1/3/2025 Newsletter
Recipes for Success is a weekly newsletter with recipes for success in your life, career, and kitchen from Sales Leader, Self-Love Author, and Homemaker, Stef Caldwell. Want more? Grab a copy of my debut book, ManifestHer, here.
👠 2025: The Year of The Leading Lady
If you read my newsletter, my guess is you’re ambitious, hard-working, kind, funny, smart, curious, resourceful, and either objectively successful already, or on your way there…
BUT you are also, so aware of what an imperfect, work-in-progress you are too, and all the ways you want to need to evolve, grow, learn and unlearn in order to reach your potential.
AND as a result of your extraordinarily high level of self-awareness and commitment to achieving your fullest potential, you struggle to let yourself be seen, you struggle to accept compliments, you struggle to believe the gifts you’ve been given are yours to open and share with the world.
SO instead of graciously accepting a compliment, you brush things off with a self-deprecating joke, and instead of allowing yourself to receive recognition as being a key ingredient to a spectacular outcome, you deflect the recognition and shine the light on everyone else instead.
You, I can tell, are a leading lady, but for some reason you are behaving like the best friend. And you’re supposed to be the leading lady of your own life for godsake!
🥃 My Man’s Hattie
It’s Ronnie’s birthday weekend, and he’s a big whiskey guy. He collects super premium bottles, and everyday whiskeys with so much enthusiasm, it’s infectious. His favorite cocktail is the Manhattan, which I also happen to love. A Manhattan is the perfect accompaniment to a fall day, a cold winter night, a summer campfire, or a million other scenarios.
