A mother running a business reflects on the tension between ambition and presence at home. She describes the social pressure to stay home, the pull of her own drive, and how entrepreneurship let her earn well, help people, and still be there for her kids.
It can be torturous at the start for a mom wanting, like having that social conditioning to feel like you need to be in the home all the time. But then also if you're ambitious, feeling that pull and trying to work out what is going to be right for me and doing both. And I would never tell anyone this is the way to do it because it's so individual for different people. To me, business has been the greatest gift ever because I have been able to make a bucket ton of money, do beautiful work that serves so many people, and be present for my kids in every stage of their life.
