
When the Job, the Kids, and the Identity All Hit at Once
What happens when a promotion, a pregnancy, and a full identity reckoning all land in the same year?
That's where Misty Avila was when this conversation was recorded. VP and Chief Strategy Officer at the James B. McClatchy Foundation. Interim executive director at the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative, brought on to stabilize it through a transition. And expecting her third daughter - right in the middle of realizing, by her own admission, that she didn't feel successful. Not despite the titles - while holding them.
That daughter has since arrived. I can't wait for round two so we can…
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