Letter #18: Happy Birthday To Us.

This letter is about the many versions Vanessa played before she remembered she was also allowed to be the author. The eldest daughter. The survivor. The wife. The corporate climber. The business partner. The friend.It's about what it actually cost to leave. And why the hardest part wasn't the grief, it was disappointing people she loved.It's about late bloomers. What we really are. And why that's not something to be ashamed of.And it's about pride. The pride that lives in the fact that you kept your heart open when everything you survived could have made you cold.Trust faith more than fear. That's the birthday wish.Happy birthday to me and to us./Glow Up Hour​ is my free monthly gathering. Founders, leaders, creators in the same room - building the dream while honoring the human.Join Letters From The In-Between: vanessasantos.kit.comFollow Vanessa: @vanessasantosleonAbout Vanessa Santos Leon: Vanessa invested 20+ years building empires. Then she chose the one thing she'd never fully claimed: herself.Letters from the In-Between is the unfiltered record of what that looks like. The rebuilding, the becoming, the refusal to shrink back into a version of herself that no longer fits. It is for the woman who is accomplished by every external measure and still feels the quiet pull of something more. Something she can't quite name yet.Vanessa names it for her.Strategic business architect. Founder. Keynote speaker. And the voice for women who are done building lives that don't belong to them.Build The Dream. Honor The Human.™