Maddison Sullivan-Thorpe
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Because something's changed in that, but that's my day.
There is this tension of like, we need to learn a little bit more here in the new era and we have to unlearn a little bit more from the last era that I see playing out a lot.
Because so many people go, I don't know how you do it all.
And I'm like, I have about five hours sleep.
Or, you know, I have to forgo that friendship thing or you have to say no to the thing.
And it is uncomfortable to say that sometimes those successes come at the cost of personal peace.
Well, there's some pretty loaded language in there.
I mean, to use the phrase career suicide is pretty loaded language, probably the most loaded you could say.
I think people were outraged because it's not what they want to hear.
People do like working from home.
They want to be able to put their washing on at lunchtime or take their dog for a walk or pick up their kids from school.
And that behaviour and that culture is conducive of those things.
And I think where the challenge is for this Girlboss 2.0 is how do we still have it continually serving women whilst also balancing and protecting peace and having work-life balance and being who we are outside of just our jobs?
So what do we need to do differently?
I do think that this sort of pile on in this, you're this or you're that culture at the moment is where we risk pulling each other down.
of challenge this a little bit right because I look at a lot of my friends in corporate roles they have employee assistance programs they might have free gym memberships as part of it they're not to work over the contracted hours because at some point there's been a litigation or lawsuit that's either been public or private like I do think in corporate structure a lot of that is cultivated and curated but then why aren't we seeing that online because I feel like all I see is corporate culture get killed and everyone's like break up with your corporate job and go out on your own