issue four: new beginnings 🌅
re-starting after a holiday hiatus
It doesn’t matter how many false starts it might take, as long as you keep starting. At the dawn of 2025, let’s help each other move forward with purpose.
The Classifieds
Marissa led product design at Stripe and is currently finishing her MBA at MIT. Her collaborator, Emily most recently scaled Artsy's auctions business from $0 to $12M GMV in one year and has an MBA from HBS. They are building an AI tool in the creative/design space and looking for technical collaborators (and potential co-founder). Get in touch at marissacui@gmail.com.1
Sarah is the VP of Marketing at SonderMind, an outcome-focused mental health care resource. She’s hiring for PMM, Content Lead, B2B Team Lead, and B2B Marketing Manager roles. Send an email with your CV to dlockhart@sondermind.com and cc: slewen@sondermind.com.
Emily is looking for a mentor and/or an affordable career coach as she navigates her product management career. Send leads her way at emilysiluli@gmail.com.
Tina leads talent at Bridge, a payments platform built with stablecoins and recently acquired by Stripe. She’s hiring across Design, Operations, Sales and Engineering. Reach out at tina@bridge.xyz.
Resources
I’m in a year of big decisions. Fellow product designer, Vicki, wrote a book, Ask This Book, to help with that.
Megs is as personal trainer and gut health nutritional coach. She works individually with clients to improve their holistic health, across fitness, nutrition, gut and hormone health. She becomes available for 1:1 coaching in January. Get on her schedule through megan@pivotforward.co.
Recommendations
New rituals just for you and yours: We have Little Rituals™️ for our little family and we’re bringing in a new one this year. ~Every night, we write down one good thing that happened that day and collect them in an Erewhon (lol) jar. On New Year’s Eve—which we’re adamant will be peaceful this year—we’ll empty it and read through them together. I’m also into this daily notes approach to keeping a diary.
HiBar deodorant: I don’t wear deodorant so I can’t personally cosign this but it’s the only natural, non-toxic deodorant that has worked for my husband (including during four blessed days in Cabo). Thanks to Kat for the rec.
khalo cooking paste: Aren’t we all searching for that elusive equilibrium between indulgence and wellness? These Ayurvedic cooking pastes represent everything I love in the new-wave yassification of CPG: healthy, delicious, thoughtfully designed. Mix a spoonful of Hot Take into your soft scramble or spread it on toast and you’re immediately teleported to more glamorous times.
YearCompass: A friend organizes an annual end-of-year reflection and look-ahead, an always precious and much-anticipated pause. In lieu of that, YearCompass is the most comprehensive approach to reflect on the past year and plan out your next year. Both the physical and digital workbooks are free.
Local-to-LA community
On January 11th, talented friends and founders are hosting a Saturday morning event called Wake Up Call: music, coffee, snacks, and hot-cold therapy. Swing by.
moss is hosting a female founder marketplace on January 11th. Discover thoughtfully curated products from female-founded brands while enjoying product samples, drinks, meditation, and bodywork offerings.
We love opening the gates—apparently, y’all have so overwhelmed Adam at Acutonix that they no longer take email appointment scheduling. There will be no gatekeeping in 2025. Here’s to a year of sharing abundance with each other. To that end, share your good goss with us 💞.
The previous issue included an incomplete version of this information.