my company just It was the best quarter ever. As its founder and CEO, I am proud to have missed most of it.
I had a good excuse, though. I was on parental leave to raise my first child. Since starting this company, including marrying my patient husband, I haven’t taken more than a week off from her. He rolls his eyes when he tries to schedule a sales presentation for the same day as there was a civic ceremony at San Francisco City Hall.
Needless to say, I was apprehensive about taking a vacation. Baking that little muffin was no easy task and I wasn’t sure how she would react when she was on the Earth side. I wanted
I reached out to some investors and asked them to connect me with a CEO who was on parental leave.
I ended up getting a CEO lead who took some time off and, unsurprisingly, she was too busy to talk to me. fair enough! But I got some great advice about taking time off while leading a company. Here are some things I learned:
We were new to this level of planning, but this was a great opportunity to mature our processes and give everyone purpose and direction in my absence.
tell people you’re going to take more vacation than planned
You’ll want to send emails from the hospital room and tell people that you’ll be receiving phone calls while you’re nursing. “You really won’t be able to leave,” many people told me.
As my wise friend and Mindset Ventures investor Jules Miller advises: But you never know what this experience will bring you. ”
she was right When her daughter was 28 days old, her house was flooded. All together, in 3 weeks she had to move 3 times. I hadn’t fully recovered so I threw my back from the move and couldn’t even hold my baby. I am grateful to
