Category: Advice

• Advice Wellness

  Unplugging: Transform Your Life with Mini Digital Detoxes

  Let me preface this post with the obvi: I get it. Phones are basically glued to our hands, notifications never stop, and doomscrolling has somehow become a full-time hobby we never intended to actually signed up for. But what’s the answer? I mean, a digital detox sounds great in theory,…

  January 1, 2026
• Advice

  Recalculating Life: How Slow Growth and Scenic Routes Lead to Real Joy

  A quiet, honest reflection on letting go of hustle culture, trusting God, healing your nervous system, and entering the new year with clarity instead of pressure.

  December 31, 2025
• Advertising & Marketing

  How to Choose the Right Branding Company (and Avoid Getting Catfished by Canva Cowboys)

  

  Putting on my elder millennial agency-badass hat for a sec to talk branding. After all, branding your business is a big deal. Picking the wrong branding agency or graphic designer can be painful, expensive, and just plain annoying. The truth is that not every designer excels at everything, and that’s…

  December 31, 2025
• Advertising & Marketing Opinion

  Why We’re Obsessed With “Authenticity” but Still Bow to the Algorithm

  We all swear we want authenticity.We want the messy bathroom counter, the half-finished thought, the person who talks like a human and not a billboard. We want real stories, real emotions, real people…preferably filmed in terrible lighting with a cracked iPhone. And yet… the minute we open our apps?We fall right into…

  December 31, 2025
• Advertising & Marketing Beauty Fashion & Style

  Celebrity and Influencer Skincare Is Annoying, But Dua Lipa Did It Right

  Celebrity and influencer skincare lines often make me roll my eyes. Too many of these launches feel like cash grabs, with overhyped packaging, mediocre formulations, and a heavy dose of influencer marketing that overshadows quality. Overexposure is real, and most of these products are just noise in an already crowded beauty…

  December 30, 2025
• Advice

  I Started Painting Again Because Just Living Wasn’t Enough

  For a long time, my life was efficient.Clean calendar. Sensible salary. Respectable job title. I woke up, worked hard, made someone else’s company more valuable, went to sleep, repeated. From the outside, it looked like progress. From the inside, it felt like a quiet death sentence. So I finally went…

  December 28, 2025