I Quit

And, sometimes the next thing is nothing.

📕 Read Me First: Why I Left Girlboss Radio

I shared why I left Girlboss Radio because it’s something I’ve been sitting with for a while—and every week or so, I’d get a DM asking when the next season was coming. Each time, I’d feel a mix of gratitude and guilt: thankful that people were listening and cared, but unsure how to say “there’s no next season” without disappointing someone. I made the decision seven months ago, but I held off on saying anything because I felt this pressure to have something new to announce—some next big thing to point to. And honestly? Sometimes the next thing is nothing. And sometimes, that nothing is exactly the something you need.

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Also this week: I had a string of exciting pitches through my company Bloom, including one that could help us support Canadian doctors with embedding anti-oppressive practices early on in their career. Meanwhile, my fiancé casually saved an actual orca at work and didn’t say a peep about it online. We are not the same. And in other wildly courageous acts: I made the bold, potentially life-altering decision to paint my house in Shoji White instead of Chantilly Lace. Yes, they are both neutral whites. No, I don’t want feedback. This is my Roman Empire now. Speaking of Roman Empires—I cannot stop thinking about the time ChatGPT said it thinks I’m fat. I’ll share that story next week.

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📌 Pinned for Later

Links I’ve opened, read, re-read, and still haven’t closed

• ❤️‍🩹 Everyone I Know Is Worried About Work
  Beautiful, gutting, and smart: this piece from Rosie Spinks is one I keep coming back to.

• 💬 We don’t have to make a case for someone’s humanity by proving how hard they work
  We can advocate for the self-determination, safety, and dignity of immigrants without tying their worth to what they do for us.

• 🪧 The Radical Origins of Mother’s Day
  Mothers Day just passed, and Father's Day is around the corner. A good reminder that what we celebrate (sometimes) started in protest.

• 💉Is Hiding Your Plastic Surgery Cheugy?
  A personal and cultural reflection I wrote on cosmetic transparency, soft shame, and why we owe each other nuance—not confessions.

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🗂️ Open Tabs

What I’m circling right now

• The pressure to always be interesting on the internet

• Do elder millennials struggle with delulu because disbelief feels safer?

• Are parasocial relationships turning us into worse versions of ourselves?

• A quiet little fantasy: building things I believe in with people I respect (I’m working on this)

• Am I successful?

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📎 Clipped + Saved

Screenshots, vibes, and things in my cart

• 🏡 A House Tour I Loved
  Warm, layered, deeply intentional. I loved this.

• 🕯️ These Cherry Mini-Candles
  Sitting in my cart. They're so good.

• 🌿 Ceramic Garden Plant Markers
  Future herb garden essentials.

• 🧥 This Blazer
  What I’ll be wearing when I speak at Toronto Tech Week on the future of workplace culture.

• 📚 Currently Reading: Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost
  Thoughts coming soon.

• 🎧 Listening back to: So, what's the difference between a trad wife and a trad-wife influencer? Listen to my favourite conversation I had via Girlboss with Caro Claire Burke

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🗒️ The Footnotes

Little replies, extra context, and things worth saying twice

• Fun fact: I made anti-Girlboss stickers in 2018. Years later, I hosted the Girlboss podcast. If that’s not proof we evolve, I don’t know what is.

• Someone asked if I’d ever write a longer piece on what happens when community turns on you.
   Short answer: yes.

• Also, shoutout to the sub who shared: “Your writing is like a long exhale.”
  That means more than you know.

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🔖 The Last Tab

A thought to keep open

What would it look like to build something slower, deeper, and more honest than what algorithms reward?

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🕶️ Incognito Mode

Off-record feelings, soft takes, and things I probably shouldn’t say out loud

I got some interesting responses to my recent piece on people lying about getting plastic surgery. In it, I asked a question I’ve been sitting with: Is Lying About Your Plastic Surgery... Cheugy?

Not sure what that even means? I’ve heard that too! Cheugy is internet shorthand for something that’s outdated, trying too hard, or un-self-aware. (Think millennial girlboss memes, wooden signs that say “Live Laugh Love,” or pretending your BBL came from hot yoga and collagen.)

Here’s my take: I think everyone is fully entitled to decide what stories they share or keep to themselves. You don’t owe anyone your medical history or body timeline. Full stop.

But.

When you're actively building a platform around your appearance—offering wellness tips, sharing “transformation” routines, selling fitness programs—and then position your augmented body as the result of drinking water, working out, and “being consistent,” while your community comes to you for real advice? That’s not privacy. That’s performance. And it's unethical.

We don’t need confessionals—we need clarity. Not because anyone is entitled to your private decisions, but because curated falsehoods masquerading as “inspiration” can be harmful. When transformation stories are built on omission, not truth, they don’t empower—they mislead. And that’s not helping anyone.

Made it this far? Nice to know I’m not yelling into the void (today). If you liked it, send it to someone else to… well, read this later.