When Brilliance Was Bleeding on the Floor
She was one of the best female leaders I’d ever seen, bleeding on the floor, she did the only thing she could do, she left
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I watched a system almost eat a woman I respected alive once.
Not all at once — that would have been too honest.
It happened in the way these things always do, slowly enough that everyone involved could pretend they didn’t see it, and fast enough that by the time it was over, the story had already been rewritten.
A few years ago a VP position opened at one of my client's firms. The replacement they announced was different from the usual industry vets they hired — she came from tech, had built success in larger markets, and carried the kind of strategic vision that made you sit up in your chair.
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Feeling Without Drowning
How to Be Human, Part III — A Three-Part Series on How Women have Lost Connection with Our Humanity and How We Get It Back We are living in an age where crisis is no longer an occasional rupture in the fabric of daily life — crisis is the fabric. But here the thing, the "crisis" is largely manufactured, curated, sold, and resold across every media platform, political narrative, and economic model. The reason for this is unsophisticated, simply put — crisis captures attention. From there, it hi
