I'm Macala Rose
And I'm an Exit Strategist. I've spent twenty years inside the rooms you're sitting in — boardrooms, startups, organizations that needed fixing and the women who held them together while they broke. I know what it feels like to need someone who can see the business problem and the personal one in the same glance, 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, businesses, and lives they've outgrown — and build what comes next.
The Attention You Stopped Paying Yourself
How to Be Human — 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 generations faced
Feeling Without Drowning
How to Be Human — 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. The "crisis" is manufactured, curated, sold, and resold across every media platform, political narrative, and economic model. The reason is unsophisticated — crisis captures attention. It hijacks the nervous system, short-circuits reflective thought, and propels
The Attention You Stopped Paying Yourself
How to Be Human — 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 generations faced
