Welcome to the Broad Experience, the show about women, the workplace and success.

I'm Ashley Milne Tite.

This time on the show, a conversation with career coach and Forbes writer Kathy Caprino

on everything from the corporate life that made her ill to whether women have to act like men to excel.

I don't view that as a male or female thing.

I view it as if you want to succeed in business,

you must have clarity, confidence, and courage,

and you must close those power gaps.

And later we look at what one multinational company is doing

to help increase the number of women in its ranks. Working from home may seem ideal to many in the West, but the culture of Pakistan doesn't exactly lend itself to an efficient home office. The women said, if we go back home, our mother-in-law are at home. They expect us to, you know, be around, have a conversation. They live in with us. And it's not

possible for me to say, I'm working out of home. Please let me get on and do my own thing.

Coming up on the broad experience.

Kathy Caprino is a career and leadership coach for women.

She also writes on women and careers for Forbes, The Huffington Post and other publications.

She started out working in corporate America and stayed there for 18 years,

but she ended up absolutely hating her job.

Still, she felt she couldn't leave because the money was excellent. She was so

unhappy she would blow up at home and regularly came down with a chronic illness called

tracheitis. At 40 years old, she was at her wits end. Zero work-like balance. I just couldn't figure

it out. My kids were little then, and I lived in a different state. I lived

in Connecticut and commuted to New York. But honestly, the worst trauma of all of it was waking up

every morning, leaving the kids. I knew that. I was always going to be a professional woman,

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