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T A P W I · resources · truth · access Issue 040. This newsletter grows from your shares. It's our weekly north star. Sharing is free and helps us stay focused on providing the best resources for underserved Founders, Investors, and Leaders. Share 7 MIN READ · In this issue: the village nobody hands you · the cost of outsourcing your gut · the referral program is live A note from Bobbie I've been mentoring an Indigenous founder these last few months. I won't name him here, but I want to tell...
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T A P W I · resources · truth · access Issue 039. This newsletter grows from your shares. It's our weekly north star. Sharing is free and helps us stay focused on providing the best resources for underserved Founders, Investors, and Leaders. Share 5 MIN READ · In this issue: The 100-day reading challenge · reclaiming your weeknights · grants and events worth your time A note from Bobbie I want to try something with you this week. Not a course. Not a program. A challenge, and a small one,...
READ POSTSticking with a bad call feels like discipline.
T A P W I · resources · truth · access Issue 038. This newsletter grows from your shares. It's our weekly north star. Sharing is free and helps us stay focused on providing the best resources for underserved Founders, Investors, and Leaders. Share 4 MIN READ · In this issue: Reversing a call without losing the room · non-dilutive follow-up · something new coming next week A note from Bobbie A while back, I made a call that took months of work to get buy-in for. Over a year later, I reversed...
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T A P W I · resources · truth · access Issue 037. This newsletter grows from your shares. It's our weekly north star. Sharing is free and helps us stay focused on providing the best resources for underserved Founders, Investors, and Leaders. Share A founder in our survey put it in five words: "We're nearly dead without it." Another, a few lines later, put the whole other side of it just as plainly: "We don't need favours, we need help, mentorship, guidance." Read back to back, those two lines...
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T A P W I · resources · truth · access Issue 036. This newsletter grows from your shares. It's our weekly north star. Sharing is free and helps us stay focused on providing the best resources for underserved Founders, Investors, and Leaders. Share I have a confession. Last week I sat down with a to-do list so long it ran off the page, opened my laptop, stared at it for a solid ten minutes, and then got up to reorganize a cupboard. Not because the cupboard mattered. Because the cupboard was...
READ POSTThe Part of Building Nobody Claps For
T A P W I · resources · truth · access Issue 035. This newsletter grows from your shares. It's our weekly north star. Sharing is free and helps us stay focused on providing the best resources for underserved Founders, Investors, and Leaders. Share Somewhere in year two, I stopped waiting for the moment this would finally feel easy. It does not come. There is no shortcut hiding around the next corner, no version of this where you get to skip the hard part. There is just the work, the...
READ POSTThe 2 A.M. Spiral Is More Common Than You Think
T A P W I · resources · truth · access Issue 034. This newsletter grows from your shares. It's our weekly north star. Sharing is free and helps us stay focused on providing the best resources for underserved Founders, Investors, and Leaders. Share I want to tell you something nobody told me when I was building. It is one of the loneliest things you will ever do. Not lonely in the way people mean when they say they need to get out more. Lonely in a specific, structural way. You are carrying...
READ POSTThe Fire Report l. Belonging Isn't A Perk. It's Your Edge.
Issue 032. This newsletter grows from your shares. It’s my weekly north star. Sharing is free & helps me stay focused on providing you with the best resources for underserved Founders, Investors and Leaders. Simply input their email after clicking the button or share this link directly: https://bobbie-racette.kit.com Share Good morning, There's a word that gets thrown around in boardrooms and diversity reports until it barely means anything anymore. Belonging. I've been the person in the room...
READ POSTThe Fire Report l Be As Confident In Your Worth As You Are In Your Work
Issue 031. Forward this email to share the fire: https://bobbie-racette.kit.com/ Good morning, I am an introvert. That might surprise some of you, especially if you have seen me on a stage or watched me pitch a room full of investors. But it is true. The version of me that shows up in those moments did not come naturally. It was built, deliberately, out of necessity, and out of discomfort. When I was building Virtual Gurus, I had no choice but to get comfortable being uncomfortable. Pitching...
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