I’m walking you through a very real day in my life, then getting into everything I’ve been processing lately—from motherhood and identity to the overwhelming response after opening up about Carmela. I also talk friendship breakups, internet drama, and why I’ve learned to stop overthinking the “why” when people leave your life. It’s a mix of honesty, perspective, and figuring it out in real time. love you and hope you enjoy!!

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This week I sat down with my long-time friend Melanie Masarin, the French-born founder of Ghia, the non-alcoholic aperitif that quietly changed the way we think about drinking. Melanie is someone I've turned to for advice over the years, and getting to finally sit down and go deep with her on how she built one of the most aesthetically singular brands of our time was something I've wanted to do for a long time.

Melanie grew up around the ritual of the aperitivo, summers near the Mediterranean where a drink before dinner was never really about alcohol. It was about slowing down, gathering, being present. When she stopped drinking, she couldn't find anything worth holding in her hand. So she made it herself.

We talked about what it actually takes to build something from scratch, the 55 formulations before she landed on the one, the $900k she raised from her own network before anyone else believed in it, and how she turned sobriety into something genuinely aspirational rather than a compromise. Ghia was never a mocktail brand. It was always a worldview.

This is a conversation about taste, restraint, obsession, and what happens when you build something that didn't exist yet.

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There are very few people in this world who I would describe as a genuine authority on anything, but Yolanda Edwards is the real deal and I will not hear otherwise. She is the former Creative Director of Condé Nast Traveler, the founder and publisher of Yolo Journal, which is honestly the most beautiful and inspiring travel publication in existence right now, and one of the most curious, well-traveled, tasteful humans I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. Yolo Journal, both the print quarterly and the Substack, has completely changed how I think about travel. It is not a guide. It is an experience. And Yolanda is the reason for that.

I got to sit down with her in New York, which felt right, and we talked about where she is obsessed with right now, the places she keeps returning to, and how she actually thinks about travel at this moment. I genuinely learn something every single time I talk to this woman.

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