These were just some of the questions that emerged during our 30/50 Summit Town Hall last week, and I’m sharing them with you now because the replay of the Town Hall is now available on Forbes.com and worth watching in full, and I hope you do! The experts who answered these questions were photojournalist Lynsey Addario; digital creator & musician Haifa Beseisso; bestselling author Alka Joshi; actress, producer and entrepreneur Marsai Martin; and Trinny London founder and CEO Trinny Woodall, and each woman had advice that I’ll be thinking about for weeks to come.

I won’t give away everything they said—you’ll have to watch the full panel for that—but I will share what Alka Joshi and Marsai Martin said about withstanding the glare of success when you’re starting something new: “It’s hard to keep the unnecessary pressure away, [but] and that’s truly what it is: unnecessary pressure you put on yourself,” Martin said. Advised Joshi: Keep everything. If you have material from your first book, or ideas from your first company, use that to fuel your second.

Cheers to that!

Maggie

P.S.: I’m very pleased to announce that nominations for the 2025 U.S. 50 Over 50 list are now open! Head to this link here to tell us about a woman you think should be on this year’s list. Full nominations criteria are on that page but the two most important bits to remember: We’re looking for people who were born in 1974 or earlier, and we’re looking for women who have never been on the list before, because we don’t allow repeats!

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