HeyJaredThe Kinship
How does belonging actually get built? Exploring that question - one story and one resource at a time.
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Somewhere to Come Back To (opens the original)
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For six years, Asami Hakim regularly missed the last train home from her Tokyo ad agency. She’d take a taxi at 2 a.m. and be back at her desk by 9 a.m. Then came the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF): refugee camps in Iraq, the emergency office that opened in Romania when the war in Ukraine began. Years of reporting on people’s most difficult stories and wanting to be closer to the people living them.Her body carried all of it. She didn’t notice until she got on a yoga mat and found a whol
Building with Everything We Used to Hide (opens the original)
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Hundreds of women, myself included, are taking the leap to build something of our own. We have a lot in common: we want to build with our full selves, especially the pieces of us we've been hiding away or compartmentalizing for years. We want balance and authenticity. Not the hustle-win-at-any-cost culture, and not quite the slow, fluid pace of the soft-CEO world either. There is a space in between - where our drive and our soul can meet.
What If There’s Room for Everyone to Win? (opens the original)
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I met Tiffany in late 2025. I was immediately struck by Tiffany’s candor and intense dedication to what she is building. Tiffany is the founder of Droplet, an app that connects new parents to lactation care and clinical guidance. She spent years as a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) nurse before becoming a lactation consultant, and she built Droplet because parents kept coming to her completely depleted and feeling like they were out of options when it came to breastfeeding.Tiffany inspires m
What is Your Story Before the Story? (opens the original)
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The past few months, I’ve dedicated myself to drilling deeper into women’s stories about what they are building. These are women I have featured in this publication, and many I have talked to behind the scenes.The nooks and crannies I want to illuminate are how our personal lives and our work lives are not separate.We bring ourselves wherever we go. We cannot help it, and we shouldn’t need to cleave ourselves in two. We are whole humans with dreams, needs, histories, and many pressing priorities
I’ve Never Fit In Cute Little Boxes (opens the original)
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