Hannah Mendoza

And with kind of unfaltering conviction in what you're building, even if there are moments where you feel like you'll fake it till you make it with that, changes your internal landscape. And so I've loved the transition from, I need to share with my team, you know, all the spectrum of emotions that I'm feeling to, for my sake and for their sake, I am going to be the fearless leader at the front.

And with kind of unfaltering conviction in what you're building, even if there are moments where you feel like you'll fake it till you make it with that, changes your internal landscape. And so I've loved the transition from, I need to share with my team, you know, all the spectrum of emotions that I'm feeling to, for my sake and for their sake, I am going to be the fearless leader at the front.

And it's been helpful for me too.

And it's been helpful for me too.

This feels very minor in the face of all of these things, but one of the more helpful strategies that I found for having a place where you can be real as a counterbalance to needing to be, you It's a very kind of feminine strategy, but having a completely unhinged text thread with other people who are doing similar things.

This feels very minor in the face of all of these things, but one of the more helpful strategies that I found for having a place where you can be real as a counterbalance to needing to be, you It's a very kind of feminine strategy, but having a completely unhinged text thread with other people who are doing similar things.

I have founder friends, other women who are at similar stages with their business. Becca from Fishwife is a very close friend of mine.

I have founder friends, other women who are at similar stages with their business. Becca from Fishwife is a very close friend of mine.

It's very impressive to me. Please tell her that I'm a big fan. What she's done is amazing. But we have a text thread where all caps, you know, partial sentences, three-week delays in replying are completely accepted because sometimes you get off a call and you just need to write an all-caps text to someone that says... What on earth is going on? Yeah. And you need to ramble.

It's very impressive to me. Please tell her that I'm a big fan. What she's done is amazing. But we have a text thread where all caps, you know, partial sentences, three-week delays in replying are completely accepted because sometimes you get off a call and you just need to write an all-caps text to someone that says... What on earth is going on? Yeah. And you need to ramble.

You need to send a five-minute voice note. And having that kind of, that expression in an appropriate way has been very cathartic.

You need to send a five-minute voice note. And having that kind of, that expression in an appropriate way has been very cathartic.

Even, I mean, when you think about also being a female leader and you think about building something around the schedule of hormones on a monthly basis, biological clock, and even kind of on a daily basis, I find I'm very utopian until 3 p.m. And then I'm a complete nihilist from 3 p.m. until bedtime. So I just organize my schedule around that. But you don't always get to choose.

Even, I mean, when you think about also being a female leader and you think about building something around the schedule of hormones on a monthly basis, biological clock, and even kind of on a daily basis, I find I'm very utopian until 3 p.m. And then I'm a complete nihilist from 3 p.m. until bedtime. So I just organize my schedule around that. But you don't always get to choose.

Or what if you have an incredibly important meeting at, you know, a time of the month where you have raging PMS and you just have to push through. And I think even as a woman, it's very amplified in terms of, you know, we are cyclical beings in a way that men are not.

Or what if you have an incredibly important meeting at, you know, a time of the month where you have raging PMS and you just have to push through. And I think even as a woman, it's very amplified in terms of, you know, we are cyclical beings in a way that men are not.

I know with all my certainty that... having that, I guess, maybe switch in traditional role, if we are even thinking about the statistics surrounding, you know, 90% of Fortune 500 companies are run by men. I know that he feels like having a female leader is an appropriate step forward for creating the world we want to see in business.

I know with all my certainty that... having that, I guess, maybe switch in traditional role, if we are even thinking about the statistics surrounding, you know, 90% of Fortune 500 companies are run by men. I know that he feels like having a female leader is an appropriate step forward for creating the world we want to see in business.

And he has been so gracious about, you know, playing the role that he plays, which is intrinsic and critical. I couldn't do this without him. And we also have got to both play to our strengths. He is very entrenched in finance and operations. It's not my world. And I think that He also has, frankly, loved being in a company of basically all women.

And he has been so gracious about, you know, playing the role that he plays, which is intrinsic and critical. I couldn't do this without him. And we also have got to both play to our strengths. He is very entrenched in finance and operations. It's not my world. And I think that He also has, frankly, loved being in a company of basically all women.