Ella Mayding

And I've always just wanted to connect as much as I possibly can with my community.

And this year was really about rebuilding my trust with my community, regaining connection with my community because of all the loud shit that happened.

had been going on online in the last couple of years.

Like it's been really quite challenging.

So this year, one of my goals was to really just rebuild, reconnect, and it was about you guys.

It's about my community.

And I feel like since COVID, that's one factor.

Also with like the lead up of AI, that's another factor.

Social media is another factor.

We just don't go out of our way to create new connections in person.

When was the last time that you went to an event?

And obviously there's influencer events.

I don't fucking count those.

I'm saying it could be any event if you are a part of a run club, even if you go to yoga or if you go to a book club or...

Whatever it might be, when was the last time that you booked something in for you to genuinely connect with other people who might be like-minded?

I can answer that for me.

I don't actually know.

The last time I genuinely went out of my way, booked something in to connect with other women who might be like-minded that I might learn something from, get something out of, you know, feel uplifted after.

And when I left my agency last year and I went self-managed now, and I have an assistant who helps out heavily with a lot of work, but I just wanted to create something on my own.

And yeah, I was scared.