Margs and Mindset

Send us Fan Mail Two days can change the way you run your business and the way you run your life, but only if you’re willing to get honest first. We sit down with margaritas in hand, still processing a three-hour VIP day with our business coach that left us feeling like different people. The surprising part was not a shiny new tactic, it was the inner work that cracked everything open: naming the...

Send us Fan Mail We thought we were hosting a simple content day for vendors to get fresh brand photos. What actually happened was a full-body reminder that community is the real growth hack, and that the best business strategy sometimes looks like a room full of women telling the truth over good food. We talk through how we pulled this off fast (three weeks fast), why our masculine energy had to...

Send us Fan Mail The scariest sound isn’t metal on metal, it’s fragile vintage teacups crashing forward when you slam on the brakes and realize how close you just came to a real accident. We’re kicking off Friday with margaritas and a story that’s way too fresh: a reckless turn, a full car of one-of-a-kind vintage teacups and plates, and that split-second moment where your body goes straight into...

Send us Fan Mail A hurricane, a climate change speech, and a pink margarita might not sound like the start of a photography career, but that’s exactly where this story leads. We sit down with Britten Nicole of Britten Nicole Photography, the artist who shot our branding content day and made us feel more like ourselves on camera than we ever thought possible. If you’ve ever dreaded being photograph...

Send us Fan Mail Your knees crack after the gym, you blink, and your “baby” is suddenly 10. That’s the kind of emotional whiplash we’re sitting in today: the very real physical shift of aging in our 40s paired with the even bigger parenting shift of raising kids who don’t need us the way they used to. It’s tender, it’s messy, and it’s also strangely beautiful. We talk honestly about what it takes...

Send us Fan Mail Two margaritas used to be a harmless night out. Now it’s a full-body message we can’t unsee. We’re talking perimenopause, alcohol tolerance, and the moment you realize your “normal” needs a serious update. Not from shame, not from rules, but from finally listening to what your body is saying and choosing what actually supports your health, sleep, mood, and energy. From there, we s...

Send us Fan Mail Five years ago we were just hoping a family would say yes to a party proposal we built in Canva. Now we’re celebrating a fifth business birthday with a full-blown brand shoot, a cake that made our jaws hit the floor, and the kind of gratitude that only comes from doing the scary thing and not stopping. We talk through the milestone from the inside out: how time moves like a blink,...

Send us Fan Mail A vacation is supposed to feel like relief, not like a second job with 37 browser tabs and a dozen deadlines. We sit down with repeat guest Kim Della Porta, who made a bold career pivot from mom health coach to travel planner, and she tells the honest story of what pushed her to change lanes, what she was afraid it would “mean,” and why this new path finally took off. We get pract...

Send us Fan Mail Mother’s Day hits different when your life has chapters you don’t want to erase. We’re sipping margaritas, adjusting to mic stands that somehow make us feel like beginners again, and then we get honest about the real mood behind the holiday: gratitude, love, pressure, and memories that still have weight. We talk about what it’s like to celebrate being a mom while also carrying com...

Send us Fan Mail Five years into business sounds like a celebration until someone calls your company “mature” and you realize… oh, this is the livelihood now. We’re sipping margaritas and telling the truth about what that milestone brings up: pride, pressure, gratitude, and the very real question of how to build a sustainable business for the long haul without spiraling into fear. We also get into...

Send us Fan Mail A grapefruit margarita at 10:30 AM sounds like chaos until you hear the point behind it: we’ve built a life where we get to choose our mornings. That little moment turns into a bigger conversation about entrepreneurship, time freedom, and why your calendar should be a tool instead of a trap. We talk about the never-ending to-do list and how changing the narrative helps us feel les...

Send us Fan Mail Eight courses will do that thing where you show up thinking you’re just going to eat, and you leave remembering who you are. We’re fresh off a North Carolina family vacation and the end of four back-to-back trips, and our bodies are begging for routine, homeostasis, and that simple grounded feeling of being home in our own space. We talk honestly about motherhood, travel fatigue,...

Send us Fan Mail Getting laid off can either shrink your world or crack it wide open. We sit down with returning guest Aubre Fox exactly one year after she gets pushed into full-time entrepreneurship, and the timing is almost too perfect: the day we record, we’re also processing a fresh layoff on our side. What follows is an honest, grounded 365-day look at how confidence actually gets built, one...

