Wow, I really did not expect that. Earlier this week I got vulnerable and shared some deep stuff in my Unconventional Newsletter and I am absolutely blown away by the response. I received so many emails, all filled with so many kind words and stories shared about the transformation happening in all your lives too.  It really is a testament to how we are all connected and on this journey together and I needed to let you all in on this collective experience. We did it, we got through it and we're continuing to get through it, and you're not alone going through it, I've got the letters to prove it!  

As I feel into this energy of gratitude for our human connection I also feel so much gratitude for this Nadbrad journey and all of you that have added your part into making it what it is and will be.  

I started this company on an intuitive dream that connected to community. I always felt that Nadbrad was actually a vessel for growth and connection not only for myself but for the people who chose to be connected to it (either as an onlooker who perhaps gains inspiration, as a customer who gains a new outfit and perhaps self appreciation and pride, as a neighbour who perhaps gains support, as a helper or employee who perhaps gains a creative outlet and a different way to connect). I've always dreamt BIG and felt a strong inner pull to walk the path and support this dream into reality but I get stopped so many times by that big F'n F-word, FEAR. It really can become so big and stop each one of us from walking our own best path, like what the F..! My brain can sit here and rationalize where it comes from and take the lesson but in the end it still has the power to win out and stop everything. In my last email I talked about how I'm trying to see it for what it is and then move forward with it anyways. I also mentioned how that is harder said than done, but you know what helps and makes it a little easier? People...Community...You! 

Thank you so much. Thank you for your support, all and any of it that you have shown and even felt within, it gets received. I feel all of it and it truly helps with the fears that I have. One of them being showing up, being seen and heard and sharing me (can you relate?).

So bare with me as I go down a rabbit hole for a brief moment, you're about to get a dose of my ADHD brain at work... 

I have this theory, and maybe it's already proven by science (if so let me know), but it's that when energy particles (in this case people) come together it doesn't create the equation with addition as we'd think, it actually creates with multiplication. And since energy has it's own set of rules for movement and connection, the numbers are way bigger than we even know, and the effect that that much energy can have is what I like to call, magic! This creates so much magic to go around, it could possibly become a feedback loop where all the particles are receiving so much more than they give. It's an interesting theory and I haven't worked out all the kinks in the feedback loop yet (trust me I've got a lot more theories on that part) but I feel like I have witnessed the multiplication happen too many times to ignore that when we come together and connect in any way, magic happens.  And here is some proof....I just wrote that paragraph and will hit send and share with you a personal theory and even more so, how deep my brain thinks every second of the day, even though there is a part of me screaming to stop typing and delete, this is too vulnerable, you are too much, this is not the place. But I'm going to send this despite this overwhelming fear because I'm feeling that connection and support, that magic. It feels almost like momentum and the fear has the ability to stop the loop.

It's so scary to open up, to walk the path, to live out loud and it's OK, we can all still go for it even with that fear because we've got each other.

So thank you for being here, thank you for being you, thank you for inspiring me and giving me the energy to walk this path.  I hope that some of this energy makes it's way back to you in the feedback loop and that maybe, just maybe, it's enough to help you overcome a fear too.

Here's to being authentically grateful and to walking our own paths towards our dreams, together ✨

Sending so much love and kindness
xo Nadie      

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