#THEUPDATE Amidst Work Week

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Disclaimer:
Everything below is a mix of what I observed and heard during the event. The goal isn’t to pinpoint "who exactly said what," but to share (usually) an outsider's view and overall perspective on these industries. I’m not here to act as a definitive firsthand source—readers should do their own research. I hope this inspires you to attend events, explore new industries, and hear what leaders are presenting. These notes combine my observations with thoughts on how things could run smoother and how ideas connect (IMO). I’m not an expert, you know? Just hanging out in the room with them. Enjoy!

• TLDR

  Kelly Tutors is mid-glow-up and deep in website overdrive. Less events, more foundation building . This blog marks #88 and tracks what’s been up lately: canceled speeches, cute merch, data dreams, and rewriting fairy tales. We're skipping conferences lately. This site is the main event.

  • Event Red Flag: Got ghosted after two months of planning to give a talk. Not even a sock back.

  • Watch This Space: Transitioning from Poll Week to Data Daily: cleaner, cuter, and less cringe.

  • Youth Ai Classes? The URL is locked in.

  • Downloadables in Progress: Because 45-minute reads deserve activity sheets.

  • Blog Links Broke 😅: The sacrifice of strategic restructuring.

Topics: Website Design, Branding, Longterm Plans, Marketing, Networking, Planning, Prioritizing, Monitizing,

WassuP!! I haven’t written a blog in a while - AND - just cancelled my event I was going to attend. WHAT!?!? Yeah. I’m in hardcore KT mode lately. It’s been so fun!! I’m trying to turn this website “around” aka give it a glow up, aka glamorization proclamation! Hahha. I want this website to be stepped up a bit and have just been finally giving it time lately. In the past, I’d been prioritizing events. Now, I’m taking every moment I can to build out this website profusely.

Why Attend: I just have so many amazing projects building up lately (two tv showsthen some online classes/camps adding, - all unrelated to KT. then KT is doing a lot —- i’ve got my stories, blogs, printables, social meida, and maybe classes on my OWN instead + my tutoring) - moass any day)… So, I want to make sure this one is caught up in the way I know it can be. Take a look at how it’s been going. THENNN keep adding more blogs. I mean, we’re at 87 blogs - BUT NOW THIS IS MY 88th blog hahahah. OMG let’s make it greaT!

Overall Event Reviews: Venue (5/5), Food (4/5), Speaker Content (5/5), Networking (4/5), Likeliness to Return (5/5)

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PHOTO COLLAGE AND COMMENTARY:

NOTES FROM THE EVENT:

below I’ll just categorize random topics that I’ve been working on, like, 16 hours a day when I can lately:

ATTENDING EVENTS:

Yes, at the moment I’m pausing events till further notice. LOL this one today was about upcycling, but they said it’s limited availabilty (and over 60 people signed up) yeah right. Lemme keep beign productive on what’s working. Why? DaWG!! Go look at my build up and ghosting of that speech I was supposed to give. That built up was over, like, 2 months - and then I got ghosted!!! I followed up hardcore and was dropped like a sock. I have had a number of business-things drop out on me over the years (this one was extra surprising) and that one was so weird and random that I”m liek - WOAH, KT!! You need a boat, girl. So I’m making Kt.c my boat. This website, even more than before. FOR SURE. It will hold me afloat and keep expanding. Then hold others, right? haha. AA style, getting a cruise. But let’s try to be more mindful of pollution right? Or if it all doesn’t hardly matter anyway, quit stressing everyone out! It’s all intentionally confusing!! And so were those last few sentences to most. But, yeah, for now no events are impressing me more than my website. I’m waiting!! :)

MERCH LINE:
My merch line is nearly complete for now. It’s just really fun and I’m wearing my own clothes all of the time cause I love the color scheme. It literally makes me happy and I’m getting compliments all the time in real life. It’s hilarious, I want to say, “thakns! I designed it myself… the entire outfit almost head to toe” - but who cares. You know? I love this KT fashion so much for myself, and so maybe others will to - but, you know, not a huge goal. It’s just surprisingly incredible. From the bags to the calm colors - I’m a huge fan hahahaha. And I’d like the colors to be brighter, so its why I push the © Reverse Pastel Theory.

