I’ll be honest with you: I avoided Meta ads for a long time because every time I tried to figure out the platform it felt like I needed a degree I didn’t have. The dashboard was confusing, the terminology was its own language, and the tutorials somehow made it worse. So I kept pushing it off and telling myself I’d figure it out eventually.

What changed is that Meta released an official AI connector that links directly to your ad account so instead of navigating a dashboard full of dropdowns and acronyms you just have a conversation. You ask Claude a question about your campaigns in plain English and it answers you using real data from your actual account. You describe what you want to promote and your budget and it builds the campaign structure for you. You ask it which ads are wasting money and it tells you, specifically, and it tells you what to do about it.

I’ve been using it for a few weeks now and I want to walk you through exactly how it works because I think this is one of those things that sounds like hype until you actually try it and then you can’t believe you were doing it any other way.

Before any of this makes sense you need to know how Meta ads are actually structured because the platform is built around three levels and once you get it everything clicks into place.

Your campaign is where you set your goal and that’s the only job of the campaign level. What do you want? More people to book a call, visit your website, watch your video, fill out a form? You pick one goal and that’s your campaign.

Your ad set is where you set your audience and your budget. Who sees this ad? People in your city, people interested in wellness, people who already follow you on Instagram? How much are you spending per day? That all lives at the ad set level.

Your ad is the actual thing people see, the image or the video, the words, the button that says “book now” or “learn more.”

Campaign is your goal, ad set is your audience and budget, ad is your creative. Three levels. That’s the whole structure and everything in the platform flows from that.

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I started Beshie in 2024 and was all in on the idea. A self-adhesive lash cluster brand. The product worked. The vision felt clear. And then life got loud in all the ways life gets loud and Beshie just... stopped.

So I paused it and I'm glad I did because launching something half-ass is worse than not launching it at all.

Here’s what’s been eating at me t…

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I go through this process when creating and writing for my clients. Not a rebrand, not a new logo, just an honest, no judgment look at whether the content is actually doing anything. Here’s the checklist, and if two or more of these hit close to home, it’s not you. It’s the plan.

So here's what I'd do next.

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I moved from the Philippines when I was 2.5. My parents were busy learning English in the middle of the 80s and trying to keep everyone fed and afloat, so Tagalog didn't make it into the house, and neither did most of the traditions. I don't say that with any resentment. I say it because it's just true, and it shaped a lot of what came next.

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I’ve gotten a lot of questions since I mentioned my peptide stack in my last post... so I figured it was time to break it down properly for you.

The short version is that I started looking into peptides because I wanted to support my body through perimenopause in ways that felt proactive rather than reactive. And what I found was a whole category of compounds that most people in wellness circles aren’t talking about yet... but they will be.

I’m currently using three: Retatrutide, Mots-C, and GHK-Cu. Each one does something different and each one came from a specific reason I started looking for answers.

What I can tell you upfront is that this isn’t a weight loss story, even though one of them does target metabolism. It’s more about what happens when you stop waiting for symptoms to get bad enough to do something and start paying attention to what your body is actually asking for.

The research behind all three is interesting and the regulatory landscape around peptides is shifting faster than most people realize right now...

Before I go any further, the usual disclaimer: I am not a doctor, this is not medical advice, this is my personal protocol based on my own research. Please do your own research and talk to someone who knows your specific health history before adding anything new.

Subscribe to keep reading and get access to my full protocol, what the research actually says, side effects you need to know about, and exactly how I use each one.

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If you’ve been feeling like the rules changed again and nobody sent you the update... you’re not wrong. Something shifted and it’s worth paying attention to.

The short version is this: people find you through short video, they decide if they trust you through medium content, and they actually buy or commit through long form. So if you’re only doing one of those you’re only catching people at one point in their decision and missing them everywhere else.

Here’s what that looks like in practice right now...

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The rage showed up before I had a name for it.

Not frustration. Not irritability. Actual, full-body, where-did-THAT-come-from rage that shows up out of nowhere and usually lands on the people closest to you. Often your kids. Often your teens or tweens who are also going through their own hormonal chaos at the exact same time you are, which is… a lot.

