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Tomorrow, I’m heading out on a long drive to Texas and will be chatting with 10 of you who filled out the form last week.
The response was incredible—way more than I expected! Clearly, this needs to happen more often. If you weren’t selected this time, don’t worry—I’ll connect with you in the coming months. In the meantime, if you’d like to be included, fill out the form below.
Q&A Section
Q: What are your holidays like? - Ash
A: Usually my girlfriend and I are driving around to visit our families spread across the midwest. For the most part we’re lucky, our job is to show up, eat a lot of food, drink some wine, and just enjoy being in good company. - JB
Happy Holiday’s
At every stage of my career, I’ve been in high-intensity work cultures—the kind where “work-life balance” is a myth, and your Slack pings follow you into the shower. Nights? Gone. Weekends? A dream. Holidays? Ha, as if. And the older I get, the more ridiculous it all sounds.
Pro tip: Don’t make work your personality. I’ve done it. It’s not cute. And while we’re on the subject, take your vacation time seriously. That’s right—close the laptop, turn off the email notifications, and stop using work as your excuse for not taking care of yourself.
Because here’s the thing: if you don’t step away, you’ll burn out faster than a cheap candle. And for what? Another PowerPoint deck? A slightly better performance review? No one’s carving “Excel Wizard of Q4” on your tombstone.
Friends, family, kids, pets, hobbies, that one spontaneous beach trip you took in July—that’s what life is about. Not winning Employee of the Year or perfecting your attendance record like some kind of overachieving robot.
So this holiday season, unplug. Actually unplug. Eat too much pie, watch terrible movies, hug your people, and stop letting your job steal the moments that make life worth living. Work will still be there when you get back. Trust me, Karen’s emails aren’t going anywhere.
A Moment Of Gratitude
This time last year I was panicked about next week’s payroll, we had <$8,000 in revenue, <5,000 followers across all social media channels, about 500 blog subscribers, and less than $50k of raised capital.
Fast forward to today, we have 7 digits in the bank account, do more than $8k in a single week, over 70k followers across social media, and thousands of blog subscribers.
All of you have changed my life, our startup, and I’m forever grateful.
Thank you, Habits fam <3
-JB
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