Talking Mirror
Deepali, look at the shape of the question itself: how to break this pattern and still continue to grow. Both halves are pointed outward, at the corporate chain and its double standard, which is real. But notice neither half asks what happens inside you the moment you're called bossy instead of confident. That sting, the need to prove them wrong, to be seen as commanding without the label, is exactly the same currency the good girl trades in, jus…
