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*Written July 16, 2019*<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My name is Stacey Mae Smith. I am perpetually in pursuit of living a Lilo Life and I\u2019m sharing what that means and how to do it. (Now I feel obligated to say how in one sentence, crap. Doesn\u2019t work that way.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I consider my self a global citizen. Typical Millennial, right? HA By exposing my experiences, knowledge, and my daily habits that have led me to where I am and where I plan to go, you\u2019ll be able to unlock some powerful tactics in living the Lilo Life as well. The vision is to never take more from the world than we need \u2013 that\u2019s where you\u2019ll find fulfillment. I believe I was born to teach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2026organizing, finance strategy, business strategy, and leveraging tech to get $h*t done. I\u2019ve also got an insane amount of interest and experience with travel, nutrition, fitness, and the concept & practice of minimalism (inspired by trying to declutter and reduce waste). I don\u2019t have all of these topics down to a science, but who does? I know enough to be dangerous, enough to make positive change, and enough to find fulfillment in life \u2013 hoping for yours too. Now you\u2019re like \u201cwhy should I trust you?\u201d I\u2019ve been around the block or two. I\u2019ve got a fancy Bachelor\u2019s degree in Business Administration, and some other little certificates in my pocket. But let\u2019s get real. The magic happens in real life. I\u2019ve always had my hands in at least three projects, or even jobs for that matter, at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am currently the Co-Director of the thINCubator in Utica NY. I assist and advise entrepreneurs, build programs, make and manage the social presence, run events, and even take out the trash. We do it all. I\u2019ve also won multiple business competitions including the 2015 Commercialization Academy grant aimed to launch unique technological inventions from the Air Force Research Lab. Won over 50K! I wore the hat of every role within that business from accountant to brand strategist to the product developer. You know\u2026 running around like a chicken with its head cut off for 2.5 years\u2026 like any startup founder. Learned A LOT. We ran into a manufacturer industry rut. Still exists, just got demoted to project status (you can check it out under the projects tab<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aside from that, I\u2019ve done a lot of before and afters with organizing gigs (like a legit hoarder house once\u2026 I was in my glory), coached a lot of great people in the wellness realm (nutritional advising & leading boot camp classes), have done a lot of on-the-fly design work for folks, traveled the nation and a few other countries, and have helped a plethora of friends, friends of friends, and family with their financials such as building budgets, getting real with the numbers, and fact CRUSHING some ridiculous myths out there about credit cards or FICO scores. I got a lot to share. Let\u2019s start \u201cLilo-ing.\u201d That\u2019s kind of like Yolo, right? ha Oh, and I can be awkward sometimes. I\u2019m not ashamed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A bit about the founder and what it means to live the Lilo Life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilolife.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilolife.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilolife.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilolife.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilolife.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lilolife.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/lilolife.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilolife.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilolife.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilolife.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Other Hustles<\/h3>\n\n\n\n