Hi! 👋 I’m on a mission to normalize… failure 😅

Because hunniiiii, nothing cockblocks us me faster than us thinking that anything we create, produce, ideate or make must be better than Tom Brady’s career, more successful than Taylor Swift’s music, and definitely more iconic than the Titanic scene where Jack tears our hearts out and DIES.

😂

At least, that’s how my brain fucks me up.

I have somehow got it ingrained into my psyche (hi, childhood) that vulnerability is BAD, experimentation is WRONG and failing is FATAL.

Which, of course, is a bunch of donkey DOO-DOO.

But it doesn’t make my brain believe it any less.

And it’s EXHAUSTING and SOUL-SUCKING and MISSERABLE to live that way.

So, I’m rebelling. 🖕

And showing up with all the “this is just an experiment!” energy that I can muster:

Shame Sandwich is one big giant experiment.

Of course, a part of me wishes I knew what I was doing and I had it all figured out.

But I don’t. And I’m not going to pretend I do. 😂

Which means…

→ I’m giving myself permission to write shit that I love, without an “agenda”.

→ I’m going to give myself permission to write shit that “fails”.

→ I’m going to give myself permission to write shit that not everyone is going to love.

So, I can’t promise it will always be pretty, and you might witness epic Megan meltdowns in real-time, but I can promise that if you subscribe to this newsletter…it’s going to be raw, sweary, vulnerable, messy and… normalizing all the failure.

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