This week, I was in full housewife mode.
Cooking, unpacking, setting up Wi-Fi, chasing delivery delays, coordinating movers. The invisible (and often unpaid) labor that women do every single day.
And it made me think about how Martha Stewart was actually a genius. She figured out how to monetize the work women were already doing. She turned "homemaking" into a billion-dollar brand. Imagine being paid millions for what society usually ignores or dismisses. Martha was sort of like an original influencer, doing it as a business.
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