Mother of Reinvention: How Beth Stewart Built Trewstar
In this episode of Mom to MORE®, host Sharon Macey explores what it takes to reinvent your career after motherhood with entrepreneur Beth Stewart. After a high-powered Wall Street career at Goldman Sachs, Beth faced an unexpected “no” that changed everything, leading her to step back, raise five kids, and later found Trewstar Corporate Board Services, a firm helping women secure corporate board seats.
Beth shares lessons on career pivots, resilience, and the soft skills moms bring to leadership. She opens up about facing rejection, starting a business at 55, and how confidence and kindness can redefine success.
Tune in to learn how every “no” can spark a new beginning and how to build a fulfilling, flexible career on your own terms. This episode is for moms planning a second act, women reentering the workforce, or anyone ready to rediscover their purpose after parenting.
[00:00] Introduction
[03:01] Balancing career ambitions with early motherhood
[06:46] Stepping away from corporate life and rediscovering purpose
[10:07] Finding a new direction and building on past experience
[13:28] Starting something new with confidence and clarity
[16:09] Creating a team and shaping a mission-driven culture
[18:34] The unique strengths and soft skills moms bring to leadership
[22:53] Lessons in resilience and responding to closed doors
[26:07] Encouragement for moms considering a new chapter
[28:57] Looking ahead and defining what “more” means now
Meet my guest Beth Stewart:
Website: https://www.trewstar.com/
LinkedIn: Trewstar Corporate Board Services
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beth-stewart-a8936111/
Beth’s Harvard Business School Case Study
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Sharon Macey (01:16)
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OK, folks, we are in for a real treat today. My guest today is Beth Stewart, founder and CEO of TrueStar Corporate Board Services, a search firm that places top tier candidates on corporate boards. How cool is that? With over 20 years of experience as a board director herself, Beth deeply understands what makes a board effective. She's worked with Fortune 500s, mid and small cap and pre IPO companies across the country.
Beth began her career at Goldman Sachs and later taught at Columbia Business School. She's a recognized expert in boardroom dynamics, featured in outlets like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Forbes, and is the subject of a Harvard Business School case study entitled Beth Stewart Navigating the Boardroom. Now that is cool. Beth is a Wellesley and Harvard Business School grad, a proud mom of five, and a grandmother of six. Welcome to the show, Beth. I'm so thrilled we're going to be chatting today.
Beth Stewart (02:31)
Thank you very much. pleased to be here. And by the way, six plus one on the way.
Sharon Macey (02:35)
my gosh. Okay. Well chat for a second. Five kids. I bow down to you. We have three. Where did you raise them and did chaos reign constantly?
Beth Stewart (02:45)
It's funny you should ask, my fourth son, I have four sons and then a daughter. My fourth son's birthday was yesterday, he was 31.
I've through the years kept a book for each one of them about what they did. You know, I wrote in it. obviously have, we have, I have albums for each one of them that's sort of just their baby pictures, but then there are all these videos.
And a number of years ago, I had the videos downloaded onto something so that we could watch them on a computer. And he wanted to watch the videos of him. yesterday, I mean, the answer to the question, I always knew there was chaos, but now I can confirm it because I've watched these videos. It was a madhouse, things that I think now I don't have the energy for any of that. But we would have like a birthday party for a two-year-old and actually invite people over and they're
you know, and then these boys, you know, we had to pull them apart. They're knocking each other down. They're biting, you know. Anyway, yes.
Sharon Macey (03:44)
So yeah,
chaos. okay. Well, we're super excited. Our eldest, our son is getting married. So I'm thinking being a grandma is going to be the next phase of our lives, which we're really looking forward to.
Beth Stewart (03:52)
Congratulations.
Yes.
You have to remember that the first thing before you're the grandma is you've got to get along perfectly well with your daughter-in-law. And
when we're done with this, I'm going to give you some coaching tips.
Sharon Macey (04:06)
Okay, thank you for that.
Okay. We're going to backtrack for a moment. What were you doing before you had kids? And I will also point out that you were one of the very first analysts ever hired at Goldman Sachs. So I'm assuming you were also, you were the first, the actual first. And I'm assuming you were also the only female analyst back then.
Beth Stewart (04:18)
Not, not, I was the first.
Yeah, well, there was only one analyst. And so, yes, I was the only one. The program developed, and there were numerous others in the subsequent years. And there were more women. And there were a couple of women that were associates. But yes, being a woman was a rare thing. Yes.
Sharon Macey (04:29)
⁓ you were it, okay.
