75 Reasons to Be Glad You’re an American Entrepreneur Right Now

Out of the 75 reasons Inc.com listed in this article, I sure love #13:

Because mothers, finally, are allowed. Their many stories can be distilled to a composite voice:

“You don’t have to make excuses anymore–and trust me, I’ve made excuses. About why I had to reschedule a client meeting or not stay for that extra beer or was on a noisy cell phone in what was obviously not an office. Before, I felt like I constantly had to hide my kids–from my employees and investors and, God knows, my customers. But something changed. Including me and what I’m willing to fake. All I know is that lately no one cares anymore if my schedule’s unusual or I actually have a family occasionally on my mind. Even clients. They bring it up. They want to work around it. Maybe it’s just that more and more of them are trying to work around it themselves–men and women both.

Or I sometimes think that people just got tired of the faking, the pretense of all that 24-7 über warrior sleep-in-the-office crap we all went through. Now we know it’s not about style, it’s about work. Clients want us for our work. They have no problem with the fact that I actually go home at night. You think that’s a small thing? It’s not.”

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