Everyday I find myself reminding women around me to know their value. I also have to remind myself.

Women face enough pressures and challenges in a workplace that is still depressingly biased against a female's success. Add to that, the fact that the very thing many women I know find most rewarding (having kids) is now frowned upon.

I consider my girls the greatest gift from God in life. And I also love the career that I have built, lost and rebuilt. But the highs and lows of my career would not have been as exciting or manageable to me if I didn't have children and a partner for life with whom to share it all.

My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up mountains.

I have mugs of hot water every morning because the studio is cold, and also because it makes my throat sound clearer.

Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if you've truly lived through it.