THE STABLE HOUSE OF CARDS

Life is like a deck of cards, some people are dealt a perfect hand while others have to bluff time and time again hoping they receive a full house. When you don’t have the resources needed to succeed, you have to create those possibilities for yourself. Me, I had to think outside the box and play the cards I didn’t even have to begin with. I knew I had a purpose, something that made me different from others. I could feel it. I wanted to find my voice and share it with others around me. I wanted women to have a place where they could be bold, be confident, be independent and not be suppressed or minimized for being “too much” of anything.

So when it came time to executing on my dreams, it had to be the GOSS Magazine. I launched a print publication in a time where people were going away from print and solely online.

I believe when the market goes right, you should always go left. Others didn’t believe in that algorithm as strongly as I did. I got turned down by multiple distributors who didn’t believe in a business oriented magazine for women, I got turned down by companies who didn’t see the value in print, but I kept pushing because I knew we were at the cusp of a new age. I had a vision that print was coming back like a storm and we were at the forefront of it.

That’s what this issue is all about - THE BOLD EXECUTION - Featuring the outliers, entrepreneurs who stepped out of their comfort zones, risked it all, and built beyond themselves. For the ones who created their own opportunities and didn’t wait for permission to execute on them.

Randy Pausch said it best "we cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.” oh, and Stay Gossy.