Audacity looks good on you 🤩

Issue 21: 8 minute read

🙋🏽‍♀️ Dani’s Doings: Home for the summer, a recap of my 3-month Asia trip, progress on building my business, and learning to be more delusional

💸 Money Matters: “Labubus” are stimulating the economy, Klarna is suffering financial losses, and the unexpected average credit card balance many people are carrying 😳

✈️ Travel Tings: An updated list of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, a fully remote job board for those interested travelling abroad and working remotely, and airlines have lost their damn minds with this new addition

🫶🏽 Community Corner: A list of 100 unique side hustle ideas to earn some extra cash, and my current obsession to get massive discounts on software

🇨🇦 Home Sweet Home

After about 1.5 years of living in Spain and 3 months of hopping around Asia, I’m finally home in Toronto! While I do love travelling and being immersed in new cultures, I’d be lying if I said doing it non-stop isn’t exhausting. From learning new cultural norms, to understanding new currencies so I don’t unintentionally overspend, to handling hotel and flight bookings, it definitely takes a toll on the body.

I’m really happy to be home for a bit to rest and sit in stillness for a while. The plan is to stay in Toronto until at least October, so we’ll see how it goes! I will definitely miss my affordable food and daily coconuts though (lol).

Recapping The Asia Journey

🇹🇭 Chiang Mai: We spent an entire month here and it was a vibe, as always. This actually marks my 7th time in Thailand, and my boyfriend and I are already figuring out when we can make it back there. Chiang Mai is my favourite city in the world (even more then Malaga, tbh). While it does have a slow and relaxed pace, the high amount of entrepreneurs based there inspires you to go harder with your goals and see your dreams through. The food is also unmatched, the cost of living is more than reasonable in relation to my Canadian dollar, and Thai people are some of the kindest I’ve ever met. This was an excellent month and I’m forever grateful for this special city.

🇹🇼 Taipei: WHY DIDN’T ANYONE TELL ME TAIPEI IS THAT GIRL? If I’m being honest, there wasn’t a lot of intention behind the plan to visit Taipei. We just added it to our itinerary because we haven’t heard much about it, but we found a flight leaving from there that’d get us to Toronto. We had SUCH a good time. The food is excellent, the people were so warm and welcoming, there are gorgeous green spaces, and it’s extremely walkable and bike-friendly. We were so pleasantly surprised with this city and would jump at the opportunity to visit again!

🇭🇰 Hong Kong: Uhhhhh. Lol. To be fair, we only had about 16 hours in Hong Kong so it was rushed and chaotic (and we were exhausted). We didn’t love our experience here. We found the food wasn’t as tasty as we were used to over the past few months, the people were more curt, the pace was more quick, the prices are quite high, and the overall vibe felt more impersonal and sterile. It wasn’t a bad experience by any means, but it definitely wasn’t our favourite. I’d give it another shot if we were able to spend a few days there…but I’m not in a rush to, tbh 😅.

Updates on The Entrepreneurship Journey

One of the biggest reasons I’m happy to be home now is to double down on the development of my business. Here’s the progress I’m making:

• I finally hired my dream web designer to re-build my website and I’m SO excited for the launch. I considered the DIY approach to save some money but honestly? Now is not the time to nickle and dime my way through my business. It takes money to make money, and it made more sense pay someone for their area of expertise so I have more time to focus on mine.

• Now I have more time to build out the course content and community for my upcoming Liberty Leave program that teaches women how to take career breaks without sacrificing their finances. Join the waitlist here.

• I’ve been applying to business grants gaaaalore. I need more money to be able to build my business to the heights I dream of, and the self-funded approach isn’t ideal. Fingers crossed that I win one/some this year! Running a business ain’t cheap lol.

• I’m in my delusional era. I’m typically a very “realistic” and logical person in all aspects of my life, but I don’t think that mindset is suitable for running a profitable business. My goal for the next few months is to be more delusional, think bigger, ask for more, and go wayyyyy harder with discipline.

  This is your sign to be more delusional with your goals. Audacity looks good on you.

• Klarna (the popular “Buy Now, Pay Later” service) is suffering financial losses because some people won’t pay back what they owe. *pretends to be shocked*. Read about their losses here.

• Have you heard about the Labubu craze that’s currently viral? I even got in on the trend and bought a few here in Thailand (watch my unboxing video here on IG). Well, sales of the ugly-cute monsters have already generated over $1.6 BILLION dollars in revenue. Read about the present day Beanie Baby/Furby/Pokemon Cards trend here.

  • They’ve gotten to popular in places like the UK that sales had to be halted due to robberies and brawls. Details here. This is why we can’t have nice (or fun) things.

• The average Canadian credit card balance is the highest it has ever been. Yikes. Consumers aged 26-35 have the highest rates of missed payments. Read more about the specifics and dollar amounts here.

• Sesame Street (the OG!), which was struggling financially due to factors like the Trump administration abruptly cancelling grants was purchased by Netflix. Yay for Elmo not being unemployed! Details here on Netflix’s plan.

• AI is replacing a lot of jobs (but you already knew that). These are the ones that are being replaced first, and this is how women are being impacted specifically.

• Airlines are launching standing-only seats in 2026. Imagine standing through turbulence?? Wild. Check out the abomination here. Personally, I’d rather stay home.

• I’m often asked where folks can find jobs that are truly full remote so they can work from anywhere in the world and dabble in the digital nomad lifestyle. I found a new one I really like here!

• A new list of the most visited countries just dropped and I’m personally shocked by the top 10 (but maybe I shouldn’t be considering I’ve been to all of them). Review the list here.

• Airlines are preparing for chaos this summer because of air traffic control problems in the U.S.. Read about the details and implications here.

• Airbnb just launched a massive release to their platform, which now includes services like personal chefs, personal trainers, and even spa treatments. Check it out here.

• ❤️‍🩹 I’m helping burnt-out women learn how to take career breaks (without going broke)! My course & community is dropping soooooon, and waitlist members get $100+ off plus exclusives freebies. Join the waitlist now! Know a burnt-out woman who needs guidance planning her sabbatical badly? Forward this email to her!

• 🤑 Looking for a side hustle to earn some extra cash/a new income stream? HubSpot dropped this free database with 100 unique side hustle ideas. Check it out here.

• 👩🏽‍💻 Calling all biz owners (side-hustlers included!) who HATE paying monthly subscription fees: Have you heard of AppSumo? I’m currently obsessed. You can buy lifetime subscriptions to tools you need to run your business (as in, you pay once and that’s it!). Check them out here. 

  • One of my faves is TidyCal for $29 to replace Calendly. They also have a super sale coming up next week, and you can get 10% off your first purchase with my affiliate link here!

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