treats

you deserve some

hallo good morning! I hope you are having a fab week. if not, there is always next week. I wanted to send you over something to read this morning, and I hope it is really unexpected but also in hindsight makes sense lol.

a few months ago, when re-launching my interview series “brenda’s business”, in a brainstorm session at the 032c office, we were thinking of people that would be fun to talk to, and as a bit of a shot in the dark, I said I would like to speak to heidi klum. I am likely the most commercial person at this coolest of the cool independent magazine, and I know my editor in chief, the coolest of the cool, sometimes has to bring me down to earth. but he does love entertainment and immediately said yes and put me in touch with about seven publicists of heidi klum. it took some weeks to find a date, and no prep from my part, which you could see as rude, but I was very sure she’d deliver, and I always trust myself to come up with intuitive questions on the spot. I interview successful people for this series, so I go into the sessions just wanting to unpack how someone functions and decode why they are where they are and what we can take and apply to our own journeys. I had no expectation of what heidi would be like, and was sure that her publicists would try and cross out paragraphs, like how she doesn’t own the rights to germany’s next top model, but they were pretty chill about all the juicy parts. I hope you read it and enjoy, and maybe join me in understanding that saying yes to opportunities gets you farther than any master plan.

read brenda’s business with heidi klum here <3

in other news, I am trying to be on my youtube journey, if you listen to my podcast I always talk about not relying on one platform, and it’s a pretty good outlet for me to experiment. if you need company while eating in front of a laptop or something, here are my two latest vlogs. one of them I forgot to edit out the capcut tagline at the end, but I am not precious about just pushing out content even before it’s perfect, so it is what it is. let me know if you like them:

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the second one features behind the scenes of isaac and my first joint job together. it was so so rewarding to see all the positive feedback, here if you haven’t seen it:

and last week, I did a little Q&A in the substack subscriber chat, and I was blown away at how thoughtful your questions were. I talk about money, and the wishes to get to a level of wealth of a comfortable life, but staying below the wealth that makes your life difficult (feeling the need to seclude yourself from public life, need for safety etc). I talk pretty honest about finding a balance between work, life, mental health goals and how I feel we are promised that ALL is possible (a great private life, seeing your friends, having a hobby for yourself, working out, having date nights, being a parent, having time for self care, seeing your family, and than mastering a career), and I think it’s a complete lie. my priorities aren’t always in the right order and that is something I need to work on. anyways you can have a listen here. I also talk about the greatest social hack of all time: being interested for the sake of being interesting. changed my life. hope you like the episode!

in other news, I started reading the book “let them”, I know that the internet, and the six million people that have bought it, all have varying opinions on it. and I agree, it’s not very deep, but so far even the most obvious chapters have somehow helped me. I am often a prisoner of my own making, I chose the slowest moving queue at airport security, someone on my train is being loud, people in my life are not acting and reacting how they were supposed to in the script I made up in my head. if you’ve been debating the book, I think you should get it, too. I am also still reading lena dunham’s book, she is my queen, but somehow can’t bring myself through the jack chapter and have been stuck there. do you know that I love to watch marie antoinette (the movie) and just watch it until the morning of the party seen and then stop? nothing bad ever happened!!!!

anyways enjoy all of this content and I really hope you read the heidi klum interview!

xxx