Mindset High Flying Design Editorial Team Mindset High Flying Design Editorial Team

How to Do a Career Audit (and Why Every Founder Should)

Veena Giridhar Gopal has worked across four countries, six functions and three decades before arriving at the question: what would it look like to build something of my own? On the career audit practice that has guided every major move.

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Mindset Danielle Thompson, Founder, Goldspun Support Mindset Danielle Thompson, Founder, Goldspun Support

What Happened When I Stopped Trying to Be “Normal”

She spent years treating her creative, idea-driven brain as something to manage and suppress. Then she stopped — and her business grew faster than it ever had. Danielle Thompson on creativity as a business input, not a personality flaw.

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Female Founder Stories Shannon Kate Murray, Founder & Editor of High Flying Design Female Founder Stories Shannon Kate Murray, Founder & Editor of High Flying Design

The Woman Who Lets Horses Lead the Healing: Erin Cain of Grace Reins

Erin Cain has spent 25 years helping people heal through horses. The Co-Founder of Grace Reins — a Colorado sanctuary for rescued wild mustangs — on grief, transformation, and why slowing down might be the most powerful thing an ambitious woman can do.

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Mindset Shannon Kate Murray, Founder & Editor of High Flying Design Mindset Shannon Kate Murray, Founder & Editor of High Flying Design

Why I Stopped Waiting for Someone to Come With Me

A broken engagement, a solo trip to Dubai, and the slow discovery that solitude isn't something to escape. Shannon on learning to trust yourself, and what becomes possible when you do.

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Mindset Shannon Kate Murray, Founder & Editor of High Flying Design Mindset Shannon Kate Murray, Founder & Editor of High Flying Design

If It Doesn't Look Like a Job, Does It Count?

When Shannon left a director-level role to build High Flying Design full-time, she didn't expect how much she'd need to unlearn. On bridge jobs, transition identity and giving yourself permission to let what you've built be enough.

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