Maxine

not me trying to get a biz/entrepreneurship degree by paying 50k/yr to hide the fact that I’m working on my startup during class, only to watch free khan academy videos before finals to teach me the entire semester’s worth of content in 5 hours effectively

@lan8ach Hiring at @arist

@AmandaMGoetz Incredible. Congratulations💗

I turn 40 today. My book was released into the world yesterday. And I’m sitting here in my hotel room in NYC, full of emotion. 8 years ago, I was 32 with a 4-month-old, 2-year-old, and 4-year-old and filing for divorce while working full time to support myself, the kids, and the growing legal bills from my divorce. Despite what it looked like on the outside...my life got pretty dark. I almost didn’t make it.I sit here at 40 living my dream of becoming a published author and continuing my deeply personal mission of helping women (and men!) make space for all the roles they play in life. I almost lost myself. Mom + Work took over the entire movie there for a while. But slowly, I started to make space for fun. I started to make space for health. I started to make space for pleasure. I started to make space for creativity. And with each fight to find those versions of myself again, I slowly found all of myself. And that is what my book is all about. Creating space for all the different / diverse parts of yourself. If you want to celebrate with me, please order Toxic Grit today and start to make space for yourself, unapologetically.

School can be boring — and that’s okay. Being bored does not mean someone has a disorders.

Harvard psych lecturer “If a child known for his sense of humor seems ‘less funny’ on medication, it could be that the medication is properly inhibiting them. In other words, it’s not that the child is less funny; it’s that they’re more appropriately funny at the right times.”

Must read. nytimes.com/2025/04/13/mag…

Young adults previously diagnosed with ADHD as children reported that by finding things that better suited their personalities, their ADHD symptoms disappeared. In other words, it never was a disorder; they were in the wrong environment. Being productive helped eliminate symptoms

“Rather than trying to treat and resolve the biology, we should be focusing on building environments that improve outcomes and mental health.”

One of the greatest evils of my 90s childhood was the sedation and casual drugging of young boys for acting like boys in a school system built for little girls. And it’s only now that we’re finally allowed to ask questions. Decades too late.

Everyone said to buy the dip but they didn’t say which one

cute @aolmorales 💛

you can just... charge for things

@tbpn send summaries via text. Set them up and schedule them via Arist - arist.com

Should we do a newsletter?

@riloreist 🥵

if you know what you’re doing then you aren’t doing enough

DM me if interested!

@paularambles @aolmorales

credit card points are to men what skincare is to women

Shoutout to my dad who gave me the world and to every person who plays the important role of a father 💙 my favorite poem by Rudyard Kipling in honor of Father’s Day —

rise and grind everyone. those products aren't going to manage themselves

@coldhealing @aolmorales