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I'm Prad Madhavan,

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I’m a director in SMBC’s legal department
and I work in Leveraged Finance

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and I've been at the Bank
for coming up on six years.

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Coming from a traditional Hindu

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background, I had to reconcile
with the idea of being gay.

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SMBC has really enabled me and encouraged me

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to be who I am at work and be my authentic self.

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I just don't feel burdened with
the pressures of needing to hide who I am.

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I like the idea of being a parent,
and I always thought that I would.

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It took many years.

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I think it took about four years
of planning before

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we actually pulled the trigger
on going ahead through surrogacy.

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I think we had focused
so much on the journey to parenthood

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that we hadn't actually anticipated
the demands of actually being a parent.

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Where SMBC has been incredibly helpful

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has been the hybrid approach to working

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that then enables parents
of young children especially

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to kind of manage that juggling act.

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I definitely feel that SMBC

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has enabled me to further
and build my career,

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but it's also enabled me to flourish
in my own home

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environment and build my family,

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and it's supported me
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