Carousel: January 2025

Being childfree, living apart is better for you, AI and loneliness, Pamela Anderson is everywhere, and don't fall victim to the Brad Pitt scam!

What a month January has been! It’s kind of mind-boggling. We’ve survived a lot and I know the astrologers say it’s going to be a wild year… But we’re going to make it! I promise you!

Without any further ado… This month’s links!

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💖 Make sure to catch the latest from Vortex Vision! And subscribe for GOD’S sake, because we have something brand spanking new coming to you next week!

💖 Start your day like this and watch your life transform, the extended interview with Helle Weston. If you’re hungry to create a morning routine and step into habits that empower you to be your best, this is a MUST SEE!

💖 Rewrite your future with this powerful poetry technique, the extended writing exercise with Chelsie Diane. OMG. Write yourself a Spoiler Alert poem right now!

💖 BFF glow-up: how to be the friend everybody deserves, the extended interview with Krista Williams. I think this is the episode we got the biggest response to. Female friendship is such an essential topic but it is also fraught with ~*~feelings~*~ that we don’t always know how to process! I promise this interview will bring you peace and help you realize it’s not just you going through this stuff.

💖 Why you get hotter and more magnetic as you age, the extended interview (and pole tutorial!) with Lux ATL. You’re not a decrepit old creature… The women I know who are 40+ are fucking thriving. Lux and I have a REAL talk about what it means to get older, and how we’re discovering even more confidence and passion as we age.

💖 Your life, rebranded, the extended interview with Erin May Henry. Ready to throw your whole life away and start again?! We relate. In this interview, Erin talks about a relationship that was just “fine” and how she summoned the courage and chutzpah to demand MORE for herself. This is a great watch to remember that it’s not about surviving, it’s about thriving.

💖 The truth about manifesting money and why it’s not what you think, the extended interview with Victoria Washington. This is such an epic conversation. Victoria’s perspective on money and the art of commerce is absolutely delicious. You’re going to learn a LOT about your financial habits and how to step into a new reality!

…And you have to watch Decks & The City, of course!!!

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💖 AI will make a fortune from our loneliness. Humans are lousy companions. Hence the dogs. We grumble, we interrupt, then we’re unavailable. We also number in the billions yet are somehow lonely. It’s the curse of our species: evolved to be social, surrounded by bores. Nevertheless, the old myth — that there’s a special someone out there, made just for you — might be coming true. Already, made-to-order AI companions are bewitching millions; some marry them. Perhaps you will.

💖 French Woman Says AI Brad Pitt Scammed Her Out of $850K. The scammers used fake, AI-generated photos of the megastar actor that led the French woman to believe she was communicating with the real Brad Pitt.

💖 Are You A Charlotte? Kristin Davis takes you back to the very beginning to share every fabulous detail of Sex and the City and how she became Charlotte York. Are You A Charlotte? is a wholehearted fascinating account of the show we love, the characters we befriended, and the storylines that captivated us.

💖 Why does my Gen Z daughter adore Sex & The City? ‘There were no dating apps!’ Evie almost shrieks. ‘And it’s wild to me that Carrie will go about her business all day and only when she gets home she’ll see she’s got a message from Big. On the machine! It’s just so weird how… inaccessible people were. And it looks pretty great to be honest.’

💖 The LA to NY migration has begun. For some homeowners who are already bicoastal, New York is the obvious place to live during the yearslong process of rebuilding their L.A. homes. “People need stability. They’re not going to check into a hotel for six months,” says Yan Gladkov, an agent at Keller Williams NYC.

💖 How Rick Rubin triggered my spiritual awakening. If you have an idea you’re excited about and you don’t bring it to life, it’s not uncommon for the idea to find its voice through another maker. This isn’t because the other artist stole your idea, but because the idea’s time has come.

💖 A new wave of micro brands. On the one hand, it’s never been easier to create, well… anything. You’ve got access to every tool, website, database, and product factory imaginable, and the barriers to entry are lower than ever. And yet, it seems harder than ever to break in. You have to be everywhere and nowhere. Sell everything and one thing. You need to have a community before a product. Make more TikToks. Sell more stuff. Stay on trend. Yada yada yada.

💖 Pamela Anderson's had an 'amazing, wild, messy life' — and she's still reinventing. "People don't realize when I was shooting Playboy covers, I was also at Samuel French [Bookshop] sitting on the ground reading Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill and Sam Shepard plays wondering, 'How do I get from here to here?'" she says.

💖 The best of both worlds: people reveal why they are childfree by choice. Scores of people shared their experiences, with some expressing sadness at drifting apart from friends after children arrived, while others felt supported in their choice – and love being the fun aunt or uncle.

💖 The older couples living apart, together. “For people who have had a lot of relationship experience or life experience, it’s about saying, ‘I can really love this person … but I no longer am driven by the need to do the conventional relationship and all the implications that come from that, such as being a carer, giving up property, sharing finances.’”

💖 Pamela Anderson interviewed by Martha Stewart, for Elle. “I want to do things that challenge me. I want to do things that are completely transformative. That’s the exciting part of all this—that people may start seeing me doing other things. I want to know what I’m made of. I feel like I’ve just scratched the surface.”

💖 It’s obviously the phones. The fact remains that even with the financial crisis, even with the lack of third spaces, we could all still be experiencing the company of our friends and family at home for free, and we are choosing not to. The U.S. Census Bureau’s American Time Use survey shows that we’re even spending less time with our spouses and children in favor of being alone. It’s because we’re on our phones, instead.

💖 ‘Googly eye bandit’ in Oregon comes forward. Hehehe.

💖 RuPaul's Makeup Artist David Petruschin on Getting Runway Ready. The Emmy-winner reveals what it takes to get the most famous face in drag to set.

💖 Gala Darling Method, my EFT tapping certification, opens doors soon (like, next week!), so make sure you’re on the list to get all the information… And a juicy discount!

Love you lots!