Even though she spent 14 years as the head of the massive Match Group (the company that owns Match.com, Plenty of Fish, Tinder, etc.), Mandy Ginsberg — who recently stepped down as CEO of the group — says she never really figured out how to balance everything she had going on in her life. That became especially evident to her after she was hit with some recent health issues.
“I can’t say I ever did the balancing thing perfectly,” Ginsberg tells SurvivorNet. “I don’t know if any of us do.”
Read More RELATED: What Are the Options for Women With a High Breast Cancer Risk? Ginsberg is a cancer pre-vivor. She had her breasts and ovaries removed because she was positive for a BRCA1 genetic mutation — which puts women at a significantly higher risk of developing both breast and ovarian cancer. A decade after she had a preventative mastectomy, she found out the implants she got had been re-called by the government, and she had to undergo another surgery to get them switched out. Through it all, she tells SurvivorNet that she had to learn to ask for help — something a lot of women simply aren’t accustomed to doing. “I was going 100 miles an hour,” Ginsberg says about her decision to step down from Match Group. “I will tell you it’s helpful to have a great partner, or a great friends, or a great mom or a great daughter. We need these people. Especially women, who do so much of the taking care of, it’s hard to us to ask for help.”
“You’ve got to ask for it,” she adds.
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