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March 25, 2026

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Dude, I need your help!

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Registration Begins Monday

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There are no “I’m sorry”’s on The Girlboss Apology Tour. 

…except maybe to yourself. 

This 5-day event is about reconciling the past, so that you can reclaim your energy and focus, and put it toward the thing you’ve always dreamed of building. Something that’s uniquely yours, that only you could build. 

Fourteen interviews. Three live events. One honest look at what the girlboss era got right, what we got wrong, and how to get what you actually want now. 

It’s free and runs from Monday, April 13 – Friday, April 17.

Look for the link to register next Monday!

The Newsletter I Didn't Want to Write

You know those days when you sit down at your computer, tasks ripening on the to-do list, threatening to turn brown and fall off the branch? 

You want to dig into something meaningful that will give you that satisfied feeling when you push your chair out from your desk at the end of the day — but all you can do is keep checking and rechecking your email, or picking up your phone for a quick hit of TikTok.

Listen, I know you know. 

I’m having one of those days today. And I know the right thing to do here. My friend Maegan Megginson’s famous line is ringing in my ear: Log off and look for joy!

…but I already did that yesterday👇when I claimed a mid-week ski date with my treasured humans. The little one is just about to ride the magic carpet up for his first run ever. Holy heck, what a moment!

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So today “log off and look for joy” doesn’t feel like an option. 

Today is all about logging on and tackling important Girlboss Apology Tour business, when what I really want to do is log off and take a long nap. I’m scheduled to record my “solo interview” today, which will almost certainly be the most-listened-to interview, and is meant to set people up to want to attend the live events and make time for all the other interviews. 

No big deal, right? 

Just a top-tier, high-creative-output task that will be a lot of people’s first impression of three months of labour. And truthfully, I’m ready for it. I know I can make it something people will want to listen to more than once. I have a well of creative energy for The Girlboss Apology Tour tasks. Tantalizing, Buzzfeed-worthy copy rolls off my fingertips all day long. I’ve laid out an epic 5-day event that is truly some of my best work. It has songs and poetry and the promise of transformation for those who want that. 

The thing I’ve been struggling with is this newsletter. 

When I sit down to write this newsletter, all I hear is the tick-tick-tick of the wall clock in the hall. 

I wonder if you could help me and throw some ideas my way. 

🙋  What's the email topic you've been hoping I'd tackle but I never do?

🙋🏼‍♀️ Is there something I write about that you quietly skip every time?

🙋🏾 What's a behind-the-scenes part of my business you'd actually want to know more about?

Please hit “reply” and tell me so I can write a newsletter about it. 

If you have that question, chances are other people do as well. 

Thanks one million times for your help. It’s such a weird thing to be struggling with for me, Tarzan, the Queen of Email Marketing. The feeling of sitting down and not knowing what to write about is pretty foreign.

SEND HELP!

‘Till next week,

Tarzan

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