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Second week on the USA Today Best Seller list and I’m honestly in shock!!! WTF is happening?!?
I just want to thank every single person who is reading, sharing and posting about Toxic Grit.
We are starting a movement.
Amanda Goetz
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Amanda Goetz
@AmandaMGoetz
Author of Toxic Grit (coming Oct 2025) | 🧩 Life’s A Game Newsletter | 2x Founder + 5x CMO + 3x Mom | Prev @EY_US @theknot @house__of__Wise
- Yesterday a video went viral on TikTok when a woman shared the inside of her car after it caught on fire Including her Stanley cup - still in tact and with ice in it!!! The president of Stanley stitched the video in < 24 hours offering to replace her cup…..and her car. This
00:00 - Another day, another viral TikTok with incredible brand response. This woman bought a rain jacket from @thenorthface and was hiking in the rain in Australia where she complained she was absolutely soaked despite the rain jacket saying it was waterproof. Her request? Meet me
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00:00 - Watching videos of people who can’t afford to evacuate because flight prices out of Tampa jumped sky high. This is predatory behavior and should be banned during states of emergency.
- Things I know at 35, I wish I had known at 25. 🧵/
- I'm 37 and.... am starting a new career am starting a new relationship am in the best shape of my life feel like I'm just getting started. Can we finally stop saying life has to be all figured out by 30?
- Women are fertile for roughly 24 days a year. Men are fertile for 365. Want to prevent unwanted pregnancies? You are creating laws for the wrong group.
- First they called it “quiet quitting” Now they call it “quiet vacationing” Know what’s not quiet? How tired millennials are of BS corporate culture. We tried climbing the ladder and we still can’t buy houses or save for retirement. Agree with Peter Guse on this one. Out:
00:00 - If you haven’t seen the Harrison Butker graduation speech, please go watch it. Here’s a quote: “For the ladies present today, congratulations on an amazing accomplishment. You should be proud of all that you have achieved to this point in your young lives. I want to speak
- The further you are in your career, the less formal your emails get. Agree? I've seen CEOs send full emails in a subject line.
- Leaving work early because I haven’t seen my kids in a while. Instead of sneaking out, I let my team know where I’m going / why. If you want to create a culture of flexibility, you have to remove the stigma of guilt. Don’t apologize or act as if you’re doing something wrong.
- Been working from a quiet beach town this week and every morning I work from this cafe. And every morning I see the same 7-10 men come at 6:30am to get coffee, pull chairs into a circle and talk for an hour. So today I listened. They talk about the news. Their kids and
- Replying to @AmandaMGoetzMy only feedback: they should have stitched her original video to get more views. Her video: 10.3 M Their video: 3.8 M 7 M people are still waiting for closure.
- I’ve been a single parent for 6 years. Every year the kids ask why I don’t have presents under the tree and I always say “because I have everything I need” and hug them. This is my first Christmas with a partner post divorce. Today he asked to take the kids shopping for