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20:29 02.07.2025
Balancing Career and Family: 'My Husband Worked Through Childbirth,' Shares Venture Capitalist
Rebecca, a venture capitalist, and her entrepreneur husband Ben share their unconventional approach to balancing 60-80 hour workweeks with parenting two young children. They employ two full-time live-in nannies (costing €7,000/month) to maintain career momentum while challenging societal norms about motherhood. Rebecca advocates for normalizing professional childcare support, highlighting tensions between workplace reliability and traditional parenting expectations, particularly in Germany's cultural context.
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