For more than fifteen years I led global marketing at Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle and others. I walked into every boardroom prepared. Then I walked into a high-conflict divorce, and none of that preparation seemed to count.
I'm a mom first. I learned what it takes to protect your children while being pulled through filings, hearings and conflict designed to wear you down. Much of it I navigated on my own, learning the law at my kitchen table after the kids were asleep.
I've also spent years bringing people together. Through The Luminary Societies, I host salons where executives, founders and experts sit at one table and actually talk. I've watched problems that felt impossible alone become solvable once the right people are in the room.
I also learned that abusers, and often the legal strategies built around them, count on your empathy and heartbreak, and that the biggest price is usually paid in money, years later. I want us to be enlightened warriors: heart open, eyes open, protecting ourselves and our families.
Divorce is the opposite of that room. LikeHER is my answer: a safe place for women to share, support and lift each other, and a network of service providers there for her at each step.
Rebecca Kaykas-WolffFounder, LikeHER and The Luminary Societies