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Issue 60 - The Female CEO

If May was about beginning to take shape, June is where you decide what you're building and why. Not in a push-harder, make-it-all-happen kind of way... but in the intentional kind. The kind where you stop letting the week happen to you and start making conscious choices about what it actually contains. The part where the wanting and the doing finally start to move in the same direction.

Created by the team behind The Female CEO, this global digital magazine now welcomes over 7,000 new readers every single month - women from all over the world finding their way to a community built around one powerful idea: that every woman is one decision away from her next chapter. And that never, ever gets old.

This isn't about doing more. It's about getting clearer on what was ever really yours to carry. Inside Issue 66, we explore what it means to live and lead on purpose. To choose alignment over performance. To trust the intelligence of your own intuition. To lead from who you actually are rather than who the room expects.

From soft power and inner authority to money, identity, and the moment work finally stops feeling like force, this issue is rooted in one idea: What would you build if you stopped letting life happen to you?

Summer is almost here. And with it, a little more breathing room - a little more space to think, to ask the questions you've been too busy to ask, to finally hear yourself above the noise.

This edition is your invitation to use that space well. To let go of what you've been carrying out of habit rather than choice. To step into the next season not by default, but entirely, deliberately, on your terms.

So take a moment. Breathe. Read slowly. This is your invitation to stop running the old programme and start building exactly as you intended.

ISSUE 66 | LETTER FROM THE EDITOR | CREATE EVOLVE OVERCOME MAGAZINE 

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

HER BUSINESS | EDITORS LETTER

It is 7:30 in the morning and I am standing on an elevated yoga deck somewhere above the Mediterranean Sea.

The horizon hasn't quite decided what it's doing - the water and the sky have blurred into the same impossible wash of blue. There are candles lit. Incense drifting over us. A sound bath pulling me slowly, gently, somewhere I didn't entirely expect to go.

I had said yes to this trip because...

ISSUE 66 | ON THE COVER | CREATE EVOLVE OVERCOME MAGAZINE 

IN THE SPOTLIGHT WITH SUE STONEMAN

HER BUSINESSIN THE SPOTLIGHT

Co-founder, strategist, and circuit-breaker-in-chief, Sue Stoneman is the kind of woman who looks at a system that isn't working and decides, with precision, to rebuild it entirely... 

IF MONEY EQUALS FREEDOM, WHY DOESN’T IT FEEL THAT WAY?

HER MONEY | MONEY MATTERS

When we last met Suzi, she’d started to understand how deeply her relationship with money mirrored her relationships with people. Not just in love, but in safety, worth, and the...

SUPPORTING PARENTS AT WORK ISN’T SOFT, IT’S SMART BUSINESS

HER BUSINESS | THE SINGLE MUMS CLUB

It's 2026, and there is still a stigma in the workplace that having children makes someone a burden, inconvenient, difficult, or less...

YOUR BUSINESS QUESTIONS ANSWERED

HER BUSINESS | THE H.E.L.P. DESK

Welcome to The H.E.LP Desk, a new regular column in The Female CEO where we tackle the real, messy, sometimes sleepless-night questions that come with building and running...

I INTRODUCED MY INNER CRITIC TO A ROOM FULL OF STRANGERS. HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED.

HER BUSINESS  | THE STARTUP SESSIONS

One extraordinary day with Moxie at Jardines de Palerm in Ibiza showed me what it means to live by design...

THE WHOLE POINT LAUNCHES IN NEWCASTLE - BECAUSE WHEN WE BACK WOMEN-LED BUSINESSES, EVERYBODY WINS

HER BUSINESS | GUEST BLOG

Female leaders in Newcastle are ambitious, innovative and talented. Anyone who's spent time in our city's business community knows that to...

ISSUE 66 | READ THE ARTICLES | CREATE EVOLVE OVERCOME MAGAZINE 

WHY INTUITION IS THE MOST UNDERVALUED POWER TOOL WOMEN LEADERS HAVE

HER SPIRITUALITY | ZEN DEN

For a long time, intuition has been treated like the awkward cousin of intelligence.

Nice to have. Fine in private. But not something you’re meant to...

WHEN AND WHY TO GO DEEP: MAKING THE CASE FOR LONG-FORM CONTENT

HER BUSINESS | WRITE HERE, WRITE NOW! 

We're drowning. In content, in noise, in stuff

Thirty-second reels, carousels, listicles that promise everything...

WHY YOUR BRAND FEELS VAGUE (EVEN THOUGH YOU’VE “DONE THE WORK”)

HER BUSINESS | THE ATHENA COMPLEX

If your brand still feels vague, it’s rarely because you haven’t tried hard enough.

More often, it’s because you’ve...