On Wall Street back then,
you did Goldman Sachs
then you went to business school. We're gonna talk about that later, the Harvard Business School, because there's something hilarious surrounding that. When you started having kids, did you intend to lean into family life
Beth Stewart (04:49)
Thank you.
Sharon Macey (04:57)
Talk to us about your sort of early mom story and what that looked like.
Beth Stewart (05:00)
Yeah.
⁓ I very, very much wanted to be a wife and a mother. There wasn't any question in my mind. And in fact, I also very, very much wanted to get a Harvard MBA. And I remember thinking to myself, wouldn't it be cool to be a wife and a mother with a Harvard MBA if I never did anything with it?
we were actually married for six years before we had children.
which was my husband's choice, not mine. I would have started sooner. ⁓ But it turned out that that was a positive in terms of, you can't, I realize you can't give advice to people because everybody's life is so different. But one of the advantages of being older was I did have more control over my schedule as I started this process of ⁓ having children. So.
I was 32, which I know it doesn't sound, it really doesn't sound very old at all now, but I was a vice president by then at Goldman and
I was in charge of teams and what have you. So
it made it easier for me to do, to be able to focus and have some flexibility around when I went to work and when I went home
to accommodate being a mother.
Sharon Macey (06:07)
Okay,
Now you also met your husband at Goldman, right? You want to share that very funny story about your first date?
Beth Stewart (06:11)
I did.
⁓ The first, very, well, so I was this analyst and back in the day there were these, you know, just big rooms with big wooden desks and my wooden desk, big wooden desk was right next to his when he was a summer associate. But I didn't, and I'm not really quite sure what story you mean, but I'll tell this one because it was fun. He went to Dartmouth. ⁓ We didn't date while we were, while I was still an analyst and he was a summer associate. Then he came back as a.
full-time associate before I left, but we still weren't dating. And he came to a Harvard Dartmouth football game when I was at Harvard Business School. And ⁓ there was an after party that I was actually invited to by somebody else. And I get to the after party, and there he is. So I knew him, but I wouldn't say I knew him very well. And I would say by the end of the game, he was a little inebriated.
was four o'clock, it was a Saturday afternoon in the fall, Cambridge, Massachusetts, it was beautiful, a little bit of, anyway, ⁓ he pulls me over, away sort of from the crowd, and he attempted to kiss me, and I said, I can't do that, there are all those people over there that I'm not, and he said, well, how about if we just throw caution to the wind and let's get married in the morning? And I said,
Sharon Macey (07:30)
Which didn't
happen. Okay.
Beth Stewart (07:32)
I was married to him about a year later. Yes.
Sharon Macey (07:34)
That's a great story. That's a great story. And
I also point out that you and I stumbled upon one another literally at a Dartmouth reunion. My husband also went to Dartmouth and we were there for a very special reunion.
Beth Stewart (07:40)
Yes.
Sharon Macey (07:45)
and you gave me your card
and now we're here. So there you go. So
when you
started having your kids, you were at Goldman.
But after having three kids in four years, you asked your boss at Goldman Sachs, someone who was one of your biggest supporters, if you could go part-time
and
did not support you and said, not gonna happen, right? He did not. So what was going through your mind at that moment and how did that shape your next chapter, knowing that we have many next chapters in our lives?
Beth Stewart (08:03)
He didn't.
Yes.
Look, I was crushed. was ⁓ distraught. Goldman had been my life. That's the only place I'd worked. came back to Goldman after business school. ⁓ I thought it was a great place. We had great friends. My husband's there. It was like our family. And the idea that this gentleman wouldn't let me work part time, I mean, this is kind of fun. Remember Hank Paulson, who turned into our Treasury Secretary? He was in charge of investment banking at that time.
He actually helped negotiate my departure because it was kind of fraught, this relationship with this man. There has been a reunion of that group that I was in at Goldman, and I've now seen that man who I was so upset with way back when. And I learned things about the stress that he was under as a manager of a department and that he really couldn't deal with the idea of somebody working part-time. I didn't know it, but they were.
firing people,
it's, that's just, I would think I was so wrapped up with these children and I, in any case, ⁓ if he had let me work part-time, I'm forever grateful to the fact that he was so difficult and really such an asshole about the whole thing. Because my life wouldn't be the same. I that boy that I just, whose birthday it was yesterday. I might not have been having a birthday with him.
If it wouldn't let me keep working. So I'm incredibly grateful that I stopped ⁓ and then lots of other wonderful things happened.
