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The Hidden Cost of Compartmentalization: When Your Greatest Strength Becomes Your Greatest Limitation

Tara June 21, 2026

LinkedIn.com, June 2026-Many of the most successful people I’ve worked with share a common trait:

They’re masters of compartmentalization. They can walk out of a difficult conversation with a family member and into a board meeting without missing a beat. They can absorb setbacks, disappointments, and uncertainty while continuing to lead, create, perform, and execute at the highest levels.

In many cases, this ability has helped to create their success. But what happens when the skill that got you here starts preventing you from getting where you’re meant to go next? And what happens when it interferes with your relationships?

Read the entire article at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hidden-cost-compartmentalization-when-your-greatest-becomes-richards-k0qnc/

Is an Apple Smart Ring the Next Big Thing?

Tara June 7, 2026

LinkedIn.com, June 2026-Every few years, Apple faces a version of the same question: what’s the next form factor? The iPod gave way to the iPhone. The iPhone gave rise to the Watch. And now, as the wearables category matures and health becomes the company’s most visible long-term bet, a new question is surfacing in product circles and on enthusiast forums alike — could a smart ring be Apple’s next meaningful hardware move?

Having spent years inside Apple’s product culture, and many more since then tracking where consumer technology is headed, I find this question more interesting than most “what will Apple do next” speculation. That’s because it isn’t really about a new gadget. It’s about a strategic fork in the road: does Apple expand its health platform by adding a new form factor, by deepening the one it already owns, or by doing both at once?

Read the entire article at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/apple-smart-ring-next-big-thing-kelli-richards-fot5c/

The Artist, the Symbol, and the Digital Revolution: What Working with Prince Taught Me About Artist Sovereignty

Tara May 18, 2026

LinkedIn.com, May 2026 Ten years after his passing, I find myself thinking about what made Prince not just a genius, but a true visionary innovator.

The Symbol Was Never About Eccentricity

To understand Prince’s thinking in the years I worked with him, you have to understand why he became “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince” in the first place.

In 1993, Prince changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol — a combination of the male and female signs, merged into something entirely his own. The mainstream press treated it as the act of an eccentric megastar gone too far. But it was nothing of the sort. It was a deliberate, radical act of protest.

Read the entire article at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/artist-symbol-digital-revolution-what-working-prince-taught-richards-4ioze/

From Beyond the Grave: How Technology Is Resurrecting Talent from the Great Beyond

Kelli Richards April 25, 2026

LinkedIn.com, April 25, 2026

In April 2012, 90,000 people at the Coachella music festival watched Tupac Shakur take the stage alongside Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. The crowd went insane. The hashtag #tupachologram trended for three weeks. There was just one problem: Tupac had been dead for sixteen years.

What happened that night in the California desert was a signal flare — a glimpse of a future where talent, creativity, and legacy no longer end with death. Over the decade plus since then, the technology has only accelerated. Today, we are firmly in an era where the barrier between the living and the departed is being dissolved by artificial intelligence, machine learning, and digital production techniques that would have seemed miraculous (if not impossible) just a generation ago.

Read the entire article at From Beyond the Grave: How Technology Is Resurrecting Talent from the Great Beyond

When Past Glory Becomes Present Pressure: The Quiet Self-Sabotage of High Achievers

Kelli Richards April 10, 2026

LinkedIn.com, April 10, 2026

There’s a pattern I’ve observed—both in others and, at moments, in myself—that doesn’t get talked about enough.

It’s not failure in the traditional sense. It’s something more subtle. More disorienting.

It’s what happens when someone who has been exceptional finds themselves no longer operating from that same level of momentum, relevance, or external validation… but is still being perceived through the lens of their past success.

From the outside, they’re still “the one who did X.” On the inside, something has shifted.

And that gap—between past identity and present reality—can quietly become one of the most destabilizing forces that a high achiever will ever face.

Read the entire article at When Past Glory Becomes Present Pressure: The Quiet Self-Sabotage of High Achievers

The Compound Power of Consistency: Why the Slight Edge Always Wins

Kelli Richards February 16, 2026

LinkedIn.com, February 2026-There’s a seductive myth in our culture: That success comes from a breakthrough moment, a viral post that lands, a single brilliant move, a moonshot deal. Or even luck!

But in reality?

It’s almost always the result of something far less glamorous and far more powerful.  In a word — Consistency.

In The Slight Edge, author Jeff Olson argues that the small, seemingly insignificant actions we take daily — or neglect daily — are what compound into extraordinary outcomes over time.  Not dramatic, not flashy, but decisive and almost predictable in terms of the results that accrue.

 

Read the entire article: The Compound Power of Consistency: Why the Slight Edge Always Wins

 

The New Venture Capital

Kelli Richards February 16, 2023

On this show, I join Mona DeFrawi to talk about the new wealth creation and startup funding paradigm that is disrupting the venture capital industry. With $80T of US retail investor assets and years of dedicated SEC efforts and regulations to support capital formation and retail private market access – the Future Has Arrived!

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