On Friday morning, I sat down with my journal for the first time in months.

Before I gave birth, I journaled five out of seven days a week. Morning pages and affirmations, with my coffee, for thirty minutes every day. It was a daily writing practice. And then I had my daughter, and I stopped.

When I came back to it, I put pen to paper, and all these negative thoughts started pouring out. I'm not growing fast enough. Other creators are better at content than me. I don't have a natural presence on camera. I'd been carrying these negative stories around with me for weeks and months. Seeing them on paper made me realize:

These words are like bad code running the background of my life.

And my major insight: I don't need to vibe code more apps. I need to vibe code myself.

Everyone's talking about vibe coding right now. Building apps with AI, prompting products. But sitting in my journal that morning, I realized my mind runs on software too. And my software was buggy. I'm a millennial, so I'm not good at video. I don't have time. It's too hard. I’m stuck. Those aren't real facts. They’re just bad programs I've been running on repeat.

So I decided to rewrite my software. I started with a full page of present-tense affirmations. Not "I will be" — because there is no future, there's only now. I am an amazing content creator. I create with ease and joy. I am a wellspring of creativity. I am a vessel for God's gifts.

I wrote them like prompts. Because that's what they are.

Day one. Day two. Day three. No real impact yet, just trusting the process and enjoying the act of writing.

And then on day four, I saw a tweet that resonated, shared four photos Jon had taken of me, rewrote the caption, and posted it. No strategy, just ease.

It went viral. Insanely viral. More viral than I’ve ever been in my (or Jon’s) lengthy Twitter careers. 60,000 likes, 1.5 million+ impressions.

Vibe coding yourself doesn’t mean everything you post blows up (I wish!). But when we rewrite negative stories, we give ourselves openness.

When we’re negative (”I suck at this”), we close ourselves off the possibility of goodness. The code we run is constantly erroring out and giving back output.

We all have bad code running. The belief that we're too old, too new, too late. That someone else is better suited for the thing we want. Sometimes these are hardcoded into our mental algorithm. They are inputs that we can just edit.

Go vibecode the best version of yourself. Commit to debugging your bad code.

PS. I loved doing this so much that I want to do it with you.

We're launching a fun, 7-day Vibe Code Yourself challenge. Seven mornings, seven prompts, ten minutes a day to call in your most creative, most confident self. Vibe code your creative confidence with me.

Crypto + AI Roundup — SheFi Edition 🏇

Crypto Roundup.

• Ethereum just built itself a front door for Wall Street. A new nonprofit called Ethereum Institutional launched July 1, run by former Ethereum Foundation staff and funded by Joe Lubin (the Consensys founder) plus two public companies that hold billions in ETH. Its whole job is to be the person a bank or asset manager can call when they want to build on Ethereum, something rival chains had and Ethereum didn't. The team says it already has 500-plus institutional relationships and has courted executives from firms managing around $250 trillion. The timing is pointed. It launched the same week the Ethereum Foundation cut 20% of its staff and narrowed its mission, and while ETH sits near multi-year lows after three straight losing quarters. The people who built Ethereum are pitching banks on it right as the banks have been selling.

• A week into Europe's full crypto rulebook taking effect, the winners-and-losers board is filling in, and the first names are big. Ripple secured a full MiCA license, which lets it run regulated crypto-payment services across all 30 countries in the European Economic Area from a single approval. Binance, the largest exchange in the world, did not. It withdrew its license application in Greece and entered the new era with no MiCA clearance at all. Only about 280 firms cleared the bar out of more than 3,000 that used to operate under the old national rules. In Europe now, the license is the moat, and the companies that treated compliance as a cost center are the ones locked out.

• Some of the biggest names in money just agreed to share one dollar. Open USD is a new stablecoin backed by a 140-company coalition that includes Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock, Stripe, Google, Shopify, and Coinbase, launching later this year on Solana. The twist is in the economics. Regular stablecoins like USDC and Tether keep the interest earned on their reserves; Open USD hands almost all of that yield back to the businesses that use it, and it's governed by those businesses together, more like Visa's network than a single company. The market got the message instantly. Circle, the company behind USDC, saw its stock fall as much as 17% the day it was announced. The guest list is the real story: the financial establishment has decided stablecoins are the future of money, and it wants to own the rails rather than rent them.