Sharon Macey (09:44)
So that was ⁓ an unexpected silver lining. Yeah, yeah. Hey, Beth, we are going to take a quick break. And when we return, we are diving into your company, True Star, and all things board positions, and a whole lot more. So don't go away.
Hey, we're back. OK, your company TrueStar, you place top tier candidates on corporate boards. But before you started the company, which I will admit is a total niche idea, like you were the first person to actually do this. When did you get your first board position?
Beth Stewart (11:23)
Well, one of the things that made leaving Goldman sort of soften the blow is that one of, ⁓ and back to how it helped to be a bit senior, although I was 36 and again, that just seems so not senior, but I had a client who was going public and that gentleman, a ⁓ man named Martin Buxbaum, to whom I will be forever grateful also, ⁓ grateful for the bad things and grateful for the good things if they all tend to work out.
⁓ Anyway, Martin asked me if I wanted to go on the Board of General Growth Properties. And that just started for me a career of being a corporate director. And that was how Roll the Clock Forward to 2010, when I was rolling off the Board of General Growth, that I realized there was an opportunity here that there, was clear there was pressure that was going to be put ⁓ on boards to add
women. You could see it happened in Europe. There was 40 % mandate in France and Norway. The 30 % club had started in London. It was coming across the ocean. And none of the big search firms were really addressing it. They weren't addressing it the way I knew it Goldman Sachs. If there was a problem that you saw for your your client, Goldman would have a solution. I didn't think the big search firms had any solutions at all.
from going, listening to them at conferences. And I could see the quality of the other women at those conferences and they're all dying to get on a board and it wasn't happening. So that's why I said, I'm gonna just, I can do this. I'm gonna start it.
Sharon Macey (13:02)
Yeah.
how, did it play to your strengths? And then you realize this was such a great fit for you on so many levels and you could do this, you could make money, you could show up four times a year, you know, for these board meetings and you could still be, be home with your kids.
Beth Stewart (13:17)
Right. That was the wonderful thing about being, you know, if I had to say, how did I get on the boards that I got on? Yes, I was qualified, but yes, I was lucky. I think the process, the timing is everything, but I think the processes today are more exacting than the way that I ⁓ got on a board. when I, the thing about starting TrueStar is I knew how that all worked.
Sharon Macey (13:30)
timing.
Beth Stewart (13:45)
I understood what happened in the boardroom. I understood how they thought about adding new directors. I understood what it meant to be a good director. therefore, when I talked to people, I was in a position to sort of vet and evaluate them.
I don't think there was another company I should have started other than this one, which is kind of neat.
I was 55 when I started it, by the way, one of the most important messages that I would tell any woman is that life is long. And I started it when my youngest child was in eighth grade and the boys were off in college or, you know, one of them had started working. I had the time.
Sharon Macey (14:26)
right. And that's very common, a story that I hear from women, once their kids are in school full time, in your situation, had kids going to boarding school, so there was even more time. We had one at boarding school for a couple of years, so I get that. And so that's usually when women are like, OK, it's now more me time, because I have that flexibility.
Beth Stewart (14:42)
Yes.
Sharon Macey (14:44)
I wanted to ask you a little more about that. So when you launched TrueStar,
what was it like sort of going back in after such a long break? And what gave you the confidence to do it? And did you have those, what if I fail moments and how did you push past that?
Beth Stewart (15:02)
Okay, well, what gave me the confidence was I actually thought it was going to be easy because it was also obvious. So that wasn't really a problem. And I mean, I can't emphasize enough. I really didn't know what to do. And I don't mean I knew how to do a board search, but I knew how to get assignments. And that was, I realized this was a demand side problem to get women on board. It's not a supply side problem. So I did what we...
Sharon Macey (15:10)
Right. Ha ha ha, okay.
Beth Stewart (15:32)
what I call smiling and dialing. And I did a variety of things to find all the Wellesley alums that were on boards to call and say, I've started this, ⁓ and then just leapfrog this connection to that connection. ⁓ So it wasn't really lacking confidence. ⁓ And it didn't take that long. This is hindsight is very blurry. ⁓ I'm sure I was worried about, it took maybe a year.
or so to get an assignment. But I did the first one for free. Yeah, I did the first one for free. ⁓ then honestly, if you can think, I I must have, I don't know, I must have been impressive. I don't know what it was, but there were men that hired me. It was me and a 25 year old, an associate, and that's it. I had, by the time I was ready to do the second board search, I'd only done one before that. And these were guys who were
Sharon Macey (16:05)
Okay, that's a normal ramp up. Yeah.
