A ROUNDUP OF SPRING'S SIMPLE PLEASURE 🌸

Parties and picnics. Graduations and gatherings. Field days and photo ops.

We made it through the first week of Maycember, {first_name}.

How you really doin' over there?

'Tis the season of school-sanctioned appreciation for teachers, and for moms.

I'm taking that as inpso to name and claim the simple pleasures that have been keeping me going in these past few months.💐

Some are spring-related, some just happen to be things I've enjoyed lately.

Organizing in #onherterms recycle-emoji style for easy reference, so you can see how I'm keeping the ~~lazy~~ Sparky Susan spinning.

♻️ SELF ♻️

🎂 Sparky 40 bday convos - as a way to celebrate my upcoming 40th, I've been reconnecting with dozens of classmates, colleagues, cousins, BFFs from every era for real-time chats. 10/10 recommend, whether you've got a milestone bday coming up or not.

🎶 "Maori Brown Eyes" by James Bla Pahinui, gorgeous song for custom alarms - fave way to wake up right now.

🤖 Pairing my fave tools and insights with ChatGPT to help me rebound more quickly when I'm noticing a fear, resistance, or otherwise sticky perception I'd like to clear. Sharing how-tos with my clients for values-linked power processing.

🦸🏻‍♀️ Naming my supplements to affirm their functions and add power + pleasure to the otherwise mechanical and mundane process of supporting biology on a cellular level.

♻️ FAM ♻️

🏟️ Middle school track season - blew me away. Will record a pod on lessons learned / remembered.

💤 Off season - no early practices for these last months of school! 🙌

🧱 3D printing biz -- my #naptimeempires boys are starting their own venture! one as CEO, one as a well-compensated VP sales ;)

🎄 Christmas themed bathtime tunes (foreshadowing summer plans I alluded to in a recent email..❄️)

🎀 Pinkalicious books (I Can Read versions -- short and sweet, feels abundant and doable even when bedtime is behind ideal schedule).

🍿 Love on the Spectrum, Season 3 - esp. "Boyfriend Forever" by Abbey Romeo: "I know sometimes I’m in my head, but when I’m with you, I’m in the world instead" 💘

🌺 Colorful flowers in our flower beds! A creative collab between my husband, 9yo, and our green thumbed neighbor.

🍄 Fantastic fungi keeping the flowers company and indicating healthy soil (hello, FRUITION).

♻️ BIZ ♻️

✨ More and more convos with clients who are CLEARLY riding the same wave right now - chills and tears of inspo are my fave value metrics.

💎 Hosting What Matters Workshop #1, years in the making! on-demand in progress.

🗓️ Creating a colorful calendar that includes a full YEAR of monthly workshops for ✨Mutual Inspiration Society✨ members, plus many more open to our broader community.

🍊 BODY on her terms - embracing the reality that the work we do (in our homes, in our businesses) is inextricably linked to our the quality and capacity of our physical presence. Having these convos in the gynecologist's office, the dentists office, the playground, and the pickup line.

♻️ INTEGRATION ♻️

Can you see how each of these points could actually apply to multiple categories??

How taking care of myself helps me take better care of my fam, how taking care of my fam positions me to take better care of my biz, how taking care of my biz is actually helping me take care of myself AND my people....

This is the power of identifying our true highest values and how they fuel each other vs. compete with each other. ♻️

It's the difference between feeling WHOLE and feeling pulled in three (hundred?) different directions.

Sometimes all it takes is a conversation - one simple perception shift, and it clicks.

This is a key part of the work I do with my clients. 🗝️

WHAT'S NEXT?

My REAL work is in making clearer invitations so you know how TF we can actually work together in this season and beyond.

There's so much cooking over here that it's easy for me to get stuck in my process vs. in active conversations that actually make a difference for YOU, now.

For the rest of May I'm dreaming up a "Previously on..." series to connect the dots of where we started to where we are NOW, biz-wise.

Also aiming to record (if not publish) the final 10 episodes of On Her Terms' first 100 episodes by my bday. Lmk if you have a request!

June's focus is CREATIVITY, so it makes perfect sense I'm over here tangoing with the tension between my creative vision vs. my lived reality - varying school schedules, upcoming camps, and kid care logistics.

If it feels like I'm sharing a lot right now, know that it’s just an introductory trickle compared to what’s coming. 🙃

Trying not to overwhelm you with the full picture, but also...can't wait for you to see. 🔮

All that to say:

If you'd love help clarifying and creating what an #onherterms (bod, biz, relationships, LIFE) could look like for YOU, we've got options over here.

Let's discuss.

If you're curious, trust there's a reason for that and hit REPLY.

We'll have a convo (via email or even real time if easier!) to see which offer shoe best fits your current needs / desires. 👠👟🩰

I'm here. I'm clear. And I'm not going anywhere anytime soon.

Sending lots of love your way this Mother's Day weekend, whatever it represents to you. ❤️

P.S. ⚠️ I do have one simple pleasure RECALL for this installment: I shared the silent (foam) basketball in a previous roundup, but we're letting ours go with love this week. 🗑️ After months of use, it's now fuzzy AF and shedding tiny orange foam sprinkles on every surface. Womp womp. Still love the concept!

P.P.S. Bonus round: Took my kids to see A Minecraft Movie a couple weekends ago and LedOL multiple times. "There's some negative space back there and we both know it," was a standout. It was a bit longer than my 4.5yo had attention for, but if a gamer in your life loves Minecraft, it's a fun way to learn more about their digital world. You could also share these MC-inspired life lessons with them. Values linking in action. 🎮

Hi 👋 I'm Nikki (Elledge Brown).

Writer, podcaster, and creative advisor for brilliant women who love their work, their people, and their alone time.

As a professional overthinker who believes strongly in INTEGRITY > BALANCE, it's my nerdy pleasure to create and share tools, questions, and frameworks that make it easier to feel good about how we’re showing up — on paper and in practice.

Around here, living like a whole human is the way.

That's what we call On Her Terms® living.