Leave your crown at the door

Leave your crown at the door:

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Leave your crown at the door.

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Heard that today in a story from Indra Nooyi.

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For those who don’t know, she was the former CEO and chairman of Pepsi.

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She’s a brown woman who grew up in India.

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Moved to the US and accomplished the American dream.

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Led one of the largest beverage companies in the world.

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There’s a story she told about this phrase.

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‘Leave your crown at the door.’

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The day she got promoted to CEO of Pepsi, she was driving home.

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Super excited to tell everyone in her family about it.

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When she walked in the door, her mom told her to go out and grab milk.

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She was furious.

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But she went out, grabbed the milk and came back.

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She started yelling at her mom and told her how she just became the Pepsi CEO.

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Her mom said this.

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‘Listen to me. You may be the president or whatever of PepsiCo, but when you come home, you are a wife and a mother and a daughter. Nobody can take your place.’

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‘So leave that crown in the garage.’

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That is a bar.

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A line that’s hard to forget.

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No matter how far you go in your life, we all have roles.

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Those roles have different duties and responsibilities.

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Just because you’re a big shot in one area of your life, doesn’t excuse you from doing what you have to do when you’re home.

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We all have roles to play.

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When I’m in my parent’s house, I’m still a son.

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I still have to do my bed, get the laundry and do the dishes.

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No matter how far I go, those responsibilities will never stop.

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It’s a reminder to keep your ego in check.

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A healthy ego is good.

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It drives you.

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It keeps you going.

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But it can also overpower you.

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It can make you believe you’re something you’re not.

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That you’re better than.

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That certain jobs and roles are beneath you.

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All that is wrong.

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If that’s the way you think, you have to check yourself.

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We all need our egos checked.

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We all need to remember to leave our crowns at the door.

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