Beth Stewart (16:31)
Chairs of nominating governance of big public companies. And what was neat was we were always successful. We worked real hard. We were successful. Great client service, which I learned at Goldman Sachs. How to run a process I knew from Goldman Sachs. And just one thing leads to another. And then you have enough of them that people calm down a little bit about the risk that they're taking of going with the boutique.
Sharon Macey (16:44)
Mm-hmm.
Right,
And clearly you know what you were doing. And also I think another message to moms, which I've talked about a lot is you knew you have that skill, right? You knew you had that skill and you knew that this was something that you knew that you knew. You just had to make sure that other people knew that you knew how to do this. And you were also, know, timing, right? Timing was good for what was happening in the corporate board world. When you need to more women on it. I also point out you have
Beth Stewart (17:19)
done.
Sharon Macey (17:24)
an entirely female staff. Yeah.
Beth Stewart (17:26)
Yeah, we've
attempted over the years to hire the odd man or two. I don't mean an odd man, but a man or two.
Sharon Macey (17:31)
Yeah, a
Beth Stewart (17:33)
It just happens that there aren't any, a true star right now. And, ⁓ and in the day, you know, We're just helping women have a chance, right?
Sharon Macey (17:43)
Yeah, yeah,
Beth Stewart (17:44)
We're not,
Sharon Macey (17:44)
right.
Beth Stewart (17:45)
well, our process was just interview the women first. It wasn't, And if we don't succeed at that and you're the client and it's a client service business, you're not happy with the women that you meet will open the search to men. Do you know how often we got asked to do that? There's now, We've done 350 placements. I would say, you know, because of the history, maybe 90 of them were first, you know, what we call the true star rule. Never.
Sharon Macey (17:57)
Sure, sure.
often.
Okay.
Never.
Beth Stewart (18:14)
Never. And the reason that doesn't mean we haven't now placed males on boards because we have, but That was a testament to it couldn't be you were just slapping a woman in a spot. You had to get somebody who was absolutely qualified. for what the client wanted. And coincidentally, they were female.
Sharon Macey (18:18)
Sure.
Right, and they're there, they just need to be found, right?
Beth Stewart (18:32)
Exactly.
Sharon Macey (18:34)
But clearly, you're really strong in your niche.
Beth Stewart (18:34)
yes. Well,
yes. Again, that was the niche now that we're really strong in is we now specialize for all type candidates at the board level. But you know what the neat thing is about what we do? People think it's mysterious. It's not mysterious. We're only dealing with successful people. We're talking to people who have
achieved a C-suite level role or an equivalent in medicine or some of the other fields. ⁓ as it related to those women, can you imagine the woman that gets to be the CFO or the chief marketing officer? My God. I mean, it's like, what's not to like? They've been dealing with men for their whole career and they succeeded at that. That That translates very well to a boardroom.
Sharon Macey (19:26)
I can appreciate that. Yeah, for sure. For sure. So I want to shift a little and talk mom skills. The skills that we all fine tune when we're raising our kids. So which one served you best as you considered starting your company and how did those play out?
Beth Stewart (19:40)
you know, it's interesting that you say that because I think my mom's skills have developed over time. yes, they do. And I'm not telling you that I wasn't, you know, short tempered and I didn't yell and, know, in the midst of all this chaos. ⁓ but what I think I learned over time and from other successful women.
Because I'd ask women, know, how did you, why you, why did they choose you and what you'd hear over and over again. It was kindness. was, I'm not saying it's every single woman, but what stuck with me, kindness, caring about the individual, ⁓ you know, is everything, you know, is everything going okay? You need a little extra.
I'd like to think that my approach to managing a group of people evolved from, how it isn't the same techniques I might have used. I had started True Star when I was 35 or 45, I might not have been as successful at it as I did starting at a 55.
Sharon Macey (20:43)
that A, you later, you were wiser, you were grittier, you were more resilient, you have been there and done that, you have a better sense of who you are at 55, then you do at 35. And so all those things, in addition to being a mom, play
future success that you created, because that was so inherent in who you are.
Beth Stewart (21:02)
Yes.
Yeah, true. I agree with everything you said.
Sharon Macey (21:08)
Yeah, thank you for that.
Beth Stewart (21:09)
You know, I feel like there is one other aspect to this I shouldn't neglect to say and what, and you haven't asked me, but what role did my husband play?
and there are two things that he was,
he never said no to having another child. ⁓ And he was always incredibly supportive of my career and my starting TrueStar.
