have it all-ish
For women who love their kids deeply and still want something for themselves. This is the honest middle of motherhood, ambition, and everything in between.
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Mothers Are the Only People Qualified to Be President (opens the original)
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A mom named broke the internet at a Giants game this week.If you haven’t seen the video, the short version is: she’s coming down the stairs with a baby strapped to her chest, a diaper bag on her back and three trays of stadium food while her husband sits down and starts eating.And the internet lost its fucking mind.Women were furious. Men defended him. Strangers picked apart a few seconds of footage as evidence that she should divorce him. Which, separate issue: perhaps we should all mind our ow
Women Shouldn’t Have to Choose Between Motherhood and Ambition (opens the original)
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FIELD NOTESISSUE 02 / SEPTEMBER 2026Field Notes is your invitation to build alongside me as I bring Chapter Two to life what I’m trying, what I’m learning, and everything you can steal along the way.Why I’m Building Chapter TwoWhen I started writing Have It All-ish, I wasn’t planning to start another company. I really just wanted somewhere to talk about motherhood and ambition and
Motherhood Needs Bedazzling (opens the original)
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Okay, you asked for this.I realize that in my overshare poll I made it sound like the “much-needed makeover” was for me. Which, honestly, fair.But I think there’s something else in more desperate need of a glow-up, and that’s motherhood. Like, let’s be honest, she really needs a rebrand.When I saw Taylor Cox carrying a bedazzled breast pump to the Emmys, I thought, That’s exactly it. We need to bedazzle motherhood.Somehow, in our very necessary effort to tell the truth about how hard motherhood
Building The Feeling (opens the original)
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FIELD NOTES ISSUE 01 / SEPTEMBER 2026Building Chapter Two in public, one experiment, one decision, and one lesson at a time.Field Notes is your invitation to build alongside me as I bring Chapter Two to life what I’m trying, what I’m learning, and everything you can steal along the way.THE WORLDI spent most of this week’s nap times taking hundreds of screenshots of colors
In Defense of the Pathetic Beginning (opens the original)
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I don’t know if it’s because I just ran hills at full speed listening to a remix of “Bulletproof” by La Roux or because I just got my first paid subscriber who isn’t my mom, but I’m feeling dangerously optimistic for a woman who has made roughly five dollars.For the last six months, I’ve been trying to start again. I kept telling myself the problem was time. I have two small children (one and five) and a husband who travels a lot for work. When I put my baby down for a nap, I have either seven m
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