Getting Back on the Horse

July 9th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

In January 2007, I took a potentially fatal fall on my daughter’s horse.

Two years leading up to that I had been creating a company and finding out about peak oil, carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas levels, and facts like every major ecosystem on the planet being in decline. I alerted as many friends and business associates to this reality as I could. Between the subject matter (climate change) and the very real matter of being a woman in business, I literally hit the ground!

My journey as a woman blazing a trail in the world has been very revealing and enlightening. There’s a saying that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. I’ve hesitated to ever write about my experience as a woman CEO. Every newsletter and blog has always had a positive spin and its message has been genderless. However, it’s an act of integrity on my part to illuminate the very real challenge of being a woman in her power in the world today.

In my last blog I said that I loved to go into taboo areas or at least areas that most people feel are controversial and don’t want to look at. So here it goes …

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