I Got Tired Of The Hustle So I Switched To Adventure Mode

WTH is Adventure Mode?

I’m in a coffee shop right now, dressed like a domesticated momma in a dark green ankle-length wrap dress.

I may look like I have my life together.

(Heck, I even have a dark mauve lippie on my lips & Hobonichi planners on the table to seal the illusion.)

But inside? Total bonfire. 🔥

I’m feeling that familiar heat. The burn to start over. Again.

Blank slate. Fresh starts. Lemon water mornings, ahhh.

Wait, you might ask… What’s getting torched this time?

✅ Freelancing things? Yep.
✅ Agency stuff? Uh-huh.
✅ Creator dreams? You got it.

Okay, I might lose you here because I AM many things.

But, that’s the point of my life — our lives (coz you’re here). You won’t find us nicely tucked under a label.

Heck, my 2A hair let me play moon girl with the straight hair and banging bangs. Or the island girl with gentle waves that start midway through.

As a fiery multipotentialite, I am built for reinvention.

But as a strategic fiery multipotentialite, I can’t function if something feels off.

Like the Princess who can’t sleep because there’s a pea under her piles of mattresses, I won’t stop until I kick that misalignment straight.

Sooo this quarter ender, I am kind of rearranging my Portfolio Career (thanks Anna Mack for naming what we do).

And I’m taking you with me.

It’s not like I’m new to this, anyway.

I’ve spent the first 5 years of my working life as an electronics engineer in a global semiconductor company that even sent me to Ireland for a breakthrough project.

In those 5 years, I was also a newbie freelance writer, an OG blogger who splurges on 10 domains in 1 day. Wordpress or Blogger, I set everything up myself. After my 9-to-9. Yes, I worked 12 hours a day and I worked for an hour or two more when I get home.

Then, I felt the misalignment creeping in. It felt like I was doing something I’m not meant to do.

Sooo I took up Techno MBA.

It’s my first attempt to pivot in my adult life, but I abandoned the program right when I’m at 70% of finishing it. It didn’t give me the thing I was looking for.

Plus, it was expensive.

Then, I found my first freelancing mentor online.

Wohoo! I felt the impact.

From being a generalist writer who took on Candy Crush guides, travel articles, and even playful toys description writer (*wink*wink* IYKWIM?…)

I niched down to being a SaaS email copywriter. 😱 And almost everyone in that community knows me for my specialty.

I went from being an in-house SaaS copywriter to marketing manager, to agency owner, marketing consultant, to Fractional CMO. And I didn’t stop here. I attempted to scale teams for different services in just 2 years too: blog writing, emails, and copywriting. Name it, we got to ~$15k months and it was a time for us to thrive.

The rush, the pressure, the growth were fun for me.

I even got invited to speak on stage, sell courses, teach on webinars, and lead teams. The dopamine hits and recognition could really get to you, you know.

But… I’ve filled so many roles that at one point, I plucked myself away from the core of who I’ve always been — a writer.

A writer for myself.

And looking back, that must have been why I didn’t feel like myself for the last decade.

Well, apart from being a first-time mom.

But my kid’s 7 now and I am slowly getting my pink back.

Pulling my pink back until it’s the perfect hue

(If you feel like this sub-headline sounded like it was Chat-GPT’ed, na uh! I’ve read tooo many girl novels and magazines before this is how I talk in my head. lol.)

And now, here I am.

You could say I am living my dreams.

Back-to-back meetings ↝ Quiet, alone time in coffee shops
Cient work all day ↝ More hours for my newsletter and socials
Proposal writing ↝ Kindle + studying my curiosities

And I love the life I’ve created for myself and my growing family.

But… I have to admit…

The quiet hum of cafes in the morning is starting to feel a little too quiet. I’m ready to trade the slowness for something a bit more thrilling…

Sooo I’m switching to Adventure Mode

No hustle so I won’t rush into things I don’t want
No straight paths because we’re making our own. It’s more like gravel, sand or grass. Could be meadows, if you will.
No boxes because we’re not cats. We’re humans. We’re multi-dimensional and we were wired to explore.

This time, though, I’ll build a little more structure to keep the chaos in check.

And this is how I plan to do it:

👩🏻 As a Consultant

I’m a Lifecycle Marketer for hybrid SaaS teams that have both PLG and SLG motions.

This year, I started talking to companies who need this and my headline is working on LinkedIn. There are surprisingly a lot of Lifecycle Marketing hiring in the past months and I am excited for this.

I also have built my first lead magnet (with the plan of doing more frameworks, issues.)

I have also started a LinkedIn version of The Glimmer Code so I won’t have to go geeky deep on SaaS with my notes here. If you’re into SaaS and B2B, go subscribe for that one instead. :)

👩🏻 As a Creator

I’m focusing on growing my following on LinkedIn and Substack because I want to get paid to write for myself.

That’s different from getting paid to write for others.

Plans are to get sponsorships from SaaS companies, do affiliates, and sell The Glimmer Code digital merch a.k.a. Substack subscriptions, mini-courses, worksheets, etc. The usual.

👩🏻 As a Collaborator

CaaSocio is still serving clients and right now, we’re focusing on highly niched B2B clients who have a hard time finding and engaging their next prospects.

We also do special workshops from time to time too.

All three projects will fuel each other, stacking momentum and compounding into something bigger than I could ever accomplish if I tackled them individually.

I hope. LOL.

Yes, I’m definitely winging it.

And if you’ve noticed, my Substack has gotten a little bit wayyyy more personal than my previous issues (despite the good feedback I’ve gotten from you).

That’s because I’m also NPS-ing myself and I need to be happy and aligned with my work first so I can continue to serve you with content worthy of your time.

Well, The Glimmer Code will still retain its original idea, I’m just making it more about writing, content, and life-building for creatives rather than it being so SaaS-y.

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