Ask the Author: Heather Cabot
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Heather Cabot
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Heather Cabot
Meeting the most inspiring and interesting people and gaining their trust so that they open up and share their stories with me. It is an honor and a privilege
Heather Cabot
It is the same advice many of the GGR women share — if you have an idea, just start. Don’t wait until it is fully formed or perfect. Just start "writing down the bones" as Natalie Goldberg would say and commit to doing it every day. Don’t worry if it is pretty. Just get the ideas down and g
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Heather Cabot
Spreading the word about GGR and our mission! And starting to research the next book!
Heather Cabot
I get inspired to write by being outside and moving my body. I love to walk or run or hike. I also love to spin. I wholeheartedly believe in the idea of "moving meditation" and exercise helps a lot. I come up with some of my best ideas when I am working out!
Heather Cabot
The book was inspired by my work on a PBS documentary about the dearth of women in tech in the early Nineties called "Minerva’s Machine" and then more than two decades later, covering the dawn of mobile Internet as a digital lifestyle correspondent for Yahoo! I had been aware of the gender gap in tech from my earlier job working on the film and was struck that the issue had only worsened even while women had become prime consumers of social media and e-commerce. At the same time, I began to meet a community of trailblazing women starting their own tech companies and also investors - brave, compelling characters who seemed to be part of a subculture the rest of the world hadn’t yet heard about.
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