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Pepsi CEO: 'Balancing career with family hurt like hell'

Pepsi CEO: 'Balancing career with family hurt like hell'

Indra Nooyi, Chief Executive of PepsiCo, recently revealed the hardships of harmonising a career and a family life.

Speaking on the panel at the 2016 Women in the World Summit in Manhattan, US, Nooyi explained how she was faced with some bittersweet memories whilst having her office renovated.

The CEO claims she found an old note written by her eldest daughter when she was five years old. It read: “Dear mom, I love you. Please come home.”

“I have to remind myself of what I lost,” Nooyi said to the audience, referring to running a Fortune 500 company whilst being a mother to two young girls.

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