What Do You Want?

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As women, we're often told like your job is to take care of people. And then you get to a point in your life where as you were saying, what do you want? It's a really terrifying, terrifying question to be asked because you don't always know how to answer it. That's, that's why it's terrifying. Why would you even want to entertain it? If you know it's never going to happen, that would make it worse.

1. What to do when you’ve done everything you were supposed to do and ended up in a place you don’t want to be.

2. Why the question “What do you want?” is terrifying – and how to start answering it authentically for yourself.

3. The power of imagining what does not yet exist in order to make space for new possibilities.

4. The gift of a “midlife crisis”

5. What a mother’s job really is.

About Celeste:

Celeste Ng is the number one New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere. Her third novel, Our Missing Hearts, is available now. Ng is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and her work has been published in over thirty languages.

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