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Have you ever dusted off an old childhood favorite and found a new passion for it as an adult?

I was an avid rollerblader as a kid — from the ages of 7 to 15, I asked for new rollerblades every year for my birthday or Christmas and would spend HOURS skating. Otherwise a deep hater of physical activity but aided by the 90s fervor for inline skating, rollerblades were my “thing” (don’t even get me started on the Disney Channel Original ‘Brink’ 😍) for a long time.

As is the way with teenagers, four wheels with an engine replaced my beloved blades and soon I had abandoned the wind in my (helmeted) hair for the vehicular version (sans helmet this time). I drove, got a job, went to college, moved from Illinois to California, had kids, and otherwise moved on completely from something I had once enjoyed. In truth, I’d forgotten about rollerblading entirely.

But this year, as June approached and I turned 33, I decided — in spite of an 18 year (😭) hiatus, I wanted to pick up the habit again. So I bought myself some new inlines from Impala Skate, stocked up on protective gear, and off I rolled.

It was like I’d never stopped.

I’ve had some hiccups in my reintroduction to rollerblading: a surgery in August knocked me off my wheels for 6 weeks, I got busy at work, moved in with my fiancé, and life got in the way.

But I’m recommitting to myself and my first love, enjoying a daily skate sesh even if only for a few minutes, because it clears my head and keeps my creative ADHD brain from crashing.

What was your childhood hobby? Do you still do it? Would you pick it up again as an adult?

Any guesses who I’ll be for Halloween this year? 🧐

I don’t always dress up for Halloween, but this year we moved to THE Halloween street in Calaveras County, so mama needs to go big or go home 😎

Are you celebrating this year?

How amazing is this??? 🤯

The brains behind analytical trends — DOMO — put together this infographic “illustrating the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the increasing digitization of daily life and how technology is helping re-imagine the future of work.”

According to DOMO:

📶 As of July 2021, the internet reaches 65% of the world's population and now represents 5.17 billion people--a 10% increase from January 2021.

📱Of this total, 92.6 percent accessed the internet via mobile devices.

Which of these platforms are you using? Which did you start using more in 2020/21? Did you find yourself spending LESS time on any of them?

Share below ⬇️

This weekend was about doing whatever I wanted.

I tend to work on weekends—not by requirement, but because I’m catching up on things from the week that needed pushing aside, or to get a jump start on the week. But this weekend?

This weekend I spent NINE HOURS coloring my extensions. Nine. Two bleach processes, two Color OOPS processes, a bleach bath, and an Olaplex deep condition later and these bad boys match my hair perfectly 🤌🏻 Swipe ➡️ to see the before color!

How did you spend your weekend?

We officially belong in a Pixar movie and you can’t tell us otherwise

Kicking off weekend at the with my love and kiddos

First ever French 75 at 🤤

Walked myself to Starbucks this morning and it occurred to me that somehow I have become that lady who is obsessed with leopard print 🐆

Meanwhile I got 2.2 miles in this AM and am ready to get to work and do the damned thing for clients.

How did you start your day today?

Today, I would like to speak to something close to my heart and a bit more personal than I’ve ever shared here, but I want all of you to know me.

Today is National Birth Mother’s Day. The day before Mother’s Day, where we celebrate mothers who gave their entire heart away for the benefit of another and placed their child for adoption.

This is my second Birth Mother’s Day…this weekend is hard for me, as I lean into the idea that both this day and tomorrow apply to me and my relationship with my son. I am his birth mother, his mom, his mama, and he is 1/3 of my heart living outside of my body. His dads are family to me, his sister is family to me, my life has filled with more love and more family than I could ever have dreamed of.

So today is a complicated day.

I will never stop loving you, little man. As long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be ❤️

Are you optimizing your content for your community?⁠
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Whew Lexi, WTH does THAT mean???⁠
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Well, it means you've developed a strategy - what to post, when to post it, what hashtags to use, etc - and you've been following it for a set amount of time and then...here's the big part...⁠
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YOU'VE BEEN PAYING ATTENTION TO THE STATS!!!⁠
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Social media platforms all have analytics of some sort free to your business page - make sure you're taking advantage of them. How?⁠
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Here's a hint...⁠
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Your top performing post? Make more content like that. ♥️⁠
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It's a new week tomorrow - make sure you're ready to go with this checklist!

Happy Friday, everyone!

I like to take Fridays to focus on how the week went, making sure to acknowledge all of my wins and my losses and enjoy the fact that I made it through the week 😄 and then I choose what I'll be focusing on over the weekend!

What are you going to focus on this weekend?

Will you be relaxing? Working on a side project? Getting out in nature?

Share with us!

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