AI Roundup.

• Anthropic launched Claude Science, a version of Claude built to run scientific research the way Claude Code runs software. It isn't a new model. It's the same Claude wired into 60-plus scientific databases and lab tools, so a researcher can hand it a pile of papers or genetic data and get real analysis back, with every result traceable to its source. In one demo it autonomously found drug candidates for a rare genetic disease. Anthropic also said it's starting its own drug-discovery program aimed at neglected diseases that big pharma ignores, and it hired John Jumper, the Nobel laureate behind AlphaFold, away from Google. The interesting part isn't that the AI is smart. It's that once generation gets cheap, the scarce skill becomes judgment: knowing which of the AI's answers is actually right.

• OpenAI offered to hand the US government a 5% stake in the company, worth around $42 billion. Sam Altman's pitch: let the public share in the upside of AI through a fund modeled on Alaska's oil-dividend program, and get other labs like Anthropic and Google to give up matching stakes. The talks are early and would probably need Congress, but the direction is striking. Washington already took a 10% slice of Intel and a cut of Nvidia's China chip sales, so government ownership of AI is arriving piece by piece. Anthropic, for its part, says it hasn't discussed any such deal. When the most valuable startup on earth offers the government a piece of itself, it tells you how much a good relationship with Washington is suddenly worth.

• The government is close to making the Fable 5 situation permanent, on purpose. The White House is finishing a voluntary framework with OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic that would give it up to 30 days to review a powerful new model before the public can use it, with the NSA setting the bar for which models count. An announcement could land this week. It grew out of a June executive order and is meant to make launches predictable instead of the emergency shutdowns we saw with Fable 5 and the gated rollout of GPT-5.6. Officials insist it's voluntary and not a licensing regime, though critics call it exactly that with extra steps. Either way, the message is settled: the biggest AI models now ship on a schedule the government helps set.

✨ SheFi takeaway: Today is the last day Claude Fable 5 is included at no extra cost in paid Claude plans. Starting tomorrow, using it bills by the token at double the price of Opus 4.8, making it the most expensive model Anthropic sells to the public. Fable has had a wild run: it launched June 9, got pulled offline June 12 by the government, came back July 1, and now gets a meter six days later. Anthropic says the paywall is temporary and blames capacity, not policy. The throughline of Fable's whole life so far is the one worth keeping: access to the most powerful tools moves on the vendor's calendar and the government's, and now the price tag, but never on yours.

SheFi Global Events 🌎

Stay connected with SheFi around the world. From meetups and summits to workshops and special partner events, this is where you’ll find the can’t-miss gatherings happening across our global community.

07/10 Virtual: Investment Club with Sam Ragsdale: Members only

Join the SheFi Investment Club every Friday at 11am EST! You can find the zoom link on Mighty Networks.

07/11 Laguna: SheFi Philippines Official Launch: RSVP here

Join the official launch of SheFi Philippines, bringing together women, allies, builders, founders, creators, students, and professionals interested in exploring opportunities in Web3, digital finance, and emerging technologies.

07/21-22 Toronto: EthWomen Toronto: RSVP here

Hey ladies Toronto and Florida ladies! SheFi wants to extend the invitation to you from ETHWomen. We welcome you to a women focused section of the growing Futurist Conference. Completely free to join!

Crypto Events 🌎

Going to ETHCC, Token2049 or Devcon? Join our Global Events Telegram Chat: https://t.me/shefisummit

• 07/11 San Francisco: The Pink Screen IRL: Vibe Lab: RSVP here

• 07/11 NYC: Bitcoin en Español: RSVP here

• 07/20 Virtual: Global Design Sprint: Harnessing Gender Data for Inclusive Regulation: RSVP here

• 07/21-22 Toronto: Blockchain Futurist Conference Toronto: RSVP here

• 10/08 San Francisco: InTheRoom: Trust, Presence & Connection - #SFTechWeek: RSVP here

• 11/17-18 Florida: EthWomen Florida: RSVP here

• Devcon 8 India Volunteer Application Form: Apply here

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