Speaker Talk: The Golden Ticket Is Not What You Think: What I Learned from Counseling Students Struggling to Get Into Stanford and Raising Children Who Were Just Struggling
During her 18 years as an independent college admissions counselor, Irena worked with some of the most accomplished, tightly-wound students in the world while her own children struggled with developmental delays, learning differences, severe depression, and anxiety. She kept her double life—successful college counselor at work, anxious mom at home—tightly under wraps for years, until […]