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Post by hop2 on Feb 29, 2020 2:02:22 GMT
Oh good ol' Tracie... Sugar honey, you have been down right mean and rude yourself so don't even... Pot & kettle meet frying pan
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Post by lisacharlotte on Feb 29, 2020 2:07:55 GMT
Here's another response to her post. tracieclaiborne @kristavang1 good for you. I am perpetually amazed at how seldom others stand up for someone who is being slandered and persecuted online. If it happened in person, I believe most people would jump to someone’s defense more readily but online bullies make people cower in fear of retribution. Funniest thing I've read all day! 😂
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Post by Night Owl on Feb 29, 2020 3:48:17 GMT
That's what happens when you live in a bubble. Tracie and Becky both are so thin skinned, they think they are bullied when somebody disagrees with them. I am white but these people really are the epitome of White Privilege.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2020 14:24:00 GMT
In Aug. 2016, on the BH Home thread, I happened to capture some stats about BH, Amy T and Shimelle. Then in Jan 2019, on this thread, I captured some updates to see how Becky's brilliant business decisions were faring compared to a couple of other IG documenters. Aug 2016 Jan, 14 2019 Today 2/29/20 BH - 70,000 83,900, 83,858 Growth 2016-2020 - 19.7% Growth 2019-2020 - ZEROAmy - 79,000 182,000 185,387 Growth 135% Growth 1.8% Shimelle - 11,800 16,700 18,463 Growth 65% Growth 10.5% So, no matter how you slice it, Becky Higgins (since 2016) and Becky Proudfit's (since 2019) business decisions are leading to Becky's flatlining on her biggest SM presence: Instagram Amy & Shimelle's (the two I happened to compare to back in 2016) have rocketed growth rates of 65 and 135%, while Becky limped along at 20%. This is even though Amy shills and Shimelle doesn't post a lot. But neither of them talk down to their followers like BH has done on numerous occasions and neither of them 'guru' intentional choices and breathless insights. And since 2019, Becky's been stagnant. Who knew? I guess people don't like to follow intentionality cultivating 'gurus' who skip out on financial obligations - not due to medical or job crises, but due to being bored and wanting a big new house to play with.
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Post by needtime2scrap on Feb 29, 2020 15:05:23 GMT
I wonder how her be kind, be intentional, cultivate a good life mantras fit with her belittling scrap bookers on NSD, putting down potential customers who want to do physical PL and skipping out on mortgage coincide? Seems like someone should take her own advice.
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Post by hop2 on Feb 29, 2020 16:45:00 GMT
In Aug. 2016, on the BH Home thread, I happened to capture some stats about BH, Amy T and Shimelle. Then in Jan 2019, on this thread, I captured some updates to see how Becky's brilliant business decisions were faring compared to a couple of other IG documenters. Aug 2016 Jan, 14 2019 Today 2/29/20 BH - 70,000 83,900, 83,858 Growth 2016-2020 - 19.7% Growth 2019-2020 - ZEROAmy - 79,000 182,000 185,387 Growth 135% Growth 1.8% Shimelle - 11,800 16,700 18,463 Growth 65% Growth 10.5% So, no matter how you slice it, Becky Higgins (since 2016) and Becky Proudfit's (since 2019) business decisions are leading to Becky's flatlining on her biggest SM presence: Instagram Amy & Shimelle's (the two I happened to compare to back in 2016) have rocketed growth rates of 65 and 135%, while Becky limped along at 20%. This is even though Amy shills and Shimelle doesn't post a lot. But neither of them talk down to their followers like BH has done on numerous occasions and neither of them 'guru' intentional choices and breathless insights. And since 2019, Becky's been stagnant. Who knew? I guess people don't like to follow intentionality cultivating 'gurus' who skip out on financial obligations - not due to medical or job crises, but due to being bored and wanting a big new house to play with. I’m no marketing guru but it just seems like common sense to me that what she did can’t help but kill her business with what went on in the last year ( since Becky2 ) I built my brand attracting memory keepers so I’ll completely abandon memory keeping, announce no new memory keeping products will be forthcoming ever, imply my customers are stupid or out of touch because they would like to buy more products. Next confuse the crap outta people about what I am actually selling, delay any updates to my app, NOT design/provide new in app purchases for customers to buy, throw in a few veiled & a couple of not so veiled insults = how to grow a memory keeping business?? I think a fourth grader could point out where that wasn’t going to work. And I’ll add that at least half of those still following her are just train wreck watchers at this point. I took Beckys advice & moved on, clearly she isn’t for me.
