“When I left [corporate] it was a difficult transition,” says Kate Isler who’d spent 20 years (most of them overseas) in international executive leadership and as a CEO for a digital health startup. “I always identified myself as a corporate executive. I had business cards and a persona. When I left I had nothing. People stopped returning my calls. I was just Kate Isler….It made me look across my life and reevaluate: what did I want to do?” Her first steps? Kate reached out to people on LinkedIn to set up coffees or phone calls: “98% of them said yes.” She then asked them to tell her about their job: “what are your aspirations? What did you learn? I got to know people who did a variety of things,” she says. When the calendar rolled around to International Women’s Day, however, she realized that while the holiday is a major celebration of women around the world, it’s not very big in the U.S. What was missing: A market place focused on women’s small businesses. So Isler co-founded TheWMarketplace, an eCommerce platform which supports women-owned businesses, service providers and gender balanced companies. “The site is [an] economic engine for women,” she says, “and [we] earned revenue from the launch day.”
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#44: Reinventing to find your place in the world (Gretchen Rubin)
#43: The simple phrase that reinvented my life (Susan Hyatt)
#42: Finding time, money, freedom, happiness ("Downsizing Ninja" Rita Wilkins)
#41: Reinventing after taking down your boss (Gretchen Carlson)
#40: When the birth of a daughter forces you to reinvent (Mary Beth Ferrante)
#39: Reinventing with a weekend “side hustle" (Gillian Garrett)
#38: Reinventing after tragedy (Laura Dinsmore)
#37: Her dry cleaning bill made her do it (Sarah LaFleur)
#36: Reinventing against the odds (Louise Phillips Forbes)
#35: Reinventing to fill up her empty nest (Jeannie Ralston)
#34: “Fake it till you make it!” Reinventing with moxie! (Barbara Warren)
#33: Reinventing after cancer (Tamika Felder)
#32: Reinventing by teaching fearlessness (Randi Levin)
#31: When life forces you to reinvent - after an abusive relationship (Vani Murthy)
#30: Helping women achieve economic equality (Fran Pastore)
#29: When you decide to reinvent everything at once (Pamela Redmond Satran)
#28: Reinventing after divorce: “Let yourself be afraid” (Susan McPherson)
#27: Reinvention after a big giant hairy public failure (Sallie Krawcheck)
#26: How to open yourself up to reinvention ideas that throw themselves at you (Jana Brown)
#25: Reinventing to find your bliss (Margaret Roach)
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