This week has brought me to my knees.​Working until 2AM most nights, back up at 6AM because your kids have to be at school early for tournaments, no gym in sight, eating cold leftovers from a child’s plate standing up while essentially baby wearing my laptop.​Questioning a few life decisions along the way.​My husband and […]

Ten years ago this week, I watched my last TODAY Show piece from a hospital room.

HOLA! We are STILL spring breaking over here. In our car Griswold style through the Spanish coastline. Most of us we’re all still speaking to each other. 🎉 ​And we are all getting some history education on our favorite podcast on all things World War II, the history of racism in America, The Congo (I had no […]

What a media trainer told me that I didn’t want to hear

Hi, I’m writing this from the road somewhere in between Cadiz, Spain and Malaga. Three boys packed into the car, snacks everywhere, someone’s foot is veering dangerously close to the other brother’s foot and I booked tonight’s hotel approximately 40 minutes ago from the passenger seat. I can FEEL all my Type A planners writhing […]

“Mom, I’m manifesting this for you.” — my 9-year-old

Hello! Ok so I promise I am not turning these weekly newsletters into Hack-a-thon chronicles…. (yet).. KIDDING.​But I need to tell you some things that have been on my mind since going to this hack-a-thon last week (in case you missed last week’s issue where I only told you 32 times)​​​So the aftermath of that was […]

I almost lost my mind over an orange landing page

Hi there, OK so where did we leave off last time.. That’s right…HACKATHON. For International Women’s Day!And no I will never stop telling people I did this.​Did any of you go in your city?!​Well here we all are.​All 60ish of us in Lisbon and somehow I’m the only person in the photo who can’t contort her […]

You will ALWAYS be “behind” in AI

Hello!​WOW. A LOT has happened since I was last on this blog. Warning: SPICY takes below. Get your mugs of coffee wine in position!​Apparently being on the brink of WWIII perpetrated by a group of the most unhinged, “wtf is a moral” collection of old white dudes isn’t great for a nervous system.​Or a “casual decompress” Instagram […]

I accidentally become a developer.

Hey there,​It’s been a minute. Partly because I thought our school had camps lined up all last week for all 3 boys… and then Sunday night we realized neither of us knew what we were talking about. Welcome to the Beta Parenting household. Though that’s honestly unfair to my husband – as he’s the one […]

They hired storytellers for $400K.

Happy day-after–Bad Bunny–halftime-show. I woke up to a FLURRY of chats on my high school thread (52 to be exact) and at the end of that thread I had to ask, “Wait…WHO won the game!?!?” Times like that are when I FEEL not living in my country. Watching the halftime show on social media the next day […]

ChatGPT Told Her To Work With Me

Patrice with laptop sitting on floor looking out of the window

Back in 2021 when I was about a year into trying to run online programs, I came across a book that changed how I think.​But let me rewind slightly. Prior to Covid I NEVER thought I could make money online because I didn’t really know that whole world existed.​But in March 2020, when everything shut […]

When saying nothing costs you clients

*****get cozy this is a BIT of a longer read. But one that I hope is worth your time. ​​Last Friday, I had the biggest meeting of my entrepreneurial life. A reminder that you never know who is watching you. Not everyone COMMENTS and LIKES and REPLIES. (although please don’t stop if you do😆) And if you […]

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