💸 $1K no-strings cash for scrappy founders (US) → Coach Darcy’s Business Freedom Grant is open through Dec 31: up to $1,000 to put toward launch costs, tools, or growth if a small cash unlock would srsly change your Q1 momentum.

🤑 Finance bootcamp for founders who hate finance (AU/NZ) → A 5-day intensive in Auckland (Feb) and Sydney (March) teaching female founders how to actually build models, understand cash flow, and pitch numbers with confidence.

☃️ Winter products wanted for multi-site gift guides → A lifestyle editor running 9 established blogs is sourcing cold-weather essentials. If you can send samples, this is a fab placement opp; pitch Ellen directly right here.

Last Time the Market Was This Expensive, Investors Waited 14 Years to Break Even

In 1999, the S&P 500 peaked. Then it took 14 years to gradually recover by 2013.

Today? Goldman Sachs sounds crazy forecasting 3% returns for 2024 to 2034.

But we’re currently seeing the highest price for the S&P 500 compared to earnings since the dot-com boom.

So, maybe that’s why they’re not alone; Vanguard projects about 5%.

In fact, now just about everything seems priced near all time highs. Equities, gold, crypto, etc.

But billionaires have long diversified a slice of their portfolios with one asset class that is poised to rebound.

It’s post war and contemporary art.

Sounds crazy, but over 70,000 investors have followed suit since 2019—with Masterworks.

You can invest in shares of artworks featuring Banksy, Basquiat, Picasso, and more.

24 exits later, results speak for themselves: net annualized returns like 14.6%, 17.6%, and 17.8%.*

My subscribers can skip the waitlist.

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_{*Investing involves risk. Past performance is not indicative of future returns. Important Reg A disclosures: masterworks.com/cd.}

💅 Serena Williams is building the CEO Cinematic Universe. Prime Video just announced The CEO Club, an eight-part docuseries following Serena, Winnie Harlow, Thalía, Hannah Bronfman and more as they run empires and lean into sisterhood.

👀 “Performative reading” is the new side-eye. Those people who read very visibly (parks, planes, cafés) have sparked a bigger question: are we calling out pretension… or revealing how little cultural value we give to reading at all? 

👋 Corporate America is quietly pulling back on women. McKinsey & LeanIn’s Women in the Workplace 2025 Report finds fewer companies prioritizing women’s advancement - and for the first time, women are less interested in promotions?

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