My name is Courtney.
I’m a full-time CEO, wife to an amazing husband, and mother to two frustratingly intelligent kids.
Offline, I run a family of companies. All e-commerce now, but they started mostly brick and mortar. We sell real, tangible products. We make some of them. We contract manufacture others. We have warehouses, inventory, employees, the whole nine yards.
I’m telling you all this because I’m not the kind of “Mom CEO” Instagram tries to sell you. I don’t work five hours a week. My hair is not flawless. I do make sourdough, but my starter is barely alive most days.
I’m the messy kind of CEO. The kind who deals with plumbing issues, employees who don’t show up, shipments that don’t arrive, and bills to pay with no cash to pay them.
I became a CEO by accident. That’s a long story for another day. The short version: I worked hard, and I got lucky. Right place, right time. That luck has built an imposter syndrome I’m still working through. Part of why I’m starting this is to do that work in public.
For years, I’ve wanted to write and talk about what I’ve learned and what I’m still learning. But my companies were never the right platform for it, and the imposter syndrome made sure it never occurred to me to build my own.
Until recently.
I just finished having two kids, and until lately, I was a shell of myself. Between a still-new marriage, the exhaustion, the businesses, a rocky economy, and a hard recovery from my second, the idea of creating anything new was nowhere on my radar.
But the fog has started to lift. My youngest is almost two. And the longer I’ve been back in my body, the more I’ve felt drawn to two things: finding my voice, and finding my mentors.
I have a long way to go before I’d call myself great at this job. So I’m doing what I’ve always done when I want to get better. I’m going to listen to people who are great, who are further along.
That’s how Most Days started.
The Plan:
Document the journey of becoming a better leader and figuring out what work/life harmony actually looks like for an operator. Share what I learn. Talk to people who are further along than I am. And hopefully help you along the way.
I hope you’ll stick around and go on this journey with me.
Most Days. Business, family, and the real work in between.