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Julie Schlosser and Lee Clifford

Julie Schlosser and Lee Clifford

After ten years working together as journalists at Fortune Magazine, Julie Schlosser and Lee Clifford left the world of journalism to found Altruette, a line of jewelry that raises money and awareness for non-profits. Their line launched featuring a classic charm bracelet with a philanthropic twist: each charm represents a different non-profit organization, which receives a substantial portion of every sale.

Photo credit: Amy Finkel

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  • February 21, 2012

    How I Did It: Julie Schlosser and Lee Clifford, Co-Founders of Altruette

    Having a newborn baby is a lot of work. So is starting your own company. Doing the two at the same time might sound like pure insanity but we think we’ve found a way to make it work.

    “Don’t leave before you leave,” Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, likes to say. It’s a quote she shares quite often with young professional women who she’s trying to encourage to stay focused on their career. Her argument is quite simple: We have too few female leaders because we women often hop off the career track to have children long before we even get pregnant.

    It’s easy to do -- you opt out of the more difficult position being offered to you or you don’t fight for the bigger role that’s open at your office because you think that just one day—maybe in a year or two or maybe five or 10 years out--you might get pregnant and need to take time off.

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