Launching Grace Pace: Newsletter on entrepreneurship, design, and life!

Howdy friends! Welcome to the first edition of my newsletter. I started this to document my journey and learnings in life to share with you all. Welcome to my life after retiring from the corporate world in my mid 20’s.

I’ll be focusing on entrepreneurship, design, investing, productivity, travel, and more! I’ll also be sharing some cool finds, like podcasts, events, destinations, life hacks, and more.

I’m Grace Ling, a designer, founder, and content creator. I founded Design Buddies, a community of 150,000 combined, helping designers grow in their careers and have fun. I love to draw, run, and travel the world (been to almost 40 countries). I’m based in San Francisco and often traveling the world and hosting parties.

I also have another newsletter on LinkedIn where I do more deep dives, like blog style. On this one, I want to share more quick stories and advice, and write a new one every week instead of every month.

I grew up feeling very insecure about myself. I took many risks, learned many lessons, and have now achieved time and location freedom. In 2023, I decided to travel for 3 months to enjoy life and challenge my previous subscription to hustle culture.

In 2024, I quit my corporate job, co-founded a startup, moved out of my parents house and started a founder house in San Francisco (Bunny House), hosted a hybrid conference (3200+ total attendees), hosted 20+ in-person events in SF, traveled around the world to speak at conferences & host events, went viral on social media a few times, and been to 10 different countries so far.

Up next, I’m bringing more Design Buddies in-person around the world. I also have no idea what tomorrow will bring so I’ve been living in the moment and enjoying every day!

Some key life lessons I’ve learned in the recent years:

• Stop hanging out with people who bond by talking down about others

• Find your own definition of success. Ignore the noise.

• Stop comparing yourself to others - everyone has their own strengths. Maybe even collaborate!

Upcoming events:

• Going camping this weekend 👀

• Hop Bunny Summer birthday party in San Francisco

• Vancouver Aug 20-24 (speaking at UX x UX Conference)

• San Francisco for Nas Creators Conference

• Seattle early Sep

• Bali October: We’re hosting a one-month founder/creator house!

I’m based in San Francisco, do reach out if you also live here!

Stay tuned for the next newsletter! Do email me any topics you’d like to see here :D at [email protected]

I hope you slay your day! Feel free to also keep up on socials: LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter.