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Anna Manlulo's avatar

Bloody hell! This is one the best unpretentious writing I've read in a long while!!! Moon walked out of a community project once and two years later, the org came back and asked "can you do it and we'll find the funds to pay"! Boom!

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Dre Beltrami's avatar

Awwww 🥹 THANKS, gurl!! 🫶 YESSS, I love that for you. That's where my head is out. I need to follow my path, do ME, and not apologize for it and what I'm looking will come to me. I believe!

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Shruthi Vidhya Sundaram's avatar

Oh man! I didn't know whether to laugh or cry at my past self when reading this!

In 2022, I had about 150+ "how can I help you?" + "Coffee chat" calls lol. One day I started to see double vision because of burnout...can you believe it?

I even hate the name "discovery call" tbh! Like what the fuck even is that?? Why should we come with a deck on how to "convince" you to get something from us while having mini heart attacks inside and getting sweat in our armpits?

Uuugggghhhhhhh!

You're absolutely fucking right. It is a listening to soul call for me now. Tapping into the instant/lack thereof soul connection. Whether I can even envision working with them. How do I feel when I talk to this person? And our bodies immediately respond, don't they??

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Dre Beltrami's avatar

They sure AF do! Holy shit, I can't even imagine doing 150+ in a single year. It's fucking infuriating what they convince to do to ourselves in the name of "success."

Discovery call... really... wtf is it. It sounds ridiculous. It's not like people haven't been having business meeting to talk about work before us. But they had to name it something "cute" so we would buy right into it.

It's time for us to put OURSELVES first. It's the one thing they don't want us to do because it'll actually heal us, grow us, and PAY us. 🫶

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Shruthi Vidhya Sundaram's avatar

I saw someone name it a check-our-chemistry call and i loved it so much lol

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Dre Beltrami's avatar

Yeah, that sounds more honest!

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The Autistic Rebel ~ MrJoe's avatar

You got me on all three accounts! I agree with every single line… (except the Oprah thing!)

Keep up the great fuckin’ work! 🥳

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Dre Beltrami's avatar

Thanks, brotha!! It feels so good to be able to talk about this shit. 🫶

P.S. Why don't you wanna give her pedestal back?? Just curious.

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The Autistic Rebel ~ MrJoe's avatar

All good. Why was it taken away from her in the first place?

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Dre Beltrami's avatar

I was using it to put my pot of chili on it.

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The Autistic Rebel ~ MrJoe's avatar

ROTFLMAO!!! 🤣🤣🤣

… 🤪😆😂😅🥲OMG!

Okay then, she can have it back. You didn’t spill on it? Did you? 🫢

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Dre Beltrami's avatar

A little. 🤫 DON'T SAY A WORD! Maybe she won't notice.

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The Autistic Rebel ~ MrJoe's avatar

I’m sure it’s fine. I mean she doesn’t have a reputation like Ellen or anything… I mean it wasn’t antique… right?… it wasn’t… antique… right?

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