I TELL YOU WHAT!!!! I need you to believe me when I say your substacks be HIT-TINGK!!!! If I can't be honest like you, I don't need to be doing it cause I don't want to mislead anybody in my line of work. Since we being honest on Cringe Mountain* --just yesterday my credit card was declined because I've reached my limit and I had to pull out another credit card--that fortunately went through, LOL! Only for me to get really good news two hours later about some good things coming my way in 2027. I beat myself up about it because I'm not supposed to be like this. Not me. I'm supposed to be a poster child for Suze Orman and them. But as entrepreneurs sometimes, it is feast or famine out here, and the famines really do famine when they get good and ready. This is how I know we can trust FTL because you're being flat-footed honest about the whole experience. I don't trust any entrepreneur that hasn't cried in the middle of an airport, a grocery store, a hair shop. I was watching a YouTube sermon the other day about the "back side of the blessing." For every good thing that happens there's a challenge to the other side of walking in that good thing. May y'all, myself and all of us get better and better at handling the challenges that come with all of our good things! *Please make Cringe Mountain a thing! It can start off as a simple coaster or something if a mug is too expensive ijs. Take care and I hope you get all the green lights today!
I want to give you a hug @maya watson - I get this. I get you. From the searching for the debit card to the whole thing. Another comment said we all needed this and we do. You are not alone. We are not alone.
Sending you a big hug, Maya. I can relate in a lot of ways. There are two specific people who have been in my life who have become known as rising stars, one who’s currently selling out Madison Sq Guarden multiple nights doing a show where she’s just being herself, and another who’s touring worldwide as one of today’s best comedians- they’re in a way representatives of what I’m working toward…and polar opposites of who I am. I try not to compare what I’ve achieved to their success, but it can be hard not to.
To deal with all this, I listen to “Optimistic” - the best piece of music to pull me out of this kind of trigger. The last time I was worrying about not being where I wanted to be, I was driving with a friend who found a random cd laying on the street near a sewer. As I’m complaining to him about my worries, he puts the cd on. First song that plays? “Optimistic”.
May these days be testimony for the future. May this heartache make sense, be worth it, be the compost that helps your dreams bloom as bright as you pray for them to be.
I want to heart this a million times. It takes not only courage but SO MUCH wisdom to be able to write with this level of awareness, tenderness, and open-heartedness. It's, in fact, the opposite of cringe mountain. If I were in your orbit I'd give you the biggest hug and be so, so, so proud of you. In fact, I AM so proud you, as one human sister to another. <3
Please add this to your list of affirmations for your hard days: sharing your process of recovery is encouraging so many of us trying to find the words to get through. We thank you Maya. Really, really thank you.
thank you for sharing.
we all need this in some way.
sending you love 💙
Thank you for sharing so openly. This was still what you intended it to be - the reality of building in public + becoming.
As someone who is about to step out in faith and do more mission aligned work this was very affirming!
so grateful to do this walk with you. this is what leadership looks like…telling the truth during the hard moments.
I TELL YOU WHAT!!!! I need you to believe me when I say your substacks be HIT-TINGK!!!! If I can't be honest like you, I don't need to be doing it cause I don't want to mislead anybody in my line of work. Since we being honest on Cringe Mountain* --just yesterday my credit card was declined because I've reached my limit and I had to pull out another credit card--that fortunately went through, LOL! Only for me to get really good news two hours later about some good things coming my way in 2027. I beat myself up about it because I'm not supposed to be like this. Not me. I'm supposed to be a poster child for Suze Orman and them. But as entrepreneurs sometimes, it is feast or famine out here, and the famines really do famine when they get good and ready. This is how I know we can trust FTL because you're being flat-footed honest about the whole experience. I don't trust any entrepreneur that hasn't cried in the middle of an airport, a grocery store, a hair shop. I was watching a YouTube sermon the other day about the "back side of the blessing." For every good thing that happens there's a challenge to the other side of walking in that good thing. May y'all, myself and all of us get better and better at handling the challenges that come with all of our good things! *Please make Cringe Mountain a thing! It can start off as a simple coaster or something if a mug is too expensive ijs. Take care and I hope you get all the green lights today!
i feel seen. thank you for writing this. 💓
I want to give you a hug @maya watson - I get this. I get you. From the searching for the debit card to the whole thing. Another comment said we all needed this and we do. You are not alone. We are not alone.
To reiterate what the comments are saying “we all needed this.” Thank you. So many of us have lived this or are living this.
Cheers to CLIMBING the cringe mountain. 🥂
Sending you a big hug, Maya. I can relate in a lot of ways. There are two specific people who have been in my life who have become known as rising stars, one who’s currently selling out Madison Sq Guarden multiple nights doing a show where she’s just being herself, and another who’s touring worldwide as one of today’s best comedians- they’re in a way representatives of what I’m working toward…and polar opposites of who I am. I try not to compare what I’ve achieved to their success, but it can be hard not to.
To deal with all this, I listen to “Optimistic” - the best piece of music to pull me out of this kind of trigger. The last time I was worrying about not being where I wanted to be, I was driving with a friend who found a random cd laying on the street near a sewer. As I’m complaining to him about my worries, he puts the cd on. First song that plays? “Optimistic”.
May we keep our head to the sky.
May these days be testimony for the future. May this heartache make sense, be worth it, be the compost that helps your dreams bloom as bright as you pray for them to be.
I want to heart this a million times. It takes not only courage but SO MUCH wisdom to be able to write with this level of awareness, tenderness, and open-heartedness. It's, in fact, the opposite of cringe mountain. If I were in your orbit I'd give you the biggest hug and be so, so, so proud of you. In fact, I AM so proud you, as one human sister to another. <3
Please add this to your list of affirmations for your hard days: sharing your process of recovery is encouraging so many of us trying to find the words to get through. We thank you Maya. Really, really thank you.
I stay in awe of you. Thank you for your truth.
Also, those Tate cookies slap. Even better than a Starbucks rice krispie treat.