Hey, I’m Cris 👋🏽
I’m a recovering financial news journalist turned operator/technologist, climber, writer, new mom, wannabe dirtbag, and a whole lot of other things too. I’m ambitious, exhausted, and stoked. Welcome.
9to5 With Cris lives at the intersection of identity, work, and play as a woman in mostly male spaces. It’s where I think out loud about building a meaningful life and career — the messy, funny, honest middle of it all.
I write about:
Women navigating corporate America, especially tech and startup culture.
High-empathy, high-performing work environments.
The messy middle of both/and living.
Career transitions and building a life that actually fits.
Play, wonder, and identity.
Relationships that evolve as life does.
Working parenthood.
What it means to build in public without losing yourself.
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the real economy: the businesses that keep communities moving, the people behind them, and what it means to build with your feet on the ground. That lens is starting to show up more here too, alongside the personal essays and frameworks this newsletter has always been about.
Who is this for?
It’s for ambitious, stoked humans who want to become more effective and more themselves at the same time.
It’s for women working in male-dominated spaces who want to feel more seen. It’s for anyone who loves their career and personal life with equal veracity and wants to build a more sustainable approach to both.
It’s also for people who are curious about what it looks like to build something honest in public — with all the identity, ambition, play, and constraint that comes with it.
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Say hi!
If you want to connect, check out my website or shoot me an email.
