Why Lauren Maillian kept her struggles private #shorts

And it's the same reason that I have not shared publicly a lot of the difficulties that I've gone through, because, unfortunately, the world will decide for you what they think you can or can't handle. And it's something that I wrote about in my book. I wrote in the Path Redefine extensively about how I kept a lot of the most difficult, private, and challenging parts of my life deeply private, because I didn't want anyone in the outside world to determine if I was or wasn't going to get the call, if I was or wasn't going to get the offer. You know, I didn't want anyone to be to have that kind of power over my destiny or the direction in which my career could or should track. And it was important for my career to track in the right direction, because I was a single mom, and I had kids to feed.