First, Mogulmommas, I owe you an apology. Week One of The Ramp is late. Last week, my brother died. Life was truly lifeing. There were conversations to have. Decisions to make. Emotions to process. Family to think about. Work still sitting on my desk. Commitments I had already made. And somewhere in the middle of all of that, I was supposed to keep building toward 2027. But something hit me: This is exactly why I created The Ramp. The Ramp isn't about creating a perfectly organized life where nothing unexpected happens. It's about creating enough ROOM in your life so that when the unexpected happens, you have somewhere to put it. That's why Step 1 is: MAKE ROOM. We have a tendency—especially as women—to schedule ourselves right up to the edge. Every hour is spoken for. Every dollar is committed. Everybody has access to us. We're helping this person, fixing that problem, answering that call, joining that committee, watching somebody's kids, taking on another client, paying for subscriptions we forgot we had, and saying yes because we've become the "do it all for everybody" girl. Then life happens. A breakup. A child needs you. A financial emergency. A death in the family. And suddenly there is no room for grief. No room for rest. No room to think. And certainly no room to build the thing we've been saying we want. 2027 is fast approaching. So this week, I want you to MAKE ROOM. Look at your calendar. What can come off? Look at your obligations. What can you say no to? Look at your bank and credit-card statements. What subscriptions, memberships, and unnecessary expenses can go? Look at the people who have unlimited access to your time. Does everybody really need that access? And please understand this: THIS IS NOT FOREVER. You are creating a season of margin. You are giving yourself the gift of time, money, energy, and emotional capacity to build something new. And if life decides to start lifeing—as it did for me last week—you'll have a little room to live it.

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Mogulmommas, My friends and colleagues use a word in reference to me that, frankly, irritates me: "You're so busy!" I have to ask why. What do people see that is different from what they want to see? It's something people only say to women. A man who is getting things done is praised and respected. But a woman is silently criticized for doing too much. Then I realized that people confuse busy with ACTIVE. They confuse someone who is doing a lot to someone who is doing EVERYTHING she wants to do with her life. And another thing... people who complain that I'm busy don't know the years I wasted in a bad marriage, broke, despondent, homeless with four babies. The years (YEARS) I sat on the couch watching Lifetime movies because I didn't want to be inside my own life. The tubs of ice cream I ate to numb the pain, gaining weight, feeling awful and emotionally broken. And there's something else they don't know... They don't know that I am now actualizing the life I put on my vision board. I'M WORKING MY PLAN. See, there came a point when I decided to stop waiting for my life to look the way I wished it would. So, I got ACTIVE! The marriage failed (both of them!). I hadn't written a single book. I hadn't started the business. The children were almost grown, and I looked around and realized I spent twenty years taking care of everybody except the woman in the mirror. Maybe you're starting over at 40. Or 50. Or 60. Maybe you've got $83 in your checking account and a dream that requires $83,000. Maybe the credit cards are maxed out. Maybe you're sleeping on the seam of the mattress to be as far away from "him" as possible. I want you to have the audacity to still believe you can pull it off. Don't just get BUSY. Get ACTIVE. Because I need you to understand something: It doesn't matter if you are late. Who cares if you're behind because somebody else bought the house first. Don't worry that her business took off faster. Don't feel stuck because "she" got married, got promoted, lost the weight, wrote the book, traveled the world, retired early, or figured out how to make sourdough bread while somehow raising emotionally healthy children.

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