How a Board Can Support Founder & CEO Success
Frequently, founder’s and CEO’s focus on the “oversight” function of their Board, and miss the opportunity to learn and grow with the support of their Board. As a serial entrepreneur, Corporate Director and CEO Coach, I am not only a CEO of an...
Reality TV About Social Justice? Give Me a Break. Media, You’re Failing Miserably.
Like so many of us, I cringed when I heard CBS had greenlit a new reality show that turns activists into contestants who compete “to bring meaningful change to one of three urgent universal causes: health, education, and the environment.” And, if that’s not bad...
Building Mindfulness into Your Busy Founder Life
Mindfulness is a desired state of being, where you are centered in the present moment, not worrying about the past or future “what ifs”. Women are constantly seeking balance, but daily stressors are overwhelming us all. The mission of MYRetreat is to reach 1...
Age Didn’t Stop This Entrepreneur: Lessons Learned on Her Journey
I launched my company at the age of 47. Many may think about slowing down as they approach 50 or perhaps opting for a little more security. I dove head first into founding a start-up! I felt like it chose me. I was given a challenge and saw an opportunity to not only...
Creating Order Out of the Coronavirus Chaos
The following is adapted from Reboot: Your COVID-19 Quick-Start Guide to Life, Work, and Hope. “There is the world B.C.—Before Corona—and the world A.C.—After Corona.” This is a quote from the column that Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Thomas Friedman...
Unproven
Regarding my title this week: Maybe it’s because I just watched a “Bread Week” episode on the British Baking Show, or maybe it’s this article I read in Crunchbase, thinking I was going to get a little jolt of elation and then getting to the end on...
The Most Destructive Advice for Female Founders
After I sold my company, I worked with founders at Y Combinator, the best early stage startup accelerator in the world. When I started, they admitted 150 companies per batch, and now they’ve scaled to four hundred or more at once. YC was only able to do this because...
All You Need is Love: How to Nurture Compassionate Love in the Workplace
Thank you, John Lennon. You offered leadership advice to all of us more than 50 years ago with these five simple words. The word “love” garners a range of reactions and finds its origin in any number of sources. The Greeks defined seven types of...