The entire world is looking at the United States right now for the World Cup, and it is some of the most endearing posts I've ever seen.
Part of this is just healing America's soul when you think about all of these different cultures and worlds coming together, unified under one common mission, and enjoying each other's cultures, learning from them, growing from them.
And it sounds like we're repeating history, right?
Not gonna lie, it's pretty cool.
Now let's get into the news for the week.
THIS WEEK’S MOOD <3
♡ This Week's Mood ♡
Still finding the magic in working around the globe
Watching the Knicks turn underdog into undeniable
Still thinking what value really means in a noisy digital era
Business & Marketing
The first business was never a failure or the win; it was tuition, and the people cashing in now are the ones who stayed in the game long enough. Fortune spent three days in Montauk with Female Founders Fund and came back fixated on one pattern, the rise of the second-time founder.
There’s no expiration date on starting the thing you actually want to do. The Barefoot Contessa's plan on video podcast set off a seven-figure bidding war that Vox Media won, with Happy Hour With Ina Garten landing in September.
Culture & Lifestyle
Reese Witherspoon turned one pink, underestimated character into a multi-decade franchise. Prime Video just dropped the trailer for Elle, the Legally Blonde prequel set in 1995, and we just can’t wait meet our girls and watch it.
A new look at remote work shows its keeping a generation of mothers in their careers instead of forcing the choice between the paycheck and the pickup line. Buckle up, there’s data behind it.
Tech & Leadership
Stop panicking about whether AI takes your job and start clocking which of your tasks it can take. ADP's CEO Maria Black, who sits on real-time data for one in six American workers, says we are asking the wrong question.
Julie Kim becomes CEO of Takeda, the first woman and first Korean American to run the pharmaceutical giant, in a country where only thirteen of roughly sixteen hundred top companies are led by a woman.
The Flex Pattern We’re watching
I keep noticing the wins that everyone’s paying attention to belong to people who have quietly been behind the scenes for years, and I couldn’t be happier about that.
The second-time founder is the most underpriced bet in business, and the people making it already paid for the lesson once.
Patience is the strategy nobody puts on a vision board
AI is not the threat to your career, standing still is.
Mid year plans are cooking
ICYMTP (In Case you Missed the Pod)
If this week's theme has you thinking about the long game, my conversation with Pamela Delgado is the one to put on next.
Pamela says some of the biggest career moves start with a small quiet feeling that you’ve outgrown the room you’re in, long before you have any plan for what comes next, and that part has not left my head.
Go listen on Buzzsprout or watch it on YouTube on your next walk or long drive, you’ll come away thinking differently about what you’re building.
Xx, until next week.
Victoria
P.S. If one woman in your life is quietly building something that has not paid off yet, forward this to her. She‘s closer than she thinks, trust me.
