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Can we please retire the phrase “juggling it all”?

It’s a question women hear all the time: How are you juggling it all? Usually it’s asked when someone is building a career, raising children, and pursuing ambitious goals at the same time. But the framing itself has always felt a little off to me.

The word juggling makes serious work sound playful, almost like a performance. Training at an elite level, building a career, managing a household, and raising kids aren’t circus tricks. They’re long-term commitments that require planning, endurance, and discipline.

What’s interesting is that when men operate at this level of responsibility, the language tends to be different. We describe them as focused, driven, or dedicated. We rarely talk about their lives as a balancing act that could collapse at any moment.

The metaphor itself also suggests instability, as if everyone is watching and waiting for a ball to drop. But high-performing women aren’t operating on luck or reflex. Most of the time we’re building systems, making deliberate decisions about where our energy goes, and adjusting constantly as life evolves.

From the outside, a life that includes motherhood, ambition, partnership, and leadership can look overwhelming. In reality, it often reflects clarity about values, careful prioritization, and intentional design.

So maybe the story isn’t about “juggling it all.” Maybe it’s about building a life where multiple roles can exist at once, supported by systems, thoughtful priorities, and better structures.

What looks from the outside like chaos is often just a series of intentional choices being made in real time.

And none of that is a circus act.

Way back when... around the time that we were just getting started on this adventure. We have come so far together, this little boy and I. Happy Friday!! Reach high!

Pro female athletes shouldn’t have to choose between their career and starting a family. Our male counterparts certainly don’t have to make this choice.

I’m an Olympic athlete who chose to start a family right at the very best time in my career to optimize performance. Although this was the right choice for me, I can absolutely say that combining motherhood and peak sports is not the easiest path.

If athletes have access to education, family planning, and reproductive options starting from an early stage, I see the potential for women in sports to play freer, harder, and longer in their sport.

This future—one in which female athletes’ careers can be as long and successful as possible—is what I dream of building for my children.

From and : “This February, for National Girls & Women in Sports Month, we’re celebrating the strength and ambition of women athletes while highlighting an often-overlooked aspect of their journey: fertility. Normalizing conversations about reproductive health and breaking the stigma surrounding proactive fertility care is essential to ensuring women in sports—and all women—can thrive in both their careers and their personal lives.

In partnership with &Mother, a nonprofit breaking barriers for women in sports and motherhood, we’re working to create a world where women can plan their futures on their own terms, without compromise.

Our latest research dives into the realities of fertility and family planning for women athletes—what they know, what they wish they knew, and

how we can better support them.”



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