There’s a biological reason women over 40 are leaving toxic workplaces. It isn’t lost ambition. It’s that hustle culture no longer works for our hormones.

What’s more important when starting, building and scaling a business? After a decade in Fortune 500 marketing and years coaching women out of corporate, my answer is: neither mindset nor strategy alone gets you out. Strategy without mindset stalls at the first glimmer of self-doubt. Mindset without strategy is expensive positive thinking. You need both…in the right order.

The women I work with don’t leave corporate for the money. They leave because their success within a toxic work environment cost them too much.