Shout out to Hannah Werman and Chris Tung for buying me a coffee! Hannah is an amazing software engineer I had the honor to coach and is living the life of a digital nomad. Chris is a Product Marketing Manager at Google and as a side hustle (!!), he created a virtual coffee chat site where I just signed up to be a beta user. ☕️----My last newsletter had the most replies of any issue and that was amazing to see. Thank you so much for reaching out, learning, listening, and taking action. ✊🏾It is a challenging time for all of us in different ways. Anti-racism, standing up for Black lives, being Black isn't a one-day or one-week event. It's making intentional decisions and acting continuously and consistently every day. It won't be easy, but I truly believe that we will come out of this experience better, stronger and more empathetic. This week I started to ease back into day job work which was hard. Mostly because my energy is so up and down (mostly down). And it's forcing me to work differently and rest a ton. Simply because healing from this injury will take time. And baby steps. So I need to listen to my body and prioritize rest as much as possible. I'm so blessed and grateful that both of my day jobs are extremely supportive about that. This takes a huge weight off my mind so I can focus on doing what I can but also taking it easy at the same time. Of course I want to do more. It's my nature. But the universe keeps sending me signs that the best thing I can do for myself and the resistance right now is rest and recover. Speaking of recovery, I had my two-week post surgery followup this week and good news, is that I'm healing quite nicely. It was really hard to see my poor ankle though but bruising is a sign of a progress and recovery so I'm trying to remember that. No weight on it just yet, but I can start some conditioning exercises to help restore my range of motion.Side hustle wise, the pandemic and the injury has made me do a lot of thinking. Not much has changed for me. I still want to help people with side hustles but I'm getting clearer on the what (with the overwhelm, figuring out those first steps) and the how (through pick my brain sessions, workshops, and sharing resources and tools). I also want to make sure I'm doing it in a way that makes sense for me and this new now we find ourselves in. So I'm continuing to brainstorm what that looks like and will keep you posted.On to the picks!