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✨Jane ✨
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Creative, Branding & Strategy ✨Ad Geek & Marketing Nerd ✨Dog mom 🐕 Food fan 🌮 Hodophile ✈️ Gardener 🪴 TV/Movies 🍿 Books 📚 Science & Nature 🔭 Inspiration & more 🙌🏼

Available for hire: Creative Direction, Brand, Creative & Content Strategy, Copywriting
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Every message, design choice, and silence is a brand signal. Some signals build trust. Others quietly erode it.

This week’s Finding Connection digs into how to audit your brand signals & make sure the story you’re telling matches the one you’re living.
findingconnection.substack.com/p/the-ethics...
The Ethics of Brand Signals: Why What You Broadcast Actually Matters
Every brand is broadcasting constantly.
findingconnection.substack.com
Oatmeal for breakfast with a little tahini and maple syrup, topped with flax, slivered almonds, and pumpkin seeds is now one of my go-tos.
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
“Chasm” is a weird word.
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Stay up and ready 20+ pages to finish my book or head to bed. Yawning but, tempted.
November 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Matzo ball soup for dinner with rainbow carrots that colored the broth 🤣
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Things that make me cringe: Talking about "shipping" creative - like we're fucking pirates or something. Whhyyyyy??
November 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Haven’t made these Ginger Crack(le) cookies in ages. Came out ok but since it’s been such a long time since I’ve had them, hard to compare to memory.
Good molasses, ginger, cinnamon, and clove flavor.
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Pluribus is an interesting concept.

A lot of scenes without talking in the first two episodes which was different.
November 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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How do so many democrats still not understand that the ACA *was* the compromise.
November 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…”

Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.

🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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A new study shows #AI ads have higher CTRs until they’re disclosed as AI. Inside the AI transparency paradox, holiday ads and more in this week’s Sunday Strategy

open.substack.com/pub/thesunda...
Sunday Strategy: AI's Transparency Paradox, New Holiday Ads + More
Volume 2: Issue 45 // November 9th, 2025
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Today’s success: giving the dog a bath
Today’s failure: trimming dog’s nails

Time to make some cookie is for my reward.
November 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Waffles are the spreadsheets of breakfast. Little cells to hold the butter, syrup and other toppings.
November 9, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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“This industry hands out job titles with more reckless abandon than a sports doctor handed out painkillers in the 60s.” Why I tried to define what makes a CCO a CCO. Well, one of the reasons: www.martinbihl.com/business-thi... #advertising #creative #advertisingagencies
10 things to Look for in a Chief Creative Officer — Martin Bihl
Nobody asked me what makes a good CCO, so here you go. Advertising agencies beware.
www.martinbihl.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Why does it feel like it’s 5 hours later than it currently is?
November 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM
This weekend I need to season my new molcajete and comal pan so I can start using them!
November 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The BBC America channel should play more British shows. They did on mice upon a time. Now they syndicate American shows. Why?
November 8, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Do people actually drink beverages with sparklers in them? Seems dangerous.
November 8, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Watching S1E1 of The Chair Company and I’m not really digging it yet. Maybe it’s not my kind of comedy.
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Knew I’d be crying tonight watching the Bake Off finale. Looking forward to the holiday episodes in a few weeks.
November 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
So sick of this Amazon ad already and it’s got another two months of air time (holiday gifting).
November 8, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Every message, design choice, and silence is a brand signal. Some signals build trust. Others quietly erode it.

This week’s Finding Connection digs into how to audit your brand signals & make sure the story you’re telling matches the one you’re living.
findingconnection.substack.com/p/the-ethics...
The Ethics of Brand Signals: Why What You Broadcast Actually Matters
Every brand is broadcasting constantly.
findingconnection.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM