Changing the way you charge is simple advice for freelancers — but the real shift I needed to make in those early months was away from an employee mindset.

"This belief overlooks how tough those options are and ignores that everyone's journey is different. It's an outdated mindset that simplifies a very complicated issue."

What price female solidarity and empowerment, after all, if the weapon of actualization is an abusive system, one that invariably draws Santosh into its clubby, scornful, vigilante mindset?

In a time when political party heads and powerful billionaires would like us to accept the bare minimum quality of life, a little personal opulence is a tiny way to counteract a settling mindset.

"It's not a career I understand, and managing the downside is really important, but she works really hard and she's always had the mindset."