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Post by 950nancy on Feb 29, 2020 17:33:18 GMT
In Aug. 2016, on the BH Home thread, I happened to capture some stats about BH, Amy T and Shimelle. Then in Jan 2019, on this thread, I captured some updates to see how Becky's brilliant business decisions were faring compared to a couple of other IG documenters. Aug 2016 Jan, 14 2019 Today 2/29/20 BH - 70,000 83,900, 83,858 Growth 2016-2020 - 19.7% Growth 2019-2020 - ZEROAmy - 79,000 182,000 185,387 Growth 135% Growth 1.8% Shimelle - 11,800 16,700 18,463 Growth 65% Growth 10.5% So, no matter how you slice it, Becky Higgins (since 2016) and Becky Proudfit's (since 2019) business decisions are leading to Becky's flatlining on her biggest SM presence: Instagram Amy & Shimelle's (the two I happened to compare to back in 2016) have rocketed growth rates of 65 and 135%, while Becky limped along at 20%. This is even though Amy shills and Shimelle doesn't post a lot. But neither of them talk down to their followers like BH has done on numerous occasions and neither of them 'guru' intentional choices and breathless insights. And since 2019, Becky's been stagnant. Who knew? I guess people don't like to follow intentionality cultivating 'gurus' who skip out on financial obligations - not due to medical or job crises, but due to being bored and wanting a big new house to play with. I agree that Becky is stagnant, but I don't think she really cares. She knows that her base was paper crafters and she tried to get them to come along on her ride out of paper into life guru/influencer. I think that is why she put off sharing that she was done with paper crafting for so long. She didn't want to lose them. So maybe she is gaining followers for her new venture, but it is hard to tell because she has lost so many paper crafters as followers. I don't follow her, so I don't know. All I know is what I see here. She doesn't sound like someone I would look up to anyway, so she isn't for me.
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Post by refugeepea on Feb 29, 2020 19:08:41 GMT
She's baaaaaaaacccckkk
tracieclaiborne I love you and I love your analogy and I wish I still had hope for people to read posts like this and change their unkind behavior. Unfortunately, the only people reading this that will take your words to heart are those who live a life of self examination and growth. The rest will read it and feel defensive and make excuses for why their unkind behavior is justified. You’ll never convince the second group of people of anything, because they’ve already decided they know more than you do about everything - even how you should live your life. The hater’s mantra is, “you’re doing it wrong!” All our good thoughts and words will never heal their angry hearts. Some people enjoy being unkind and bitter. All we can do is say, “but for the grace of God, go I.”
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Post by refugeepea on Feb 29, 2020 19:09:17 GMT
And I think I love brightmorning brightmorning “Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
ETA: NOT me! Although I did use the same quote in the thread.
Also, I'm looking at Instagram on my laptop, and I might have missed it; it's easier on my phone.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Feb 29, 2020 20:01:20 GMT
She's baaaaaaaacccckkk
tracieclaiborne I love you and I love your analogy and I wish I still had hope for people to read posts like this and change their unkind behavior. Unfortunately, the only people reading this that will take your words to heart are those who live a life of self examination and growth. The rest will read it and feel defensive and make excuses for why their unkind behavior is justified. You’ll never convince the second group of people of anything, because they’ve already decided they know more than you do about everything - even how you should live your life. The hater’s mantra is, “you’re doing it wrong!” All our good thoughts and words will never heal their angry hearts. Some people enjoy being unkind and bitter. All we can do is say, “but for the grace of God, go I.”
Tracie 'Favourite Child of God' Claiborne. Still chasing (former) scrap celebs, I see. Still waiting for likes on the comments she leaves on their posts. Girl, nobody in the scrap world still cares about you. Your thread hasn't been resurrected in months. Hold another PayPal donation drive and get us, haters with angry hearts who enjoy being unkind and bitter, going.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2020 22:00:34 GMT
She's baaaaaaaacccckkk
tracieclaiborne I love you and I love your analogy and I wish I still had hope for people to read posts like this and change their unkind behavior. Unfortunately, the only people reading this that will take your words to heart are those who live a life of self examination and growth. The rest will read it and feel defensive and make excuses for why their unkind behavior is justified. You’ll never convince the second group of people of anything, because they’ve already decided they know more than you do about everything - even how you should live your life. The hater’s mantra is, “you’re doing it wrong!” All our good thoughts and words will never heal their angry hearts. Some people enjoy being unkind and bitter. All we can do is say, “but for the grace of God, go I.”
Did she delete her post? I don't see it. I find it hilarious that the call out post has 8 likes...the most of any of the replies to Becky.
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Post by mom on Feb 29, 2020 22:29:32 GMT
She's baaaaaaaacccckkk
tracieclaiborne I love you and I love your analogy and I wish I still had hope for people to read posts like this and change their unkind behavior. Unfortunately, the only people reading this that will take your words to heart are those who live a life of self examination and growth. The rest will read it and feel defensive and make excuses for why their unkind behavior is justified. You’ll never convince the second group of people of anything, because they’ve already decided they know more than you do about everything - even how you should live your life. The hater’s mantra is, “you’re doing it wrong!” All our good thoughts and words will never heal their angry hearts. Some people enjoy being unkind and bitter. All we can do is say, “but for the grace of God, go I.”
