A reader asks: How Do I Lean Out?

Strategies for not having it all

Since forever, the 50,000 dollar question for mothers has been something like: how do you make it all work? Just recently Freya, a 21-year-old American reader, wrote to me asking for my advice on planning her own life - and also on how to persuade friends and family that her lack of interest in the girlboss life doesn’t mean she’s wasting her education.

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