Over the course of several months, seven reporters from across the country recorded intimate conversations between mothers and daughters about issues like unpaid labor, discrimination, pay gap, career advancement, work life balance, and how the pandemic has changed our relationship to work. The result is a 4-part mini series called Ambition Diaries, a collaboration between Fast Company and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. In this first episode of the series we explore economic mobility.

Kathleen Davis is the deputy editor of Fast Company and the host of The New Way We Work podcast.

Co-published with Fast Company.