Tracie 'Favourite Child of God' Claiborne. Still chasing (former) scrap celebs, I see. Still waiting for likes on the comments she leaves on their posts. Girl, nobody in the scrap world still cares about you. Your thread hasn't been resurrected in months. Hold another PayPal donation drive and get us, haters with angry hearts who enjoy being unkind and bitter, going. Oh its coming. She is redoing her entire living room this spring. Between the re-do (blue florals!) and her husband breaking his shoulder - a 'poor, poor me' post is coming.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Feb 29, 2020 23:51:01 GMT
Your thread hasn't been resurrected in months. Hold another PayPal donation drive and get us, haters with angry hearts who enjoy being unkind and bitter, going. Oh its coming. She is redoing her entire living room this spring. Between the re-do (blue florals!) and her husband breaking his shoulder - a 'poor, poor me' post is coming. "DM me for details, friends."
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Post by hop2 on Mar 1, 2020 1:30:25 GMT
Ok I guess she is reading here
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Post by refugeepea on Mar 1, 2020 1:54:26 GMT
Did she delete her post? I don't see it. I find it hilarious that the call out post has 8 likes...the most of any of the replies to Becky. I guess so. I don't see the first one she posted either. For posterity sake, I guess I'll have to do a screenshot next time, but that's too much for this tech challenged pea who usually uses her laptop for this site.
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Post by Embri on Mar 1, 2020 2:29:20 GMT
For pity's sake, criticism ≠ persecution nor unkindness.
Nothing good ever comes out of surrounding yourself with nothing but people who agree with you 100%. I've been a netizen (Hah, there's a word I haven't seen in a donkey's age!) since before the internet was even called the internet. Before pictures online, before search engines existed, before social media was even a concept. And if I've learned anything in all those years, it's that you will never please everyone and telling people how to behave is completely futile.
And Becky wouldn't know real persecution even if it came up and bit her in the face. People expressing their displeasure in your business choices / fashion / posts is not unkindness. It's reality, here for your check-up.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2020 6:25:20 GMT
She's baaaaaaaacccckkk
tracieclaiborne I love you and I love your analogy and I wish I still had hope for people to read posts like this and change their unkind behavior. Unfortunately, the only people reading this that will take your words to heart are those who live a life of self examination and growth. The rest will read it and feel defensive and make excuses for why their unkind behavior is justified. You’ll never convince the second group of people of anything, because they’ve already decided they know more than you do about everything - even how you should live your life. The hater’s mantra is, “you’re doing it wrong!” All our good thoughts and words will never heal their angry hearts. Some people enjoy being unkind and bitter. All we can do is say, “but for the grace of God, go I.”
Uh, when you walk away from a legal contractual obligation for no reason of financial distress, job loss, medical financial obligation, etc. then, you know what Tracie?!?! Yah, YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.
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Post by hop2 on Mar 1, 2020 15:01:07 GMT
How kind was it when Becky told an entire industry of traditional scrappers ‘your doing it wrong do it MY way’ ( PL ) & at times bullied people about it
How kind was it when she told an entire industry of pocket scrappers ‘ your doing it wrong do it MY way ‘ ( App ) And was snide about it inferring they were out of touch
How kind was it when she told who ever was left ‘your doing it wrong do it MY way’ ( note books & Instagram ? Not even sure any more WTF she’s advocating for but she’s sure keeps telling us we are all doing it wrong )
How kind was it when Becky personally named & trashed a scrapper ON iNSD 2019 publicly for asking a question related to Becky’s business products ( ok I guess in Becky’s mind former business products but she was still selling them at that time )
How kind was it when she turned the backlash from that into look at me a spa trip totally healed my medical anxiety condition? And you can be healed too if you have enough money for a spa trip too ( just go here and I’ll get a kick back )
Woman definitely has a different definition of kind than I do
I’ve never claimed to always be kind, I’m human, I get cranky, angry, and whatever other emotions come along. I actively TRY to be kind no matter what I’m dealing with but like any other human I know I slip up sometimes. And I’d extend that same grace about stuff like that to Becky IF only she weren’t so sanctimonious about it. With her it’s “well I’m kind online and you are a bully so there” monologues she never acknowledges where she might have been wrong or unkind and never apologizes. Not even a I’m sorry you felt that way sort of apology. Just comes back with more unkindness. At least I’m kind enough to accept responsibility and apologize when I find I've been unkind both irl & online. Which as imperfect & emotional humans is really all we’ve got.
