TheLiveBigWay® Digest: Midyear Momentum

Dear Readers,

Summer has a way of marking time, and here at the midpoint of 2026, we wanted to pause and share a fuller picture of what has occupied our minds, our meetings, and our to-do lists this year. In this edition of the Digest, you will hear directly from the leaders who shape the strategy, set the standard, and steward the team who diligently serves you.

Lauren Stansell reflects on what it means to Learn Big in 2026, Yusuf Abugideiri talks through the markets’ twists and turns this year, and Lauren Mireles shares an inside look at the operational work that keeps YeskeBuie running and growing in service of you. We also share a check-in from Elissa and Dave who cover what they learned while attending the Aspen Ideas Festival (and can’t wait to see you at their retirement celebrations this summer in San Francisco and Vienna!).

Here’s to a 4th of July weekend spent Living Big, however that looks for you and yours.

Take care,

The YeskeBuie Team

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We’re writing from Aspen, CO, where Elissa and I have just spent four days attending the “Aspen Ideas Festival.” We have always been admirers of the Aspen Institute and its commitment to “conversation and connection” and this gathering didn’t disappoint. We attended sessions presented or facilitated by the likes of Fareed Zakaria, David Brooks, Jonathan Capehart, Francis Fukuyama, Carl Bernstein, and Katie Couric.

The topics covered everything from global economic conditions to public health policy to the greatest question of the day: how to bridge the enormous political divide that has come to dominate so much of our public discourse. The closing session consisted of three famous speeches by Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and Susan B. Anthony, each delivered by an amazing actor, including one of my favorites, David Strathairn, who orated on behalf of Lincoln. Naturally, the speeches were followed by analysis and commentary by the group as a whole. All in all, it was a rewarding use of time and something we’re confident we’ll return to again and again.