When I was pregnant with my daughter, I found out I qualified for a benefit that put $1,500 in cash directly into my account for the days I spent in the hospital. Not reimbursement. Not a discount. Cash, mine to use however I wanted.

I want to walk you through exactly how this happened, because there's a chance you have access to the same benefit through your employer and just don't know it yet.

My Spanish isn’t perfect.

Even now, I still mess up the grammar, get tongued-tied, or have to look up the Spanish word for dragonfly (it’s libélula).

But despite the imperfection, Spanish is my daughter’s inheritance too.

I'm not going to let my own insecurity get in the way of passing it to down her.

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Companies are cutting parental leave and PTO benefits. Understand what's actually at stake when companies treat paid parental leave as a budget line instead of a workforce investment, what the data says about wages, mental health, and who gets left behind, and what working parents, HR leaders, business leaders, and lawmakers can each do about it.

Imperfect mothering. Imperfect creativity. Imperfect launch.

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