When ambition stops being a straight line

Nadia Reuter made partner at thirty-four and left at forty-one. In between there was a plan, and the plan had a number in it, and the number was the only part she never questioned.

We talk about the year the plan fell apart - a client she resigned, a promotion she declined, and the eighteen months of quiet that followed. She describes the first month she earned less and slept properly, and what she decided that month was worth.