In today’s podcast episode I share what the heck happened last week, what’s going on this week, and a little bit about my mom and the impact she’s had on my life. I miss her so much.

I can’t believe I’m approaching 25 episodes of this podcast! I’m so grateful for those of you that listen and watch.

In this episode I share updates on our backyard renovation project, business wins, and allowing ourselves to pause and exhale before we burn out.

Hope you had a great week, Fam!

Welcome to this week’s Monday Musings episode. I’m sharing the updates on our backyard renovation project, our 1st steps into our goals for the business, and how I’m feeling about entering the Little Kid Era of parenting.

This week I’m sharing an update on some personal projects, what I have planned to move the business forward, and how I feel about being a parent in the United States right now.

Happy Monday fam!

I think I’m finally finding my stride with content, and I’m so grateful to see some clarity about how it’s all making sense.

In this week’s episode I share how I chose my word for 2026. Cheers to the dreams that may feel unfathomable and the commitment to believe beyond what we can see.

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We’re changing the way we show up, guys.

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We’re changing the way we show up.

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All right, y’all.

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As you can see, I’m changing the way I’m showing up.

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I conduct myself and I set my goals.

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So if you want to know more, stay tuned.

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We’re going to get through it all together.

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Welcome to Monday Musings with Kissa,

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where I share what the heck happened last week,

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what I have planned for this week,

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and a story time,

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not in that particular order.

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This is the video companion to my Substack newsletter that I share every Thursday.

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So if you’re not already subscribed to this channel or to my Substack, make sure you do so.

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And content as of this recording is currently free.

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So first things first, Happy New Year, you guys.

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I can’t believe we are already here, but hey, we’re here.

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We’re showing up.

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And I’ve been thinking about ways that I can improve how I show up for you guys.

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And so that’s why we are doing video.

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for the first time ever so bear with me i’m working on it i just wanted to get

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started with that done is better than perfect mindset and we’ll just go from there

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let’s go on this journey together so last week was a pretty good start to the new

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year and a pretty good start

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to the week.

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I have been feeling this feeling of just wanting to ease in to the new year instead

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of going hard,

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setting goals,

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breaking it down by quarter,

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month,

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week,

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day,

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and just kill it.

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Usually that is my MO.

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That’s how I want to attack the new year.

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But this year feels a little bit different.

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And if you are subscribed to my Substack newsletter, you’ll know that

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I have been feeling a different way on how I want to approach my goals for 2026.

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Last week was my mom’s birthday so we celebrated her birthday as a family.

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We went out to dinner.

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She would have been 75 this year and I can’t tell you in the moments where you know

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I see the kids playing and

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My dad is with them and spending quality time with them and building bonds and

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relationships with my kids.

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Those are the moments where I miss her the most,

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but I think January is just a particularly hard month when it comes to thinking and

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remembering about my mom because it’s her birthday.

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It’s also the same month that she passed away.

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So it’s a very roller coaster, a big roller coaster of emotions, but I’m so glad

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that we got to celebrate her on her birthday and spend time together as a family

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because I got to tell my kids about my mom.

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I showed them pictures and it was a celebration.

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The kids wanted to bake her a birthday cake.

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It was really, really sweet.

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It’s what my heart needed for sure.

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and then the rest of the week was a community building theme i guess i hosted a

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coffee event at my son’s school on friday and then we just laid low aside from our

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normal markets that we started up last week as well so charlie does a thursday

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market and a saturday pop-up currently and then on top of that like i said we just

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laid low

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The kids started up their swim classes again,

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and we just kind of caught up,

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played here at home,

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spent time together,

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and considering how busy the holidays were for us,

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it was like back-to-back pop-ups,

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lots of parties,

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and as much as I enjoy that,

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it felt nice to just kind of relax and lay low for a little while.

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So what do I have planned for this week?

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Well, this week, I think my intention, my theme for the week is to be what I call in the pocket.

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I want to be in the pocket,

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not necessarily ahead of things and not definitely not behind on things.

