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The Life of Yes℠ (LOY) Community —

“It’s the best corner in the socialsphere. And y’all are my people.”

“I’m in here and stay in here because of the quality of people, to see what they are doing, to learn, and to be around ‘Saya-minded’ individuals.”

“It’s a safe space!! I love that you are free to ask any question and people are always so nice and positive (100% by design). LOY is where I go when I feel like my can-do meter is slipping, and I always feel pumped up!”

A welcoming, non-Facebook space to share, ask, vent, brag, get inspired, be around positive stranger-friends who are interested in figuring out their Life of Yes℠ and living to make that reality.

After you fill out below + press SUBMIT, this form will refresh with a link to officially join ($30 a year; $3 a month) —

“I love that I can literally ask ANYTHING in this group and someone will have an answer. I did a search yesterday for my posts in this group (looking for something from the wayback machine) and realized how much joyful randomness is in here, and it’s all amazing and supportive and yay love”
“This is a space of abundance in all the ways. No scarcity or lack.”
“This is one of the few spaces I’ve seen where people are genuinely kind and open. I can definitely feel the goodness. The response and engagement is pretty damned impressive.”
“You asking for home repairs is how I got my own home repair!!”
“I was just thinking about this the other day, what a great group this is. It is a true community group in it’s own right. I think the group is perfect as it is, it’s a clean group of hand-selected humans that are truly kind. Thanks for having me and the group.”
“I really love the variety of topics, the kindness, and the total lack of pretension. Also, smart and a robust sense of humor. Thank you Saya and everyone for making this such a fun and interesting community! My neurospicy brain loves this combo!”
“LOY is my go-to group for the messiness of life. I can ask about home repairs, job help, singing with other humans, open-water swimming. It’s all fair game. It’s so refreshing to not have to fit my messiness into a million different digital boxes. Thanks for creating space for good humans to help good humans do life.”
“There is something about the Saya-goodness that makes me know (and experience) the generosity, openness, vulnerability, and honesty of the members of in this group! I just know I’ll find ideas that are worthwhile; questions and comments that are happy, sad, silly, and smart; and ZERO questions that someone could just friggin’ GOOGLE. It makes me honored to be here.”
“Some days I still think I need to scroll less. But the stuff in this group adds to happy and yay, not guilt and feeling unaccomplished.”
“I like supporting fellow LOY-ers and I don’t know how else I’d find them if it weren’t for this group or meeting them at specific LOY events.”
“I share things here because I think all of us sharing a little of what we do, the projects we have doing on is a reflection of the quality of the group and what we all are up to.”
“I learned how to swim, made a guest Mac and Cheese travel blog appearance, and got an amazing photo shoot because of this group.”
“I’ve definitely gotten warm and fuzzies from this group, even just reading through comments, etc.”
“People here all have manners, know how to behave and just all around have good common sense.”

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