This week, someone asked me to rank the different buckets in my life – business, relationships, health, spirituality. ***HAPPY MONDAY TO ME🥴🥴🥴🥴 When I got talking about spirituality, I almost started to cry. I took myself by surprise and sputtered at her, “I don’t know where this is even coming from.” I grew up Catholic. […]

I’m guessing all of my fellow Americans are checked out with a White claw right about now, so I’ll keep this brief (well, “Patrice Brief” which is basically NOT)​​By the way… is White Claw still a thing? I just don’t have access to grocery options anymore unless you count AISELS of dried fish that sit […]

Hello!​This one is a doozy (seriously get your POT of coffee ready)… you’ve been warned.​But there is a lot to unpack and I want to give you the down low on all that I learned in Cannes last week and what that means for you, your work, or your business.​I’ll spare you ALL of the mental […]

Hey there, I unsubscribed from 2 long-term newsletter subscribes this past week. And I plan on purging some more.​One was a woman who I’ve been following for years and have bought some of her products (she’s in the social media space).​​Another was a guy who I found through LinkedIn and had been following for a year […]

I looked up my last email of December 2023 -roughly 120 days into living in a brand new country – to get a pulse check of where I was a year ago.​Some of my own writing from last year stopped me dead in my scroll. Reading those words now, sitting in my Lisbon apartment (the same […]

My idea of happiness has just been flipped on its head.​Generally speaking, I equate sunny places being analogous to happier moods, friendlier people, and overall elevated mood levels.​Then one chaotic, last-minute family trip to Finland this weekend completely shattered everything I thought I knew. This sky is REAL. I repeat this sky is REAL. How […]

I learned this week there are 4.6 BILLION pieces of content swirling around on the internet every single day. And that the MAJORITY gets ZERO engagement.​​ ​On one hand, pat yourself on the back because at least your posts are getting SOME likes?! (or are you in that Majority camp?)​​Oh and if you’re a “content on […]

Last week I mentioned that a LinkedIn post of mine went viral to the tune of almost 4 million impressions…and it broke all the rules. ***interestingly enough it did not have the same impact for Instagram and I will break that down another time.​​​​What I didn’t expect was the overwhelming outpouring of personal stories from you. […]

I write you this newsletter from the CUTEST LISBON CAFE I STUMBLED UPON I ALMOST CANNOT. Please know I am usually writing you this newsletter in my room which is sort of a makeshift storage unit with my toddler’s stuffed animals strewn all over the bed and desk because he brings in 34 of them […]

Est reading time: 7-9 minutes (promise this is worth your phone time)​​​In My World:​​School finally started this week (thank you Jesus) and I forgot Monday was Labor Day.​AM I EVEN AMERICAN ANYMORE.😭​My incessant slacking to my American founder client only realized when the day was almost over. Our second school year in Lisbon. Back to perpetual confusion on the […]