As women, we often let social expectations define what order we stage our lives in and define what we are "allowed" to do at each stage - you'd better travel before you have kids, if you have kids, you'd better wait until they graduate to chase your dreams. It's time we stop letting others tell us when to "do life" and what order to do it in. As a single mother of a 13-year-old who, at almost 40 years old, quit a six-figure job to drag her daughter and 30 other people around the world after she was told she couldn't, I know a little bit about giving the finger to conventional expectations and living on my own timeline.
