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You’re not alone.

The doubts, feeling overwhelmed, burnout and worrying if you’re “good enough.” We’ve been there. But now we’re here to share stories, lessons, helpful tips and tools to help all of us chart a new path.

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Want to run your own BFF board meeting?

This tradition helped my friends and I build workout routines, finish drafting a book, heal relationships with family and much more. Turns out, the difference between just saying the goal and getting it done were in a few tweaks.

This guide will walk you through how we set up our BFF Board Meetings, questions to ask each other and what made the difference in us actually following through so you can make the same leap. (And the guide has a bonus for those who don’t currently have besties to Board Meeting with so you can get started solo if needed!)

I'm ready to achieve my goals!

For the people pleaser, perfectionist, overachiever eldest daughter who’s ready to trade hustling to prove herself for more peace, confidence and calm

Because let’s be honest, being everything for everybody, caring what other people think, anxious attachment and hustle culture is really exhausting.

We get it.

Recent Posts

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The London Guide

London is a magical city made up of lots of smaller neighborhoods, each with their own charm. It is impossible to see it all in one trip but the exploring is the best part!

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The Rome Guide

Rome has figured out the whole building a life around eating and relaxing. Dolce far niete as TikTok has taught me! It’s truly a magical historic place!

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8 Things I've Learned about Personal Growth

Every piece of work we do to understand our mind and have a healthier relationship with ourselves is building our habits for the future. But as I have been spending more energy on this task, one of the first things I struggled to wrap my head around was "What does growth even look like?"

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Money Money

Saving for Retirement 101

Anytime I start reading or researching investing or taxes or money in general, it prompts a bigger topic: What are we saving FOR? No matter how far off retirement is for you, one day we'll all want/need to stop working and need to have enough money stored away to finance our life. Are you ready?

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Taxes 101

Let’s talk about the reason why that fancy salary number you were told when you got the job doesn’t magically appear in full in your bank account every month!

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Gender Pay Gap 101

This is not a happy topic. This one makes me angry. Especially when you add it to all the other bias related stuff in our world. It makes me extra angry for black women, latinx women and women of color who get and even shorter end of the stick.

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Gender Investing Gap 101

This post covers one of those mysterious, mystical (not at all….) forces that stops women from achieving their biggest dreams. It’s a topic that I can't. stop. talking. about:

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Great NYC Restaurants You Might Not Hear About

There are so many “hyped” restaurants in New York. And many of them deserve it. But there are some awesome spots that are doing awesome meals for great evenings that don’t need fanfare. I lovingly refer to these as “cool but not fussy” and I mean that as the highest compliment.

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Best NYC Brunch Spots

Regardless of your opinion on brunch, New York City does it really well. This list could be enormous. I’m keeping it to the places I would happily go on a Saturday morning!

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NYC Classics You Must Try At Least Once

There are some famous New York spots - some famous from movies, others from just the folk lore of the city - where everybody should try once. I would say this applies to tourists or NYC residents but it especially applies to NYC residents. Let’s call it a point of pride.

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QUIZ

Which type of eldest daughter are you?

Regardless of whether you were actually born first, you’re probably here because the eldest daughter archetype feels so friggin’ real to you.

But here at Eldest & Co., we’ve come to realize that there’s actually a couple of different types of eldest daughters and that figuring out which one you are can be key to figuring out how to unlock your next big phase of growth!

I need to know which type I am!
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Your simple plan to stop living to please.

Whether you’re on day 1 or 1000 of your recovering “good girl” era, the no brainer place to start is my mini-course, “Debunking the Need to Please”.

Every day for the next 6 days, I’ll drop a juicy email in your inbox with some of my biggest aha’s, some of the practices that have helped me and the important reminders, specifically for the overachiever type, to help you really understand what it’s going to take to tackle that people pleasing and stop caring so much what other people think. The best part, it’s totally free.

    WHAT OTHER GIRLIES SAY

    “Samantha was instrumental in helping me change my thoughts about myself and my self-worth. These are techniques that I'll be using for a long, long time!”