Alina Furman
On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Everything Alina Furman said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Furman: Motherhood constrained her business growth compared to childless founders
“And I could never grow to the extent that I would really want to, if I was like a male or a single female and I could work kind of just like nonstop. So I really always tempered my ambitions because I had to, and I had to balance it with having two kids.”
Furman: Postpartum sleep deprivation mirrors tactics used in wartime torture
“When you're not, when you're sleeping in 2:03 hour increments, that's a form of war torture that people use still to this day. Sleep deprivation is a very common form of torture.”
Furman: Nursing mothers are evolutionarily set up to be primary caretakers
“I feel like a little bit women are, From an evolutionary standpoint set up to be the main caretaker, unfortunately, because if you're nursing”
Furman: Mothers lack cognitive bandwidth to simultaneously run businesses and parent
“The guy, the men who it's hard for them because they feel, you know, guilty as well, because they want to be with their kids or, but you know, with women, it's like, you're literally thinking about your kids like 24 hours a day too, because, so you have to som…”
Furman: Five hours of daily work is insufficient for scaling startups
“My husband goes to work and he sometimes he has his own business so he can be at home too, but he has eight clean hours of unpolluted time. And even though my kids are 10 and 14 now, You know, I still have all my days are like, okay, you have set up your appoi…”
Furman: Hyper-parenting and screen time create a cauldron of family anxiety
“And we had a lot of benign neglect, which was great, you know, because I think we need more of that. But now everyone's so hyper parenting and like they're on their kids, yet the kids are always on screens and we're always on screens. So it's like this cauldro…”
Furman: Founders cannot completely step away from their businesses during childbirth
“If you're working for your own business you really, Are like the last, you know, stop. And so if there's a situation or a problem you're the one that they're gonna be going to, and you can't just take a break because you having a baby, like literally having a …”
Furman: High-functioning women underreport their postpartum physical and mental struggles
“I think a lot of women just under report all the things that they go through because you know, we, for me, it was like, I was still going, I was still highly functioning.”
Furman: Childless adults become rigid because they strictly control their schedules
“That's the main thing I see with people who don't have kids like my sister and other people is that, that they become very rigid over time because they're used to, okay, this happens at this time.”
Furman: Even neonatal doctors and nurses are unprepared for actual parenthood
“I don't think you could ever be prepared because I talked to practitioners NICU nurses doctors every day who delivered, you know, babies and doulas. They, Said that as soon they thought they knew what they were doing with babies and then nothing prepares you f…”
Furman: Spousal income provided the financial freedom to build unfunded startups
“I was fortunate because a lot of my businesses, I was able to not make an, you know, you don't always pulling an income right away. And so he, someone had to be, you know, making a bigger income at the time. And there were other times when I was making a very …”
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