Hi, my loves!! I’m so grateful you’re here and so excited to finally share this thing with you! For years I’ve been dreaming up this newsletter — it’s fun, kinda out of left field, but has become so meaningful to me — I love it and I know you will too. Before we get into it, let me give you some backstory.
OKAY.
Where to begin?
A perfect storm got us here today…
Let’s start chronologically. Four years ago I was working on Hawkeye. We shot in Atlanta and I brought my best friend Greer along for the ride.
(If you don’t know Greer, you should. I’ll have her intro herself in a coming newsletter.) We each had our dogs — Martini (mine) and Ralph (Greer’s) — and all four of us settled into this cute little house.
My filming schedule was so physical, with very long hours, so Greer and I used any downtime to center ourselves and get our daily D.O.S.E.: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphins.
We took yoga classes, cooked (or attempted to), ordered all the new beauty products, and put our mutual love for interior design to work to make our temporary house feel like a home. I came to obsess over these pockets of joy outside of my work. The thought often crossed my mind - How can I share these pieces of my life with you guys? That’s when the idea to start a fun, curated newsletter began percolating.
Then the Universe threw some curveballs (as it does).
First, the SAG strike happened, which put my work as an actor on temporary hold. At the time, I was living in Buffalo, deeply enjoying all aspects of my life outside of work, and thinking for the first time since I was eight years old:
What would I do if I wasn’t acting?
Maybe I’ll make more music, I thought. But as many of you have likely guessed, I have decided to take a break from that as I found I was losing myself trying to chase that viral moment vs. really creating, connecting, and growing. Music is so personal to me and it just didn’t feel personal anymore. It broke my heart a little, but the more I think about it — and write about it — I know that closing that door (for now) was the right decision because it opened the creative space for me to start conceptualizing Beau Society.
I've never been more excited about a project in my life.
I’m launching Beau Society with a weekly newsletter written from me to you. It’s more than just my thoughts (of course, you’ll get those in spades), I think of it as a direct line where we can unpack topics far beyond what I can muster in an Instagram caption. I love to ask too many questions and get into deep meaningful conversations about life. Let’s talk about anything and everything important to us, from the silly to the serious.
I stay up until the wee hours of the night thinking about BS. In our weekly, you’ll hear from me, my friends (hi Greer), my fam, and interesting people I’m dying to learn from!
This is just the beginning.
Oh, and the name - it’s what everyone calls me. No one in my family actually calls me Hailee; they call me Beau! And since I started creating this thing, I’ve already riffed on the name: Beau Society naturally morphed into its initials, BS, which evolved into This is BS - my mom coined that expression during a fitting and it stuck immediately.
Because it is all BS;
life is way more fun when you don’t take it too seriously!
More on everything coming soon.
Thank you for being here.
Love,
Hailee (Beau)
P.S. This is a two-way convo! Reply to this email with topics you’re passionate or curious about — I’d love to feature your brilliant minds in upcoming newsletters. Can’t wait to hear from you! x
