September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month 🎗️💛 It doesn’t seem to get nearly the attention it deserves, so I wanted to bring a little awareness to it. Every day, children and their families face diagnoses, treatments, hospital stays and challenges no family should have to navigate alone. If you’re able to donate this month, consider supporting organizations doing incredible work for children and families affected by cancer: @StJude St. Jude Children’s @BostonChildrens Boston Children’s @MakeAWishIntl MakeAWish @StBaldricks StBaldricks @RMHGlobal Ronald McDonald House If donating isn’t possible, simply sharing, raising awareness or supporting a family going through it matters too. September is for them. 🎗️💛 #ChildhoodCancerAwarenessMonth #GoGold

The version of you that figures it all out is just the current version of you that kept going. That's it. There's no secret. Just the decision to not stop.

Walk away from what’s not serving you.

Most people are waiting for peace to show up after everything gets fixed. After the situation resolves. After life finally lines up. It doesn't work like that. Peace isn't at the finish line of your problems. It's available right in the middle of them. This week's Built From It is about what it actually takes to get there. builtfromit.beehiiv.com/subs…

Your positivity helps others more than you know. Don’t stop sharing it.

Surrendering to God requires the one thing that goes against everything in you. Giving up control. Not some of it. All of it. The outcome you've been trying to engineer. The timeline you keep forcing. The thing you've been gripping so tightly it's left marks on your hands. You open your hands. You trust. You let it go. That's where the peace comes from. Not before the surrender. Only after it.

adding @AgentsMIB and @MSKCancerCenter to the list

"Sometimes the win is hidden in the lose." — J. Cole Sit with that one for a minute.

You don't get over things. You get better at carrying them. That's what everyone who looks fine is actually doing.

Some people will miss their season because they were too busy being mad, holding grudges, worrying about what people think, replaying old wounds, and staying in rooms they should have left a long time ago. Don't be that person. What's ahead of you is bigger than what's behind you.

I ran a business for ten years. One day I sat down and realized I had no urge to keep going. Not burned out. Just done. The hardest part wasn't admitting it failed. It was the fear that I'd pour everything into the next thing and end up with the same nothing. This week's Built From It is about what you do when the first bet doesn't pay off. Subscribe 👉 builtfromit.beehiiv.com/subs…

The difference between an interest and a purpose is the difference between something you quit and something you can't.

What if the thing you went through wasn't just something to survive? What if it was pointing you somewhere? The one who rebuilt after losing everything knows how to help someone start over. The one who survived the thing nobody talks about can sit with someone in it and say I know. I've been there. Your pain wasn't random. It was preparation. The thing you overcame might be exactly what you were built to speak to. That's not just healing. That's purpose.

You can want something to work more than you've ever wanted anything. Pour everything into it. Give it time, patience, grace, another chance. But you can't want it into changing. At some point the years start to speak louder than the hope. What hasn't changed in years isn't changing. Let it go.

No blueprint doesn't mean no path. It means you build the path as you go. Figure it out. Make the mistakes. Learn in real time. Then look back and realize the road exists now because you walked it first.

Being the first to do something is lonely in a way that’s hard to explain to people who had a map. Nobody to call. Nobody who’s been there. So you figure it out alone and hope you didn’t miss something that costs you later. No one handed you a blueprint. So you became one. The newsletter you’re missing out on. Real perspectives. Earned by life experiences. Subscribe 👇 builtfromit.beehiiv.com/subs…

It will all work out.

You don’t always notice when you’ve healed. There’s no announcement. No dramatic moment. Just one day you realize you didn’t reach out. Didn’t follow up. Didn’t look for an opening to keep something alive that you should have let go a long time ago. You just let it go. Your nervous system wasn’t anxious. Letting go finally didn’t hurt the way it used to. That’s growth. The quiet kind. The kind that happens without you knowing until it’s already done. You’re moving in the right direction.

Peace is when your mind gets quiet enough to realize that, for a moment, you don’t need anything to be different. You’re just present, and life feels good exactly where you are.

The over-analyzing, the risk measuring, the waiting for every piece to line up, at some point that stops being preparation and starts being paralyzing fear. Move. Do your part. Go about your day. Let go of control and let God handle it.