You don’t have to put others down to raise yourself up both in life and in business. I know we crab about prices & expenses with some other scrap designers BUT several of them full out admit you don’t need their products to do projects, some of them actively encourage people to participate in different ways and even post examples of IG posts that did not use their product. You can be honest encouraging and kind and be a successful business. And when you mess up you apologize and move forward and usually people accept that and move forward too.
This whole “I’m perfect & intentional and do no wrong, those of you not exactly like me suck, are out of touch and stupid” doesn’t fly. It is not kind. Not in any way.
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Post by crafty on Mar 4, 2020 3:11:19 GMT
I used to follow Wendy on Instagram and today she came up on my suggested list. I looked to see if she was posting anything PL related since Becky Higgins isn’t. Her profile now says “Do Good Be Kind” which I believe is another company that the Becky Twins shill. Did Wendy leave PL? Is only Kari left?
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Post by artsyk on Mar 4, 2020 4:24:15 GMT
I used to follow Wendy on Instagram and today she came up on my suggested list. I looked to see if she was posting anything PL related since Becky Higgins isn’t. Her profile now says “Do Good Be Kind” which I believe is another company that the Becky Twins shill. Did Wendy leave PL? Is only Kari left? Wendy started with Do Good Be Kind in Sept. 2019. I haven't seen either Becky talk about them for awhile, but it could be because the people who own it moved to Hawai'i. I used to follow them on IG, but stopped awhile ago.
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Post by joblackford on Mar 5, 2020 22:17:28 GMT
I thought of you guys on this thread today - I was listening to the 10% Happier podcast, an interview with Buddhist teacher Sylvia Boorstein, and she said something about how being kind is something you can do when you stop being so self involved. Reminded me of a few crafty influencers who talk the talk of kindness...
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Post by hop2 on Mar 5, 2020 23:16:04 GMT
I thought of you guys on this thread today - I was listening to the 10% Happier podcast, an interview with Buddhist teacher Sylvia Boorstein, and she said something about how being kind is something you can do when you stop being so self involved. Reminded me of a few crafty influencers who talk the talk of kindness... Ha
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2020 17:24:17 GMT
Ladies. LADIES...
Becky is now an expert on parenting amd technology. Oh. Goody.
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Post by kiera on Mar 6, 2020 20:49:36 GMT
Oh boy, what have I missed?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2020 21:47:06 GMT
Oh boy, what have I missed? "beckyhigginsllc Do YOU feel the wrestle?? I sure do! The thing about technology — and we all know this — is that it’s incredible + it’s awful. There is so much GOOD being done with technology, and there is so much evil. Dang it. Why does this have to be so hard, RIGHT?? I so desperately want to ensure that my children to take advantage of the powerful things technology SHOULD be used for, while also having an internal filter that is strong enough to help them know what to do when the crap shows up. Because it. shows. UP! I have also felt total overwhelm from being inundated with fear-based messages and scare tactics that are flying around left and right. That doesn’t feel good either. What an HONOR to have Emily Jones (love, love, love her!) of @familytechuniversity join us on the podcast for the most meaningful and encouraging and POSITIVE conversation we’ve ever had about teaching and empowering our kids as we ALL try to navigate our way through these confusing times. You will LOVE Episode 081. Can’t wait to hear your thoughts! Direct link is in my profile. And also — be SURE to check out the online resource that every one of us can benefit from — FamilyTechUniversity.com. . You guys, it’s your child’s “diver’s ed” for wise tech use and it’s AWESOME. We all NEED this!! Save $10 your seat in the workshop with the code BECKY10. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cultivate-a-good-life/id1438937435?i=1000467455330"
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Post by kiera on Mar 6, 2020 22:14:46 GMT
I should've known that it was a podcast advertisement with a discount code at the end. She sounds incredibly paranoid about what her kids might find on the internet... instead of making them take a class(??), why not sit down and talk to your kids and tell them that the internet isn't a happy dreamland? I googled Family Tech University and their tagline is "be the heroic parent." Yuck. I'm not a parent/never will be but I can't imagine that it's all that difficult or time consuming to talk to your kids about online safety.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2020 22:17:14 GMT
Its all part of the unparent parent movement. LOL
Let someone else teach your kids about the hard stuff.
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Post by kiera on Mar 6, 2020 22:46:18 GMT
It's wild to me to see how many parents don't actually want to parent. That's a large part of why I'm not choosing to be one, the job isn't for me lol
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Post by julie5 on Mar 6, 2020 22:49:45 GMT
She sounds like an infomercial.
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Post by refugeepea on Mar 6, 2020 23:12:50 GMT
You don't need to pay $67.00 every six months for their "expertise". In their about us section, there is zero information about their educational background. If they had a tech background or extensive experience in the psychology field, I could see the value.
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