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And so there’s a few things that I feel like will help me stay in the pocket this week.

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to make sure that I am continuing to just ease in to the new year and not trying to

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attack it and burn out.

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So the first thing is I want to improve my environment.

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So there’s two projects there that are business and personal related that I’m going

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to be focusing on this week.

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And that is my vanity area in my bedroom.

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It’s where I have my skincare,

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it’s where I have my makeup,

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but also it is kind of the entry point into our bedroom.

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So when I walk in, it’s the first thing that I see and it also acts

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as a drop zone for a lot of things.

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So we hosted a few parties here at our house and it became that area where we would

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just drop things and put them away and hide them from guests.

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And I haven’t sorted through, cleaned up or picked up in that area.

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So this week I’m going to work on that and it’s going to be an ongoing project.

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So this year, this week, my plan is to organize the cubbies that I have in there.

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Throw away any expired old makeup and skincare and then rearrange everything and

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just do it little by little.

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The second project I have that’s going to start this week but is going to also go

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through February and March too.

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It’s going to be a quarter goal.

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is to file away 2025.

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And the reason I wanna do that in a quarter is because there’s a lot of paperwork

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when it comes to running a business,

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having a home and all the expenses and all the things that come in.

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So I want to make sure that that is all organized and filed away.

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And then also there’s gonna be paperwork that I’m going to need

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for when it comes time to file taxes.

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And I want to make sure that is all put aside before I archive everything and put

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it all away for the next seven years.

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so i’m going to work on that this week it’s going to be the kickoff project and i

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think the main thing that i need to do is open all of the unopened mail that i

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haven’t been opening for the last month um so that’s going to be my first project

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and then we’ll see how far we can take it but once again i’m not trying to attack

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this project i’m not trying to get it done in a week or a day i’m going to let

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myself

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spread out the tasks through the quarter so that I don’t get overwhelmed and I do

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everything little by little.

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So those are the two projects that I have for this week on top of all the other

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normal responsibilities that I have during the week.

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preparation for the farmers markets,

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picking up and dropping off the kids to school,

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volunteering when needed,

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all of those things,

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laundry,

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cleaning,

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all of those things are still ongoing on top of those two projects.

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And for today’s story time, I just wanna quickly touch on 2025.

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And if you have read my Substack newsletter, then you’ll know that

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2025 was such a great year in a lot of ways, and it was a devastating year in a lot of ways.

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And in my Substack newsletter that I wrote,

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I was talking about the fires here in Southern California and what kind of impact

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it had on me,

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not just worry about whether or not we were going to be safe,

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but also just a realization of what was really important to me, and that was community.

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My family,

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my friends,

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and the people physically around me were so important to me and it put that into

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perspective.

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it shaped the way that i want to plan for this year it made me realize that there

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are so many things outside of my control that i can’t change i can’t immediately

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make a big dent into and the only thing that i can do is change the way that i

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approach things change my mindset on things and

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do what I can control, focus on what I can control.

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And that’s a really hard thing to grasp for me at least.

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Normally my goals would be something around sales goals or being able to get a

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certain kind of client or whatever it might be.

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But I realized those are external goals.

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How can I set goals that will be measurable based on only what I can control?

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So that’s a good example of why my quarter one goal for business

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is to file away my papers and everything and have my tax documents ready for 2025.

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Same thing with my vanity project.

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I can organize,

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I can put things away,

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I can purge and throw things away that no longer serve me or are no longer good for

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me.

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So that is my mentality and kind of my approach to 2026.

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And it all was because of

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the things that happened in 2025.

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Don’t get me wrong.

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I know 2025 started off as a really rough year.

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Like I,

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like I mentioned,

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I mean,

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we started the year with the SoCal fires here in California and it was devastating,

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but

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When I started shifting my mindset and shifting my focus,

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things really started to change for me.

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And I’m sharing this because I hope this is effective for you as well.

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If you implement it this year,

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I stopped making goals that were,

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I want to make X amount of money,

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or I want the sales to be X amount.

