Hey, beautiful human -

No freebie this week.

No productivity nugget or shiny download.

What I do have?

A brain that’s been running a 4-tab meltdown with an espresso chaser.

And a story I didn’t plan to tell - but let’s be honest, those are usually the good ones.

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🌀 One Real Moment

Yesterday, I tried to make a simple AI image.

Should’ve been a 10-minute task.

Instead, it became a multi-platform nightmare with a side of identity crisis.

Chatty G gave me chaos.

Gemini claimed it made 8 images, then showed me none and asked for money.

I said: Absolutely not.

So I grabbed the least-wrong image I could find, hauled it into Canva, poked at it with the “grab” tool, took a suggestion from my husband, and willed it into something usable.

Still wasn’t right.

Cue the slow-motion, high-impact meltdown.

At that point, I knew: if I was going to get through the rest of my weekend without dissolving into a heap of unread notifications, I had to surrender to structure.

So I dumped every task, deadline, and half-finished idea into Chatty G and asked it to make a plan I could actually follow.

And hey - it worked.

For a minute.

Then I faceplanted into Kit’s subscriber filter settings.

Turns out the 83 people I thought were on my list?

Actually 109.

Because Kit hides unconfirmed subscribers unless you go digging.

So the email I thought I sent to 63 people?

Only hit 42.

Cue me at 1AM, hunched over spreadsheets, cross-checking databases like a feral librarian on a vengeance arc.

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But here’s the part I wouldn’t have understood a year ago:

I have ADHD. With executive function issues.

And before I knew that, a week like this would’ve convinced me I was lazy, flaky, incapable.

Now I can call it what it is:

Overwhelm.

Cognitive traffic.

A brain that runs hot - and needs systems, not shame.

I’m still learning to work with this brain instead of dragging it by the ear.

Still figuring out how to show up for myself without needing it to be perfect.

That’s the real win this week.

Not the Canva hack.

Not the inbox drama.

I didn’t give up.

(I wanted to. But I didn’t.)

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🛠️ One Tiny Tip

If your brain feels like spaghetti and your inbox looks like a crime scene, try this:

Nope, that’s not the prompt I used - but it’s one I recommend all the time, and yes, it works.

Chatty G will gently talk you through the chaos, no side-eye included.

Too fried to even answer questions?

Try what I did:

Sometimes asking for help is the smartest thing you’ll do all week.

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📅 What’s Next

AI Confidential: Founder’s Cohort kicks off this week.

Two sessions.

A whole bunch of curious, weird, over-it humans (myself included)

getting together to figure out how to use AI without losing our humanity in the process.

If you meant to sign up but didn’t - [reply to this email].

If you thought you were on the list but never got anything - [reply to this email].

If your gut’s whispering “maybe this is for me” - go ahead and [reply to this email].

No pressure. No polish.

But if you’re in? I’m glad.

Deb 💜