Babe, take the vacation.

July 6, 2026

Here’s what I learned this month: taking a vacation isn’t something you get to do, it’s something you have to do. And getting to take one at all is a privilege I built for myself, so I’m holding it with a lot of gratitude.

I hadn’t taken a real one in two years. Everywhere I went, the laptop came with me, because no matter where I was, I was working somehow, some way.

Three weeks ago I told myself I was shutting down my marketing agency. I was ready to quit. That’s how burnt out I was.

Then I finally said enough is enough.

On my two-week “vacation,” I actually turned off my laptop and my social media for four days straight, and when I tell you I feel better than ever, I’m not just saying that. My nervous system remembered how to slow down, and everything stopped feeling like an emergency.

Here’s the part I didn’t see coming, the money lesson hiding inside the rest. You cannot build real wealth from a fried nervous system. The minute I stopped, I could think clearly again, what to charge, what to say no to, what was actually worth my time. The women who build lasting money aren’t grinding the hardest, they’re the ones calm enough to make good decisions and patient enough to play the long game.

Money follows your energy, not your exhaustion. I want a life that’s rich in every sense, time, freedom, health, and yes, real money, and none of that gets built by a woman running on empty. You were not made for crumbs, and neither am I.

So before you dive into all the beautiful details below, the AI, the optimizing, the working your ass off, here’s the one thing I want to leave you with: take 24 hours, no phone, no laptop, and fully disconnect. Your best thinking, and honestly your best earning, lives on the other side of rest.

If you’re constantly feeling rushed, consider this your sign. Take the step back. The world, the work, and the money will all still be there when you get back. 🫶

Here’s what actually happened in AI this week, in plain English, so you don’t have to keep up on your own.

Claude Sonnet 5 (Anthropic, June 30). Okay so Claude Sonnet 5 is the default now for free and pro accounts, and it’s basically your everyday AI but sharper and cheaper (nearly as smart as the pricey top-tier model, for way less). If you’ve been meaning to try Claude, this is your sign. Anthropic also quietly opened Claude Science, a research helper, in beta.

How you’d actually use it: turn your messy discovery-call notes into a polished proposal and a welcome email that actually sounds like you, not a robot.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Image (Google, June 30). Google dropped a couple of new image tools, and the fast one makes pictures for basically pennies. In plain terms: you type what you want, it hands you an on-brand graphic, no designer required.

How you’d actually use it: make a whole month of matching social graphics from one prompt plus your brand colors, then just schedule them and walk away.

GPT-5.6 “Sol” (OpenAI, in preview). OpenAI’s newest is its most “agentic” yet, which just means it can run little helper bots that finish multi-step tasks on their own without you babysitting them.

How you’d actually use it: set up an overnight assistant that sorts your inbox and drafts replies, so you wake up to a tidy inbox and just hit send.

Also worth knowing: TwelveLabs raised $100M (July 1) for tech that makes your videos searchable just by asking.

How you’d actually use it: make your whole course library searchable so a member can ask “where did she talk about pricing” and jump right to that moment.

Let’s celebrate the women who got funded this week, and notice how many of them are building for us. 🫶

Hera — Jenny Lee — $27M Series A. Jenny built an AI-plus-humans service that helps you coordinate care for aging parents (hello, sandwich generation), and families are staying, 95% of them. (Bain Capital Ventures, June 25)

Clair Health — Jenny Duan — $11.6M seed. Jenny closed this the same week she graduated Stanford, for a pretty wrist wearable that tracks 130+ hormone markers with zero needles. 25,000 people are already on the waitlist. (Khosla Ventures, June 17)

Ovum — Dr. Ariella Heffernan-Marks — $4M seed. An AI “health journal” that turns your symptoms and stats into a tidy summary you can hand your doctor, so you actually get heard in appointments. (June 23)

Mila — Ada Trujillo & Kim Aviv — $2.5M pre-seed. Design-led intimate wellness, treated like the everyday self-care it actually is. The round was oversubscribed. (Mensch VC, June 30)

Here’s the thing: 2026 is on track to be a record year for women’s-health funding, and yet women founders still get only 1 to 2% of all venture money. So every one of these is worth cheering for.

Where to find your people (and probably your next big idea) for the rest of the year. Date-ordered, and I starred the ones I’d move things around for.

• Jul 28–30 · Annual Wellness Summit · Nashville · Wellness

• Aug 1–2 · Berkeley Agentic AI Summit · UC Berkeley · AI

• Aug 4–6 · Ai4 2026 · Las Vegas · AI

• Sep 11–13 · Health Optimisation Summit · London · Longevity + Wellness

• ⭐ Sep 12–13 · AI-Powered Women Conference · MIT, Cambridge MA · Women + AI

• Sep 14–17 · Longevity Investors Conference · Gstaad, Switzerland · Longevity + Capital

• Sep 15 · Forbes Power Women’s Summit · New York · Women leaders

• Sep 19–20 · Create & Cultivate Festival · Los Angeles · Women founders

• Oct 5 · Texas Conference for Women · Austin · Women

• Oct 12–14 · Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit · Santa Barbara · Women execs

• ⭐ Oct 13–15 · Women’s Health Innovation Summit (WHIS) · Boston · Femtech

• ⭐ Oct 27–30 · Grace Hopper Celebration · Anaheim · Women in Tech

• Nov 9–12 · Web Summit (Women in Tech) · Lisbon · Tech

• ⭐ Nov 10–13 · Global Wellness Summit · Phuket, Thailand · Wellness

• Nov 15–18 · HLTH USA (Women’s Health track) · Las Vegas · Health + Femtech

• Dec 11–13 · A4M LongevityFest · Las Vegas · Longevity medicine

• Mar 15–21, 2027 · SXSW (Health + AI) · Austin · AI + Wellness

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