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Hello from Nashville, Reader! I made it to the next stop on Samantha's world tour. If you missed it, I'm auditioning cities to be my next home base so for about the next month, I'll be living in Nashville. I can say that we're off to a great start - you know when the logistics just work and it makes you feel like a little bit of a mastermind? I had a bit of that experience in getting to my temporary apartment while here. Feels great :) But as a result of all the travel I've done in the last week or so, I've had some great time to consume content and damn is there some great stuff out there. So I'm going to keep this newsletter brief (I've got a city to go explore!) and pass along some of the things I've come across in the past week or so that are chock full of inspiration, insight or honestly, I just think are worth your time!
I hope you enjoy one or all of these little tidbits - if you do, shoot me a note back so we can chat about them? Have a great week y'all! Samantha P.S. Know this is a new format, so also feel free to let me know your thoughts! |
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Join 700+ other overachieving, people pleasing, eldest daughters/"good girls" to learn from my experience (we're talking some wisdom and some mistakes I want to help you avoid) in confidence, dating, money and career. Whether or not you have a real life big sister, you can get inspiration, advice and some Big Sister Energy from your internet big sis every Thursday.
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This email is years in the making, Reader! In fall of 2023, I was coming to a pretty painful realization - I wasn't very happy. I was living in NYC, had great friends, a beautiful apartment, was working for myself and traveling regularly but I was just feeling BLEGH. And that malaise, that funk, was growing every month. I had always known that I didn't want to live in New York forever (I'd just never envisioned myself raising kids in NYC and I really want to be a mom someday) so I'd known...