My morning walk with Summer. A lullaby version of Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind” plays from my phone. She’s finally napping.

Normally I’d call a friend. Or cue up a podcast.

But not today.

Today I’m quietly repeating the same words like a prayer:

I accept ease into my life.
I accept ease into my life.
I accept ease into my life.

My latest affirmation. A simple prayer. A contract with myself.

And it’s working.

Two weeks into the year, I already closed three partners for our next cohort. I can’t tell you who yet, but I’m excited.

It wasn’t easy. I’m not pretending I manifested my way out of doing the work.

But it was easeful.

You know that feeling when you’ve trained for months, and then the moment arrives and you land the pirouette. You lift the barbell. You finish the last mile. A moment all at once graceful and surprising.

Here’s what I’m realizing: success feels easier when you know exactly what you’re aiming for.

I know that sounds obvious. But I didn’t always do it this way.

In past years, I’d say I wanted “growth.” I wanted “more.” I wanted “better.”

But “better” is fog. And you can’t steer toward anything in fog.

Getting precise takes time. It takes strategy. It takes sitting down in the fall and asking, unflinchingly: what do I actually want to be true by January?

That clarity changed everything.

Because when I knew exactly what we were trying to achieve, I knew exactly where to put my energy.

And now I can celebrate these wins without immediately moving the goalpost. I can say no without second-guessing myself. I can work on the rest of SheFi with the confidence that I’m not neglecting something more important.

On my walk, I pass an older couple walking their dog, Happy. They smile warmly and wave hello.

In New York, there were people everywhere. Noises everywhere. Movement everywhere. Even at the end of my street, a man used to heckle me as I walked by.

I’m still settling into the rhythm of the suburbs.

I don’t have my butcher. My fishmonger. My boutique grocer. My favorite Thai place. My sandwich shop.

Here, there’s one sandwich shop. It’s a fifteen-minute walk down the road. And it’s basically the only spot for a mile.

Fewer options means more focus.

More intention.

More ease.

We stay in. We spend time as a family. I have an actual office instead of being pushed into the corner of my bedroom.

In New York, laundry always lost to something more pressing. Here, it actually gets done.

And I’m starting to accept something I didn’t know how to believe in while living in New York:

Life doesn’t always have to be on hard mode.

New York rewards relentless. It glamorizes struggle. It teaches you that if you’re not exhausted, you’re not doing enough.

But I’m starting to question whether that’s the only way to succeed.

Or if, with the right support—people, systems, environment—success can be built without self-abandonment.

Maybe the work still has to be real.

But the suffering doesn’t.

If you know someone who needs to hear that, send this to them.

This Week in Crypto — SheFi Edition 🏇

• NYSE is moving toward 24/7 tokenized stocks. The NYSE is exploring how to offer round-the-clock trading for tokenized stocks and ETFs. This is TradFi absorbing crypto’s market structure: always-on markets and faster settlement, not just “adding crypto” as an asset class.

• Chainlink is building the data layer for tokenized equities. Chainlink launched 24/5 onchain data streams for tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs. Tokenization does not scale without continuous, reliable pricing feeds. This is boring infrastructure that makes onchain capital markets possible.

• Crypto cards hit an inflection point. Crypto payment cards are seeing a major surge in daily transactions since late 2024. This is one of the cleanest adoption signals: stablecoins moving from “trading tool” to “spending rail.”

• Prediction markets are having a breakout month. Prediction markets are on pace to smash monthly volume records after an $814M day. This category keeps proving it’s not just entertainment. It’s an information market where people put capital behind beliefs in real time.

• Bitcoin exposure keeps moving into boring mainstream wrappers. A major insurance platform partnered with a major asset manager to offer bitcoin exposure through a fixed index annuity. This is how adoption spreads: embedding crypto exposure inside products people already use, not forcing behavior change.

SheFi takeaway ✨

This week made one thing clear: crypto is no longer asking the world to change. It’s changing to meet the world where it already is.

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