A 3-step framework for senior women who are ready to live and work somewhere else 15–30 days a quarter — without losing momentum, clients, or revenue.
For 27 years, I built a career on one premise: be in the room. The studio. The newsroom. The market open.
Then I built a business that no longer required it.
I now spend 15–30 days each quarter in another country — running my work from a different desk, in a different language, in a different rhythm. Clients still get served. Revenue still moves. The business does not collapse in my absence.
This is not luck. It is architecture.
The Strategic Snapshot is the framework I use with women in their fifties, sixties, and seventies who are quietly thinking: I want this too — but I cannot see how to build it.
W H A T ' S I N S I D E
The Tether Audit — a diagnostic that reveals exactly where your business is still pinned to your zip code, your calendar, and your physical presence.
The Architecture of Absence — the three structural shifts that allow a business to keep moving when you are not in the room.
The First Window — the protocol I give clients for taking their first 5–10 day strategic absence, before they ever attempt thirty.
A Strategic Snapshot Worksheet you can complete in twenty minutes.
A 30-minute Quick-Start Video where I walk you through the framework in plain English.
This is not a guide to selling your house, going nomadic, or escaping your life. It is a guide to designing your business so that your life can include slower mornings — without your authority leaving the room with you.
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I was born to immigrant parents. When I announced to them as little girl "I want to be a news anchor," they didn't know how to support that dream.
Not emotionally. Not financially.
I left home at 18. I paid for college by myself. I paid for graduate school by myself. I paid for every move around the country to come to New York City and do what I wanted since I was 4 years old:
Become a news anchor.
I did it. But suddenly, I was thrust into a world of interviewing CEO's on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. There is a playbook for how one shows up those spaces. The small town girl from Pennsylvania in me didn't have it.
So I built it
In the absence of a playbook, the Womens' Leadership Lab to help senior women leaders and business owners to tell better stories about themselves to achieve a business end.
Ask me more at [email protected]
www.joyadass.com
Brands I have worked with
You asked me questions that nobody has asked me before. For the first time, I connected the dots between my passion, which is information, and purpose, which is that information allows people the freedom to make better decisions.
- K. Manning.
I had to pitch to investors and tell them who I was. Writing my bio with you this year helped boost my confidence. I understood, for the first time, how I get returns on the investments I had made.
DIVYA TANDON
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NEW YORK
As an executive, I always had a big staff and a company name to stand on. Once I went out on my own, it was just me. I needed this one day intensive with you to understand what my 'personal brand' is. I needed your mastermind so I didn't 'whiteknuckle' building my own consultancy alone.
-- E. Glennon.