When I'm in the best physical shape of my life, I'm in the best professional space. I can track the connection between the two.

When I first ran for office in 2010, I was 32 years old. The average age in Congress was 69. I was a brown woman whose name was Reshma Saujani - a name most people couldn't pronounce. And there was never a South Asian woman who had ever run for United States Congress before.

I had to learn how to not be a micro-manager. Maternity leave made me do that. I just couldn't anymore.

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