Solo in Good Company

Abstract

Solo in Good Company: A Memoir of Risk, Tenacity, and Building an Architecture Firm while Manifesting a Bountiful Life, recounts the author’s fifty year journey from Wyoming to building a prominent architecture firm in New York City. During this time, the author relied on strong instincts, personal skills, perseverance and tenacity to face harrowing setbacks and ultimately succeed in a male dominated profession. This is a modern-day adventure story about a woman who pushes the envelope, not afraid to put herself on the line. It is an affirmation of an alternative way for a woman born in the early 50s who is determined to live her best life, against all odds. Her stories take the reader from New York City in the late 70s and 80s, describing life on the fringes of the fast lanes of fashion, finance, music and art, to explorations in far flung corners of the world including Africa, India and the Arctic. The thesis describes lessons she learned as a young female corporate executive and explores her connections to the people and places of the world that gave her the confidence necessary to make it on her own. Solo: on one’s own. In Good Company: with the support of others. Solo and never alone.