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After a weekend filled with smart, motivated, and talented women, I'm ready to tackle the week ahead! This year I learned the importance of seeking community because oftentimes the people we're surrounded by don't share our hobbies and passions. Once you seek and surround yourself with like-minded people, amazing things start to happen. It will feel uncomfortable, and you may feel inadequate, and you'll second-guess yourself a million times, but if you keep at it you will see progress. When you place one foot in front of the next, and just focus on each step, before you know it you've walked a mile, and then a hundred miles! It's easy to get unmotivated, but when you find your tribe they'll keep you on track and you'll keep them on track. THE FUTURE IS FEMALE! ♀️💕🧞‍♀️.... .... ... .. . Strong and confident WOC by @florencegiven - Follow for more female empowerment!

Anyone else freaking out that October's almost here, which means the end of the year is nigh? This happens to me every year. I love summer so much that I tend to shirk my responsibilities in lieu of powering through them, all in the name of soaking up sunshine. I never regret my choices (even when I do) so even though I'm suffering through this "summer hangover" I'll do it again next year. If I'm lucky, I have maybe 40 or so summers left in me, of course I'm gonna live them to the fullest! But now it's Fall, and I have a growing list of shit I need to handle before EOY. It's stressful, people start dropping like flies once the holidays start, so it's a mad dash to accomplish as many of the goals I wrote down back in January. Yeah, maybe life would be easier if I sprinkled these tasks throughout the year, but I'm a procrastinator at heart, always and forever. Don't be me. 😝 ..... .... ... .. . Beautiful surrealist art by @gabysanchezart in honor of #nationalhispanicmonth This is how I feel, like I'm floating amidst the detritus of my life. Maybe we all feel this way...

Proof that we don't know how to use a photo booth. #fbf

Let me tell you about the importance of having a valid form of identification. As some of you know, I lost my driver's license a couple of weeks ago and I made a DMV appointment to replace it. In the meantime, I've been using my passport which has been adequate. Subsequently, I thought nothing of it when work told me they needed me for a project in Washington D.C.. Cool, cool, I thought, no probs, I'm there. Flash forward to last night when I'm packing my shit up and I realized MY FUCKING PASSPORT IS EXPIRED. Here I am, hours before my flight, with no valid ID. I started to panic. I turned the house upside down hoping I would find my DL...NOTHING. I started to think about how embarrassing it was gonna be when I walk into the office and everyone's like..uhhhhh, aren't you supposed to be in D.C.? I imagined the call to the field producer to tell him he was on his own. I imagined how sad Esai Morales and Jimmy Smits were gonna be when they found out they weren't gonna meet me. The idea of all this was enough to kick my ass into gear. I researched on the interwebs, made calls, and scrapped together all possible documents that could prove my identity. As I walked up to the TSA agent, I was ready to make the case of my life. I explained my predicament, ready to the draw with my birth certificate, but it wasn't necessary. He called his boss over and was like, is this cool? and the boss was like, yeah all good. WTF? I arrived 2hrs. early cuz I thought this was gonna be a thing and they didn't even ask for my other docs. I fucking agonized all night over this shit. WTF! The moral of the story: Don't worry about shit until you have to, and always maintain multiple valid, unexpired forms of identification. Stay chill, my friends! ...... .... ... .. . Artwork by @iliana.illustration who draws wonderfully witchy and badass WOC.

#tbt Fifth grade culmination! I was really into French braids back then, for some reason. And I liked it with a poofy bang. I don't know, it was the 90's. 😝

Every day is an opportunity to try again. In our Wellness 101 class we taught the class about the four agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz, and it was a great reminder: 1)Be impeccable with your word. 2)Don’t take anything personally. 3)Don’t make assumptions. 4)Always do your best. .... ... .. . Artwork by @glowtheunicorn the baddest unicorn around.

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