December Recap: 40, Fan Faves, and Free Dinner


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Whatup Reader!

Ya’ll, 2025 and my 40th birthday are knocking on the door! Let’s gooooo.

If you’re new here, I send these recap emails out on the last day of each month as a way to share the things that this awesome community has told me they’ve found helpful, and also to let you in on things that are coming your way in the next few months. I know you’re busy and I realize I put out a lot of content in a bunch of different places, so if you’re ever worried about missing anything, rest assured that the monthly recap will have all the important stuff in it.

Alright, let’s get into it!


From the ‘Gram:

  • I continued with my November theme of “I’m not feeling this” and didn’t post all that much in December. Honestly, it be like that sometimes. We’ll see what January brings. For now, the December fan faves are below. Click on any of the images to be taken to the full post.

From the Podcast:

ANNOUCEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT!!! Moving forward I will only be releasing ONE podcast episode per week. No more Thursday throwbacks, just the new episode each and every Monday.

Tap the links below to listen to any of last month’s episodes or click the thumbnails to watch on YouTube and see just how animated I am when I speak ;-)

Thank you to everyone who has left a rating or review, and thank you in advance to anyone who was just guilted into leaving one ;-)

PS – How dope are these thumbnail images?! Shoutout to @docjoeo for crushing it!


From the Biz:

  • We’re doing something brand new in the Mafia!!! For the first time ever we’re opening up our family dinner to the public, FREE99, and we’d love to have you join us. The Mafia is the online business membership mentorship that I’ve run for the past 5 years, and we renamed our monthly calls as ‘dinners’, because honestly, we’re family. If you’re looking for a values-driven approach to building an online business, and you’ve yet to find a community that is actually helpful and isn’t full of brochachos, we’d love to have you for dinner. No obligation to join the membership. We just want to show you that there is a better way to do online business, and that the dope humans that you’re looking for do in fact exist. Dinner is going down on Wednesday, January 15th, at 4pm PT, and once again, it’s FREE99. Click here to save your spot.
  • New year means new round of the Intensive. For those of you who don’t know, the Instagram Intensive is my 6-week online group coaching program that teaches health and fitness professionals exactly how to use Instagram for online business. This will be round 17 of the Intensive, and after taking nearly 600+ professionals through it, I can confidently say that it is the best Instagram coaching program on the market. Round 17 will start in February, and as per always, the waitlist gets first dibs, dope bonuses, AND saves $100 on registration. Click here to check out the deets and add your name to the waitlist.

Alrighty, that’s it for December AND 2024. Bring on 40 and the New Year!

Puhlease feel free to hit me back and let me know if you have any podcast episode requests, IG post ideas, or suggestions for new workshops/courses/services. Real talk, I can’t get back to every email, but I promise I read every single response.

Maestro out.

PS – For those wondering about the exact date, I’m a New Year’s day baby…and my brother is Christmas. We stay celebrating.


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