Hey YAMS fam! I owe y’all a little update—and an apology for canceling our Vibe Code session last weekend. I attended a women’s retreat and couldn’t step away to host. I’ll announce when the next session will be once I have the date confirmed. 🫶🏽 I needed this time to reflect, pray, and let go of some things I’ve been carrying. And I want to share what happened because this experience meant so much to me. Last weekend, I attended Faithfully HER, a women’s retreat centered on Healing, Empowerment, and Restoration. Friday through Sunday, about 65 women of different ages, backgrounds, careers, and walks of life gathered together. 😌🫶🏽 I had been looking forward to it. But the week of? Here came the anxiety, the restlessness, the overthinking: “Do we really have to stay at the hotel?” “What are we even going to do?” “What if people look at me because I’m coughing?” I was getting over a cold, hadn’t eaten, and was dragging my feet after work Friday. Your girl had an attitude before we even got there. But underneath all of that, I had been wrestling with something bigger. I had been having some very honest conversations with God. And by conversations, I mean sometimes yelling, crying, and asking: “Do you hear me? I see you blessing everybody else. What about me? Am I being left out?” 😔 Meanwhile, I’m always moving, overthinking, working, creating. Sitting still long enough to listen? That’s something I’m still learning how to do. Then came last weekend. Friday night, I walked into a room full of women who knew my mother. Mom is apparently Mrs. Popular, while I’m beside her trying to manage my shy-person panic. 😂 Then I spotted my cousin, whom I hadn’t seen in years, and finally exhaled a little. We sang, had a devotional, made fragrances, and turned men’s ties into these cute, bedazzled art pieces with pearls. My mom had a glue gun in her hand and was in her element. Watching her enjoy herself made me happy. 😁 When the line dancing started, I stayed beside her and watched the women have a great time. It felt like we were little girls again.

“Don’t just complain about the problems you see and do nothing; roll up your sleeves and get to work finding solutions and remedies.” — Maya Angelou

Guess what YAMS Fam, I’m putting every App of the Month in one place—starting now. 🫨 Because I know how it goes: you see an app, think “I need to try that,” and then three months later you can’t remember what it was called. 😂 The App of the Month module gives each featured app a place you can come back to. I’ll keep adding apps to that mode so you can explore them when you’re ready to use them. Hope you had an awesome week on purpose! -Whit 🫶🏼

Guess what YAMS Fam! WhitDubo.com⁠ got a facelift, and it’s LIVE! 😭🙌🏽 Before I start sharing it outside of YAMS, I need a few honest testers to explore the site, click around, and tell me what you think. And since we just talked about testing what we build, I’m sharing the site link with you. 👀 👉 Take the first look at WhitDubo.com⁠ If you have a few minutes, try it on your phone and tell me: 👀 What’s the first thing that catches your eye? 🤔 Is anything confusing or hard to find? 🚩 Does a link, button, image, or form act funny? You don’t need to be a developer. If something makes you pause, that’s useful feedback too. Be honest with me—It helps make the site so much better 🫶🏼 -Whit