Letters From The In-Between

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.

  1. 2h ago

    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 here, why contrast is how you finally fall in love with yourself, and what to put down today so ease can walk back in. Read along, or better, listen and say the words with me. I am ready. I am ready. I am ready. / Join Letters From The In-Between: https://buildthedream.co/letters Follow Vanessa: @vanessasantosleon About 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.™

  2. 6d ago

    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 tax. In this episode I get honest about why the ones who leave were never yours to keep, why a shrinking circle is what growth looks like from the inside, and how to stop letting other people's comfort keep you small. / Join Letters From The In-Between: https://vsantos.co/#newsletter  Follow Vanessa: @vanessasantosleon About 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.™

  3. Jul 22

    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 story is about her character. This letter names why that happens, the receipts, the villain era, and why you're not failing, you're exiting.  The room Vanessa built for exactly this work, F**k Around and Find Out, is open. It's for the woman who's done putting herself second and ready to find out what happens when she puts herself first, surrounded by women doing the same brave, terrifying, funny-as-f**k thing at the same time. Join in the link below. 👉 https://vanessasantos.kit.com/fafochallenge 🎧 New letters read aloud every week with a reflection at the end on Letters from the In-Between. / Join Letters From The In-Between: https://vsantos.co/#newsletter  Follow Vanessa: @vanessasantosleon About 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.™

  4. Jul 15

    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, in addition to a reflection on what it means for you to stay the course, to honor yourself, and to choose you. / Join Letters From The In-Between: https://vsantos.co/#newsletter  Follow Vanessa: @vanessasantosleon About 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.

  5. Jul 8

    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 care of yourself, this one will make you exhale. / Join Letters From The In-Between: https://vsantos.co/#newsletter  Follow Vanessa: @vanessasantosleon About 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.

  6. Jun 26

    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 something different. Our parents survived so we could thrive. The least we can do with that inheritance is actually use it. Reflection at the end: what it means to stop waiting for understanding before you keep building and why the only approval that actually changes anything is your own. Vanessa's favorite tools for productivity, here. // Join Letters From The In-Between: vanessasantos.kit.com Follow Vanessa: @vanessasantosleon About 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. Keywords: first generation, immigrant family, women entrepreneurs, building in public, generational wealth, women of color in business, Latina founders, vibe coding, Build The Dream, F*ck Around and Find Out challenge, self-permission, identity, becoming, audacity, women's economy, entrepreneurship, personal development, sovereignty.

  7. Jun 18

    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 to do with the women they're watching and everything to do with the gap between what they know they're capable of and what they've been allowing themselves to do. Vanessa talks about wanting "love you" money, not "f**k you" money. About stopping the habit of being the first person in the room to tell yourself your dreams are too expensive. About what happens when a woman finally stops treating her own potential like it belongs to someone more deserving. The economic participation gap between men and women is projected to take 135 years to close. None of us will be alive for that. But she intends to make it shorter — one woman at a time. Reflection at the end: the sign you've been waiting for is the one you give yourself. / Join Letters From The In-Between: vanessasantos.kit.com Follow Vanessa: @vanessasantosleon About 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.™ Keywords: women and wealth, female founders, audacity, alignment, women's economy, gender pay gap, building in public, self-permission, Latina entrepreneurs, women and money, starting over, entrepreneurship, personal development, identity, sovereignty.

  8. Jun 13

    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 influential people in the world. It is not intelligence. It is not privilege. It is not luck. It is the decision to stop negotiating with themselves. This episode is about the shame you have been carrying that was never yours. The inheritance of shrinking. The cost of making yourself palatable. And what becomes possible the moment you put it down. Plus - What's Moving this week: why women are founding nearly half of all new businesses while receiving 1% of venture capital, what MIT's study of 2.7 million founders says about starting over at 45, and the Cambridge trading-floor research that proves your morning body check-in is a performance edge, not a wellness trend. / Join Letters From The In-Between: vanessasantos.kit.com Follow Vanessa: @vanessasantosleon About 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.™ Keywords: women's wealth gap, female founders, venture capital gender gap, starting over at 40, midlife reinvention, somatic intelligence, self-worth, women and money, letting go of shame, building a life on your own terms, women's economy, Latinas in business, personal development, entrepreneurship, identity, sovereignty.

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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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