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Our lives are full of decisions, both professional and personal. Where it gets interesting and

potentially tricky is when both are professional and personal. Where it gets interesting and potentially tricky is when both our professional and personal

decisions collide.

Today we'll learn how communication can play a critical role in helping navigate these issues.

I'm Matt Abrahams, and I teach strategic communication at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Welcome to Think Fast, Talk Smart, the podcast.

I'm very excited to chat with Myra Strober and Abby Davis.

Myra is a labor economist and professor emerita at Stanford University, where she was among

the first female professors at the GSB.

She was the founding director of the Stanford Center for Research on Women, now the

Clayman Institute for Gender Research.

Myra studied gender issues in the workplace and the economics of child care.

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