I found this on Instagram—where I’m spending less and less time, but I swear it’s all glimmers and no triggers right now. It’s like the algorithm knows I was ready to leave, so now it’s rolling out the red carpet of divine timing, sending me exactly what I need to see. And what I needed today?

This: "Embrace imposter syndrome. Revel in the fact that you've fooled everyone. You are a trickster goddess."

Shoutout to Witches.of.Insta for this absolute banger of a reminder. Because YES. This. This is the energy I am carrying into 2025. This is the energy of writing books, publishing books, promoting books, and showing up even when I feel like I have no idea what I’m doing.

Let’s get real. If you never feel like a fraud, you’re probably not taking big enough risks. You’re probably not stepping into spaces that stretch you, that demand growth, that make your past self do a double take.

Imposter syndrome isn’t proof that you don’t belong. It’s proof that you do. That you’re standing at the edge of something new, something bigger, something that matters.

It’s proof that you tricked the system. That you got into a room where someone, somewhere, never expected you to be. That you hacked the matrix and walked through a door without waiting for permission.

And I don’t know about you, but I love that for us.

As such, you write your own story

Here’s the thing: I write stories about women who break the rules. Women who get knocked down and get back up. Women who love with their whole hearts, even when the world tells them they shouldn't.

Take Holland Gallagher from Holland, My Heart. She loses everything and somehow finds a way to rebuild. To love again. To trust herself. To outwit fate and come out stronger.

Or Ivy from When Ivy Met Adam. She’s been underestimated her whole life. But she knows herself. She takes the world by storm anyway, refusing to shrink, refusing to play by anyone’s rules but her own.

And now? There’s Ximena. She’s a widow, a CFO, a fighter. She lost the love of her life and still keeps going. She builds something new. She writes a new ending.

Every one of these women has felt imposter syndrome. And every one of them keeps moving forward anyway.

The game is rigged? Yeah. Probably. So what?

Do you think the people who came before you had it all figured out? Spoiler alert: they didn’t.

The difference between them and you? They acted like they belonged. They moved with the confidence of a mediocre white man in a Patagonia vest. They claimed space.

So take that energy. Fake it until it’s not fake anymore. Move like you belong. Because you do.

Big Trickster Energy

This is the year we stop waiting to feel “ready.”
This is the year we stop apologizing for taking up space.
This is the year we embrace the trickster energy and revel in the fact that we got in the door.

We are magicians. We are shapeshifters. We are the ones rewriting the rules.

And if we’re “faking it”? Then let’s fake it so well the universe has no choice but to make it real.

Go forth and work your magic.

And while you’re at it—pick up a book that reminds you just how powerful you really are. And then tell me what book that is. I want to read it too.