Michelle Heath didn’t just build a career – she pioneered a new model of leadership.

As CEO and Founder of Growth Street, Michelle’s sought-after business advice is the culmination of three decades spent under the hood of hundreds of companies, from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 giants. Her track record includes senior brand, marketing, and customer experience leadership roles at household names like Fidelity Investments, J.P. Morgan, and E*TRADE Financial. But Michelle came up professionally in an era when working motherhood was invisible, flexibility didn’t exist, and professional ambition came with a cost no one talked about. She climbed corporate ladders built for men. She hid motherhood when she had to – even singing Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo to her toddler from the back of taxis. She endured divorce, burnout, and collapsing startups. And then, instead of opting out, she built again.

In 2013, Michelle jumped off the corporate ladder to found Growth Street – pioneering the fractional growth leadership category and helping companies unlock go-to-market success using her proprietary Unrivaled Growth Framework™, driving more than $100 billion in revenue growth. In this episode of The Mothers, we talk about ambition without apology, rebuilding after everything falls apart, what it means to build outside a system that was never designed for you, and why that work matters – especially when the next generation is watching:

When a high school boy told her daughter, “Women can’t have their own business,” her daughter didn’t hesitate: “My mom does.”