Yes, it does matter. Yes.
Sharon Macey (21:30)
matters, you're right. Yeah. To have someone
who has your back. mean, it is, in a perfect world, a partnership, right? It is a partnership and it should be a partnership. But to have that partner who supports you in your endeavors and is your cheerleader and your champion, that is really important. Yeah, so you were lucky in that regard. Yeah. So I want to skip back to the fact that you were
Beth Stewart (21:39)
Yes.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Exactly.
Sharon Macey (21:57)
because I love the story. You were initially rejected from Harvard Business School. And you wrote back to the admissions officer saying, quote,
Beth Stewart (22:01)
Mm-hmm.
Sharon Macey (22:05)
everyone makes mistakes.
And then the letter goes on. That is so bold and ballsy, Beth. And I love that. So what made you so sure that you were going to get in a second time? And what advice do you have for women who are facing rejection or closed doors?
Beth Stewart (22:11)
Yep.
Yeah, well, ⁓ I didn't know I was going to get in a second time. mean, you know, at the time I wrote that letter, I hadn't started working at Goldman yet. So but I did tell them that I was the analyst, you know, the Goldman accepted me, if you will, after having done quite a large search, I was part of that letter. ⁓ They didn't flinch. They didn't write back. They didn't write back. ⁓
Sharon Macey (22:39)
Right, right.
Pid in right back. It was such a great letter. This
letter is in your, and I want to have that in the show notes, a link to the Harvard Business School case study. And just the fact that they have a case study about you is extraordinary. So continue.
Beth Stewart (22:55)
Yeah, yes. Yes, yeah.
And the fact that I saved the letter and gave it back to them. I've actually been in the class when they've taught the case. the professor stands up there with the chalkboard and sliding the board, doing all this stuff.
one of the questions he asks is, what kind of a person would write that letter?
So I get to listen to what everybody says and they're quite, they ignore the fact I'm in the room. And I don't know, some woman said something snippy about what kind of a person I was that would write a letter like that. And then for the last five or 10 minutes,
take the professor's spot and answer questions, like what really happened and what did I really do and all that. And I said, before I do anything else, I wanna say to that young woman up there who said whatever it was she said.
Why don't you ask yourself, what kind of a person would actually save that letter and give it back to Harvard so everybody else could learn from it? You little you know what. Anyway.
Sharon Macey (23:53)
just thought it was extraordinarily ballsy and and it
Beth Stewart (23:57)
I mean,
maybe that's whatever the DNA that I have that said, I don't need to know how to do a search. I can just start a search firm. I may be all part of a piece.
Sharon Macey (24:07)
I thought it was a great learning lesson.
Beth Stewart (24:08)
Well, this was important. You said, how do you deal with rejection? Start a company. I mean, the amount of rejection that you have to deal with is enormous. And it isn't easy. know? Yes.
Sharon Macey (24:17)
Right. No, but you have to have that internal compass that says,
so fervently believe in this and I know what I'm doing is necessary and it is right for this time and women need this and companies need this and I'm here to fill that void.
Beth Stewart (24:31)
Yes.
Yes. No, I completely believe in the quality of the product and the service that TrueStar delivers. so it's just back, it's every day, it's I have to be thinking about and some of the other senior women, you just have to be thinking about marketing all the time.
So, yeah.
Sharon Macey (24:49)
Good point. All right, so
for moms listening and contemplating what their second act might be, which may very well include founding a business, what is your best advice for taking that leap even after years away from the workforce?
Beth Stewart (24:52)
Yes.
Well, I would suggest that you take a leap into something that you do know, the other thing that really reduced the stress a lot is by starting a professional services firm, I really didn't need capital.
that's an extra layer of complication if whatever you want to do, you don't either have the money yourself or you need it.
Sharon Macey (25:19)
funding.
Beth Stewart (25:24)
Or if you if you're starting something because you immediate whatever compensation you're going to take out really matters to your family That's really really hard. And so I mean again, everybody's got to do something different but
Before you jump into something minimize the financial strains So
maybe what you ought to do is not start a company if you really want to make money. Maybe you ought to go back to a traditional job. And notwithstanding a lot of the press about work from home and people stopping those programs, I think it's the gift of COVID. And I think it's easier for today's women to be in a corporate environment because there is more flexibility.
there are a lot of programs to help women ramp back in.
