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Letters From The In-Between
by Vanessa Santos
Some women don't fall apart. They just quietly outgrow everything they built. This is a podcast for her, the one who did everything right and still felt the ache of something missing. The one who held it all together so long she forgot what it felt like to come apart honestly. The one who isn't lost. She's just in the middle of becoming something the world doesn't have a name for yet. Every episode is a letter. Written and read by Vanessa Santos, founder, builder, and the woman who chose herself at the height of everything.Welcome to the in-between. These letters are for you.
Episodes
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Letter #39: How You Can Make An Impact
This letter is about what it means to be self made, how to use your influence for good and what happens when you think you've lost it all. Life has a way of showing you what matters. This letter is also special because it spotlights two foundations doing incredible work: The Rise And Dream...
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Letter #38: Be Still Enough To Feel It.
This letter is about the thing we try to outrun but will inevitably find out. And the only way we get to really listen is when we stop trying to fill our to-do list and be still. This letter tells you what you gain and what you lose when you choose to pause and feel. // Join Letters From The...
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Letter #37: You Are Not Alone In What You Are Feeling
This letter is about trusting your vision before it makes sense in the material world, what betting on yourself feels like, and why your job is not to fix, save or absorb, but it's to observe and allow things to settle. Vanessa also gives a recap on Thrive & Lead at Avance Global and provides a...
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Letter #36: Find Your Care Bears.
This letter is about finding your people. The people who see you and aren't trying to dim your light. Post the Thrive & Lead energy, Vanessa describes what the energy felt like and what happens you are in alignment. / Join Letters From The In-Between: https://buildthedream.co/letters Follow...
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Letter #35: The Power Of Proximity.
In this letter Vanessa shares a moment in time that changed the trajectory of her career and it began with a $350 investment. This letter explores the feelings of taking a chance on yourself and the realities of how proximity to the right spaces gives you access you wouldn't have otherwise. //…
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Letter #34: Have You Seen This Line Up?
This letter talks about the inherent power and economic force that are Latinas and why Vanessa and Patty are building Thrive and Lead. Meet the women speaking at Thrive and Lead and join the movement to create a more equitable and profitable world for women. // Join Letters From The In-Between:...
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Letter #33: Stop Being Quiet About Who You Are.
This letter was recorded raw, no edits, and to serve as a reminder that even in your season of transformation, you have something to offer. You are worthy of love and support. The reminder you needed to hear is here. // Join Letters From The In-Between: https://buildthedream.co/letters Follow...
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Letter #32: The Money Is Coming To Women. The Leverage Is Not. (YET)
This week's letter is about where the money is going, and who gets to hold it. The largest wealth transfer in history is moving toward women, around thirty trillion dollars by 2030. I map what that actually means: the value we already create for the economy, the leverage that decides whether we...
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Letter #31: You Are SO Lucky
It's 8/8, the Lion's Gate, the most potent manifestation day on the calendar, and I'm interrupting your regularly scheduled life to remind you of something you already know and somehow forgot: you are so lucky, and you are so powerful. In this one I get into what it actually took for you to be...
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Letter #30 - The Paradox Of Growth
This week, 110 people unsubscribed from my letters. A few marked me as spam. A few called them inappropriate. I could have spiraled over it. Instead, I want to tell you the thing nobody says out loud about growth: every time you become more of who you actually are, you lose people. That is the…
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Letter #29: Men Get To Fail. Women Get Judged.
Vanessa has been saying this to her girlfriends for years. Now she's saying it to you. A man burns the whole thing down and we call him a visionary who was just early. He gets the comeback story, the press tour, the second round of funding. A woman has one season of stumbling and suddenly the…
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Letter #28: The Friendships That Don't Survive The New You
Growth means having to let parts of you go, and growth also means having to let people go. This is the part that most people don't talk about when it comes to growth. It's the friendships that don't survive the version of you that you're loving, that you're becoming. This letter talks about it…
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Letter #27: Would The Younger You Be Proud, Or Just Tired?
