There is a specific lie we tell women the second they become mothers: that their ambition is supposed to go into a quiet retirement. We’re pressured to trade our drive for \"selfless devotion\" and pretend that \"Mom\" is the only title we’ll ever need to feel whole again.
I’m calling bullshit.
In Episode 6, I’m taking you behind the scenes of my first time back on a film set in over five years. Between weaning my son and battling \"bad professional\" guilt, I realized I wasn’t missing my cocky 20-something self—I was missing a piece of me I didn’t even know was gone.
The pregnancy season and the newborn bubble weren't the end of the story; they were just the intermission. Now that the second act has started, I'm realizing that having boundaries and clarity doesn't make me a \"lesser\" version of myself. It makes me a more dangerous one.
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