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On: Millennial Adaptability, Authenticity, and Publishing My 4th Book, Black Girl, Blue Skies

Just chasing authenticity and imperfection in a world full of perfectly curated artificial intelligence. You’ll never have it all figured out, and as soon as you figure that out, life doesn’t get easier, but it absolutely becomes less chaotic by far. Controlling everything like a game of The Sims 4 is impossible. If I weren’t…

37 in Less Than 7 Days: Flexibility is a Flex

I will be 37 in 7 days. What am I learning? Mostly, I’ll never have it all figured out. After briefly being a flight attendant, my 9-year career in tech came to a pause. The position got eliminated, so I leaned heavily into pivoting. I will continue to lean into pivoting my entire life as…

Why Would I Try to Sell People Anything When Capitalism is Crumbling?

Over and over again, TikTok reminds me that I’m eligible for its monetization programs like TikTok Seller, TikTok Live, and whatever TikTok Service is. But there’s absolutely no way that I, in good conscience, could or would sell anyone anything. Sales, even if we weren’t in an apocalyptic-like hellscape full of fascism and oligarchy, has…

The Dream Should Be Community

What does it mean to dream? What is your dream? What would it feel like if you woke up and your dream came true? All lighthearted questions, but they all pulled something out of me. Last week, I went to a Dreamers Event, and it was amazing to just be present and sit still. Putting…

We Are All Exhausted

We are all exhausted right now, but we show up with as much as we can every day. One hundred percent looks different to the same person each day, and we just do our best and try again tomorrow. Times in this political climate (which some of us predicted if we got there) are hard…

Radical Isn’t What You Think It Is

Radical has a negative connotation to it nowadays, but it’s not radical to want equal rights, believe that my tax money should ensure me at the very least, clean air, water, access to healthy food, adequate housing, and a bridge that won’t collapse while I’m on it. Not one working or retired person should starve…

Capitalism Killed the American Dream

Once upon a time, in an American neighborhood, you could buy a house, work through college to pay your tuition with zero student loan debt, and have a child without feeling as if you would never financially recover. The credit score wasn’t even created until 1989. It wasn’t until 1978 that federal student loans were…

The US Government: Scarier than Any Halloween

I’m afraid that we’re not going to successfully bully the billionaires with peaceful protesting and letters. They’re actively choosing to be morally corrupt. I don’t think they care about optics. Honestly, if you look back at how we all got the rights that are being dismantled, it was the Civil Rights Era. They protested, but…

Death by Documentation: Do You Want to See Change or Do you Want Credit?

Both can happen in tandem. A good example of why putting documentation before helping people is the April 29th tragedy where 2 people lost their lives and they 300k people in Allegheny County lost power. What was the tragedy? Lack of infrastructure and a lot of wind. The aftermath left a lot of people without…

Leaders Who Won’t Step Aside Are Holding Movements Back

Watching the new Red Lobster CEO excel at his job and also know how to accept feedback is amazing. As someone who voluntarily left corporate America and read that a lot of Gen Z and Millennials would rather work at a cash register than climb a corporate ladder, it doesn’t surprise me. Young people are…