⚰️ Not Dead, Just Eating Snacks

Sorry I’ve been MIA for the past 6 months. Trust - there’s a 🍿 popcorn-worthy story worth reading below.

The bad news: building BLKBOOK without a safety net finally caught up to me. Life imploded, money got very real, and survival had to come before newsletters and vibes.

The good news: I didn’t quit. I rebuilt, refocused, and turned everything I’ve learned into things that actually generate income - starting now.

And here’s what that means 👇

• We’re about a month away from ACTUALLY launching!!!

• We start testing NEXT Week!

• We’re opening 5 spots for our Pipeline Accelerator!

• And, we’ve got an event THIS week that you don’t want to miss! 

So, here’s what’s on the agenda:

• 🎄 Sleigh the Room - Founder & Investor Speed Networking Event! 👀

• 🤖 BLKBOOK Updates

• 🔥 Apply to the Pipeline Accelerator

• 👀 Where the hell I’ve been for the past 6 months

• 🚀 And, of course, how I can help you grow

This week, I’m hosting Sleigh The Room because cold outreach is broken and pretending it isn’t is exhausting. So instead, I’m forcing the right conversations to happen.

Sleigh The Room is a live, curated founder ↔ investor speed-matching session. Short 1:1 conversations. Matched by stage, industry, and check size. No explaining your company to someone who was never a fit in the first place.

FREE for founders and investors with an optional VIP add-on for visibility.

A small number of sponsor spots are also available for companies that want guaranteed, high-intent conversations in the room.

👉 Register here

🎉 BLKBOOK Updates

Just in case you need a refresher - BLKBOOK is the future of opportunity: a system that understands your goals, learns from every interaction, and gets smarter over-time - constantly refining who it brings into your orbit. We’re creating the shortest path to the people and opportunities that actually move your life and career forward. Once you experience that, nothing else will make sense.

Now, let’s talk about updates because despite the chaos of the past six months, this part of my life has somehow turned into the most aligned, insane, unexpected silver lining.

A couple months ago, I was introduced to The Sundai Club. They don’t operate like a typical dev shop. They’re not taking on random projects or “cute side ideas.” They’re a small, selective group of builders who only work on things they genuinely believe should exist.

And somehow…they saw my vision for BLKBOOK, and said: “Yeah, the world needs this.” They paired me with two of their top engineers - not juniors, not interns, not outsourced randos - actual experienced builders who believe in the mission and have been building alongside me every single week.

We’ve been working closely, and I am not exaggerating when I say: We have made more progress in the last 8 weeks than I made in the previous 8 months.

And now the exciting part: We start testing within the next 1-2 weeks! 🎉

If you want to be an alpha tester and be part of the group that shapes the earliest version of BLKBOOK before we officially launch, sign up here: 👉 Alpha Tester Application

If you’ve been following this journey since the “20 people in 60 minutes on Hopin” days… this is the moment we’ve been building toward.

🔥 Now for The Pipeline Accelerator! Turn Introductions Into a New Revenue Engine

Most companies are pouring time and money into cold outreach, paid ads, and increasingly unhinged automation all to fight for attention in channels that are getting noisier, more expensive, and less effective every quarter.

Meanwhile, there’s a much bigger opportunity almost everyone is missing. If you already attract the right ICP - customers, partners, operators, decision-makers - the real value isn’t more leads.

It’s the connections between them.

The Pipeline Accelerator is a matchmaking engine that helps you turn your ecosystem into an additional revenue extension of your business. You stop being “another company in the space” and become the connective tissue your industry runs through.

Opportunity Attribution (The Part That Changes Everything)

Introductions usually disappear into a black hole. We don’t let that happen. As part of the Accelerator, you help shape the enterprise layer of BLKBOOK, giving you the ability to:

• Track which partners create real opportunities

• Attribute revenue to introductions and conversations

• See which relationships actually move deals forward

• Double down on what works and cut what doesn’t

This turns relationships into data, and data into leverage.

Why This Increases Company Value

Owning an ecosystem with measurable opportunity flow means:

• You control access to demand

• Partners depend on you for pipeline

• Revenue becomes diversified and repeatable

• Growth compounds beyond headcount

Who This Is For

This is for companies that:

• Already attract the right ICP

• Rely on partnerships and relationships to grow

• Want a revenue stream that compounds

• Are done fighting the outbound arms race

If relationships drive your business, this turns them into a scalable asset.

Apply to Build This With Us

We’re working with a small number of companies each quarter to design and run this engine properly. If you’re ready to turn your ecosystem into a revenue channel - and increase the long-term value of your business 👉 Apply to the Pipeline Accelerator

⚠️ So, Where in TF Have I Been?

Jokes aside, I didn’t “take a break,” I didn’t “pause to reflect,” and I definitely wasn’t sitting on a beach with a Pina Colada planning my Q4 content calendar.

Over the past six months, I relocated across states - left Portland with one suitcase and landed back in San Diego. Not for fun. Not for sunshine. Just one of those “life made the decision for me” moments.

I became a single mom overnight. Not the Pinterest version - the real one. The kind that comes with school meetings, “can you come get him?” phone calls, therapy appointments, and paperwork that never ends.

If I wasn’t dealing with court filings and deadlines, I was figuring out how to stay afloat. I’ve been in a multi-state custody situation that’s demanded a lot of time, energy, and mental bandwidth.

And financially? I had to start over. No job, no steady income, no safety net. The bootstrap fund went from “we’re fine” to “okay, cool” real fast.

So yeah - the newsletter didn’t exactly make the priority list.

And then I did what I always do when life tries to kill me

I turned into a f*cking savage and went straight into execution mode.

I launched a campaign and sent this ONE message to my network:

“Hey, I’m looking to take on 1–2 fractional gigs while I build BLKBOOK. Know anyone who needs demand gen, RevOps, GTM, or events? A warm intro would really help! 🙏”

And then sh*t POPPED OFF:

• Within week 1 → 12 calls booked.

• Week 2 → 9 more.

• Within 2 weeks → 2 new clients.

• Within 1 month → Intro to SundAI Club.

• Within 2 months → My own apartment.

• Within 3 months → Fully furnished and back on my feet.

I worked with a major agency leading outreach campaigns for huge conferences like the DevUp Conference, the Data Innovation Summit, and Alibaba’s Co-Create. Yes, Alibaba. I was working directly with their head of global marketing. Tell me the universe doesn’t have jokes.

Then I stepped in as a fractional CMO for a cannabis startup - which, if you know that industry, it’s like trying to navigate a field of landmines with a blindfold on.

And now? Both of those client cycles wrapped up. I’m back to building BLKBOOK, pushing the MVP forward, and figuring out this next chapter - as a founder, as a single mom, self-litigant and as a human who has definitely seen some sh*t.

So, while BLKBOOK is in the final stretch…

I’m taking on 1-2 companies for hands-on GTM and pipeline work while BLKBOOK finishes up.

If you need:

✨ A fractional CMO
✨ GTM Strategy + Execution
✨ Pipeline architecture + RevOps
✨ High-intent event strategy (that actually works)

Grab a quick call with me here:

👉 Book a call 

As per usual, warm intros are always appreciated 🙏