The parts of building a business nobody posts.
Every Friday a new episode comes out, here and on YouTube: what's working, what broke this week, and what I'm doing about it. Once a month we do it in person, in a room of owners who get it. Free, always.
An inside look at business building, the parts nobody posts. Every Friday a new episode lands right here and on YouTube. Watch it, catch up on the ones you missed, and send it to an owner who needs it.
You're the one everyone brings their problems to. Once a month, bring yours. One topic, a short talk, then the room works through what you're stuck on, together. No pitch, no panel, no 60-slide deck.
This one is a little different: I'm in the chair at Xchanges Hair Artistry in Kenilworth with Rosi Manto, my hairstylist of over 20 years, 36 years in business. She was going to be a photographer. Instead she opened her first salon in 1995 planning to keep it small, and grew to three salons and a barbershop.
We talk about the work ethic you get as the child of an immigrant, using your platform to give back, why every stage of business requires a new version of you, finding your own lane, and why the small businesses you love deserve a little grace. Plus the story of my fuchsia buzz cut.
By August 2025 I was stable for the first time since I was a teenager, and I finally had the capacity to build something of my own. This episode is what I built and why.
I went all in on learning AI, joined a course, and finished top of the class. But the business model they taught didn't sit right with me: ask a few questions, connect a few generic tools, charge five figures. So I spent a year talking to small business owners instead, and I realized the people who need the most help are the ones who still won't get it, even with AI. That's why I built ALVI Solutions: big-business structure for small businesses, tailored to how you actually run yours, at a price you can afford.
Last week I told you where I was. This week is 2025, the year I finally got answers. Five conventional neurologists, three at Mount Sinai and two at NewYork-Presbyterian, and the most anyone gave me was migraine pills. Memory loss, brain fog, neck pain so bad some days I couldn't turn the steering wheel. We had to rule out early-onset Alzheimer's and a spinal fluid leak.
Then a functional neurologist changed everything: hyperbaric therapy, a ton of neuroplasticity work, diet, epigenetics, even the clothes I wear. It wasn't fun, but once my brain quieted down I could finally change my habits, and that's what let me start my business. Today's message: don't settle for what people tell you it is. Find your answers. It's a process.
In 2019 my colon burst inside of me, and that wasn't even the first time I almost died. In the very first episode I tell you where I was just a few years ago: 22 years of severe Crohn's disease, more than 50 procedures, and a 46-day hospital stay that sent me home at 86 pounds, unable to walk.
Then how I came back. The three things that got me through: being real with myself, cutting out the excuses, and pushing through on the days I didn't feel like it. Why I spent seven years cleaning up everything, from my diet to my headspace, before I felt ready. And the real reason I finally stopped playing small and started building something of my own: my husband.
Twenty seats, first come. Reserve yours here and I'll email you the address and a reminder before the session.
Getting what only you know out of your head and onto paper, so the business doesn't stop when you do. You'll leave with a one-page map of how one job moves through your business. Bring a notebook.
One registration covers everything: an email every time a new episode is out, and your invite to every free in-person session.
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