I'm not perfect. (And neither is this.)

Because the work isn't flawless execution. It's showing up anyway.

Something happened this week that I’m not going to pretend didn’t.

A technical error on my end sent several upcoming newsletter drafts out all at once — to your inbox, without warning. I deleted them as quickly as I could, but the emails were already there. You may have seen them. You may have read them. You may have wondered what was going on.

Here’s what was going on: I made a mistake.

I’m building something new. From scratch. With a lot of moving parts I’m still learning. And sometimes when you’re doing that — when you’re in the middle of creating something you really care about — things go sideways.

I teach women every week about letting go of the performance of having it all together. About the cost of pretending to be more in control than you are. About what it feels like to finally stop hiding behind the version of yourself that never makes mistakes.

And then this week, I got to live it.

So here I am, not hiding. Something went wrong. I handled it imperfectly. And I’m still here, still building, still showing up on Tuesdays.

That’s the work. Not the flawless execution. The showing up anyway.

If you’re in the middle of something new and hard right now — something you care about deeply and are figuring out as you go — I just want you to know: same. You’re not alone in it.

I’ll be back in your inbox next Tuesday, same as always.

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