I read a lot of non-fiction books. Topics like personal finance, investing, networking and productivity are constantly being introduced to my brain. I love them. They have completely changed my business, how I interact with other entrepreneurs and how profitable I am. But I am also a frequent flyer in the fiction section. After I read a non-fiction book, I have a little palate cleanse, and consume a fiction book or two. Just like a sorbet after the fish course in a fancy rest

I started this book club because I wanted to be the best version of myself but also, I was lonely. Not lonely like I had no one to call or have happy hour with, but lonely in a way that I was craving a different type of conversation. I wanted to talk with other entrepreneurial or business savvy women who understood what it actually felt like to be building something from scratch and making it up as you go. I was growing, I could feel it. But I was growing in a bubble. I wante

Eighty years. That is how long researchers have been conducting the Harvard Study of Adult Development. They followed the same group of people, tracking everything. What they ate. How they exercised. Their finances, their medications, their relationships. It is the longest running study of human life ever conducted. And after all that data, all those decades, the single biggest predictor of health, happiness, and longevity was not how much they exercised or how clean they ate

I asked a simple question on our Zoom earlier this week. How would you describe your relationship with money? Nobody said healthy. Not one person. We had women on that call who have built real businesses, left stable corporate careers, figured out genuinely hard things. And when I asked them to describe their relationship with money the words that came back were toxic. Fragile. Difficult. Complicated. The most optimistic answer on our Zoom, was neutral. It's not a personal fa