I'm Macala Rose
I'm a business advisory and thought partner for women-led companies and businesses. I'm also an exit strategist. I've spent twenty years inside the rooms you're sitting in — board rooms, startups, organizations that needed fixing. I know what it feels like to need someone who can see the business problem, as well as the personal one side-by-side. Because I needed that person for years, and she didn't exist, so I became her. Now I help women plan the exits they've been circling — from careers and businesses they've outgrown — and build what comes next.
Feeling Without Drowning
How to Be Human, Part III — A Three-Part Series on How Women have Lost Connection with Our Humanity and How We Get It Back We are living in an age where crisis is no longer an occasional rupture in the fabric of daily life — crisis is the fabric. But here the thing, the "crisis" is largely manufactured, curated, sold, and resold across every media platform, political narrative, and economic model. The reason for this is unsophisticated, simply put — crisis captures attention. From there, it hi
The Thin Line Between Using AI and Being Used By It
What happens to your capacity for thought when everyone writes with the same machine. This post may feel random for my developing body of work, but I guarantee you it's not. AI is everywhere, some of us it, some of don't. Some of us don't know where to begin. But as a leader, it's developing in our orbit when it comes to work. As someone who loves it, believe in ethical use, here's what I have to say about its current state and how it can harm or help your own cognition. In the past year, I've
Feeling Without Drowning
How to Be Human, Part III — A Three-Part Series on How Women have Lost Connection with Our Humanity and How We Get It Back We are living in an age where crisis is no longer an occasional rupture in the fabric of daily life — crisis is the fabric. But here the thing, the "crisis" is largely manufactured, curated, sold, and resold across every media platform, political narrative, and economic model. The reason for this is unsophisticated, simply put — crisis captures attention. From there, it hi
The Attention You Stopped Paying Yourself
How to Be Human, Part II — A Three-Part Series on How Women Have Lost Our Humanity In our society today, self-awareness has never been widespread. Human beings have always struggled to confront their internal contradictions, their fears, the grief they’d rather not name. That work requires space, time, and a tolerance for discomfort that most of us were never taught. But the forces working against it now are more organized, more sophisticated, and more relentless than anything previous generati
