Women too often get stuck in middle management. It’s a broken rung in the corporate ladder. For every 100 men who are promoted from entry level positions to management, only 87 women make that transition. In this episode we explore this topic and, more importantly, what can be done to address it with Kim Havens and Noa Ries, Co-founders of Kahilla.

Kahilla is a digital leadership and development platform for underrepresented communities in the corporate world. They’ve started with focusing on helping women build community and the skills needed to succeed professionally. Kahilla is building a support system through a cross-industry community for individuals to be open, vulnerable, and candid with peers.

Noa and Kim are an absolute delight to speak with. They bring a joyous energy to every conversation I’ve had with them, as you’ll hear in this recording.

In this episode, we talk about building intentional, cohesive, and cozy—yes, *cozy*—companies with Brie Wolfson, founder of Constellate. We geek out on:

• Why Operating Principles are more useful than company values (and how to develop them)
• The role Culture Carriers play in scaling your company (and how to recognize and nurture them)
• How to build a Culture of Writing that helps your company feel cozy.

Brie is the founder of Constellate and creator of The Kool-Aid Factory, a series of web zines about building great organizations. She has worked at organizations like Stripe, Figma, and Google, and consulted with dozens of startups on how to scale culture.

• Anything You Want, by Derek Sivers
• How to Operate, Keith Rabois
• The Peanut Butter Memo, by Brad Garlinghouse
• Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott

Claude Silver is the Chief Heart Officer at Vayner Media. As soon as we heard Claude's title, we knew we had to have her on the podcast. In this conversation, we dig into what it means to be a Chief Heart Officer, how to lead with heart through tough and messy situations, and techniques for scaling heart-centered leadership throughout an organization.

• Setting the Table by Danny Meyer
• Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
• Atlas of the Heart and Dare to Lead by Brene Brown
• Like a Rolling Stone by Jann Werner