What if you f*cked around and found out? ๐Ÿ’ฏ


June 18, 2026, Letter #25

Dearest,
This week Patty and I sent emails to Emma Grede, Codie Sanchez, and Jennifer Lopez asking them to speak at Thrive and Lead...

You know how people say I want fuck you money? That's never been my vibe.
I want love you money.The kind that lets me turn to the people I love and say, here, I've got you.

The kind that comes from building something that's actually mine, not from performing excellence in someone else's vision until there's nothing left.

That's why those emails were sent.

Not because I had a guarantee that they would say yes. Not because anyone invited me to. Because I finally stopped treating my own audacity like something that needed permission before it could move.

Audacity is not the absence of doubt.

It is the decision that your vision matters more than your hesitation.

The women who have built the rooms I admire didn't wait until they felt worthy of the ask. They asked. And what I have watched happen, over and over, in my own life and in the lives of every woman I've worked with, is that the universe meets you exactly at the altitude of your audacity.

People call it luck. It is not luck. It's alignment. It is what happens when you stop being the person telling yourself your dreams are too expensive.

I have watched this pattern repeat itself in every woman I've ever worked with. When she stops discounting what she knows, her revenue triples. Not because I gave her something she didn't have. Because she finally gave herself permission to use what she already carried.

I can see things she can't yet see in herself. I refine, I push, I build alongside her, and then I watch her become someone she always knew she was but hadn't let herself be yet.

That gap, between who you know you are and who you've been allowing yourself to be, is what I am here to close.

๐Ÿง  I have been thinking about something lately.

What if I let myself do all the things I've always wanted to do since I was a little girl?

What if, as adults, we finally realized we actually can do whatever the fuck we please, and the only thing stopping us is that we still care what people think?

That realization is why I've been posting every single day. Proving to myself that I can be consistent. That I have the audacity to show up in public, build my voice out loud, grow my authority in real time. Not because it's comfortable or easy.

Because I decided that someday is a permanent address I am no longer willing to live at.

And I want that for you too. ๐Ÿ’ฏ

This is why I'm building the Fuck Around and Find Out Challenge.
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Thirty days. A commitment device built around the woman you've been circling.

Not a course. Not a framework to consume and forget. A room where you stop negotiating with yourself and start finding out what actually happens when you choose yourself, every single day, thirty days in a row.

Your body. Your money. Your energy. Your boundaries. Your voice. Your relationship with comfort and with risk. All of it, in community with women doing the same thing, led by someone who has done it and can see exactly where you are and what's possible from here.

This is the summer you become lethal.

The women who need this most are the ones who have been saying someday long enough that someday has started to feel inevitable. I am not interested in someday. I am interested in what becomes possible when you stop waiting for permission and start building the evidence that you were always capable of this.

If you are not in a different place six months from now, something needs to move.

๐Ÿšจ Get on the waitlist here.

Waitlist gets everything first, full details, early access, and pricing when it opens.

What's Moving
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The women's economy and what I'm paying attention to so you can become lethal.


๐Ÿ’ฐ 56% of women entrepreneurs grew revenue in 2025.

The ones who did have one thing in common.

A survey of more than 200 female business owners found that 56% saw more revenue growth in 2025 than in 2024, and two-thirds expect to see more in 2026.

The ones growing aren't the ones with the most capital or the most connections. They're the ones who stopped waiting for external conditions to be right and made internal decisions first. That is not a soft observation. That is what the data keeps confirming. The women who move are the women who decide to move. Everything else is logistics.


๐Ÿ’ธ $10 trillion in businesses is about to change hands. Are you positioned to own any of it?

More than $10 trillion in small businesses are currently preparing to transition ownership.

This is one of the largest wealth transfer opportunities in modern history, not through inheritance, not through salary, but through acquisition, investing, and ownership.

The women building that capability now, through revenue streams they control and assets they own, are the ones who will be positioned when those doors open. This is not abstract. This is the next five years.

Since I was a little girl I wanted to own a bank. I wanted to build spaces where women understand that power and wealth are not things that happen to other people. That vision has never left me. I have just stopped pretending it is too big to say out loud.

The economic participation gap between men and women is projected to take 135 years to close at the current pace.

None of us will be alive for that. But I can make it shorter, one woman at a time, starting with the woman reading this right now wondering if this is her sign.

It is.

Until the next letter,
Vanessa

P.S. You may have seen this mentioned as Lethal Baddie Summer. I renamed it. The more I sat with it, the more I knew the name needed to say exactly what this is: thirty days of finding out what you're actually capable of when you stop getting in your own way. The F*ck Around and Find Out Challenge is that. Get on it here.
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P.P.S. The last Glow Up session was last week. 4.5 years, 54 sessions of free office hours and I am so grateful. If you missed the recap, read it here.

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