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How I Get It Done

Successful women talk about managing their careers, and their lives.

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How LAHN Founder and New Mother Elise Ballegeer Gets It Done

 The designer turned CEO on growing a business and splitting child-care duties to make it all work. By Zoe Papelis

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  1. How Big Night Founder and CEO Katherine Lewin Gets It DoneShe poured her heart, soul, and savings into a 240-square-foot retail space. That was just the start.
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    By Alexis Benveniste
  3. Leslye Headland Writes Bad First Drafts, Too“I think, Write the bad version of the scene. Don’t stress out about making it extraordinary.”
    By Juan A. Ramírez
  4. Shifting How We Think About Career Pauses and MotherhoodNeha Ruch on changing the perception of stay-at-home moms as nothing more than caregivers.
    By Miranda Rake
  5. The Woman Who Wants to Protect America from Trump 2.0Skye Perryman will be at the forefront of challenging his anti-Democratic agenda in court.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  6. How Sex-Toy Pioneer Alexandra Fine Gets It Done“Advertising policies will list us and guns in the same section. At the end of the day, vibrators have a real medical purpose.”
    By Lux Alptraum
  7. How the CEO of Feeding America Gets It DoneGrowing up in a family that took in 108 children prepared Claire Babineaux-Fontenot to run one of the country’s largest charities.
    By Brittney Oliver
  8. How Eater Editor-in-Chief Stephanie Wu Gets It DoneWith two young kids at home, she’s not eating out at trendy new restaurants every night. Here’s how it actually is.
    By Alexis Benveniste
  9. E.l.f. Beauty’s Kory Marchisotto Is Allergic to DupesMeet the mind behind the cosmetics company’s viral campaigns playing on dupe culture.
    By Asia Milia Ware
  10. How Prados Beauty Founder Cece Meadows Gets It Done“I’ll wake up from a dream and I’ll write down what I see, what I’m thinking, what I hear. Those things go into my collections.”
    By Katja Vujić
  11. How 4Kinship Founder Amy Denet Deal Gets It DoneOn coming home to and lifting up her Diné community.
    By Talia Barrington
  12. How Ayesha Curry Gets It DoneOn growing a family, a business, and a community.
    By Chinea Rodriguez
  13. How Meet the Press Host Kristen Welker Gets It DoneThe NBC anchor’s first year in the moderator’s chair coincided with the birth of her second child and a chaotic election cycle.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  14. How Ceremonia Founder Babba C. Rivera Gets It DoneThe hair-care entrepreneur on Latinx representation, pumping in green rooms, and her shower ritual.
    By Bianca Nieves
  15. The Woman Behind Your Richest Friend’s Coffee-Table BooksMartine Assouline has been making the stylish, high-end tomes that are her family business’ calling card for 30 years.
    By Chantal Fernandez
  16. Kristen Faulkner Quit Finance for Cycling. Then She Won Gold.“I’ve always been willing to take risks.”
    By Talia Barrington
  17. Lisa Taddeo Doesn’t Dream of HollywoodThe author is trying to claw back space to write after bringing Three Women to the screen.
    By Angelina Chapin
  18. New Mexico’s Governor Isn’t Afraid to Get Her Hands DirtyWhether it’s mucking goat stalls or fielding 50 constituent phone calls in a day.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  19. Dana Bash’s Interviews Are Defining the Presidential RaceShe co-moderated the Trump-Biden debate, landed the first Harris-Walz interview, and grilled J.D. Vance. Here’s how the CNN anchor gets it all done.
    By Catherine Thompson
  20. The Today Contributor Documenting Her Egg-Freezing Journey“I want to share because I want people to feel seen.”
    By Bindu Bansinath
  21. Audemars Piguet CEO Ilaria Resta Likes to Leave Her Office Door Open“For me, human connection is critical,” says the luxury-watch executive, who carves out time each morning to drink coffee with her colleagues.
    By Hanna Flanagan
  22. A’shanti Gholar Is Building a ‘New American Majority’“Black, brown, Indigenous women, young women, unmarried women, LGBTQ women. We want them to put their names on the ballot.”
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  23. Running a Ukrainian Fashion House in a Time of War“An employee that makes handmade jackets called me once because the lights went out.”
    By Hanna Flanagan
  24. She’s Helped More Than 1,000 Young People Get ElectedIf you’re a progressive running for state legislature or your local school board, you call Amanda Litman.
    By Lisa Liebman
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    By Alexis Benveniste
  26. Arielle Chambers Has Been Saying ‘the WNBA Is So Important’The sports journalist championed the league and its players well before they started breaking attendance and viewership records.
    By Katie C. Reilly
  27. The CEO Who Made Tinned Fish a Girl-Dinner StapleFishwife’s Becca Millstein on working Sundays, treating herself to delivery meals, and what it’s like to go on Shark Tank.
    By Alexis Benveniste
  28. How the Director of the Leslie-Lohman Museum Gets It DoneAlyssa Nitchun leads the world’s only institution dedicated to LGBTQ+ art.
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