Rhiannon Joyce

And thank you so much to Maya for making this episode of Stylish possible.

Straight off the bat, I think we can acknowledge that hustle culture from that hashtag Girlboss 2010 era is dead and that needed to change.

It's also really important to acknowledge that embracing, I would say, flexibility is important.

And I think businesses are definitely doing that, especially this post-COVID era.

We're seeing more work from home.

We're seeing, you know, people like myself and like you, Mads, who are able to work full time but then also embrace their own line of works outside of that, build their own profile, you know, freelance.

You've gone from working in a big corporate structure to now working freelance and that gives you, by design, more flexibility and freedom to be able to create work-life balance.

I know emigrate's been talked about a lot on this podcast, but I do want to bring this up because given the recent headlines surrounding the commentary that she made about working from home specifically.

So if you're not familiar with that, this is what she said.

Work from home culture is career suicide.

I believe that it disproportionately affects women.

If anybody thinks that you'll get on the same promotion or the same pay increase without the visibility and the proximity by the people who make the decisions, they are crazy.

Your boss can't tell you, but I'll tell you.

This is what she told Elle.

Swarm of negativity surrounding this.

Why do you think people were pissed?

The Vogue article that I referenced up top, they actually interviewed Megan McConnell and she said that women executives in the C-suite now make up 29%, so just under a third.

That's a significant difference from the 17% they saw in 2014.

Megan went on to say there's been meaningful progress in increasing women's representation, especially at the top of companies.

Now, I don't think we can solely say that, you know, the girl boss era inspired that in its entirety.