#117 - She Lied About Working From Home in the 1990s: Ambition, Motherhood and the Wisdom That Only Comes With Time — Adrian Miller

In the 1990s she lied about working from home.Not because she was ashamed. Because working from home as a young mother wasn't considered real work.Thirty years later — her kids are grown, she has four grandchildren, and she is just getting started on her next chapter.Adrian Miller is a writer, Content Alchemist and grandmother who has lived the full arc of ambitious motherhood. And what she has to say about it — looking back from the other side — is some of the most honest and grounding wisdom we all need to hear. In this episode:→ The lie she had to tell — and how COVID normalised what she was doing thirty years ago→ The working mother vs stay at home mother divide — then and now→ What grandparenting teaches you that parenting never could→ What children actually need to see from ambitious mothers — and it isn't perfection→ Ambition at every life stage — why it doesn't end when the kids grow up, it evolvesFor the mother who is in the thick of it right now and needs to hear from someone who has been there, come out the other side and is still building something magnificent.The long view changes everything.