Women CEOs, now is your time!

Look at what you've built. You're not hoping to make it. You've made it. And I want you to actually let that sink in for a second because the numbers really matter. Roughly 3% of women-owned businesses in this country ever cross a million in revenue. Just 3%. So if that's you, you're not just successful, you are statistically rare. And you are in a room almost no one gets to walk into, and you have earned your way in there. So let that sink in because I know how rarely you do. You're too busy holding everything up for you and everyone else. And the reason that you don't talk about it and talk about how hard it actually is, it's not because you're just fine. It's because you have learned over the years that it's not safe to say that you're not fine. Now, getting into the nitty-gritty of it, Deloitte actually did some global research on this and found 6 in 10 senior-level women— this is business leaders— say they frequently experience burnout. And I know that most of them don't talk about it because they're worried about it maybe changing how they're perceived in business, worried it will cost them credibility, worried it may make them look less committed, less capable, less strong, less like a leader. So they carry it in silence, and not because it's not there, but because saying it out loud feels professionally expensive.