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An Open Letter from your favorite Gemini
I’m known for saying the thing. This is where I say it.
Nov 5, 2025
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You Think She’s Crushing It
Postpartum ambition, hormonal chaos, and the invisible suffering behind high-functioning women
Mar 9
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He Called Off the Wedding for Me
The love, the fallout, and the truth about being the bad guy in somebody else's story.
Nov 11, 2025
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Krista Ripma
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When the Primary Parent Is Dad
I am not less of a mother because Clay is more of a father.
Jun 21
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Jun 5
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He Called Off the Wedding for Me
Nov 11, 2025
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You Think She’s Crushing It
Mar 9
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My Worst Nightmare Happened Live.
Apr 3
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Commit to the Bit
Nov 18, 2025
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After the Girlboss
A new class of women founders is quietly building media companies, owned audiences, and a different kind of power (on Substack).
May 25
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Your energy is your strategy.
March almost took me out & May is showing me what was being built in the dark.
May 18
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My Last First Mother’s Day
Coming home to the body that made my children & the strange little rituals that are bringing me me back to life.
May 10
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Your true face comes at 50.
on aging into myself & romanticizing my own becoming.
May 4
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Tiny shards.
This past week, my mother-in-law Mary mailed my ex-boyfriend’s Bible back to him.
Apr 20
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The email is on the way
I got what I asked for & then came the part no one talks about.
Apr 15
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The Sacred Things
The more I use AI, the clearer I get about where I draw the line.
Apr 6
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My Worst Nightmare Happened Live.
In over a decade of hosting live events, I have never experienced a technical failure like the one we faced yesterday.
Apr 3
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The way you hold money is the way you hold power. 💸
Are you ready to hold it, deploy it, multiply it, and not emotionally spiral the second it lands in your account?!
Mar 18
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