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It’s September 1st, Angels 👼🏻! And we’re back! I missed you so much I recorded a voice note to catch up! 💕You can listen on the web version of today’s issue!

♡ This Week’s Mantra: Discipline leads to habits, habits lead to consistency, consistency leads to growth.

♡ This Week’s Quote: “A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.” - Billie Jean King

♡ This Week’s Long Read: The New York Times Well Newsletter on how to build resilience as you age.

♡ This Month’s Book Club Book: Influence is Your Superpower by Zoe Chance! More to come next week!

This Week’s Mood Board

We’re Hiring!

If the below sounds like you or you feel like you’re perfect for the JD, please apply 🙂 For any of these roles, we’re looking for someone chronically online who is excited about the opportunity to create business-focused content from the cultural zeitgeist. It’s a fit if you’re obsessed with Forerunner Ventures, Emily Weiss, the business of Summer Fridays, and you have your finger on the pulse what the next cool brand is. You like reading US Weekly and BoF just as much as Morning Brew and listening to Scott Galloway.

♡ Paid Social Content Intern - Must live in LA ♡

♡ Editorial/Newsletter Intern - Remote ♡

♡ HSR Ventures MBA Intern - Remote ♡

Consumer News

♡ the brands, people, places, things that have captured my attention ♡

♡ Women’s Health & Beauty ♡

• Warren Buffet takes a stake in Ulta Beauty - (from WSJ)

• September is PCOS awareness month - (from PCOS Challenge)

• WWD put out their list of 2024 most powerful brands - (from WWD)

♡ Media, Entertainment & Creator ♡

• Paige Lorenze opens a Dairy Boy Country Mart pop-up in NYC - (from Forbes)

• Naomi Osaka delivers an instant classic US Open fit - (from GQ)

• The very mindful, very demure trademark battle has been “handled” - (from NPR)

• Alex Cooper grabs $125M deal, turns 30, and MUST be bringing Love Island star Leah Ketab into the Unwell network - (from People)

♡ E-Commerce, Retail & Social ♡

• New Balance overtakes Under Armour in sales…because of it’s Dad Shoe pivot - (from TBOY)

• What to do when your product goes viral (featuring HSR girl Pia Mance) - (from BoF)

♡ Tech & Business ♡

• 76% of NVIDIA employees are now millionaires, with 1 out of 3 having a net worth of over $20M - (from Traded VC)

• Private equity enters the NFL group chat - (from ESPN)

• How Red Antler quietly built its venture arm Habitat Partners - (from Modern Retail)

HSR Updates

♡ everything fun and exciting in the land of HSR ♡

• Sydecar issues State of The Secondaries Market report - (from Sydecar)

• Mixlab made the Inc5000 list of fastest-growing private companies for the 3rd year in a row - (from Inc.com)

• De Soi and Katy Perry were featured in British Vogue’s In The Bag - (from British Vogue)

• Flaus wins a SELF 2024 Health Beauty Award for the best flossing tool - (from Instagram) & Founder Sam Coxe spills the tea on what it’s like filming Shark Tank - (from Instagram)

TYSM, I♡U!!!!

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