The past few months have been some of the most stressful of my entire life. As the CEO of ThirdLove, there have been a few times in the history of our business where I’ve felt huge amounts of stress. In the past, raising our Series A round was extremely stressful. We had a hard time back then, and I remember not knowing whether the company was going to survive.
But something like this– a global pandemic– is completely different and has actually been a huge learning opportunity for myself and our leadership team on how to best communicate with each other, and the rest of the company, about how we’re feeling, and what we’re doing. It is apparent that I’m not the only one feeling stressed — our leadership team feels it, as do our managers, and individual contributors.