Jan 3, 2021
After going into labor five weeks early on a rural stretch of highway in Ohio, I was picked up by a helicopter and to a hospital for an emergency C-section. My newborn son then spent the first 13 days of his life in the NICU. During this high-stress time, I was singularly focused on doing whatever I could to help him so we could take him home.
I never once worried if I'd get paid for that time away from work or if I'd have a job to go back to. That's because four years earlier, I'd started my own company. As the CEO, of course I'd keep my job…and of course I'd get paid.