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Get inspired by the women who discovered that working with your best friend can be the secret to professional success—and maybe even the future of business—from the co-founders of the website Of a Kind.
“Read this, then plot your own work-wife-driven empire.”—Glamour
When Erica Cerulo and Claire Mazur met in college in 2002, they bonded instantly. Fast-forward to 2010, when they founded the popular fashion and design website Of a Kind. Now, in their first book, Cerulo and Mazur bring to light the unique power of female friendship to fuel successful businesses. Drawing on their own experiences, as well as the stories of other thriving “work wives,” they highlight the ways in which vulnerability, openness, and compassion—qualities central to so many women’s relationships—lend themselves to professional accomplishment and innovation.
Featuring interviews with work wives such as Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs of the influential food community site Food52, Ann Friedman, Aminatou Sow, and Gina Delvac of the hit podcast Call Your Girlfriend, and Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings of Olympic volleyball fame, Work Wife addresses a range of topics vital to successful partnerships, such as being co-bosses, tackling disagreements, dealing with money, and accommodating motherhood. Demonstrating how female partnerships in the office are productive, progressive, and empowering, Cerulo and Mazur offer an invaluable roadmap for a feminist reimagining of the workplace.
Fun, enlightening, and informative, Work Wife is a celebration of female friendship and collaboration, proving that it's not just feasible but fruitful to mix BFFs with business.
Praise for Work Wife
“Is the old adage ‘Friends and business don’t mix’ true? Not according to college friends Cerulo and Mazur, who translated their love of fashion and desire to support emerging fashion designers into a successful business, the e-commerce site Of a Kind. . . . By exploring topics such as setting expectations, defining roles, dividing responsibility, dealing with finances, and addressing disputes, they deftly demonstrate how female friendships produce empowering business partnerships. . . . This insightful, engaging work is an essential guidebook for friends considering a business collaboration.”—Library Journal (starred review)
“Engaging and thoughtful, Work Wife champions strong relationships, healthy attitudes, and pragmatic decision-making—an excellent primer for women interested in creating their own opportunities.”—Booklist (starred review)
Read Work Wife The Power of Female Friendship to Drive Successful Businesses Erica Cerulo Claire Mazur 9781524796778 Books
"Work Wife is a brilliant read for both female and male entrepreneurs who want to understand how friendship can provide the fuel and support necessary to succeed in business."
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Work Wife The Power of Female Friendship to Drive Successful Businesses Erica Cerulo Claire Mazur 9781524796778 Books Reviews
- Work Wife is a brilliant read for both female and male entrepreneurs who want to understand how friendship can provide the fuel and support necessary to succeed in business.
- I am not an entrepreneur. But the descriptions of dynamic women’s friendships made me recognize how lucky I am to have that in my life. It reminded me to set up our next lunch date.
- Incredible book. Great for entrepreneurs as well as women working for the man. Heck, even great if you just want to be a better best friend. Way more empowering and insightful than Sandburg, IMHO. Claire and Erica write like they podcast — friendly, eloquent, and brutally honest.
- Erica Cerulo and Claire Mazur have written a fascinating story of conceiving, starting, and growing a business, interweaving their own story with those of a highly diverse group of female entrepreneurs. They chronicle the highs, lows and lessons learned, not only by themselves but also from the unrelated duos and trios that they profile, and they make a compelling case for the advantages that female friendships bring to startups. I read it in a single sitting, unwilling to put it down because it reads so well.
- I've had my own "work wife" relationship with my law partner for nearly 40 years, and I can say that much of what the authors say rang true for me, and ratified what we had been doing unconsciously all these years. My partner and I had the benefit of actually knowing what we were doing by the time we shed all our male partners, so it was pretty gripping to me to read how all these women steered their new ideas to become viable business. Well written, concise and insightful.
- There's so much to be learned about great professional partnerships from Work Wife. In what was a fast and enjoyable read there was so much amazing advice, great lessons, and humor from a varied group of female professionals. I thought this book was so useful in learning how to navigate, appreciate and also optimize all the important female relationships in my work life and my personal life. I also think there's a lot of learned form Work Wife for men as well. It's a book about partnerships, and driving business forward and feel so universal. Highly recommend!
- For any entrepreneur or working woman in your life. A beautiful and wise book about how women work together. Powerful.
- Claire Mazur and Erica Cerulo are the cofounders of Of a Kind. They use their experience as work wives to write about the ways female duos and trios are changing leadership and the workplace. For the better in my opinion.
