From the course: How to Become a Purpose-Driven Journalist
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Lessons as a mom
From the course: How to Become a Purpose-Driven Journalist
Lessons as a mom
- I have 11-year-old twins and I have a 10 year old. So I had three kids in 13 months, but it's turned to be the best thing in the world. Yeah, I was pregnant essentially for a couple years and now they're all virtually kind of the same age and can work on homework together. But it wasn't easy at the time. It wasn't easy at the time, but I think it ultimately made me a better journalist. It gives you greater empathy in some ways to understand the challenges that other working women face, gives you an understanding of the pressure it puts on a marriage to have children and have two couples working. So everybody's going through a different struggle in a different sort of way. I usually learn most of my pop culture from my, (laughs) I know who all the YouTube stars are in part because of my children, so they definitely keep me up to date on sort of a lot more of the popular culture, but I also think that they see the news…
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