Transitioning Back to Work After a Career Break — Episode #075 With Rita Kakati Shah
If you’ve taken a career break to raise kids, going back to work can feel challenging. How do you prepare yourself emotionally for the transition?
Core Value #7 | You Don’t Have to Do Things the Way They’ve Always Been Done
You don’t have to do things the way they’ve always been done. And startups are one of the best places to imagine new futures. It’s okay to break things, to rebuild things, and to do things differently than the way that they’ve always been done. Startups and Pregnancy have a lot in common because they are both creators of new things—ideas, businesses, structures, life—and to do so, they harness a huge range of power.
The Fifth Trimester: Asking for What You Need — Episode #004 With Lauren Smith Brody
Most new moms head back to work about 12 weeks after giving birth. The problem is that this is often several months before women are physically and emotionally ready. Scientific data and anecdotal evidence point to the six-month mark as the time when moms start to...
Filling the Gap With a Hidden, Untapped, Talent Pool
Dominie Moss is focused on a very specific gap in the market that is wildly underserved: women who have taken a career break and want to get back to work. In her estimation, there are 427,000 women in the UK alone that want to return to executive-level positions and have the talent to do so, but no clear path for what it looks like (yet). Dominie’s company is setting out to fix this.
Do You Believe in Your Inner Creativity?
I have a confession: I’ve never thought of myself as a very creative person. When I was younger, and people would insist “but you’re so musical”, my response was always, “yes, but I’m a very technical musician”. Not a lot of value was placed on being creative in the...