Send us Fan Mail The calendar flips to spring in Rochester and suddenly it’s go time: events stack up, the pace accelerates, and every tiny crack in your business systems shows up all at once. We’re fresh off a one-day retreat called Scaling For Sustainable Success, and it gives us the exact mindset shift we need to step into busy season without melting down. Not because we find a magic template,...

Send us Fan Mail One Friday call. Boss, boss’s boss, HR. “Effective immediately, you no longer work here.” After 11 years in corporate America, Lyssa expects the kind of moment that wrecks your stomach and scrambles your future. Instead, a smile creeps in and the truth lands fast: she wasn’t going to quit, so the universe pushed her off the ledge. We unpack the real-time aftermath of becoming a fu...

Send us Fan Mail Vegas didn’t blur for us. It sharpened. We came home one day removed and already know we’re not the same people who boarded that plane. No partying fog, no boozy memory gaps just full-senses, wide-awake joy, awe, and a couple of moments that hit so deep we’re still processing them. We went to Las Vegas to celebrate a 37th birthday and finally see Jennifer Lopez live on March 6, af...

Send us Fan Mail A pink-tinged marg, a splash of ginger beer, and a truth bomb: hospitality is the art of making people feel held. We sit down with Adrian of Seared and Sacrum—our go-to catering partner—to unpack how a women-led team builds unforgettable events through craft, care, and clear boundaries. From proper shake technique and why texture matters to edible storytelling that turns grazing t...

Send us Fan Mail Sun on our faces, sand in our shoes, and a whole new standard for what family time can feel like. We just came back from a resort-and-ruins whirlwind and a cruise that forced us to unplug, and we’re talking about how travel rewired our kids’ expectations, our work rhythms, and our own sense of what a rich life looks like. From a first sip of bitter espresso to a virgin daiquiri on...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you say yes without having any idea what you said yes to and walk into a house full of strangers with nothing but a weekend bag and an open heart? We did exactly that at a women’s goddess gathering and left with something rare: real friendship, a calmer nervous system, and a new standard for joy. This isn’t a recap of spa vibes; it’s the story of how cacao, Human...

Send us Fan Mail What if your most enduring love story began with a teacher asking a fourth-grader to be a friend? We share the arc from that first yes to a Valentine’s Day reunion in seventh grade and the 28-year bond that followed—one built on unspoken rituals, trust without scorekeeping, and a village-first approach to love and life. No clichés, no tidy labels—just the real mechanics of a relat...

Send us Fan Mail What if wedding planning felt like love instead of noise? We share how a simple meal prep habit with Seared and Sacrum turned into a white glove partnership that raised our bar for every touchpoint—then fueled a bold experiment: a micro wedding expo built for intimacy, intention, and real conversation. We start with the everyday magic of great food showing up exactly when and how...

Send us Fan Mail A margarita, a mic, and a moment of truth: that’s where our conversation with leadership coach and community-builder Sarah Napoli really begins. Sarah opens up about the “pretzel twist” of corporate life—how chasing targets and fitting into someone else’s values can tighten you into a smaller version of yourself—and the surprising freedom that came when she loosened her grip on ti...

Send us Fan Mail A lifetime of vague symptoms can make you stop asking questions. When a clinician finally names the pain—painful bladder syndrome (PBS)—the relief is real and the path forward gets bright. We talk through what that moment felt like, why a diagnosis can unlock calm, and how to turn insight into daily choices that reduce symptoms and return joy to the body. We get specific about tri...

Send us Fan Mail Ready for a year that actually feels different? We open 2026 with a grounded surge of confidence, a clink of margarita glasses, and a candid look at how two weeks of family, silence, and sawdust helped us integrate life and business without losing our spark. From the relief of getting meal prep back to the reality of running separate households, we explore what happens when routin...

Send us Fan Mail A spilled margarita and some wildly irritating under-eye patches cracked open a bigger truth: we were performing self-care while ignoring what our lives actually needed.  So we started asking better questions. What do we want our days to look like? What do we want our kitchen cabinets to say about who we are becoming? That’s how a cabinet clean-out turned into a manifesto on curat...