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We can do those goals,

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but they’re harder to measure because there’s other people that are a factor.

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in those goals so i started focusing instead on doing a Substack newsletter every

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week that was not only for marketing purposes but as a way to express myself be

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able to get comfortable in my own skin and really feel comfortable with the voice

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that i am putting out into the world so i started focusing on just sending you guys

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a newsletter every single week

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that changed so many things in so many positive ways and then another thing that i

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focused on was my backyard project i wanted to be able to use our backyard more

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take advantage of the real estate that we had and i learned so much from starting

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that project i didn’t start with what i wanted to

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wanted the end result of my backyard to look like i started with parcel by parcel

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the first project that we tackled was the extension of our patio we wanted to add

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pavers and make an extension for our patio so that we have more real estate that we

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can use for when we host parties and things like that that alone transformed the

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way that we use our backyard

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It transformed the way that us as a family live in this house.

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and it was something that I can control.

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Now is the backyard done?

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No,

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there’s going to be other things that we need to get done so that it truly is

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transformed in the way that we’re envisioning,

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but we’re going piece by piece,

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project by project.

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But that is how I am approaching goals this year, is just working on the projects,

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little by little one foot in front of the other making sure that there is even just

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one percent improvement or one percent tackling toward that project and then moving

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on to something else well i hope this video podcast was useful to you

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If it is, or you might think it would be useful to someone else, please share it with a friend.

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I have more coming and I’m so excited to be able to share it with you, but one thing at a time.

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And until next time, know that you are a blessing and I am so glad you’re here.

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Bye friends.

Welcome to Monday Musings with Kissa, where I share what the heck happened last week, what I have planned for this week, and a story time, not in that particular order. This is the audio companion to my substec newsletter that I send out every Thursday. So if you’re not already subscribed, there’s a button somewhere here where you can do so, and content as of this recording is currently free. Y’all, we did it. Our last pop-up of the year was last week and we are done with pop-ups for this year. Oh, man, last week just felt like the countdown to this big thing, which it wasn’t really. It was basically the countdown to winter break, but the kids started winter break last Thursday. My bestie is in town for the holiday. Rain is about to hit SoCal on Tuesday, so it just feels like last week was this scramble to maximize and get as much done as we could before this week of transitional rest. So this week, work isn’t officially done just yet. We have one last large order to fulfill. We have online orders to fulfill, and then on the personal side, we’re still working on our backyard project to really finish it up. We’re going to finish the pavers this week, and then we’re going to complete the drainage before the rain, so that it doesn’t flood too much back there. And then the plan is to just enjoy Christmas week with Charlie and the kids, hopefully rest a little and mentally prepare for the new year. Instead of a story time today guys, I just want to tell you how incredibly grateful I am that you’re here. I know I say it every week and there’s a reason. I know that there is so many people you can follow. There’s so many people you can take inspiration from. There’s so many podcasts that you can listen to. And the fact that you chose me is just so meaningful beyond words. This year has been such a big transition for us. Not just in business life, but in personal life too, transitioning into, you know, bigger kid life and what that looks like in the dynamic of what our schedule is. And so I just want to thank you so much for rolling with me this year. And to navigate life together like this has been one of the most rewarding things about this past year. So as we go into 2026, I just want to let you know, I’m going to be taking a short break. I’m going to be back, um, after the New Year, the Monday after Monday. So make sure you stay tuned for that, but I am going to take a week or so off just to recalibrate, start fresh, but turn this Monday musings up a notch a little bit in the upcoming year. Because I want to keep adding value to this community as we create and build it together. So thank you so much. I hope you had a wonderful holiday with your family, with your friends, and your loved ones. I hope that you have a wonderful, wonderful celebration to the new year. Cheers to 2026. Let’s do this together, regardless of what lies ahead before us. And thank you so much for your time. If you enjoyed this audio edition, please share it with a friend. And for the full Monday musings experience, subscribe to my substack for all the content at justkissa.substack.com. Until next time, remember you are a blessing, and I’m so grateful you’re here. Bye friends.

