"My husband is a stay-at-home dad, and, I think, still in 2024, that's not as common as, say, your stay-at-home mom, for instance, so I don't want to say I've ditched the playbook, but I've absolutely ditched that stereotypical family makeup." Ditching the traditional family playbook wasn't initially easy for Stephanie McCarty, but, as it turns out, was the "best decision ever." As chief marketing & communications officer at Taylor Morrison, she believes it's allowed her to be fully present at work when there and fully present at home when with her kids. In this episode of Brand Insider: BTS, …

"Transitioning from that little young girl in Havana, I've always dreamed of having a career and working. I was passionate about it, but...people would laugh at me, laugh it off, saying my best bet was to marry into such aspirations, but I wanted to leave a mark." And Katia Colston certainly has left her mark. On her own at the age of 15, the now vp of ecommerce sales at Central Garden & Pet left Cuba with a dream of building a career in the U.S., something she now describes as an "out-of-body experience." In this episode of Brand Insider: …

"Don't do things that make you unhappy, but do things that are hard because you know hard doesn't always equal unhappy. Hard is good. It's it's good to be uncomfortable, and it's good to push yourself and figure it out." Bridget Sponsky, executive director of brand and sponsorship marketing at Ally, has continued to push herself throughout her career and says competing in sports growing up taught her to be a part of something bigger. In this episode of Brand Insider: BTS, Bridget says she believes sports are important for women's leadership development and shares an interesting statistic with me...94-percent …