Patricia Handschiegel Wants A Boyfriend...Sort Of
patriciahandschiegel’s post (condensed, below) is very topical. The NY Times ran articles the other day on the subordinate role more husbands are playing in their entrepreneurial wives’ professional lives -Would You Hire Your Husband? - and the roles they aren’t playing - The Wife’s At Work, So…. The Journal Women’s blog weighed in on both articles.
Yesterday, I met a very smart and successful mentor for drinks…We got to talking about what’s next for me and he asked how he could help…I honestly couldn’t answer…I asked if I could have a week…
I realized that what I really needed help with was how to make what I’m already doing happen faster, bigger and better…I’m already doing most of it on my own now…what I really need is support, people smarter and more experienced standing in my corner on a constant basis to help more or less guide and direct, open doors and lend experience as needed, so that I can maximize all of what I’m doing and in turn, all would benefit.
What’s interesting is that a lot of the women entrepreneurs I know actually have this in husbands and boyfriends, where the men in their life play a big role in their businesses. I definitely wouldn’t mind having a smart, connected, business-minded boyfriend,…