THE BLOOM AND THE BLADE: WHEN SOFTNESS COMMANDS THE ROOM

HER BUSINESS FEMALE. INTROVERT. AWESOME.

I learned early on that my stillness could stir storms. Rooms shifted when I entered. Not because I demanded attention, but because my presence altered the air. My calm became their catalyst. For...

WHY PREPARATION IS THE ULTIMATE ACT OF RESPECT IN PODCASTING

HER BUSINESS | BEYOND THE MIC

There’s a saying that floats around the podcasting world: You’re only as good as your last interview.

I believe that statement reaches far beyond podcasting. It applies to...

THE MOMENT WORK STOPS FEELING FORCED

HER BUSINESS | IN HER OWN WORDS

There’s a moment many women reach in their work that’s hard to explain, because nothing is obviously wrong. The role makes sense. The business is functioning. The trajectory looks good on paper. And yet, something feels...

RECLAIMING INNER AUTHORITY, EMBODIMENT AND VISIBILITY AS A FEMALE LEADER

HER BUSINESS  MAKE YOUR MARK

For many women in leadership, success on the outside does not always translate to fulfilment on the inside. Titles are earned...

THE SOFT POWER REVOLUTION: WHY FEMALE CEOS MUST LEAD FROM IDENTITY, NOT EXHAUSTION

HER BUSINESS  | MAKE YOUR MARK

There are moments in life that split us in two. Before, and after. For Bronwen Sciortino, founder of SheIQ Life and advocate for simple, aligned leadership, that moment happened in a surgeon’s office...

THE AUTHENTICITY ARCHITECT: EMMA PERSSON ON BUILDING AUTHORITY AND THE POWER OF SELF-REFLECTION

HER BUSINESS  MAKE YOUR MARK

In a world increasingly cluttered with "fake it until you make it" mentalities, Emma Persson stands as a refreshing beacon of genuine influence. As the owner of Coach Companion, a global platform serving professionals across 50 countries...

THE SOULFUL EVOLUTION OF A 25 YEAR CORPORATE STRATEGIST AND BEAUTY BRAND FOUNDER

HER BUSINESS  MAKE YOUR MARK

The transition from a high-stakes corporate environment to the helm of one’s own empire legacy-driven brand is a journey many contemplate, but few navigate with the precision and heart displayed by Josephine Eneje...

HAVE YOU CHECKED OUT THE CEO RADIO PLAYLIST? 

HER BUSINESS | MOTIVATION

Dive into an inspiring mix of anthems to fuel your ambition, ignite your creativity, and keep you motivated on your entrepreneurial journey. Whether building your empire or leading with vision, when you need a push - press play.

ISSUE 66 | THE PODCAST | CREATE EVOLVE OVERCOME MAGAZINE 

THE TRINITY OF CONSCIOUS LEADERSHIP

THE PODCAST 

What if the secret to sustainable leadership isn't more 'hustle,' but a balance of three specific energies? In this episode, Angelica Umali breaks down The Trinity of Conscious Leadership - Power...

THE POWER OF CORE REGULATION

THE PODCAST 

Stop managing symptoms and start regulating the system. In this episode, Carmen Stoffel breaks down the blueprint for co-regulation, neurodivergent parenting, and why self-regulation...

THE MISSION OF MEANINGFUL INCLUSION

THE PODCAST 

What happens when a human right feels like a "legal minimum"? After a lifetime of navigating a world not built for her, Tara Mackings BEM stopped advocating for change and started architecting it.

THE MYTH OF THE CAREER LADDER

THE PODCAST 

Have you reached the top of the professional ladder only to feel strangely empty? In this episode, we sit down with existential career counselor Britt Mari Sykes to dismantle the 'business model' of careers.

REDEFINING INFLUENCE IN SILICON VALLEY

THE PODCAST 

Can you build a global empire on a “Huggable Business Model”? In this episode, we sit down with Donna Loughlin, the "Architect of Visibility" and the powerhouse behind over 500 successful launches in the...

THE SCIENCE OF INNER SOVEREIGNTY

THE PODCAST 

Are you leading from a place of 'intellectual overdose'? In this episode, distinguished neuroscientist and therapist Dr. Selen Atasoy reveals why logic and relentless drive often lead to a profound internal disconnect...

LEADING FROM YOUR SCARS, NOT YOUR WOUNDS

THE PODCAST 

What if your greatest trauma was actually your greatest leadership asset? Annyx Day joins us to share her incredible journey from being a police officer surviving a shooting to helping female leaders heal. Discover why the key to authentic...

THE ANATOMY OF BURNOUT

THE PODCAST 

Is your identity so tied to your title that you’ve forgotten who you are without it? In this episode, award-winning psychotherapist Babita Spinelli joins us to pull back the curtain on "The Anatomy of Burnout" and explain...