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Welcome to the Winter Semester!
It's January. There is much to do. We have goals to hit and worlds to change, right?
And normally, you hear me being the voice of slowing down and taking a beat, but let’s be honest. The world is a 🗑️🔥 currently. We need as many people as possible doing as much good as possible, redirecting as many resources as we can toward worthy causes and goals, right?
Now, I didn’t pick a word for this year. Last time I chose a word of the year was New Years’ Eve 2019, and we all saw how that turned out. So in the interest of living in slightly more precedented times, I’m not doing that again. However.
If I were to pick a theme for 2025, which I recommend doing as part of your annual Unplanning process (check the workshop at that link, I’ll be updating it again this year!), it would be this:
LFG.
(That's short for “let’s f*cking go”, for the uninitiated.)
That’s the vibe of this year for me. I want to create unprecedented support, incredible amounts of recovery and equality, I want to make sure each of you have the resources you need to make the difference you can make in your homes, families, and communities.
In 2024, the “New Rich” were those with time and money to travel and live a soft life.
In 2025, the “New Rich” are those with the ability to participate in mutual aid; support causes they care about; redirect resources to small businesses and local communities from oligarchs and governments; and in general, use the best parts of capitalism against itself so we can support other people like us and the causes that are important to us.
Everything I’m creating with you in Solo School this year is to that end. It is with that goal in mind.
To create income equality, to empower neurodivergent folx with the ability to earn an uncommon living in unconventional ways, to dismantle outdated systems of power, and to use the system against itself. From our new Rapid Capitalization Program through the roadmap and all educational resources, capped off with the Sustainable Scaling Mastermind. It’s all there.
So, as previously mentioned:
L. F. G.
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We hope this guidebook has helped you navigate everything available to you inside of Solo School this semester. While navigating the world as a neurodivergent human can be stressful and frankly quite overwhelming, especially from a sensory perspective, we hope that our resources and community have made your life as a neurodivergent human running a business a little bit easier. Or at least, made you feel less weird about it being hard.
Our next semester will kick off in May of 2025, which feels wild to say. Solo School started as an idea in the fall of 2022, when I was serving more and more of my fellow neurodivergent humans with my course for freelancers and consultants to get clients. I had a vision for a space that would provide comprehensive education and support, peer mentorship and connection to people like us. But I had… No idea how to make it a reality. It started with a live series of workshops and an all access pass for Black Friday that year, and in the two years since, has progressed into a full-fledged business school with 8 mentor coaches and 25 classes.
We hope that as we add features like the SoloSchoolAI - your strategist and executive functioning bot; peer mentorship and buddy systems; our private podcast; more coaches, courses, and workshops; and more, you’ll stick around and continue to grow with us for years to come.
It’s amazing to think what we can accomplish in two more years.
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