As I finalized my networking program for 2020, that challenge during a pandemic increased my meditation practice. I also knew I needed to be as healthy as I could be with my diet taking in a whole lot less alcohol …. and Love Bites from 1906. It’s 2025 right now … I’m coming back to edit my stories and fill you in on where I’ve been. So those Love Bites? I fell a bit too in love with them so when they stopped selling them in Colorado, I was slightly relieved. It was all I could do to get to the weekend to have one of my little pink pills, a THC/CBD blend that made my body feel really really really good. Wade was the most sad when I couldn’t get them anymore.

So back to 2020. My last event before the Pandemic was a panel discussion on Aspen’s top architects sharing stories about their most magical projects. My plane was bloody well lifting off, aside from the fact that my volunteers f’d up the drink tickets and gave everyone two free drinks instead of one, and my good friend accidentally put all of my sponsor banners in somebody else’s electric blue VW that clicked open when he unlocked the car. It was most likely already unlocked. Those banners disappeared for an entire week before one of Wade’s apparently absent-minded architect friend decided to do something about the strange boxes in the trunk of his car.

In these past five years, and perhaps turning 60 has something to do with it, I’ve done my best to dissolve my blocks and just go for it in business. And doors are flying open … and what I have learned is that I need to surround myself with smart people to help me navigate the wind. As someone said to me the other day, being an entrepreneur is like learning how to fly a plane while you’re flying it.

One of my biggest blocks is fear but now I feel I have no time to be afraid, and who the hell am I afraid of anyway? As a predominantly non-judging person, how could anyone hate me for not trying? So now I’m speaking, everyhwere I am invited, and I’m getting invited. I can’t say no because of fear and so I say yes and am scared to death.

FEAR: Even though I produced 9 inspirational and meaningful sold-out events, I was still afraid that I couldn’t bring in sponsors and that my guests wouldn’t return.

SOLUTION: I just kept going, not worrying about how many people showed up. I stayed focused on the good I was doing by providing platforms for people to share their stories.

FEAR: I was afraid when I finally drummed up the nerve to make the call for sponsorship that those I was calling would doubt my value.

SOLUTION: I had my pitch ready and fully believed in my worth.

FEAR: I HATE the hustle and would love for all of this to occur organically.

SOLUTION: I didn’t think of it as a hustle, but instead believed that sponsors were lucky to be part of helping others.

To wrap this up, I know that a lot of this is patience that I as a Taurus do not have and that I need to have trust that the Universe has my back, and that if I keep giving, I will receive before I am burned out as long as I am focused and move with integrity and clarity. And five years later I am realizing that this was the only way for me to move forward.