Emma Grede

But you have to be very, very deliberate.

And that's why I talk about this idea of not hiding behind, you know, soft ambition, because

No one's coming to pluck you and figure these things out for you.

You have to be deliberate about it.

And that means like running your career like it were a business and thinking about yourself like you're a professional entity.

What am I doing with my time and my skills and my attention that could be better used elsewhere?

And it's like you should never stay too long.

You should never stay somewhere that you're not appreciated.

And if you are ambitious, you have to be very planful about those things.

Should we talk about work-life balance?

Why not?

I've never done that before.

No one ever brings this up to me.

Can I tell you, and I will just be honest about this, you know, I had no idea that that would have turned into what it was for me, right?

I didn't know it was a viral moment, even when it were happening.

And I think it's really interesting because, you know, and my PR will kill me because everybody always wants me to cycle out of that moment and say, you know, like, let me just explain what I said.

Actually, I meant what I said and I doubled down on what I say because I think the idea of work from home culture is career suicide.

specifically for women.

And let me tell you how I know this.

Because what happens when a woman gets the chance to predominantly work from home