Consider This By Jade R. Fox

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Is it better to feel guilt or resentment?

Is it better to feel guilt or resentment?

On the wanting of both career and motherhood at the same time.

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Recently, marieclaire.com published an interview with Dorsey founder,

Megan Alida Strachan
. The series chats with business owners, and as the title suggests, it looks at The Cost of Starting a Business. While I enjoy reading about women running multi-million dollar businesses, it is nothing new anymore. But what is, are the uncomfortable truths that Megan spilled that make this interview memorable? Instead of glazing over answers and using words like "juggle" or vague phrases such as "striving for balance" and "making it work", she went straight for the juggler, well, the heart when she responded to a question on the personal costs of running an uber-successful company; "Starting and running a company takes an unspoken toll on your life. I call it a tab that comes due, and the tax on it is very high. There are a lot of personal sacrifices. You have to be ruthless with your priorities. You miss a lot of things—that's the truth. I missed the first four years of my daughter's life. I missed all of preschool…

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