been in my world for any amount of time, you probably know that because it's...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader! Picture this: I've glued myself to the side of a mountain in Norway, my fingers so frozen I can no longer maneuver the carabiners narrowly keeping me from sliding down the cliff face. My husband Tzvi is somewhere below me with his muscles locked in total spasm from the cold. This was supposed to be a fun hike. In fact, it was a 28-kilometer trek that I signed us up for without fully reading the details — mountain biking, rock scrambling, and something called via ferrata: metal...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader! Today I'm doing something I haven't done in a verrrrry long time: attending an IRL conference / networking event. And, let me tell you, the anxiety is sky-high. I'm walking into a room full of strangers at the JWE (Jewish Women Entrepreneurs) conference, and I feel like I'm gonna have no idea how to talk to people (never mind that I do virtual networking alllll the time, but somehow IRL feels different). What do I wear? Do I lead with what I do? Do I ask questions first? Do I...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader! Before she joined the Bold Content Collective, Steph had a pattern she couldn't quite shake. She was posting almost exclusively from inspiration. Whenever she felt that spark, she'd put something out into the world. Which meant that some weeks she posted a bunch, and then she'd disappear for weeks or even months at a time. Even when she did post, something felt off, like the content just wasn't quite her. "I was posting from inspiration and rarely really loved what I put out," she...
2 months ago • 1 min read