Room Women’s Network

Resilience isn’t built when life is steady—it’s forged in the moments when everything feels like it might fall apart. For women leaders navigating competing pressures, those moments don’t just test character; they can define a career.

Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal knows this all too well. In February 2020, as the world locked down, she faced her own breaking point: a single mother of two, she poured cereal for her young sons one morning while fighting back tears. “I remember looking at my boys and thinking, How am I possibly going to survive this?”