*According to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, the term “leaning in” ls meant to encourage professional women to stay in the workforce and “lean in” to whatever role they are playing — increasing the chances of being promoted to the next level.
“The phrase first appeared in Sandberg’s 2013 publication, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, and has caused quite a stir ever since.
One of the women who feels the “lean in” mantra doesn’t apply to her way of life is former first lady Michelle Obama.
“Marriage still ain’t equal, y’all,” Obama said to the packed room. “It ain’t equal. I tell women that whole, ‘You can have it all’ — mmm, nope, not at the same time, that’s a lie. It’s not always enough to lean in because that s**t doesn’t work.”
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The crowd applauded when the curse word dropped while Obama laughed it off.
“I thought we were at home, y’all. I was gettin’ real comfortable up in here. Alright, I’m back now. Sometimes that stuff doesn’t work,” she said.
The FLOTUS describes some of the professional and marital challenges she and her husband have endured in her bestselling memoir “Becoming.”
“People are like, ‘Oh, why’d she talk about marriage counseling?’ I’m like, ‘Duh.’ Marriage is hard, you know. It is hard … I love my husband, and we have a great marriage, and we’ve had a great marriage, but marriage is hard work,” Obama told the audience. “Marriage is a lot of work, and it should be. It’s two independent individuals who are trying to come together to build a life forever.”
Mrs. Obama recently revealed that she cried on the flight home after her husband left office.
“When you’re the first of anything, the bar feels higher. You don’t have room to make mistakes,” she said. “It was just the release of eight years of feeling like we had to do everything perfectly, that there wasn’t a margin of error, that we couldn’t make mistakes, that we couldn’t slip, that our tone had to be perfect.”
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