I broke a 50-day posting streak on purpose, and I don't regret it. This letter is about the privilege of choosing when to show up, why presence beats performance, and how joy and grief can live in the same week without canceling each other out. If you've ever felt guilty for stepping back to take...
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Letter #26: My Dad Called Me This Week. I cried.
This letter is about the particular tenderness of being seen by someone who loves you and doesn't always understand you and realizing that both things can exist at the same time without canceling each other out. It's about what nobody prepares you for when you are the first in your family to do...
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Letter #25: What If You F*cked Around And Found Out?
This letter is about audacity as a practice, not the absence of doubt, but the decision that your vision matters more than your hesitation. About the alignment people mistake for luck. About the women who watch from the sidelines and the grief that lives in that silence, the kind that has nothing...
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Letter #24: Unseasoned Chicken Is Running The World.
There is a moment that comes for every woman who has been giving herself away for too long. It's the feeling of meeting her threshold of discomfort. Then she finally decides, I am no longer settling. In this letter, Vanessa names the one quality shared by the most powerful, most wealthy, most...
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Letter #23: Even Rich People Wonder
A former corporate peer pulls Vanessa aside at a reunion and admits something most successful people never say out loud — that even after everything they've built, they still wonder if they could be doing something else. In this letter, Vanessa traces what that conversation unlocked, why she made...
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Letter #22: The $528 Billion Opportunity
What happens when a woman finally stops performing the version of herself that kept everyone else comfortable? In this letter, Vanessa makes herself the data point, tracing the moment she stopped playing roles that were never hers and what followed when she chose herself instead. Plus what's…
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Letter #21: This Summer You Become Lethal.
This letter about recognizing that feeling ready is not a feeling at all but a choice. Letter #21 gives you 3 unlocks to make this the summer you become lethal. / Glow Up Hour is my free monthly gathering. Founders, leaders, creators in the same room - building the dream while honoring the…
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Letter #20: You Are Not Behind. You Are Brewing.
You are not behind. You are brewing. And those two things feel identical from the inside — but only one of them is true. In this letter, Vanessa talks about the specific feeling of being on the verge of something massive that you can sense but can't yet see, why the people around you right now...
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Letter #19: The Universe Doesn't Care About Your Plans.
Vanessa's birthday didn't go as planned. At 2am, Elvis seized. She canceled everything and held him all night. It was the most perfect birthday she's ever had. This letter is about what happens when you stop fighting the unpredictable and let the universe show you what actually matters. About...
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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...
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Letter #17: What's Living In Your Head Rent Free?
The idea that won't leave you alone, it's time to stop letting it take up space for free. In this letter, Vanessa reflects on decades spent collecting rent on other people's dreams and what it took to finally let her own brilliance collect rent. She unpacks the trap of people-pleasing, the real...
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Letter #16: Six Unlocks. No Gatekeeping.
This is Letter #16, the first official cheat code drop of Q2. Six unlocks Vanessa learned through love, business, money, pleasure, and health. The actual lived lessons from someone who lost herself in every relationship, scattered herself across ten projects as armor, built a business she loved...
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Letter #15: What Are You Ready To Be Seen For?
There are two kinds of caves. The one you go into on purpose, to protect what you're growing, to wait out the asteroid, to incubate the thing that isn't ready to fly yet. And the one you crawl back into out of fear, dressed up as patience. This episode is about the distance between those two…
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Letter #14: What's Your Relationship With Control?
This letter is about the psychology of control. Why we do it, where it started, what it costs us, and why the life we actually want cannot be built from inside a grip that tight. I talk about what happened on the Beauty Manifest podcast with my dear friend Melinda, why being seen still doesn't...
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Letter #13: Be Honest, What Are You Afraid Of?
In this letter, I trace the silence back to its origin, the childhood home where making myself invisible kept the peace. The things I survived and said nothing about, the little girl who wrote scripts and plays and performed with my siblings because make believe was the only place I got to be…
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Letter #12: What's The Real ROI?
