The Real Work

I believe in taking up space. Especially if you grew up being told to make yourself smaller. Especially if the rooms you walked into were not designed for you. Especially if the instinct to shrink was trained into you long before you knew you were doing it. I know what that costs. I am not writing this from a soft place. I have had to fight to take up space and I still do. This piece comes out of...

Hi everyone, this is an audio version of my last article. Does this mean something Entrepreneurship is the most honest mirror you will ever stand in front of. It shows you exactly who you are. Not the version of you in the last room you knew. The version of you right now in this room, willing to show up before you are ready. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other su...

Resistance is not procrastination. It is not laziness. It is something more deliberate than that. It is the voice that keeps finding reasons to delay something that is already good enough to go out. It does not mind if the work fails eventually. It just wants to keep it from ever being seen. Because once it is seen it can be judged. In this episode I talk about why resistance keeps showing up even...

Episode Zero — Welcome to The Real Work Welcome to The Real Work. This is Episode Zero. The one that stays. Before I publish anything else I wanted to take a few minutes to tell you who I am, why I started this, and what you can expect every Sunday. I am Muneera. A founder based in Toronto. I run few ventures and spent more than twenty years in technology and product management before making the d...

You know what I have learned? 0:02 That your destination is not far off. 0:05 It actually lives in very small, bold moves that you're making today, right now. 0:11 Not the perfect plan, not the polished version, but the messy middle that no one claps for. 0:17 The part where I'm not sure, but I'm going to do it anyway. 0:21 That part. 0:22 The success does not come in a fully formed shape. 0:26 bu...