"There’s this idea that once you’ve moved on, you should just completely move on and there should be no looking back,” Mika Leonard COO of Onward, a post-breakup concierge service, muses. “But how can we do that when our brains are meant to remember things? That’s part of what's so awesome about life and your experiences, is that you get to have those memories.”Best friends since elementary school, Lindsay Meck (CEO) and Mika Leonard (COO) joined forces to introduce Onward, a post-breakup concierge service, that helps new singletons navigate their relocation, relaunch their life, and remap their future equipped with a home (or room) of their own and financial independence. The warm and fuzzy of this company? Lindsay and Mika's bubbly personalities and the fact that the company is being run in Lindsay’s mother’s legacy, a prior divorce attorney who believed that the on the other side of a challenging situation, there is an opportunity to lead a better life. Joining Chelsea 11:30 minutes in, the founders of Onward echo this sentiment, emphasizing their efforts to help men and women get to the other side of a breakup stronger, healthier and more resilient than ever. Gems to look out for:+ the unifying nature of heartbreak+ as a culture, we tend to act like those breaking up should have to deal with it on their own+ why calling upon a neutral party to help manage the logistics of a uncoupling alleviates the breakup burden for your community of friends and colleagues + one of the most Googled questions: when do you know it’s time to break up with someone? + how society treats breakups as failures+ how the performance of success on social media isolates the single folk + why breakups are more stigmatized than divorces+ being each other’s person for a period of time is actually a victory+ what if we treated breakups like we treated job transitions; one leads to the dream job, the other to the dreamed of “one” + harnessing grace and integrity enables you to integrate the lessons of your love into the story of your life+ bitter endings make it hard to process the relationship with optimism + calling in a “chain gang” post-breakup to help lift your spirit and make you to stick to your gut+ the skills, life lessons, and tools that they took from past-partners+ how past-loves made them more practical, intentional and helped them adult better in new relationships+ the difference between love and respect+ how cohabitation makes it much more difficult to get out of your relationship’s ecosystem+ how to make a home for yourself in the wake of heartbreak__To connect with Lindsay & Mika of Onward visit their:Website: www.move-onward.comOnward Services: www.move-onward.com/plansInstagram: www.instagram.com/OnwardOnlineFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/OnwardOnlineTwitter: https://twitter.com/OnwardOnlineEmail:
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