Transcript from audio:

Welcome to Monday Musings with Kissa, where I share what the heck happened last week. What’s going on this week and a story time? Not in that particular order. This is the audio companion to my substack newsletter that I send out every Thursday. So if you’re not already subscribed, there’s a button somewhere here where you can do so, and content as of this recording is currently free. All right, fam, let’s get into last week. It is the sprint to the end, my friends, and I cannot think about anything else. We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Our freedom is almost there. One more pop-up to go. But let’s talk about last week first. Jelly had her winter show at her school. It’s so cute. They do 2 shows a year and watching the little kids perform and sing and dance. It’s just, it brings joy to our hearts, and I’m so glad that that’s something that her school does and does for the families. We had dinner with our family afterward, and really the focus this past week was to prep for unique markets. Because it’s a 2 day event. It’s over the weekend. And honestly, it’s one of our favorite markets to do. We had an amazing turnout. Once again, we came prepared and ready, and it is just such a good feeling when you are just in your groove and you’re not worried as much as you normally are about what you might be forgetting or what you might have forgotten to pack. It’s just such a good feeling to know that, like, you’ve got a good rotation going, you know what I mean? We ended up selling out on Sunday and we got to shop and support our fellow vendors. And my dad watched the kids all weekend. So we were so grateful that we have a support system to be able to do these back-to-back events. On the personal side, the backyard project is making more progress. Last week, we finished the drainage, and then we got our rock and sand compacted and ready for pavers. So let’s move on to this week. This week, what’s on the calendar? Our last pop-up of the year is this Saturday in Long Beach. So we are so excited. We’d love to pop up in Long Beach. The community there is always so welcoming and so kind to us. And we ordered more sand and pavers for our backyard project, and that’s going to be hopefully completed. By the end of this week. If not, maybe the beginning of next week because it’s going to be raining here in LA. And we want to get as much done before that rain begins. Instead of a story time, I just want to share how extremely grateful I am for the relationships that we’ve developed over the years. And as a business owner, I know that saying it’s all about who you know. It is so true on so many levels, but really not just who you know, but the deep connections and friendships that you make over the years as an entrepreneur. Every time we do events like unique markets or any of our pop up events, it almost feels like a reunion because we’ve been doing the same ones for years. We always try out new ones and, you know, we test out the waters on things like that, but really the ones that we find our people at are the same ones. And so as I go into next year, that’s something that I want to allow to just be. for next year. There’s always this FOMO when you do pop-up markets of like, what if this event is good? What if we’re missing out? Um, people are other frienders are also recommending events that we should participate in. And like, Of course, there’s importance to that. Trying out and testing out new markets is always important because you never know what kind of connections or what kind of audience might be drawn to what you’re selling. But in this phase of life and in this season of our business, I think what we want to personally focus on is quality, not quantity of markets. So that’s something that we’re going to be considering going into next year because we have big plans for our CPG products. And that is growing our Amazon store, making sure that’s maintained, growing our own online store and building back up our direct to consumer base. And all the things that go in between. We have a huge goal of wanting to enter the US grocery market and not just Asian grocery stores. And so there are so many things that we have that are up in the air and are in play that we want to accomplish for next year. And as you know, we can’t clone ourselves and take it all on. If we’re going to add something on the plate for my own sanity, something’s got to give. So I think that’s going to be our pop-up markets. We are going to do markets, not saying that we’re not going to. We’re still going to do markets, but I wanna be really selective and wise about which ones we do next year. I want to thank you for your time. Thank you for listening. If you enjoyed this audio edition, please share it with a friend. And for the full Monday musings experience, subscribe to my substack at justkissa.substack.com. Until next time, remember that you are a blessing and I’m so grateful you’re here. Bye, friends.

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Welcome to Monday Musings with Kissa,

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where I share what the heck happened last week,

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what I have planned for this week,

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and a story time,

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not in that particular order.

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This is the audio companion to my Substack newsletter that I send out every Thursday.

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So if you’re not already subscribed, there’s a button somewhere here where you can do so.

