The Messy Middle - Normalizing the Struggle
In this episode, Helaine and Leanne pull back the curtain on what they call “the struggle” – those seasons where self doubt, burnout, and rejection are loud, but you keep going anyway.
Drawing from the real behind the scenes story of writing and publishing Making Waves, they share how their first version of the book didn’t sell, the painful feedback that “women don’t buy business books,” and what it took to completely reengineer the project into an inspirational memoir that actually reflected Helaine’s full story.
Along the way, they talk about what it means to normalize struggle, why it’s…
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