I am so excited to welcome Melissa Bouma onto the Reset Podcast today! She is the CEO of Manifest. We talk about her first job where she got to read books all the time! We talk about how she got her start in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and worked up to being the CEO at Manifest. She shares about how it used to be possible to manipulate SEO but now with better and more relevant search engines you really need to have authority and authenticity. She shares how tough it was to be a woman balancing chasing her career and being a parent figuring out if she could even do both. She shares that it's important to realize that you can move out of the fast lane for a little while. We talk about some issues coming out of covid and meeting back in person again. We talk about how, as leaders, we need to be first ones into the fire. "It is unkind to be unclear," - Shannon Watkins ^The best career advice Melissa has ever gotten. And we talk about how that quote and a lot of other truthful conversations about growth areas need to be talked about, because often we don't know areas of growth that we should be looking into. We also talk about how important it is to utilize constructive and difficult feedback to help one introspect and grow into having strengths. Connect with her on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissabouma/