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JULY 2026

JACLYN JOHNSON

Jaclyn Johnson

“Why You Need to Fall in Love With Your Flop Era.”

🗓️ POSTED TO THE GROUP CHAT JULY 9, 2026

No one wants to talk about the flop era while they’re in it. We love the comeback story. We love the “and then everything changed” moment. We love the founder who got rejected 100 times and then raised the round.

Career & Personal Branding
Leadership & Identity

AMINA ALTAI

Amina AlTai

“Why Leaders Burn Out (and How to Prevent It)”

🗓️ POSTED TO THE GROUP CHAT JULY 7, 2026

Stop me if this sounds like you. You're highly ambitious. You had a brilliant idea or spotted an opportunity for growth, and you went after it. It worked. You climbed the proverbial ladder, built a meaningful career, and perhaps even achieved goals that once felt out of reach.

Work Life Harmony
Leadership & Identity

DR. HEATHER ROGERS, MD

GUEST CONTRIBUTOR

“Don't Get a Cosmetic Procedure Until You Read This.”

🗓️ POSTED TO THE GROUP CHAT JULY 2, 2026

One of the reasons I am so popular as a procedural dermatologist is that I tell patients no all the time. Patients come to my office convinced they need to be doing something. Their friend had filler. Social media says they should start Botox at twenty-five. They are worried about a wrinkle, a jawline, a neck, or simply the general fear that aging is somehow preventable if they can just find the right procedure.
Beauty Industry
Women’s Health & Longevity
Wellness

JUNE 2026

JOY M. HUTTON

Joy Hutton

“Your Personal Brand Should Open Doors, Not Become One You’re Stuck Inside.”

🗓️ POSTED TO THE GROUP CHAT JUNE 25, 2026

Let's talk about what nobody says when they're teaching you to build a personal brand. At some point, it stops feeling like an asset and starts feeling like a job. A job you gave yourself, with no PTO, no sick days, and an unspoken rule that if you go quiet, everything you built will quietly unravel.

Community, Networks, & Social Capital
Career & Personal Branding

AMINA ALTAI

Amina AlTai

“Identity Shifts That Come With Growth (And How to Navigate Them)”

🗓️ POSTED TO THE GROUP CHAT JUNE 18, 2026

Most of us only know who we are when we’re achieving something. You know, those nose-to-the-grindstone moments where you’re building a new company, launching a new product, authoring a new book. We’re ambitious, get-stuff-done career people. That’s who we are.

Work Life Harmony
Leadership & Identity

JACLYN JOHNSON

Jaclyn Johnson

“Curated Cap Tables are the New Flex”

🗓️ POSTED TO THE GROUP CHAT JUNE 9, 2026

The reason celebrity and creator cap tables are becoming the new flex is because they signal something deeper than money. They signal access.They signal cultural heat. They signal that the company is not just raising capital, but attracting people with influence, audience, taste, and distribution.

Venture & Fundraising
Money, Power, & Culture

SHAWN JOHNSON EAST

GUEST CONTRIBUTOR

“Staying Anchored in a Fast-Paced World”

🗓️ POSTED TO THE GROUP CHAT JUNE 4, 2026

There’s a certain kind of pressure that feels incredibly normal right now. So normal, in fact, that we barely question it anymore. The pressure to constantly keep up. Keep moving. Keep optimizing. Keep responding. Keep evolving. Keep producing. Keep deciding what’s next before you've even processed where you are now.

Work-Life Harmony
Leadership & Identity

MARINA MIDDLETON

Marina Middleton

“The One Question I Ask When I am Stuck”

🗓️ POSTED TO THE GROUP CHAT JUNE 2, 2026

Being stuck does not look like doing nothing. It looks like the opposite. It looks like answering forty emails, sitting in six meetings, saying yes to three new projects, and ending the day exhausted with the business in exactly the same place it was that morning.

Leadership & Identity
Career & Personal Branding

MAY 2026

AMBER LEWIS

Amber Lewis

“You Don't Have an Audience Problem. You Have an Identity Problem.”

🗓️ POSTED TO THE GROUP CHAT MAY 28, 2026

Online there’s no shortage of people trying to tell you how to grow an audience, go viral, and get sponsored. There's a whole industry built around the tactics, the hooks, the posting schedules, the networking, the pitch decks.

Marketing & Cultural Virality
Career & Personal Branding

JACLYN JOHNSON

Jaclyn Johnson

“The 4 Substacks You Need To Read If You Are a Woman Building.”

🗓️ POSTED TO THE GROUP CHAT MAY 26, 2026

There’s a certain kind of person whose Substack emails I open immediately. Why? because they consistently articulate things I’ve been sensing before I have the language for them myself. In a world where everyone is posting constantly, very few people are actually saying anything interesting. These women are.

Community, Networks, & Social Capital
Career & Personal Branding

MARINA MIDDLETON

Marina Middleton

“Here's What Nobody Tells You About Finding the Right Business Partner”

🗓️ POSTED TO THE GROUP CHAT MAY 21, 2026

I learned about Create & Cultivate after I had left the corporate world and was an entrepreneur for a few years. At that point, I had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on business coaches, masterminds, attending large-scale events, and watching my husband build large-scale events.

Money, Power, & Culture
Leadership & Identity

JOY M. HUTTON

Joy Hutton

“If You Don’t Tell Your Story, People Will Make One Up About You”

🗓️ POSTED TO THE GROUP CHAT MAY 19, 2026

There’s a piece of advice that sounds humble and grounded, but honestly it’s a bit outdated: “Let your work speak for itself.” It sounds good, but it’s also the reason a lot of women are overlooked in rooms they’re more than qualified to be in.

Community, Networks, & Social Capital
Career & Personal Branding

JACLYN JOHNSON

Jaclyn Johnson

“What Every Founder Needs to Know About Equity (Before It's Too Late)”

🗓️ POSTED TO THE GROUP CHAT MAY 14, 2026

I want to tell you about two founders. One sold her company for $350 million. One sold hers for $22 million. They walked away with the same amount of money.

Money, Power, & Culture
Venture & Fundraising

AMINA ALTAI

Amina AlTai

“Why So Many Successful Women Secretly Want to Burn It All Down.”

🗓️ POSTED TO THE GROUP CHAT MAY 12, 2026

I’ve been a coach for the last eleven years and had a front row seat to some of the most successful female leaders of our time and so many of them come to me when they want to light a match and raise their life’s work to the fiery ashes of destruction.

Work Life Harmony
Leadership & Identity

MAHA ABOULEINEIN

Maha Abouelenein

“Storytelling is a Leadership Skill.”

🗓️ POSTED TO THE GROUP CHAT MAY 7, 2026

I’ve spent decades advising founders, CEOs, and global brands, and I’ve seen the same pattern repeat itself across industries. The leaders who stand out are not always the ones with the best ideas. They are the ones who know how to communicate those ideas into stories that people understand, remember, and believe in.

Marketing & Cultural Virality
Leadership & Identity

MARINA MIDDLETON

Marina Middleton

“The Era of the Solo Founder Is Over. The Women Winning Right Now Have a Team Behind Them.”

🗓️ POSTED TO THE GROUP CHAT MAY 5, 2026

Let's talk about the myth that has quietly been setting women up to fail. The romanticized founder story goes like this: one woman, one big idea, relentless hustle, overnight success. She did it alone. She figured it out alone. She built it alone. It is a great story. It is also almost never true.

Career & Personal Branding
Leadership & Identity
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