This is the ForbesWomen newsletter, which every Thursday brings news about the world’s top female entrepreneurs, leaders and investors straight to your inbox. Click here to get on the newsletter list!Last week, I had the privilege of moderating a conversation at the annual retreat for Black Women in Venture Capital, an organization dedicated to increasing the number of Black female checkwriters by tenfold. The conversation, which took place on Martha’s Vineyard and focused on building a life and career you truly desire, was off the record, but I’ve gotten permission from BWiVC founder Veronica Reaves to get two exclusive and on-the-record tidbits for you, our loyal ForbesWomen audience.I’ll start with some very practical hiring advice that I heard from Dia Simms, a veteran business executive and founder of investment platform Pronghorn. If it feels like it’s impossible to hire in the age of AI-generated resumes, Simms has a brilliant sourcing method, and it all started because she realized that one of her most valuable assistants was someone who loved watching medical mysteries. “People who love medical mysteries or shows like House or mystery shows have kind of an innate desire to solve problems,” Simms explains. “So particularly in entrepreneurial environments where you need people who can think from scratch and actually enjoy it, we found that looking at [medical mystery] Facebook communities and IG communities has worked really well, more than just going to job fairs and checking on LinkedIn.”What does hiring have to do with building the life and career you desire, you might be asking? Everything, I say. A good team makes all the difference, which is why I loved this creative hiring strategy from Simms. But I also love Reaves’ call to action for anyone else who wants to increase the number of checks written to entrepreneurs by women and women of color. I’ll give her the last word in today’s note:“I think that with the anti-DEI sentiment [that’s been growing], the venture ecosystem overall is very challenged. Regular fund managers are struggling to raise, but there's the phrase, ‘if the economy catches a cold, Black women get the flu,’” she said. This means that many of the teams BWiVC has worked with have recently had to lay off or downsize their staff. “If there’s a takeaway from the retreat, continue to invest in the people doing the work… Women need to come together. We need to support each other. The men are not doing it.”Cheers,Maggie McGrathExclusive Forbes Profile: Purely Elizabeth Founder Sells To Ferrero For $800 Million: “Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway”Purely ElizabethAccidental entrepreneur Elizabeth Stein—the triathlete and nutrition coach who founded oatmeal and cereal brand Purely Elizabeth—is making the biggest sale of her life. On Friday, she agreed to sell her fast-growing $250 million (estimated trailing 12-month revenue) brand to Ferrero, the Italian chocolate and candy giant behind Nutella, Kellogg's cereal and Tic Tacs. While the terms of the deal were not disclosed, Forbes estimates Ferrero is paying more than $800 million, or a multiple of just over 3 times sales, for the entire company, including Stein’s estimated two-thirds stake. The deal for the company, which claims to sell a bag of granola every .7 seconds, is among the largest recently in the natural foods industry.ICYMI: Stories From The WeekKwanza Jones, pictured in June 2026.Getty Images for SUPERCHARGED® by Kwanza JonesThe $3.9 billion acquisition of the San Diego Padres was approved Monday, greenlighting entrepreneur Kwanza Jones and Clearlake Capital co-founder José Feliciano as the franchise’s new owners. The approval means that Jones—who last week was included in the 2026 50 Over 50: Lifestyle category—is the first Black woman to be a majority owner of a Major League Baseball team.Hayden Panettiere, known to many of us as the cheerleader who couldn’t be broken on Heroes and the country western star who came apart on Nashville, died this week in her South Carolina home at the age of 36. Her cause of death is not yet known but the public response to her passing has involved much lamentation about the pressure on actors who begin their careers as child stars. But Panettiere’s story is also one of a young woman who fought hard to reclaim her narrative, and was willing to drag the darkest parts of it into the light, even when doing so made people uncomfortable.This month marks five years since the United States’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, and this past weekend marked half a decade since the fall of Kabul and the Taliban’s return to power. Azadah Raz Mohammad, a lawyer from Afghanistan and legal advisor to the End Gender Apartheid campaign, joined "Forbes Newsroom" anchor Brittany Lewis to share what life is like under Taliban rule and her legal fight against the group to hold them accountable. Speaking of powerful female owners in major sports: Jeanie Buss on Monday said she opposed her siblings’ plan to sell their remaining minority stake in the Los Angeles Lakers to Josh Kushner and Bob Iger, dismissing reports that the whole family had agreed to the transaction a week after Kushner and Iger agreed to purchase the Lakers for $12.5 billion from billionaire Mark Walter last week.Podcasting has never been bigger. An estimated 167 million Americans now consume podcasts monthly. But Tara Keeney, host and founder of Look Who I Found!, noticed she rarely listened to an entire episode. So Keeney flipped the script on the traditional interview format, building for the way she was already consuming interviews: 90-second clips made for Instagram Reels. Less than a year after quitting her corporate job in January 2026, Keeney has grown Look Who I Found! to nearly 200,000 followers across platforms, more than 15 million monthly views, and a tony guest list including Oprah Winfrey, Jay Shetty and Emma Grede.The Checklist1. Beware your “perfect” resume. Seventy percent of job seekers use AI to polish their resumes—and Gen Z adoption is even higher at 85%. These tools spit out a perfectly formatted and keyword-stuffed resume optimized for an Applicant Tracking System in under 60 seconds, removing much of the legwork of applications. Cool for you, except in an AI-wary environment, this “perfect” resume is a warning sign for recruiters.2. Apply the best “back to school” advice to work. At the beginning of a new school year, we often tell our children to be curious, make new friends and ask for help when they need it. But what if we didn’t think of this just as advice for kids and applied it to our own careers, too?3. Trade the c-suite for your own terms. Women started nearly half of all new U.S. businesses in 2024, up 69% from 2019, according to Gusto's New Business Formation Report, and women-owned businesses grew 12% between 2022 and 2025, nearly double the pace of businesses owned by men, according to Wells Fargo data. If you’re thinking about taking yourself out of the corporate rat race and starting a business, you’re in good company.The QuizA major U.S. retailer is set to receive $2.9 billion in tariff refunds, and said in their earnings report this week that the funds will be passed on to consumers in the form of price cuts. Which retailer was it? Home DepotWalmartAmazonCostco WholesaleCheck your answer here.Liked what you read? Click here to get on the newsletter list!