Welcome back to The Smart Girl Newspaper: your curated, weekly, newspaper for the curious and intelligent parts of you: an antidote to the doom scroll and complacency. This week, we cover neuroscience, both when it comes to positive affirmations and how to use it to help us solve problems in business & in life! We also chat etiquette for allll the holiday parties coming up,
PS. If you have a topic you’d like to chat about, an article that spoke to you, a jaw-dropping video you saw, an activity you love, or an interesting experience you enjoyed, I’d love to share it! Please reach out!
Listen: 84:: The neuroscience behind Lucky Girl Syndrome (how affirmations & manifestations can rewire your brain) on Spotify & Apple.
It is about time we dive into the actual neuroscience behind positive affirmations and manifestations! Researching for this episode actually made me so excited to be more intentional and purposeful with daily, positive affirmations, and this episode walks through how to do it based on the research and neuroscience! 2026 better watch out!
Watch: Dining Etiquette: how to master basic table manners by Jamila Musayeva on Youtube.
With the holidays coming up, we can use this video as a refresher on proper dinner guest etiquette! (I watched on 2x speed, so it is a quick reminder!) She talks what to do with your hands, your phone, your purse, and also how various cultures differ in what they consider polite.
This was a super interesting commentary about the ethics of targeting kiddos for “self-care” based treatments. I think this conversation is something we will be hearing more-and-more about, so I found it fascinating to hear their perspective. They also explore the double standard of the female founder and how we expect immediate access to everyone we try to contact! Let me know your thoughts!
Read: The 20-Minute Writing Exercise That Neuroscientists Say Can Solve Your Hardest Problem by of Courage to Create.
A merge of neuroscience & action to solve your hardest problems in business & life! takes us through her step-by-step journaling exercise that helped her solve a large funding problem, then walks us through the neuroscience of why it works!
Listen: Jaclyn Johnson and Marina Middleton (Create & Cultivate) on How to Sell Out a Live Event, the Future of Community, and Whether Virtual Events Are Dead on Social Currency with Sammi Cohen. Listen on Spotify or Apple.
Listen: What is Private Equity ACTUALLY & How Does it Affect YOU? by Vivian Tu on Network and Chill with Your Rich BFF on Spotify and Apple.
This feature was inspired by my goal of becoming more aware of the terminology surrounding the stock market, funding structures, investment strategies, etc. (yes, I used all of those phrases knowing full well they probably overlap! hahah) If you are also like me and want to understand the entire financial dictionary, then this one is for you! (PS. If this is your expertise and you’d like to help educate all of us, I’d love to get you on the pod! Let’s chat!)
I hope you guys enjoyed vol. 003 of The Smart Girl Newspaper! Stay tuned for next week!
