Vanessa Santos

May 29, 2026, Letter #22 Vanessa Santos Dearest, Last week's letter stirred something in many of you. The response was overwhelming. Women feeling seen and ready to stop performing and start building. And this is what I want to remind you: Lethal is not loud. It is not force. It is not the hustle you perform so people can see you working. Lethal is presence. The quiet moments when no one is watching. The difficult decisions that may break your own heart but you make them anyway because you...

May 21, 2026, Letter #21 Letters From The In-Between: This Summer You Become Lethal. Vanessa Santos 🎧 Listen to this letter on Spotify / Apple — and don't forget to follow to be reminded when a new episode drops. Dearest, Letter #21 arriving on May 21st. I didn't plan it. But I'm paying attention to it. Here's something I need you to hear and stick with me because it will make sense: self-care is not self-love. Self-care is the bath bomb. The face mask. The "treat yourself" moment that makes...

May 15, 2026, Letter #20 Letters From The In-Between: You Are Not Behind. You Are Brewing. Vanessa Santos 🎧 Listen to this letter on Spotify / Apple — reflection at the end. Dearest Reader, This week I did something that felt completely unhinged for someone who has spent years posting on Instagram only when she felt like it. I joined a creator intensive VIP cohort. Which means I am now showing up publicly 3-7 times a week whether or not I feel ready. And I did it on purpose. I did it because...

Dearest Reader, May is about leverage. Because here's the truth: you can learn to sell, pitch, and ask for what you're worth, but if you're still doing everything manually, you're building with one hand tied behind your back. I've been using Claude to run my business in ways that have genuinely changed how I operate. Dashboards that track my numbers. Systems that used to take me hours now take minutes. Content workflows. Research. Strategy sessions with an AI that actually challenges my...

May 8, 2026 - Special Edition Letters From The In-Between: Your Voice Can Have An Impact. Vanessa Santos Dearest Reader, This is my first sponsored newsletter and I want to tell you exactly why I said yes to this one. When I moved to Arizona last year, after hopping between six homes in seven months, rebuilding my life from the ground up, I started noticing things I'd never noticed before. In New York I was used to the pollution. Used to the noise, the concrete, walking quickly to keep up...

May 7, 2026, Letter #19 Letters From The In-Between: The Universe Doesn't Care About Your Plans. Vanessa Santos Dearest Reader, The most important things are never the things you planned for. Last week at 2am on my birthday I woke up to Elvis seizing. I held him all night and canceled everything I had planned. And I wasn't upset about it because there was never a question about what mattered most. 🎧 Listen to the podcast version of this letter on Apple or Spotify. That clarity, knowing...

May 1, 2026, Letter #18 Buy Vanessa a birthday matcha. Letters From The In-Between: Happy Birthday To Us. 🎂 Vanessa Santos Dearest Reader, Today is my birthday. 🎂 My 4.3. There have been many versions of me and I can’t count the years without counting the lives and versions I've lived inside them. 🎧 Listen to the audio podcast on Spotify and Apple with a personal reflection at the end. I want to tell you about some of those versions, because like you, we spend so much of our life playing a...

April 26, 2026, Letter #17 Letters From The In-Between: What's Living In Your Head Rent Free? Vanessa Santos Dearest Reader, I need to get this off my chest. To express something to myself that I needed to hear and maybe you do too. Because I've been doing everything and nothing at the same time. That's what rebuilding without a safety net feels like. Every decision feels major. Every pause feels like falling behind. And the overthinking, the constant mental spinning, starts to feel like...

April 16, 2026, Letter #16 Letters From The In-Between: Six Unlocks. No Gatekeeping. Vanessa Santos Dearest Reader, I didn't send a letter last week. Elvis had another seizure. 🎧 Listen to this letter on Spotify or Apple and a reflection at the end. And I sat with him, I chose him, and I chose me, and I did not write a letter. I did not perform okayness. I did not show up because the calendar said to. That is the unlock. 🔓 The actual lived choice, made in real time, before I could see the...

Wellness For The People Special Invitation: Rooted & Rising Vanessa Santos Dear friends, A few weeks back I shared that I joined Wellness For The People as a founding board member and today I get to do one of my favorite things, invite you into something I really believe in. We are bringing Rooted & Rising to two cities this month and I'd love for you to be there. This is a series of many events we'll have throughout the year across various cities, starting in NY and LA. We offer accessible,...