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And content as of this recording is currently free.

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All right, y’all.

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Let’s dive in and talk about last week.

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It was another loaded week, but, you know, I’ve said this a million times.

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When is...

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That week never loaded.

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I feel like even on a break, even on vacation, it’s a loaded week.

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Lots of volunteering happened at Micah’s school and I had tons of meetings and

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production in between.

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We also started a big project here at our house.

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We are doing our backyard renovation project and we broke ground last week.

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I am so freaking excited for this.

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It’s a project that has been a long time coming.

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And we finally decided to pull the trigger and start on this project.

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So last week, the space was prepped.

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We rented a skid steer to level out the dirt and the land

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and man, what a difference.

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I mean, we are by far not finished yet.

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It’s like a long,

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long,

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grueling process to do a renovation project,

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but I can’t tell you how much better it already feels and looks back there.

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The kids were playing, and it was just so nice to see.

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Even

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if it’s just leveled out dirt.

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We don’t have any concrete.

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We have nothing out there yet, but we’re already all so excited for this project.

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Last week’s big focus on the business side was Thursday’s investor holiday party

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event,

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and I have a story time for you for that later,

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so stay tuned.

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And then over the weekend, we just had some family time.

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We had a birthday party on Saturday morning that we all went to,

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We went to what we like to call the candy bag store and let the kids just pick and

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choose what candy they wanted to have for the weekend.

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And then we had sushi after, which was a nice treat for me.

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Then on Sunday was church day as usual.

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And then we went to the YMCA to have a family swim.

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And that was really fun too.

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We played outside all weekend,

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like I said,

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and it was just such a great way to close out the week.

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It definitely healed my heart to be able to spend time with my little family.

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This week on the work front,

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we have Unique Markets this weekend,

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which is one of our favorite events to pop up at.

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And then we have another pop-up next week.

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at the Parole Lantern Festival in Long Beach.

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So we have to do all the prep for those two last pop-ups,

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make sure we’re fully stocked,

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get our gift sets ready,

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create our packing list,

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And then finally,

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one more goal I have is to follow up on the connections that I made at the investor

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party last Thursday.

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On the personal life side, we’re going to just do more work on our backyard this week.

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The focus is going to be the drainage to make sure that

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All of the rainwater and everything flows and doesn’t collect.

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And that was a problem that we had in the past.

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So we want to make sure that’s taken care of.

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And then also decide on what we’re going to do as far as pavers or concrete for the

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patio extension portion of the renovation project.

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On top of that, I have gifts that I need to wrap and I need to finish purchasing some gifts.

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So that’s going to be part of this week’s goals as well because I want to be done

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with that and have those gifts under our Christmas tree.

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Now for our story time.

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Let’s get back into the investor’s holiday party.

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I can’t tell you what a full circle moment is.

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that holiday party was.

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So last year,

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I got an invitation on LinkedIn,

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despite being inactive on that platform,

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pretty much ever since I created my account.

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And I got an invitation from a guy named Adam who

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to attend this holiday party for his company.

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And I said, you know what?

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Why not?

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So I decided to give it a shot and I attended as a guest with Charlie.

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We didn’t know anyone.

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We had no idea what to expect.

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We had never pitched our product to investors before.

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And we just went in because we wanted to just kind of dip our toe in and like

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get our feet wet into this side of business.

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Well, last year’s party, we had an amazing time.

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We made a lot of great connections that we definitely would not have made if we didn’t go.

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And we decided to submit an application to be part of their portfolio.

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I mean, it costs nothing to apply.

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Worst case scenario, we wouldn’t get a call back.

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So we did that.

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This year, after we submitted our application,

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We got accepted.

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We received our first investment and have grown so much with their support and

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weekly check-in meetings.

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We got asked to table at this year’s.

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holiday party so that we could sample our products and get directly in front of investors.

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And oh my God, we had such an amazing response.

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It felt so good and so validating for this little Filipina to just get so much

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praise for the food that she is serving these non-Filipino people.