AI CLASSES:

I’m working hard at laying a good foundation for ai education (for kids and youth) - I bought the website www.artificialeducationforyouth.com and lots of nicknames for it. LOL! This puts me top of the SEO as the white house starts to annouce the details of this education initiative. That website will be insanely professional and great. I’d like to just see how it develops, but I want to make sure there is advocacy for peace, an empowering childhood for all children, working with all the info we have to make a better world for everyone. Just I hardly want to put in writing my goals, because I know they can all be twisted and turned based off who is reading and then what they want to say. But I’d really like to help make sure that values and true care is being put into this. I want us to build a positive and exciitng future for hte world. Where peoplel are livign longer, happier, healthier, with positive feelings and more beauty in the world. More art, joy, music, opportunity, peace. Home grown food, happy times with friends, abundance, sharing, creating. You know, Ai unlocks this, we just need to change our mindset and take care of each other. The systems need to be put in place. I’ve seen how fun education can be overseas, too. And I want to bring education back here - to being super fun and useful, for living a fulfillign life. These days, most people are using Ai for life advice and purpose. So, let’s help kids understand what that looks like, how to navigate, listen to their hearts, and think with values, patience, respect, caution, and kindness.

DOWNLOADABLES:

My blogs are all very long, and I really love that. I like how my blogs are super raw (to be honest, I clean them up A LOT - unfortunatley. I wish I could write EVERYTHING but i don’t feel like i’ts always legal or safe. You know? So, that’s okay, right? Is it? That’s life. You can’t just say anything or do anything. You need to filter and choose wisely. So, these downloadables are a way to turn my blogs into different content that will revolve aroudn different points. Different things I’m learning and gravitate aroudn myself. Whether it’s wild stuff (liek the fact we print mice all the time, reprint the same dna, and can even print pre-aged mice!!) and all these other things. Like, it’s hard to find these wild facts inside of my whole one-our blog. So these downloadables will emerge over time as I can create the content to go with it. I mean, so little time so much to do!! And I’m a friggin’ single mom, okay? hahah. But life is good, my ex is awesome, and my daughter is even better times ten!!

STORYTIME KT:

As I read stories to my daughter, I have a new perspective lately. And I’m just like, waht is up with these spooky stories where all these kids are getting lost, kidnapped, threatened, scared. It’s too much!!? And then often no resolution until the last sentence where tehy’re like, Yep! ANd everyone is happy… and/or the gingerbread man get EATEN!?!?!? gimme a break. So I want to rewrite a lot of these familiar stories as alternatives. I may even write a few versions of them. I’d like to use these to help kids replace the stories tehy have in their minds of these characters, just if they’d like. Since we are remidned of these characters all the time, we thikn of the stories often. But I think there is more to explore in these stories and we can better understand waht was goign on in these stories in the first place. Why the heck was goldilocks alone like that? Etc. I’ll get into it. Then I’ll also sell books - but have the audio for free on my website. Then I can expand that. etc.

KT THEATER

I removed all the captions from my social media posts on KT Theater. It’ll be easier to keep up with this way. Why? Cause I’m not here to write quick captions. It’s not my thing and I won’t pretend it is. THat’s where KT Curates comes in (next topic). Instead, I am here to make graphic designs and write lengthy things. Heck, my storytime above was goign to be one story each - and now the story is three parts and I may have different versions 😂. You see waht I’m setting. Let a lion roam, okay? Let the chef cook. So, for KT Theater, now it’s just the existence of pictures, no more than that.

KT CURATES:

This is me caving a bit and letting Ai do more work. I’m going to have it write articles for me (WITH MY OVERVIEW AND APPROVAL, hENCE CURRRRATES!) and then make other stuff too. Bascially, its the section of stuff where i’m like - “THIS IS NOT MY ORIGIANL VOICE, this is Ai 100% basically). Dawg, though, have you seen “The Circle” - etc. I’m like how many more months/years do we have till ‘fake-us’ is everywhere and you can’t tell the difference!?!?? hahah. omg for real thoughhhh.

