š„ A Weekly Dose of Dre Keeps The Gurus Away
Every Wednesday I send out a top shelf SOLOpreneur-approved newsletter that educates + entertains with shamefully honest confessions, LOL analogies, and color-coded knowledge bombs designed to help you turn all that YOU are, all that YOU know, and all that YOU have to share into a business brand YOU + YOUR dream clients are drunk in love with!
The 2025 YOU-shaped plan that'll embrace your chaos + spark your joy
What are my goals? Uuummm, let me figure out quantum physics first, and Iāll get back to you. 2025 is the year weāre doing this āhot dog cartā thang with a fun + flexible p-l-a-n! Next Wednesday at 10am PST, Iām hosting a 90-min. LIVE planning session where weāre going to set the THREE most important intentions you need to spark sustainable feel-good growth (personally + professionally) year round. ā
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Any guesses?? THE AGENDA: Take all the jumbled, half-baked...
Send help: my notebooks now outnumber my brain cells
HOLY MONTH OFF... that was the greatest act of kindness I've ever done for myself. It's been eight years since I took that much time off to just enjoy life. Most mornings, my kiddo + I had a belly full of ice cream before 9am. We played every card game known to humanity, partook in copious amounts of shenanigans with loved ones, took daily walks through our property, did a few puzzles, baked a few things, and listened to an alarming amount of Christmas music - I had to cut him off on Jan....
That uncomfortable straddle we do to fit in
My entire life, Iāve felt stuck in this uncomfortable straddle between confident and fragile. Itās been hard to reconcile how these two traits can coexist... mostly because one doesnāt fit into the identity I want, but also because it makes being me confusing. Many times, Iāve felt like a fraud, and it wasnāt because I did anything to anyone. For a long time, I didnāt even understand why I felt like a fraud. It felt like looking at my identity through a funhouse mirror ā I couldnāt tell what...
Why marketing feels like a talent show you didnāt ask to be in
When I have to write (a.k.a., market, promote, sell, produce, etc.) when I just want to BEā¦ it feels like performing. Content creation is the internet pageant from hellā¦ that I never asked to be in. Itās like being on stage in front of a panel of judges + a stadium full of people who are waiting for me to juggle four monster trucks while I sip tea with a hologram of Queen Elizabeth II, and solve world peace. After spending a decade trying to learn how to juggle ā I never even got to the...
The field trip that got me blacklisted as a chaperone
The internet (as a whole) is soul sucking right now ā for a variety of reasons ā so Iāve been spending a lot of time in my personal life. Doing puzzles. Playing games. Day drinking at the apple orchard with friends. Having a legendary 3-day weekend at the beach. Last week, I even chaperoned a field trip with my sonās 2nd grade class to some caves. It was the first time they got to take a bus. I didnāt realize how intoxicating that would be for 7 + 8 year olds. It wasnāt even a school bus. It...
the anti-time-off request
Itās that time of the year, again. The festive season when we donāt take the time we need off and then wonder why weāre mentally sucking our thumbs in the fetal position by mid-January ā if we donāt count the November exhaustion that we push waaaaay down and mask with scented candles. Wow. It sounded less Grinchy in my head. I love the holiday season, but it wasnāt always that way. Growing up, holidays were a reminder of how broken + toxic my family was, so as an adult, I swore them off and...
Newsletters with personality
āWe donāt have enough room for you at the bar.ā Is what the waitress said, with some serious side-eye, to our party of 10 (4 moms + 6 kids) when we dipped into her restaurant in the middle of the Trick or Treat Street event on Saturday, asking if we could get 4 shots of tequila. Waitress: Are you going to be ordering food? My friend: Nope, just the shots. My other friend: Are there any to-go containers for a margarita? Waitress: Yes, but not ones with a straw. Itās illegal to just stroll down...
No makeup, no filter, no idea what to say
I put my big girl panties on, and figured out what fearless thing I'm going to do first... (Click the photo to open up my video) Did you figure out what fearless shit YOU're ready to do? I double-dog dare you to whisper it in my ear. I won't hold you to it... unless, you want me too. Dre 'Big Balls Energy' Beltrami P.S. Why are we not DMing on Substack yet?? Let's heal from this internet indoctrination together.
Our fearless era
Hereās a question we all need to be asking ourselves in the āhot dog cartā era. Who would I be if I didnāt let fear stop me? Would I be someoneā¦ āØ Who replaces her own well house door handle?... āØ Who owns pets instead of fosters them?... āØ Who gets on a stand-up stage?... āØ Who bakes her own bread?... āØ Who writes with reckless abandonment?... āØ Who believes in abundance?... āØ Who has an underground bunker?... āØ Who loves being on camera?... āØ Who laughs in the face of perfectionism?... āØ...
Why the capitalist system doesnāt work for us
My son, whoās in 2nd grade, has two teachers this year ā one works Mondays + Tuesdays (letās call her Mrs. Newbie), the other works Wednesdays + Thursdays (letās call her Mrs. OG). New grade, new way of doing things to get used to, especially with this experimental, not-idea situation they came up with to remedy a teacher shortage. Mrs. OG has been the 2nd grade teacher for years; sheās amazing! But sheās mom to one of the girls in the classā¦ meaning, all the kids know her very well. It was...
Every Wednesday I send out a top shelf SOLOpreneur-approved newsletter that educates + entertains with shamefully honest confessions, LOL analogies, and color-coded knowledge bombs designed to help you turn all that YOU are, all that YOU know, and all that YOU have to share into a business brand YOU + YOUR dream clients are drunk in love with!