I’m not writing from the other side of it. I haven’t arrived. I’m in it, same as you, just writing it down as I go. Some weeks it’s a business lesson I learned the hard way. Some weeks it’s something that happened at school pickup that cracked me open a little. Sometimes it’s both in the same breath.
That’s the newsletter. Real life, real business, no script. If that sounds like something you need in your inbox, I’d love to have you.
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If you’re the kind of woman who holds everything together so well that nobody ever thinks to ask if you’re okay… this might be for you.
If you’ve ever felt guilty for taking a nap, buying yourself something that wasn’t on sale, or sitting in your car for ten extra minutes just to have a second alone… pull up a chair.
If you’re building something, raising someone, and still trying to figure out who you are underneath all of it… you already know why you’re here.
Well… this wasn’t exactly how I planned it, but here we are.
I’m Shayla. I’m building a business, raising a family, and somewhere in the middle of all of it, trying to figure out who I actually am.
Not who I was supposed to be.
Not who I told everyone I was becoming.
Who I actually am.
That distinction took me a while to sit with.
This newsletter, AD LIBBED, is where I write about all of it. The business stuff. The mom stuff. The “wait, is this really my life?” stuff. I don’t have a roadmap. I have a direction and a lot of real-time decisions and some days that go completely sideways. I write about those too.