Lisa Ing Marinelli

Corporate lawyer & working mother

Lisa Ing Marinelli has spent her career in corporate law, a field she describes from the inside as one where the more senior you get, the less likely there are to be mothers. On the podcast, she talks candidly about what it actually takes to stay in that career as a parent: not exceptional willpower, but expensive, invisible infrastructure. With no family nearby, she and her husband pay for a full-time nanny and all of the support most people take for granted, a fixed cost most conversations about ambition leave out. Her story is less about balance than about what gets quietly built and paid for so that ambition and motherhood can coexist in a system that wasn’t designed to hold both.