happy friday before thanksgiving (aka the last normal friday of 2025).

this is my first thanksgiving as a full-time business owner and i'm in my feels about it 🥲

a year ago i was still deeply unhappy at my corporate job, secretly building what would eventually become savvie on the weekends. at that time, ‘savvie’ was just a tiktok account called @calliescrashcourses with a couple hundred followers, and i had a perpetual fear of my capital markets colleagues finding my ‘day in the life of a finance girlie’ videos on tiktok.

now i have clients all over the world, am working remotely from my sister’s because i can, a french chatbot handles my leads (more on that later), and i write newsletters that people actually read?? life’s funny :)

on today's agenda:

grab your fav emotional support latte and let's get grateful ↓

listen, i know i've been on this library card soapbox for three weeks now, but before you scroll past… get ready for a cancelled subscription breakdown that will have your accountant shook:
→ wall street journal: $40/month (free on pressreader)
→ the new yorker: $12/month (free on libby)
→ the atlantic: $8/month (free on pressreader)
→ entrepreneur magazine: $10/month (free on libby)
→ bloomberg businessweek: $30/month (free on libby)
→ new york times: $25/month (free on libby)

more free stuff i have uncovered this week:
→ linkedin learning courses (normally $30/month)
→ language apps through mango (gives me time to freshen up on those french courses from study abroad lol)
→ wsj + nyt crosswords galore!!!!! - i screenshot and solve all the crosswords i can find in markup on the ipad like a millennial. it brings me unreasonable joy.

dropped an ai chatbot on teague media’s site and gave him a personality. he's french (because i just decided that noupe sounds français), he wears a digital beret, converts leads, and handles FAQs while i sleep.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN….. I PRESENT TO YOU.

why every creator/business needs this:
→ answers FAQs for the 400th time without getting sassy or forgetting to follow-up
→ qualifies all leads before they hit your inbox
→ suggests discovery calls without giving desperation 🪩📞
→ points leads towards discounts they didn’t know existed
→ has way better boundaries than me (crucial)

setup took 2 hours and i did it all on the plane this week (bless u $8 wifi). he's already handled 47 back and forths in 24 hours. that's 47 times i didn't have to re-explain my services or chase down email addresses 🥳

monsieur noupe est le french bouncer of my website.
10/10 recommend getting your own noupe.

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now back to our regularly scheduled programming...

trend: our intern guillermo put this "what your fav social media says about you" carousel together and it's hilarious!

here’s a few…
→ facebook = you don't "really use it" but somehow know your cousin's ex had a baby
→ youtube = you watch 3-hour video essays (guilty as charged lol)
→ tiktok = no thoughts, just brainrot, telling your therapist "i saw this tiktok where…." at least once per session

sometimes the best content you can make is just holding up a mirror to your audience and letting the fun stuff do the leg work.

comic relief: this new yorker cartoon where one of the three little piggies announces he’s leaving as "i'm going solo."

quote: emily susman said "delays aren't failures, they're plot development" - needed that energy ahead of the holidays.

totally random: my sisters bday is tomorrow!!!!!! she’s my fav teague and this is teague talk which means you get to celebrate her with me 🥳

🫂 first thanksgiving as a founder hits different

💌 the gratitude is real for:

other happenings:

ik this is advice from an old white dude but stay w me.

warren buffets the goat. he’s the fifth richest dude in the world (and an investing icon), and if having a healthy relationship w my father has taught me anything, it’s that dare i say sometimes the old white dudes have bangers too.

what he’s getting at here is we try to time everything.

the market, our perfect black friday deal…but you can't time anything. nobody can. not in the market, not in the algorithm, nor in life!

the boring truth is this: the best returns come from doing less, not more. more on that in teague talk 0014 icymi - we broke dollar cost averaging down to the basics!

the only thing you can control is staying in the game long enough to let compounding interest do its thing.

thanks for reading 💌

until next friday (black friday…make good choices teague talkers. make your portfolios proud.)

xo, callie 🤍

p.s. seriously get the library card. it's the best roi you’ll see this year.

p.p.s. monsieur noupe says "joyeux thanksgiving" to the americans and he'll be working through the holiday in large part because he’s french but also because robots don't eat turkey. he's available 24/7 for ya at teague.media

p.p.p.s. reply with what you’re actually grateful for this thanksgiving season. mine's the ability to work in sweats and watch the ocean waves break from my couch. 12/10 recommend betting on yourself.