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🤔 Brainteaser of the day: You can open me, close me, sort me, and clean me out, but I’m not a closet. What am I?
Click here to see the answer.
✅ Today’s Checklist:
Why Kristel puts marriage meetings on the calendar twice a week Your next binge if you loved Yellowstone Pet of the week: Meet Quincy Grange
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The Marriage Meetings That Keep Us Sane
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My husband and I both work from home, and we have two pre-teens. On paper, it sounds like we should have all this built in time together. But being in the same house all day is not the same as actually connecting.
We are both working, fully locked into our jobs, bouncing between calls, emails, messages, and deadlines. Then the workday ends and the second shift begins with kids, dinner, homework, and all the little things that keep a household moving. By the time we finally sit down, we are tired, distracted, and honestly not always at our best.
For a while, our important conversations kept happening at the worst possible times. One of us would want to talk through stress, feelings, or some big decision right when the other person had absolutely no energy left. It was not that either of us did not care. It was that one person was ready to connect and the other was already mentally checked out.
So we started doing something that felt slightly ridiculous at first. We put marriage meetings on the calendar. Twice a week.
One meeting is for connection. That is where we check in on how we are actually doing. We talk about pressure, anxiety, happiness, things that are feeling heavy, and anything that has gone unsaid. It gives us a dedicated space to make eye contact, listen, and be fully present with each other instead of trying to squeeze emotional connection into a random exhausted moment.
The second meeting is financial. We go over expenses, upcoming plans, anything money related, and whatever decisions need to be made. It keeps those conversations from creeping into every other part of our week.
Seriously, it has helped more than I expected. We communicate better. We interrupt each other less. Little frustrations do not pile up the same way because there is already space to talk. Even our money conversations feel less loaded because they are not catching either of us off guard.
What I love most about these meetings is not that they are groundbreaking. It is that they are intentional. They create space for conversations that used to happen badly or not at all.
It is not glamorous. It is not spontaneous. It does not sound particularly sexy to say, “Let’s discuss our feelings and the budget.” But it works.
In this season of life, when everything can start to feel rushed and transactional, these little meetings help us stay connected on purpose, and that feels romantic in its own way.
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Kristel (TA Marketing)
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The Tool That Runs The Assist (And It’s Free to Try)
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If you’ve ever thought, “There has to be a better way to keep my work organized,” you’re absolutely right.
At The Assist, we use Notion for everything.
Our content calendar? Newsletter drafts and edits? Team workflows, ideas, campaigns?
All living in one place (you guessed it: Notion).
It’s the only tool we’ve found that actually adapts to how you work. Whether you’re organizing your life, running a side hustle, or managing a full team, it keeps everything streamlined without the complicated UX. No digging through Slack threads, no lost docs, no “wait, which version is this?”
Right now, you can get up to 3 months free of Notion Business access, including AI features (no payment required upfront).
Here’s what you get:
AI writing and summarization built directly into your workspace Collaborative docs and databases that actually keep everyone on the same page Templates for everything from content calendars to project trackers to personal goals One place for all of it so you stop losing time switching between tools
👉 Grab the free offer here.
P.S. You’ll need a Notion account to get started. Takes about two seconds, and future you will be glad you did.
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📚 Read: Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life by Jamie Kern Lima
If your inner critic has been running the damn show lately, this is a solid reset. It’s about building real self-worth (not “positive vibes only”) so you stop shrinking, second-guessing, and waiting for permission to go bigger.
📺 Watch: The Madison (Paramount+)
If you like the Yellowstone world but want something more character-driven, this one’s for you. It’s got the Montana backdrop, high-stakes family drama, and a strong female lead energy that makes it feel less macho-posturing and more emotionally gripping.
🎧 Listen: Human Sleep Expert: Don’t Pee In The Middle Of The Night & Why Night Time Sex Isn’t A Good Idea! by The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Truly one of the most comprehensive sleep episodes out there, in the best “take notes” way. Thania says it gets into chronotypes, pillows, melatonin, and the small environmental tweaks that make falling asleep easier, plus practical fixes for waking up in the middle of the night.
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The Simplest Way to Stay Informed When You Have Zero Time to Spare
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You care about what’s happening in the world. You want to be the person who’s plugged in, who can speak to what’s going on in business, culture, and beyond… and you would be, if staying informed didn’t require so much time you simply don’t have.
1440 is a free daily newsletter that fits into the margins of a packed day: one five-minute read from 100+ sources covering business, politics, tech, science, and culture. Fact-based and free. You get through it with your morning coffee and walk into the rest of your day already knowing what’s going on.
👉 Join 1440 for free.
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