Thank you to everyone who came to Don’t Tell Mama for Fifty Ways to Leave Your Forties. Some people had to leave early and aren’t pictured. Some wonderful people aren’t pictured because I never got the chance. Some brand new people walked in because they were curious. Some people couldn’t get in because we sold out (!!). But if you showed up for me in any way, please know you are part of this memory.

And what a memory.

I got to launch What You Don’t See surrounded by love, laughter, friendship, music, hugs, tears, and people cheering as I walked into the room in a blue sequined dress—and for once in my life, it didn’t feel strange or unreal. I felt exactly where I was supposed to be.

Thank you to my incredible team:

Jeff Harnar for directing with such heart, brilliance, humor, and care.

Jon Weber, my musical soulmate in all of this, for being beside me every step of the way.

Ritt Henn and David Silliman for making the room FEEL alive.

Lynda DeFuria and Evelyn Sullivan for those gorgeous harmonies and all the love behind them.

Trinity Alleyne for basically holding my entire life together backstage.

Matt Baker for helping me actually look like the woman I imagined in my head.

Alison Nusbaum for helping this giant complicated evening run smoothly behind the scenes.

Randy Cohen Lester and Adrian for taking such beautiful care of everyone all night.

Sidney Myer and Tanya Moberly for giving me a home and continuing to believe in me.

And my husband…thank you for supporting this crazy dream and this even crazier woman pursuing it. 💜

I was especially grateful to share my album dedication to Phyllis Kinsler & Danny Bacher and to dedicate the show to Sally Darling. There were moments during the evening where I could feel the people I love—past and present—wrapped around me.

And to everyone who helped create this album creatively, emotionally, financially, spiritually…thank you. This album exists because people believed in me long before I fully knew how to believe in myself.

I also want to thank the new people who came just because they were curious. That means so much to me too. I hope you’ll stick around.

I’m exhausted. Elated. Emotional. Over the moon. Still glowing a little.

If you haven’t listened to What You Don’t See yet, I’d love for you to stream it, share it, review it, add it to playlists, or grab a CD on Bandcamp. I’m so proud of this album and so grateful it finally exists in the world.

This was everything I hoped for and more. 💜