A whole host of 2022 madness, all bundled into one

Hi friends!

I'm glad I made no promises for the frequency of my newsletter and thank you for still staying on with me. 2022 has been a wild ride for me so far, and life really got in the way of this newsletter, but here are some exciting updates that I want to share with you. 

First things first, I just got back from a 15-day trip across Italy and France. It was the trip of my dream - attended the beautiful wedding of my friend Gaby and her new husband Simeon and reunited with my friend of over 10 years, Camille and her boyfriend - the 3 of us traveled together for the majority of the trip and I learned so much while enjoying the beautiful Mediterranean sun just like those we enjoy here in Southern California - but a LOT safer without guns 😥, with many more mosquitoes 😬 and significantly more dog 💩 than I have ever seen while we were in Naples, Italy. 

The next big item is, my school, Path Unbound, has launched its biggest education program - a 9-course, customizable certificate program that is designed to take you from 0-100 in preparing to be a designer. A year in the working, the program is entirely developed in-house by myself and my small, distributed, past and present team members. I cannot thank all that have been involved in this enormous project enough. 

We also have a completely new look and feel - with numerous custom illustrations that our talented past intern Ellen Weber created just for us, as part of her internship projects, art directed by yours truly. 

We now have a formal referral program where we provide generous rewards for successful student referrals. If you know of anyone who might be interested in our programs, send them our way - when they enroll, you get compensated according to the terms we outlined on this page. 

How have you all been? If we haven't chatted in a while and you'd like to catch up, or if we haven't spoken at all, and you'd like to have a conversation "in-person" sometime, schedule a time with me. 

Now as I try to recover from COVID that I unfortunately finally caught after a clean 2-year record, "thanks" to an individual who was sitting next to me on my flight home, visibly sick without a mask, I look forward to sending more updates in the coming months and hearing from you!

My writing has definitely slowed down significantly during the past few months because I have been solely focused on finishing up the launch of my school, Path Unbound's new program launch, which was an enormous undertaking given the small size of my distributed, part-time team. The course content was produced primarily by myself, with valuable contributions from various team members, past and present. 

Recently, I wrote about the "unusual" journey I went through sourcing unique furniture for my news space in LA. It's a long read with tons of tips and tricks I learned along the way, as well as exciting updates about the launch of my furniture brand, now renamed "Bezier Home", this summer (finally!).