Guest Blog: Slow and Steady By Marny Nesher

Each week this blog becomes your voice. sharing a successful women's story on this platform has become such a favorite part of what I do. Last week Shameka Andrews inspired us with her lessons learned about success.  If you are a successful women who wants to share her story email me at jodeekenney@gmail.com

This week Marny Nesher steps out of the box! Little did I know this would be a challenge for this Publisher of the CNY Business Journal, but it's so inspiring she said yes right away and faced her challenge so fiercely!   We all can learn from her attack at life... even though she may say it's slow and steady.

Writing a blog, any blog, is probably the hardest thing I have agreed to do in a long time. I agreed to do this ONLY because JoDee asked and I couldn’t say no to her! Who can?

You see I love sitting behind my desk! I am great at thinking, planning, and working the numbers, but putting my thoughts on paper is very difficult, to say the least.

What is ironic is that I am the publisher (I prefer the term president) of a business to business publication in Central New York but cannot write well at all. Let’s just say that when I was a child I wrote letters to my Aunt Sadie (pronounced “aant” not “ant”), and she would return them
with red pen marked all over. What’s even more amusing is that out of the 3 children my parents had, both my brothers are very good writers. To be honest, I don’t need to write well in my position; I need to hire well and that’s why I hire the best journalists and editors in the area. I love the irony of where I have found myself at the age of 50. As you know, we hear that the magic number of becoming 50 creates the midlife crisis for men and women. Maybe this has happened to me
which causes me to reflect on where I am now in my life.

I moved back to Central New York about 22 years ago with my husband, raised 3 incredible children, and began working in the family business, not that kind of family business. I never thought I would return to Syracuse, I honestly thought I would be living in another country. I never dreamed for a minute that I would be in publishing, I dreamed of being an interior designer; and I never ever expected to have the opportunity to become a business owner, I thought I would be working
for someone else or be a stay at home mom.

Life takes you in unexpected ways, moving you in an ever changing path. It’s exhausting mentally and physically. Just when you think you figured out your best revenue opportunities, new challenges arise. Just when you think you have your children figured out, they surprise you and head in a different direction. It’s exhausting!

I only figured out later on in life that change is constant. Being a woman, mother, and business owner, I keep reminding myself not to be afraid to keep moving forward, out of my comfort zone (such as writing this blog or speaking in public). I may not be “moving forward” as fast as some feel I need to be but I am okay with this. I have always considered myself slow and steady to reach the finish line. You haven’t seen me jog, just ask my children.