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Balancing parenthood and CEO responsibilities, Alison Taylor, Co-CEO of Jane App - Startup CEO show

8 Feb 2025 · 0 min

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Short excerpt from a conversation (interview/podcast) where a speaker—identified as a mother and CEO—reflects on the impossibility of being both an 'ideal' parent and an 'ideal' worker, concluding she stopped trying to follow external rules and instead focused on being comfortable with her own approach to balancing both roles.

Like, as a mom, you kind of always feel like you're failing at everything, because to be, like, the ideal mother, your parenting is your first priority. And to be the ideal worker, your work is your first priority. So it's like, there's no winning that game. Like, literally no winning that game. It's just not even possible to have both things as your first priority. And so as soon as I recognized that that's not a winning game, I just said, I don't care what the rules are anymore. Like, I don't care what people think, and I just need to be really comfortable with how I do both of those.