The Uprising, the newsletter for the Ready to Rise Community delivers bold insights, real-world strategies, and empowering leadership lessons for ambitious professionals scaling their impact.
Curated by Cathie Reid, it features practical tools, candid stories, and reflections from global events - all designed to help you grow, lead, and rise into your next level with clarity and confidence.
Last month I wrote about intentionality. About the difference between being busy and being deliberate,  about how easy it is to get pulled into a rabbit hole of AI-generated dog videos instead of doing the things that actually move the needle.
(Entertaining? Yes. Strategic use of time? Decidedly ...
The window is open. But don't walk through it blindfolded.
There's a conversation happening in small and medium businesses right now, and most people are either sprinting toward AI without looking up, or standing on the sideline waiting to see how it plays out.
Both approaches have real costs.
He...
Last week I went to see Michelle Obama in Conversation in Sydney.
I was incredibly excited for the event. I had absolutely loved her memoir, Becoming, and devoured every word.
You know that rare feeling when you read a book and it seems as though every page has been written just for you? Becoming...
There’s one word I keep coming back to lately.
Intentional.
It’s showing up in my own planning, in my conversations, and in the way I’m thinking about where my time and energy are going.
Being intentional has always come relatively naturally to me.
Anyone who knows of my love for the CliftonStren...
I had three separate conversations last week where AI came up inside the first ten minutes. A board meeting, a strategy conversation, an industry catch up.  All of these had one thing in common - the number of people who hadn't actually used an AI tool themselves in months or sometimes ever.
That...
One of the most powerful traits I see in successful leaders is a commitment to learning. But for great leaders, it goes a step further - it becomes a commitment to curiosity.
Curiosity is what keeps you moving. It’s the drive to explore new ideas, ask better questions, and stay open to perspectiv...
For years, when people asked me “so when are you actually going to space?” my answer was always the same: Every day is a day closer than the one before.
It was true, but also safely non-committal. That answer has now changed.
Something pretty significant happened recently. At the end of March, ...
This week I wanted to come back to a topic that clearly resonated.
I had such a strong response to my recent newsletter on partnerships - their importance, their complexity, and the role they play in shaping not just our businesses, but the lives we build around them.
And today, it feels fitting ...
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In this week’s Ready to Rise monthly webinar, we paused to reflect on just how much can change in a matter of weeks.
At the end of February, I was boarding a flight to London. Fuel prices were sitting around $1.70 per litre, and while there was some background noise around inflation and interes...
I recently had a minor surgical procedure which, after several years away from day-to-day exposure to healthcare delivery, gave me a real-time opportunity to step back into the system. This time, not as an operator or board member, but as a patient.
And what struck me most was just how little has...
One of the lessons I emphasise in Ready to Rise is that businesses rarely scale alone, they scale through the right partnerships.
The kind where each partner brings different strengths to the table, shares the same ambition for the future, and is prepared to do the work required to build somethin...
Last week I found myself sitting beside a pond filled with water lilies in the middle of Paris, watching models walk across the surface of the water.
It wasn’t a dream, it was Dior’s Paris Fashion Week show in the Jardin des Tuileries.
The entire venue had been purpose-built around the pond, comp...
The Uprising, the newsletter for the Ready to Rise Community delivers bold insights, real-world strategies, and empowering leadership lessons for ambitious professionals scaling their impact.
Curated by Cathie Reid, it features practical tools, candid stories, and reflections from global events - all designed to help you grow, lead, and rise into your next level with clarity and confidence.
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