Wrote this one from Medellín. This letter is about what happens when you stop measuring return on investment in spreadsheets and start measuring it in the people who see you before you've figured it all out. The friendships you almost didn't prioritize. The trips you almost didn't take. The...
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Letter #11: The Tuesday Nobody Talks About.
Nobody tells you what choosing yourself actually feels like on a Tuesday. Not the clarity moment. Not the decision day. The Tuesday after. When the vision is real but the bank account is quiet and you're building something so big it occasionally terrifies you. That's where I've been. That's where...
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Letter #10: When You Choose Yourself, You Become The Villain.
There's a specific moment when you stop playing the role everyone needed you to play: the good daughter, the easy friend, the one who always says yes, and the people around you decide you've changed. In this letter, Vanessa talks about the loneliness that comes not from being alone but from…
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Letter #9: The Trap No One Warns High Performers About.
This letter is about the trap high performers fall into, mistaking endurance for loyalty, using our strength against ourselves, and not knowing how to stay in joy. The breakthrough isn't the moment of relief. It's learning to stay in your joy. Listen to hear what happens when high performers...
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Letter #8: What Do You Stand For? I Have News. 🎧
Authenticity as a form of protest. This letter is about shedding what was never yours: the expectations, the identities, the lanes, so you can finally stand for something. You're not confused about what you stand for. You're comfortable. And comfort is the most expensive thing you'll ever pay…
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Letter #7: Bad Bunny, And The Difference Between Luck & Alignment
Bad Bunny headlines the Super Bowl. First Latino solo act. Entirely in Spanish. They called it luck. It's not. This letter is about the difference between luck and alignment — and why everything you built from obligation is exhausting you while everything you built from desire is sustaining you.…
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Letter #6: Change Is Hard But It's Necessary.
It feels like the world is going through a collective descent right now. This letter is about Phase 2 of The Self-Reclamation Method™ — the identity death, the letting go. This is not the stage for dreams to die. It's where identities die so your dreams can thrive. Reflection included at the end....
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Letter #5: Are We Aligned? (Special Edition)
This letter is different. I wrote it at 3am because I couldn't sleep. Because last week I was walking my boys, thought I saw an ICE agent, and immediately turned around and walked home without saying a word to anyone. That silence sat in my body. It compounded. Silence has a shelf life. And mine...
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Letter #4: Be Loyal To Your Future, Not Your Past
Your heart and your mind are often at odds. Your heart knows the truth — what needs to end, what no longer fits, who you're becoming. Your mind justifies why you should stay. Why it's not that bad. Why now isn't the right time. And when you keep ignoring it? It doesn't go away. It lives in your...
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Letter #3: The Shattering
Today we begin the journey of reclaiming the pieces of yourself you've given away. Whether through expectations. Overworking. Allowing harm without setting boundaries. Saying yes when your heart meant no. Never giving yourself a break. Neglecting your needs so someone else could be satisfied.…
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Letter #2: What Are You Letting Go Of?
In this letter, I share what happened when grief hit, and the realization that followed: I am finally safe. And I introduce The Self-Reclamation Method™, a four-phase framework I built because I needed it first. Here's what I've noticed about exceptional women: you rarely subtract. You add new on...
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Letter #1: This Is The Year Of Building Differently
The first time I held a firm boundary, I wanted to hide from myself. Not because I'd done something wrong, because I'd done something true. And true felt like collapse. In this letter, I share the gut-wrenching decision to walk away from a business I adored, a mission that felt like oxygen, and a...
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Some women don't fall apart. They just quietly outgrow everything they built. This is a podcast for her, the one who did everything right and still felt the ache of something missing. The one who held it all together so long she forgot what it felt like to come apart honestly. The one who isn't lost. She's just in the middle of becoming something the world doesn't have a name for yet. Every episode is a letter. Written and read by Vanessa Santos, founder, builder, and the woman who chose herself at the height of everything.Welcome to the in-between. These letters are for you.
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