CATEGORIZING BLOGS:

Bro… i broke ALL of my blog links ever. hahahaha. So.. if you go back and click on aynthing I ever posted with a link, it probably won’t work anymore. It’s cause I’m doing a longterm investment, which is, shorting the URL of everything. Then, after that, I put all the blogs into categories (and will use those 8 great categories to build out a lot). It’s more of a ‘website - technical thing that I did, but actually, it turns into a really useful organization strategy for building out a lot more. So, thanks website efficency! hahah.. omg. NEXT habit to eventually pick up: naming files properly. and ‘meta data’ or wahtever htat is. guys. one thing at a time!! hahaha.

BLOG READING TIMES:

I have also added estimated reading times to every blog. I can’t imagine what it’s liek to just sit there and see my blog and be liek, omg how long does this go on for? Cause some are 5 minutes and some are almost two hours. So now you can prep mentally and/or move on. Dawg, your loss!! Your loss :). Right? Idk!! maybe for some. I like to think this website is full of value, fun, and perspective. Plus charm and character, right!!!

DATA DATA:

This is my response to Poll Week. When I first posted about Poll Week months ago, I did with a little awarness of the play on words. I don’t love it. But I still went for it. I think now, I know why. I am excited to show off that I’m rebranding and removing this word from my world. Why? Cause I want to show what it looks liek to do this. To step away from words and phrasing that has gross meanings, if you really wanna go there - cause I think its how peopel get away with things currently. I’d like to see more companies own up and our culture to change.

NOW WORKING ON:

• TLDR’s on each blog

• Shorten all URL’s

• Downloadables

• Stories (the happy gingerbread man version one, parts 1/2/3 completed

• Stories (next will be the thrifty three little pigs, idk if it’ll have three parts! will they all? I wrote that they will so far on my webiste, but let’s see. As I said, initially tehy were each one story.)

• Daily posts for social media: i’m mid-poll week, soon to be Data Daily, amped up!? Are we surprised? I am. hahaha I had no clue I’d be doing that, but I realize its genius. Linkey doesn’t like when you post twice a day - unless, its a post and a poll. So my goal is to get down to one QUALITY post a day on Linkedy and then also add in a poll. Daily!? We’ll see. For now, yes. So all that work!

• Live events, myself - online probably. Getting weekly classes for kids? Also maybe live events in real life… but, you know, wanna check off some of the boxes above first.

• Eventually update my blog on Natural Disassssters & The Nursing Gala which i’d forgotten I still haven’t completed!!!

• Babysitter Bootcamp is nearly complete! Will be a live event to start, then a series!

• KT is workin’!!

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Overall Event Reviews / Further Evaluations:

Venue (5/5) - I love my place and I make it better all the time. It’s simple but amazing. Lately I’m loving the bees that visit my flowers and I’m trying to get even more bees to visit. So far, the most I’ve had is three bees at a time.

Food (4/5) - Lately we have amazing loose-leaf tea being sold at my local grocery store. It’s extremely good ingredients too, nice and healthy with dandelion root, tumeric, all sorts of things. They have three teas so I’m drinking them the day. Alongside water with lemon and salt, etc. I love health lately hahaha. But I wish someone would cook for me someeeeee. soon. :)

Speaker Content (5/5) - Yeah, everything I’m making I love a lot. I’m proud of it all, I’d say, and love the direction things are headed. I wish I could work 10 times faster than I’m able, but it’s fun trying my best.

Networking (4/5) - Working this hard lately makes times away from work extra incredible. I love to spend time with my daughter, even my ex. It’s nice to have a peaceful family. And then I have lots of events I can choose to go to, people to see as I wish. My neighbors and neighborhood is friendly enough. So, yeah! Not bad.

Likeliness to Return (5/5) - For sure! I always get in different phases and this one is all about getting things done. It’s really fun to be in this mood and I love creating content. So… events, you’ll see me soon… let’s see which one finally pulls me into its warmth.

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Until next time, I wish you the motivation and success to search for opportunities around your area. Search and explore: Who is out there giving talks? There are new things happening all of the time.

Find relatable or interesting topics you like and check them out! Maybe even something hosted at a cool venue, if there’s no other reason to go. Let’s see what you can learn and discover not too far from home. 😊