Melissa Bernstein, cofounder of the toy company Melissa & Doug, spent decades hiding her struggles with depression even as she launched and led a booming business focused on bringing joy to children and raised six of her own. She finally opened up to her family, colleagues, and the public and recently launched an organization to give people better tools to d ... Show More
Mar 2021
Melissa Bernstein | Emerging From Shadow
<p>Melissa Bernstein, along with her husband Doug, is the Co-Founder of the legendary toy company Melissa & Doug, which has created over 5,000 children’s products and sold billions of dollars of toys since its inception. Melissa and Doug started the business in their garage i ... Show More
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Using Collaboration to Unlock Your Entrepreneurial Potential
With hectic work hours and unique challenges, entrepreneurship can often feel like a lonely endeavor. After experiencing the struggles of solo entrepreneurship first-hand, Jill Salzman was inspired to create The Founding Moms, a community with the goal of connecting mom entrepren ... Show More
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On Being CEO - and Living with Bipolar Disorder
Many leaders succeed and thrive not just in spite of anxiety, depression, or other mental health struggles - but because of them. They make leaders more aware of themselves, and more empathetic to those around them. Gillian Stein is one such leader. She’s the CEO of Henry’s, a fa ... Show More
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Episode 347: In Search of You: How to Find Joy When Doing More Isn't Doing It Anymore
Kasey Compton, a compelling speaker, therapist, entrepreneur, and passionate advocate for self-love, has successfully scaled four businesses. Her leadership elevated her mental health practice to a multi-million-dollar enterprise. It took more than a decade for Kasey to uncover t ... Show More
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Why Therapy Can Make You Better at Your Job
Investor and philanthropist Vikas Shah has been an entrepreneur since he was a young teenager. And throughout much of his career, he struggled with anxiety and depression. But for a long time, he didn’t have the words to identify how he was feeling, let alone address it. Shah sha ... Show More
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The First Steps to Reducing Your Anxiety with author Mel Robbins
Life can feel overwhelming, especially when we're too drained to even get out of bed. So, how do we push through those days? For Mel Robbins, facing this very question turned her life around. Struggling with $800,000 in debt and at rock bottom, she became obsessed with finding pr ... Show More
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<p>Melissa Bernstein is the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of <a href="http://MelissaAndDoug.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Melissa & Doug</a>, the global toy company committed to igniting imagination and a sense of wonder in all children ... Show More
