Simply You

A home in Rome

No matter how great their job, just about everyone would love to take a year out once in their lives – unless you’re Sheryl Sandberg, who’s still doing that whole ‘lean in’ thing. Twelve months away from everyday reality sounds like bliss to nearly every working woman I know. Now imagine you’ve spent the past two-and-a-half decades building a business based entirely on yourself: your ideas, your creativity; your name on the door, the labels and the company bank account. Picture the freedom of throwing all the cards into the air and taking off overseas for an entire year. Delicious!

A lot has been said about Sandberg’s 2013 bestseller, , which calls on women to be more involved, more authoritative and more competitive in the workplace, but there’s a parallel

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