2022 was great, weird, and fun ??

May your year-end?end well! Thank you for hanging out with me and for allowing me to be a part of your world :) Celebrate, hug those you love, and eat yummy meals!

Here are some highlights from 2022:

• CNN's Year in Pictures
• More 2022 pictures to check out at?My Modern Met,?The Guardian,?The Atlantic?and?NPR.
• OMG on these pics of the?Northern Lights!
• These?funny animal pics?are delightful :)
• Google 2022 Top?Searches
• YouTube?top videos
• TikTok 2022
• New York Times Best Movies
• Rotten Tomatoes Best Movies
• NPR Best Music?
• Billboard Best Music
• Time Best Innovations
• Strange 2022 News
• Pop Culture Stories
• And yes, it has been a?very weird year!

I'd like to share some of my highlights:

• My friend?Caren Libby made me look good!
• Socially, it was a fun year for me!?A few highlights from the year include?City Social, Dre'Co in concert, taking my daughter?Micki to Spain, catching up with TEDx speaker Sean Gold at?Festability, celebrating my brother's birthday at?Metal Brunch, and checking out the amazing art at?Paint Louis.
• The first annual Women's Leadership Conference at SLU,?Be Heard,?was a big success and I was quite honored to emcee the event. I'm?already looking forward to the next?coming up in March 2023.
• Best streaming entertainment this year goes to?Stranger Things?for their (should be) award-winning subtitles. Other shows/movies I would highly recommend are?Atlanta,?What We Do in the Shadows?and?Everything Everywhere All At Once.?
• TEDxStLouis accomplished another successful event in October, and the videos will be coming out soon! Thank you to St. Louis Magazine for naming us a?top reason to love St. Louis?(we're #4!) and for talking up our Beyond Words event.
• I went to?LinkedIn jail?because my team is awesome!
• TikTok?is crazy fun!
• I took my daughter to?school in Denver.?I survived it and?discovered we can still remain close even though she loves a couple of states away.
• Another exciting year of interviews with?people who take kindness to the next level.

For some of my very dear friends, this year was a tough one.?If anyone out there would like to be added to my?"send good vibes list" - let me know and I will send you good vibes every day.

So now what? 2023 is on its way. For me, I have?goals that remain the same. I'll?continue to grow?100th Monkey?(anyone need some great marketing?!)?while also creating an even stronger TEDxStLouis. There are some new adventures starting to show up. I'll let you know when they get here!

Thank you for being a part of my world, thank you for allowing me to share with you, and thank you for what you?do for this world we call home.

Hugs to you!

Mich