This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jermaine Ee , founder of HeirLight . It has been edited for length and clarity.
Even when I was living in New York, I frequently flew home to visit my parents and three younger siblings in LA. When the pandemic made travel harder, I realized that if my family really is the most important thing in my life, I should design my life around it.
That’s how I ended up back in LA, running a company with my mom, MC. My mom was smart and had worked her way up to a vice-president role at a logistics company. Still, as an Asian immigrant who was a stay-at-home mom for many years, she had a lot of…
