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Key Takeaways You can have every tool, every plan, every intention. When you are wearing this many hats the gap between setup and follow through is enormous.
You finally got there. The feeling you worked toward did not show up. And someone told you to be grateful.
Whatever got you to the finish line has no idea what to do once you cross it. And neither do you.
Last weekend, I sat in a chair for 10 hours a day and wrote four articles. I did not eat properly. I did not stretch. I did not drink enough water. I did not take my vitamins. I was completely lit up and completely destroying myself at the same time. By Monday, I had a scratchy throat and could barely move. I knew it was coming. I watched myself keep pushing anyway.
Four years of research, and I still did that.
On Aug. 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment was certified, and American women won the right to vote. It had taken more than 70 years of organizing, marching, arrests, hunger strikes and suffragettes being force-fed in prison cells to get there. Women’s Equality Day marks that win. What it does not mark is what it cost the women who got there. What the fight left in the body long after the battle was over.
One hundred years later, women are building businesses at record rates. Female entrepreneurship rose 69% from 2019 to 2024; 83% of female founders experience high stress; and 54% face burnout. The conversation about why always points to the system. The funding gap. The invisible labor. The double standard. All of it is real, and none of it is the whole story.
I know exactly what to do, but I don’t always do it
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