The Uprising
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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Build to Leave, Even If You Never Do
Last week I wrote about the business that's outgrown the word startup but is still calling itself one, because keeping the label means nobody has to build the systems that should have existed years ago. If you dropped the label this week, there's a harder question sitting right behind it, could y...
Aug 20, 2026
exit strategy
leadership
scalability
Are You Scaling or Just Spinning?
On this month's Ready to Rise webinar, someone told a story that's stuck with me since about a business that they had encountered that was twelve years old but was still being introduced as a startup. Not as a throwaway line, but as how that business explained away the fact that there's no real p...
Aug 12, 2026
leadership
scalability
scale up
start up
Personal Scalability - My Long Haul Travel Playbook
I’ve spent a lot of time on long-haul flights over the past year courtesy of a consultancy project, and one of the questions I’m asked most often is how I manage jet lag, productivity and the inevitable exhaustion that comes with crossing multiple time zones.
The interesting thing is that the str...
Aug 05, 2026
leadership
scalability
travel
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