Sharon Macey (26:08)
⁓ I even interviewed someone
for the
Perkins, broad of directors, and she helps women find that seed funding. Yeah, so it's definitely out there. And you know what's interesting, Beth, is most of the women I think that I've spoken with, yes, some have got returned to former careers, but a lot of them have gone the entrepreneurial route. You they had an idea, they started a company, tiny, tiny, tiny, and then
Beth Stewart (26:16)
Yes. Okay. Well, that.
Yes.
Yes.
Sharon Macey (26:33)
and then grew it from there. mean, everything we do
to start small and tiny with baby steps. That's just life.
Beth Stewart (26:39)
Yes.
But the point is there are two options. I mean, don't, right? And if you're going to do the entrepreneurial route, you really ought to make sure you got the money, understand the pressures that are going to come from outside money.
Sharon Macey (26:42)
True, yeah.
Good point. Good point. Beth, my friend, are our time is drawing to a close
but I have a question that I want to ask you that I ask all of the extraordinary moms that I have the privilege of interviewing. And that is since this is the Mom to More podcast, Beth Stewart, what is your more?
Beth Stewart (26:58)
Sure.
Well,
I'm in the process of writing a book and you're going to love what the title of the book is. It's The Husbands Who Stayed Home.
Sharon Macey (27:18)
Okay?
⁓ stay at home dad, okay.
Beth Stewart (27:24)
Because
we kept meeting time and time again. I thought I was going to be interviewing ⁓ divorced and unmarried women. Because how could you make it to a C-suite level and have children and still have a husband? And time and time again,
They were still married women who had ⁓ children who were, you know, doing well.
And the answer in every single case was there was a husband, a husband who didn't necessarily plan to stay home when they got married. And just to me, totally fascinating, how do you manage, ⁓ how do you as a couple, it wasn't what you expected, that's not the man you thought you were marrying, and yet you're still married to him, how did you do it? And ⁓ so anyway.
Sharon Macey (28:09)
Yeah. Fascinating. Yeah.
Beth Stewart (28:12)
That's the more is that we're in the middle of that.
But we've talked with an artist, a writer, a policeman, a rabbi, a couple of high school teachers. And none of these men
when they got married, it wasn't necessarily what they planned to do.
Sharon Macey (28:28)
Yeah,
Beth Stewart (28:29)
or at the level. Play pivoted. Yeah.
Sharon Macey (28:29)
interesting. But they were willing to pivot like we all have to do in life, especially with kids. And, oh, you know, when that comes out, we'll chat again. I know, I know, I know.
Beth Stewart (28:39)
that we have to reconnect. One of the things
that I'm happy about, this is another thing, is like don't push yourself to do everything today. ⁓ One of the things I realize is I don't have to write this book today. I don't have to write it this year. People take a while to write books. So yeah. So we're taking it nice leisurely. We're enjoying ourselves as we write this book. So that's more.
Sharon Macey (28:55)
yeah. Yeah.
which is smart.
And I think one of the women I interviewed a while back, she said, you know, we will have time throughout our life to do everything we want to do, just not all at once. Yeah.
Beth Stewart (29:12)
I agree. Yes. Yeah.
Yes. And that's like give yourself just relax. I mean, you're not a relaxed person, but just allow yourself a little bit of time a little grace. Yeah. Yeah.
Sharon Macey (29:22)
A little grace. Yeah, a little grace. So Beth,
please tell my listeners where people can find you online, on social media, your website and folks. Everything as always will be in the show notes.
Beth Stewart (29:34)
Sure, well, we have a website. It's www.trustar.com. We're on LinkedIn. I'm on as Beth Stewart, and we have a True Star corporate board services, LinkedIn.
I'm on Instagram personally, but I never post, although I do enjoy a lot of stuff that other people post on Instagram, particularly the woman who started the We Do Not Care Club. it's
Sharon Macey (29:50)
Okay.
I know she's hysterical,
Beth Stewart (29:57)
miracle. If you haven't seen it, it is the best. Anyway.
Sharon Macey (29:56)
I know.
Beth Stewart (30:02)
that's, you know, that's where you can find us on, you know, LinkedIn and our website.
Sharon Macey (30:08)
Terrific,
Beth, I'm so glad we stumbled upon one another at the Dartmouth reunion. And I love your story. thank you for sharing it with me. It's just what you've done and what you've accomplished over many years, the fact that you started later in life, it just personifies mom to more. So thank you for sharing your story.
Beth Stewart (30:09)
should.
Yes.
My pleasure. Thank you for asking me to share it. I appreciate it.
