When I think of how we met, I can’t believe how we managed to grow a long distance friendship and make it work over the years.
God, that book wasn’t even good. The best part about it was the people it enabled me meet. But mostly just you.
Oh goodness. You and I have seen some shit, haven’t we?
One divorce. One nearly there. A baby. Watching while our six kids getting older.
Learning to runaway to the woods and take care of our souls, giggling over prosecco and getting away with it.
Building businesses and lives we love.
Traveling the world and falling in love with it all over again.
You deserve the entire goddamn world as far as I’m concerned.
Wherever we end up over the years, I know when I’m old and sitting on my front porch sipping on a lemon drop shooting the breeze that you’ll be there with me.
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A big ask – and lots to give.
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What happened. (Now leave me alone.)
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Fuck love and light.
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It took me 7 years to find sustainable success. How long will it take you?
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Dusti Arab, Fractional CMO
And the founder of the reinvention co, a marketing consultancy specializing in working with personality-driven companies with small teams.
Intense, fun, and relentlessly practical, Dusti understands the lives of small business owners are deeply intertwined with their businesses, and if their marketing is going to be sustainable, it can't get in the way of why they do what they do. (And honestly? It should be fun so they actually want to do it.)
She is the host of Referral Worthy, a podcast for small business owners ready to go from "best kept secret" to the go-to name in their niche.