Simran Kaur

And none of these things happen by accident.

You don't wake up and life doesn't like hand you a beautiful, I don't know, closet or an incredible job or a great marriage.

Those things kind of are things you work on.

And so I really, really enjoyed that.

The second takeaway that really inspired me was around managing emotions.

And it's always tricky to write about emotional regulation for a female audience by a female author, because we have spent so long

trying to undo the like negative perception that female leaders are too emotional and female leaders can't think straight.

And if it's that time of the month, we make a bad decision and like the company's financials go astray.

And, you know, like we've worked really hard to move away from that.

As we have said, you know, growing up, we'd say things like, well, who starts wars?

Men do.

Isn't that pretty emotional?

But what Emma did in her book is she kind of ran through all the different emotions that she's had to not overcome, but like manage better.

And if you read between the lines, she kind of speaks about how she had to work a lot on her emotions.

anger with her childhood and it seems like she has a lot of resentment towards her mum her mum was a single mother that was working a lot and from her perspective like maybe wasn't really there for Emma and Emma was the parentified child where being the oldest she was in charge of taking care of her sisters and she was kind of like the person that

the parenting default landed on because her mom was working and I am a little bit nosy.

So I did go on Instagram and like have a look at her account and she doesn't like post a lot with her mom.

Like she's had all these other people on her book tour, but her mom wasn't one of them.

Or like when she posts about like the holidays and stuff, it's

It's probably me making assumptions, but it doesn't seem that she is very close to her mother.