By Nettie Owens, CPO-CD · The Sappari Group Originally explored on Wake Up Women Leaders — Episode 23 91% of the top 100 best-selling productivity books were written by men. For men. The frameworks you have been handed, the 5am wake-ups, the three-hour deep work blocks, the uninterrupted focus sprints, were built by people whose domestic lives were largely handled by someone else. Someone who took the calls, managed the household, picked up the kids, and kept everything running so

By Nettie Owens, CPO-CD · The Sappari Group Originally explored on Wake Up Women Leaders — Episode 22 You did not underprice your offer because you miscalculated. You underpriced it because charging more felt like too much to ask. And before anyone even pushed back, you had already adjusted the number down. Added a qualifier. Apologized for the invoice before it was opened. That pattern, and it IS a pattern, is what Episode 22 of Wake Up Women Leaders was

By Nettie Owens, CPO-CD · The Sappari Group Originally explored on Wake Up Women Leaders — Episode 21 Most businesses do not fail because the owner stopped working hard. They struggle because nobody ever designed how the money should flow in the first place. The work is there. The clients are there. The skill is there. And the revenue is still unpredictable — because the structure that should hold it all together was never built. Building a profitable business by

By Nettie Owens, CPO-CD · The Sappari Group Originally explored on Wake Up Women Leaders — Episode 20 For nineteen episodes, Victoria Whitfield and I have been bringing you conversations about leadership, business, money, mindset, and what it takes to build something that works and keeps working. Topics you can apply. Frameworks you can use. Real examples from our combined decades of coaching women in leadership. Starting now, we are adding something different. A real leader. A real challenge. Coached

By Nettie Owens, CPO-CD · The Sappari Group Originally explored on Wake Up Women Leaders — Episode 19 In a widely cited study, prisoners who appeared before a parole judge early in the morning or after a break were granted parole approximately 70% of the time. Those who appeared before the same judge late in the day were paroled less than 10% of the time. Same judge. Same types of cases and legal standards. The only variable was when in

By Nettie Owens, CPO-CD · The Sappari Group Originally explored on Wake Up Women Leaders — Episode 18 If every decision runs through your then you’re the bottleneck. A lot of women leaders are running organizations where they are the answer to every question, the approver of every decision, and the fixer of every problem. It feels like control. It is actually a ceiling — and it is one that you built yourself, out of the same qualities that made

By Nettie Owens, CPO-CD · The Sappari Group Originally explored on Wake Up Women Leaders — Episode 17 You have a story behind everything you do. The moment it clicked. The experience that made you choose this work over everything else you could have done. The thing that happened — in a small way or catastrophically — that pointed you in the direction you have been moving in ever since. And there is a good chance you are not telling

By Nettie Owens, CPO-CD · The Sappari Group Originally explored on Wake Up Women Leaders — Episode 16 There is a specific kind of moment every leader experiences at least once in their career. The numbers stop adding up. The revenue you projected did not come in on schedule. The vendor invoice was not what you agreed to. The launch underperformed. A larger than expected bill arrived. The EIDL loan ran out and the monthly expenses still have not. However

By Nettie Owens, CPO-CD · The Sappari Group Originally explored on Wake Up Women Leaders — Episode 15 You have been to both. You know the difference the moment you walk in — or log on. One feels like you are showing up and checking the boxes. The other feels like something is happening for you. The first kind has an agenda, a start time, and a room. The second kind has intention behind every decision — the space, the

By Nettie Owens, CPO-CD · The Sappari Group Originally explored on Wake Up Women Leaders — Episode 14 You posted something this week. It did well. People liked it, shared it, commented on it, maybe even sent you a message saying how much it resonated. And then you looked at your revenue — and nothing moved. If that is a familiar experience, you are not alone. And you are not failing at social media. You are succeeding at the wrong