💌 WM Digest | August 20

Author

Kate Westlund Tovsen
August 21, 2024

Keeping the intro short and sweet today because you know what’s not short and sweet?

Our well-child visits last week.
The bedtime routine over in these parts.
And, most notably, my youngest child’s cold.

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🌐COMMUNITY NOTES🌐

  • Welcome to our newest members: Melissa, Uma, Stephanie, Ewelina, and Megan! 👋 

  • Not a new channel, per say, but drawing attention to the lesser known #advocacy-and-action🔒️ (and reminding the community to keep outright politics out of this sacred space and to make sure all posts follow our community guidelines.)

  • TBD if we will do an August book club author chat… hopefully I’ll have more info by the end of this week.

  • September’s low-stakes book club pick: The Joy Of Small Things (microessays by Guardian columnist Hannah Jane Parkinson)

  • Our August workshop was a little late getting on the calendar, but it’s all about finances! (See Events section, below!)

  • This week’s coaching conversation is all about knowing and applying our strengths. Tune in Wed at 12PM CT in #coaching-convos!🔒️ 

🗓️UPCOMING EVENTS🗓️

New sessions since the last newsletter are noted in grey!
Member-led sessions are noted with an *asterisk.

  • Wednesday, August 21 @ 12:00 - 1:00 PM CT - Group Coaching (RSVP)

  • Thursday, August 22 @ 9:00 - 10:00 AM CT - Creative Command: Design Best Practices (RSVP)*

  • Friday, August 23 @ 12:30 - 1:00 PM CT - New & Prospective Member Orientation (RSVP)

  • Thursday, August 29 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT - Building Relationships in a Virtual World… (RSVP)*

  • Thursday, August 29 @ 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CT - Biz Owners Chat (RSVP)*

  • Friday, August 30 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT - August Workshop: Make Your Money Work for Your Time (RSVP)

A reminder that Group Coaching is only available to women within the Slack community.
You don’t need to RSVP via Luma, but when you do, you get a calendar hold and handy reminders.

💡WEEKLY READ💡 

➡️ Are you the first or the second mom in the story?
➡️ Weigh in with your thoughts on the importance of community here🔒️

👉️MEMBER RECS👈️

This (member-founded) sustainable goods shop, this period swimwear and these period panties, this elevated putt putt experience, this free webinar all about transferrable skills, this microgrant for planting pollinators, this recipe for no-bake energy balls, this quick read on how to leverage your network respectfully and effectively, this mental health crisis hotline, this framework for job searching with a buddy, and this free strengths assessment that has been all the buzz since we talked about it in last week’s coaching conversation.

🤝WARM LEADS🤝 

  • Social Media Manager @ American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) (PD / intro thread🔒️)

  • Head of Sales @ LineLeader (PD / intro thread🔒️)

  • Senior Director, Corporate Marketing, Global Brand and Sponsorships @ Medtronic (OP / intro thread🔒️ [full disclosure: this one is warmish])

A cool job posting is 💁‍♀️ but a warm lead is 👩‍🍳👌.
So especially if you are able to make an intro, please post it in the #job-board🔒️ channel!

🔗LINKEDIN HIGHLIGHTS🔗

Here’s what some of our members are saying outside of Slack:

  • Women tend to have an agreeableness problem… (read more)

  • What do you do when your little ones have anxiety around new experiences?… (read more)

  • With two big developments, I’m calling today the first official day of my new career in guiding personal growth!… (read more)

(Want to be featured here? Post in #like-my-post🔒️!)

🧵SLACK-TIVITY🔒️🧵

  • Instituting “dry days” (cheers!)

  • Period trackers or naw? (weigh in!)

  • Baby starting to sign back (all done!)

  • Using ChatGPT to tailor recipes (borrow!)

  • The buddy system for job searching (count off!)

  • Yes, we are still gushing over Brandi Carlile (join in!)

  • Nervous about upcoming public speaking (share tips!)

  • This 3 mo sleeping [almost] through the night (celebrate!)

  • On reframing your goals and just giving yourself grace (weigh in!)

  • When daycare sends a video that makes it all worthwhile (awwww!)

  • Hot tip: creating custom search of companies of interest (implement!)

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