Pride, Work, and Necessity of Side Projects: Shannon Downey’s Seriously Badass Women and Badass Cross Stitch

What are you working on—on the side?

I have two substantive side projects.

The first is my website/community Seriously Badass Women, which I created to celebrate the seriously badass women that I meet everyday who are doing unbelievable things with their lives. I wanted to provide these women with an opportunity to talk about what they do, but more importantly, share who they are and what they believe. They are complex humans and their success lies far deeper than their careers. More than just...