If y…

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Over the last year I’ve done a lot of slowing down. And when you slow down enough to actually look at your life, you start noticing things. One of the things I noticed was my friendships and how some of them felt really good and some of them just... didn’t anymore.

And I want to be clear, this isn’t about cutting people off or deciding someone is a bad person. It’s more like I started to understand that people come into your life for different reasons and different seasons. You know that saying about how some people are on the train for the whole ride and some are just there until their stop? I think about that a lot. It doesn’t mean the ones who get off early didn’t matter. It just means the ride looks different than you expected.

So that’s what we’re journaling on today. Not to audit your friendships in a cold, clinical way but to get honest about which ones are actually feeding you right now and which ones might just need a natural pause.

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A lot of us think we’re resting when we’re actually just doing a quieter version of being busy. Scrolling instead of working. Running errands instead of being in meetings. Watching three episodes of something we’re not even that into instead of doing the thing that would actually make us feel good.

And then Monday rolls around and we wonder why we don’t feel recharged.

So that’s what we’re journaling on today. Not just how you spend your time, but whether how you spend it is actually working for you.

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Okay so... I’ve been sitting on this for a while and I figured it’s time to just say it.

I’m opening up a paid tier on here and I want to be upfront about what that actually means for you because the last thing I want is for this to feel like a bait and switch situation lol.

If you’re a free subscriber, you’re staying exactly where you are and you’ll keep…

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You know that feeling. There’s something there. You can feel it hovering around... a thought, an idea, a pull toward something. But every time you try to grab it and look at it directly it kind of slips away. So you just keep carrying it around, half formed, waiting for it to make sense.

That’s what we’re journaling on today. But before we dive in, I wan…

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And yet, so much of it gets swallowed up by tasks that feel necessary but never seem to move the needle. The inbox that somehow refills itself. The content that takes three hours to write. The client process that starts fresh every s…

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Ok hi. It’s been a minute. 😅

Honestly? I needed the break. Life got busy, my brain got foggy, and Sunday Notes moved to the back burner. But something shifted this week. The fog started lifting a little and the first thing I wanted to do was come back here.

So here we are.

I think a lot of us go through seasons like that. Where we’re not really checked ou…

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I have sat across from a lot of small business owners who are exhausted and ready to hand things off. The first thing I ask them is: can you show me what a week actually looks like for you? Most of them pause. They aren’t disorganized. They’ve just never been asked to look that closely at how they actually operate.

Before you hire a VA, a social media ma…

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I was thinking about this question this week and honestly my first reaction was yes. Like 90% of the time I genuinely like who I am when nobody’s around. I’m working, I’m praying/meditating, I’m cleaning, maybe doing a little online window shopping that I definitely don’t need to be doing, all while something awesome is on TV in the background.

But that …

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This week was a lot. Like a lot a lot. But somewhere in the middle of all of it I signed a new client and honestly that felt really good. It was one of those moments where you stop and go wait, things are actually moving. Even when it doesn’t feel like it from the inside.

That’s kind of what I want us to sit with today. Because we’re all moving through o…

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Can I be honest with you? I used to be terrible at setting goals. Every time I sat down to think about what I wanted, I’d end up spiraling into this massive life plan that felt so overwhelming I’d close my notebook and just... not do it.

So I started smaller. Instead of mapping out the next year of my life, I started asking myself what I could actually c…

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We’ve all heard it a million times. Actions speak louder than words. And yet somehow we still find ourselves holding onto what people said they would do instead of looking at what they’re actually doing.

This week we’re going there. Honest, clear eyed, no sugarcoating. Because the patterns are always there. We just have to be willing to see them.

And yes,…

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Over the last few weeks I’ve been catching up with some friends and something kept coming up in every single conversation. Our energy. How we want to give it, where we want to spend it, and honestly, who and what deserves it in this next phase of our lives.

Maybe it’s an age thing. We’re all hovering around 40(+/-)ish and something shifts when you get he…

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Because not that long ago, I was on the other side of this. I was the one receiving a scholarship. And what that scholarship gave me was more than access to a class.

It meant I did not have to work extra hours away from my kids to pay for it. It meant…

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