Women-owned business growth does not stall because women are less ambitious. It stalls for reasons you can name, measure and work around. October is National Women’s Small Business Month, which usually means a month of congratulation. Record numbers of women…
Labor Day honours work. It does not mention invisible labor — the shift that starts when the paid one ends. You closed the laptop at six. By your own accounting, the working day is over. Then there is dinner, the…
Sisterhood in business is not a nice extra. It is the difference between building a smaller company slowly and a bigger one faster. Nobody warns you about the loneliness, and nobody tells you that sisterhood in business is the fix.…
Undercharging is not a math problem. It is a worth problem wearing a spreadsheet costume. You did not build this business to be busy. You built it to be free. But somewhere between the first client who said yes and…
You finally say it. “I can’t take that on right now.” And before the words have even landed, the guilt rushes in. Was that selfish? Did I let them down? Should I just do it anyway? If this sounds familiar,…