✨ Making Lives Better ✨

Table of Contents

• ✨ Humans Making Lives Better ✨

• ✨ Energy Income & Expense ✨

• Inclusive Communication Tips

✨ Humans Making Lives Better ✨

You know that thing when you’re all a tingle because people you know are actively working to make the world a better place? I have that. In spades!

And you know that thing when your feet are to the fire for a deadline and suddenly everything you need to write is so right on that you feel like you’re levitating while sparks fly off your keyboard? I had that.

What do they have in common? The definition, or at least Dee Grey’s definition, of Be the Glitter: making other people’s lives better.

So many friends of mine are making people’s lives better!

Dee Grey possess so many talents and excels in so many skills! She would be an amazing Chief People Officer, and Inclusive Engineering Leader. I can say with confidence that wherever she lands, she’ll make lives better. Here, in this clip, she beautifully works out the meaning of Be The Glitter.

My friend Eric Butler wrote quite the battle call for job seekers with disabilities for National Disability Employment Awareness Month. He’s not only raising awareness, he’s connecting job seekers with disabilities with inclusive employers.

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An amazing “Chicana” woman, Valentina Mendoza, is running for Congress in New Jersey. She’s fighting broken systems because she’s lived through what most of the other politicians running for Congress haven’t: burnout, survival, reinvention, and building from the bare ground up. She would be the first trans congresswoman in NJ. Wouldn’t she be a fabulous guest on Be the Glitter? https://www.tiktok.com/@votevale

And my friend Dina Nina Rutherford-Martinez is running for Wisconsin State Assembly. She’s a Transformational Leadership Coach, a transformational leader, comedian, spiritual practitioner, and Madison Alder. Her background in activism, hospitality, spiritual leadership, and public service energizes every conversation with grounded energy.

✨ So now that you have given these gorgeous humans some love (you DID Love, Share, Subscribe, Engage, Donate… didn’t you?), let’s talk about energy. Because all this, everything we send out and take in, that’s energy. So it’s worth giving it some observation and respect so we can continue making people’s lives better.

✨ Energy Income & Expense ✨

As I said in my last newsletter, Money does make the world go ‘round, but so do people, intentions, actions… This is all, including money, energy.

When we’re moving through our days in scarcity mode, we’re panicked about money, right? Never have enough. Where to get more? Who has more? What am I worth? OMG how can people find me valuable?

Yeah, I know, easy to do right now. All year. Into the foreseeable future. I get it.

AND

When we work from a place of purpose over profit, stars eventually align. Sure, it’s a long game. This is coming from the person who focussed on feeding her heart instead of her piggy bank since November. And next year I’m going to be energizing so many more people, making bigger, stronger waves of change… and loving it.

My ask: Think of energy before dollars. Earn, spend, manage your energy wisely. Consider what an energy budget looks like for you. Where can you dip in for good energy, invest your energy, collect and share energy?

Ask yourself how you are showing up. Life just might surprise you (in a good way).

🤩 Oh, just you wait until I can share more good news! You’ll just have to stay tuned.

Inclusive Communication Tips

This week I highly recommend you download the free chapter of Amelia J. Michael’s book, Gender Inclusion at Work. They give you quite the extensive vocabulary to educate you and guide you through inclusive communication anywhere.

Amelia was an amazing guest on my podcast, as well.

Thank you for reading! Perhaps we’ll run into each other at in-person or virtual networking events. I’ll keep writing, building the podcast, updating my website, and preparing for an epic 2026. ⚡️ I’m recharging and feeling quite electric! ⚡️ Are you?

Sending you lots of love,

Wa’am
aka Laura Paisley Beck

PS- Reply with the song you play when you need that boost of good energy.

PSS- What do you think of my guinea pig ad idea?