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It was just the best feeling ever.

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People loved our products and our story,

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and it just reinforces what we’ve already known this past year.

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We’re freaking ready.

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We’re ready to take it to the next level in scale.

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We still have a lot of background work to do, and I know that, but we’re on the right track.

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So get ready, y’all.

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2026,

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I just can feel it in my soul that it’s gonna be a big year,

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not just for me,

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but for you too.

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Thank you so much for your time today.

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If you enjoyed this audio edition, please share it with a friend.

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And for the full Monday Musics experience,

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subscribe to my Substack at justkissa.substack.com.

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Until next time, remember you are a blessing and I’m so grateful you’re here.

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Bye friends

Transcript from audio:

Welcome to Monday musings with Kissa, where I share what the heck happened last week what I have planned for this week and a story time not in that particular order this is the audio companion to my substack newsletter that I send out every Thursday so if you’re not already subscribed, there’s a button somewhere here where you can do so and content as of this recording is currently free Well, let’s jump into last week as usual last week was Thanksgiving week, which means it was fall break for my kids and that meant they were off of school for an entire week and even though I thought it was gonna be a slow week for us, it was jampacked to say the least to kick off fall break on Monday we went to Disneyland for Jelly’s birthday. We spent the entire day there with grandparents friends family. It was an amazing day. Jelly had the best time and so did Micah so it was a great day and then we had one work day on Tuesday where we sent in more Amazon inventory. We had meetings. I sent out follow-ups. I just did everything that I possibly could on Tuesday and then on Wednesday, we had a play date and a dentist appointment. It was a great day. We got to reunite with friends that we haven’t had a play date with in in quite a while. And it was a lot of fun. We went straight to the dentist after that. So it was a pack day. And then Thanksgiving was Thursday and Friday. We had our friendsgiving on Saturday and then we had church in the LA Auto show on Sunday and next thing you know, here we are on Monday. So this week, to tell you the truth, it was kind of hard to ease back into regular life. So my plan for the first half of the week is just to get my bearings. It’s, I don’t know. I just have this feeling that time is passing by really really quickly. We have another jump-packed week. We’re going to do more production this week because we had such a successful Black Friday, Cyber Monday weekend that we have to make more stock. We have to ship out all the orders so we have a jam packed week and then on top of that, on Thursday, we have a holiday party for our investors and we’re going to be tabling and sampling our products there to try and get in front of the eyes of more investors and then we have a birthday party on Saturday. We have church on Sunday. It’s just a lot going on now I wanted to share a story about how there was one moment in during Thanksgiving week that really warmed my heart and it was when we had a play date with our friend um with the kids’ friends that we haven’t had a playdate with in quite some time. And because of that, it’s not that they forgot each other, but they’re young enough to like, if they haven’t seen each other in a while, maybe they’re not going to really remember each other or kind of, you know, take to each other and start playing with each other right away. And when we went to the play date, I was just kind of observing how the kids were acting with their friend and almost immediately they just kind of clicked and picked up where they left off. And it was such a heartwarming thing to see because as a parent and you see your kids grow up and you see their relationships that they’re forming with their own friends. It’s awesome to see kids grow up together and I really hope that you know, Micah and Jelly really cling onto the friends that are good friends that look out for them, that they care about and will look out for their friend. It’s just something that I experienced in my own childhood and I really want that to be for my kids too. So going to that play date, it was just so great to see them kind of catch up with each other. And then also because they’re a little bit older, it was really sweet to see how different they play at an older age. They’re having conversations, they’re not just playing around each other. And in some ways, I almost feel like they were picking up where they left off, but they also were kind of filling each other in on how much they’ve grown. And I’m just so proud of all those kids for just being good friends to each other, despite how much time may pass between them. Well, that’s all for today friends. I want to thank you so much for listening and for your time. If you enjoyed this audio edition, please share it with a friend and for the full Monday musings experience subscribe to my substack at just Kissa.substack.com until next time remember, you are a blessing in this world and I’m so grateful that you’re here Bye friends.