She built a $5M company across 80 countries, sold it, and woke up not knowing who she was. Fiona Macaulay's conversation on identity, failure, and reinvention will change how you think about what comes next.
What happens to accomplished women when the role that defined them is gone? In this episode of A World of Difference, host @loriadams-brown talks with Fiona Macaulay, founder of The Wild Network, co-author of Aim High and Bounce Back, and creator of the Next Chapter Accelerator, about the real terrain of midlife reinvention, the social science behind why failure hits women harder, and the tools that make starting over less lonely.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction: identity, failure, and what comes next
0:38 Selling Making Sense and the reality of perceived failure
3:25 What stuck looks like for accomplished mid-career women
7:59 Walking the Camino de Santiago as a leadership practice
11:06 Building a new chapter network and following your fascinations
13:21 Taking small steps toward big goals
15:57 Why failure hits women harder: the social science
18:00 The Leadership Fail Lab and the origin of Aim High and Bounce Back
20:22 Four types of failure and how to name what you are experiencing
22:46 What successful leaders do differently with failure
24:29 Where to find Fiona and her work
Resources and Links:
Fiona Macaulay website: https://fionamacaulay.com
The Wild Network: https://thewildnetwork.org
Leadership for Social Impact Forum: https://wildleadershipforum.org
Next Chapter Accelerator: https://nextchapteraccelerator.com
Book (Amazon): search Aim High Bounce Back Fiona Macaulay
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