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The 10-touchpoint framework will help you integrate the massive role change of moving from simply being a grown-up with a career to becoming a parent, then a working parent. Roles and role identity are important; you have played countless roles in your life (good student, strong athlete, best friend, etc.) and you play a number of roles throughout each day. They are the various hats you don in different spheres of your life. Sometimes they feel like a part you play, but often they become a key piece of how you think about yourself. When this happens, that role has become an identity.

Throughout this book I will ask you to pay particular attention to how you transition between the various roles in your life and how an identity can begin to form out of these roles. I will also ask you to give some thought to the roles others have played in your life, what it means to be career-identified and/or family-identified, and how a parental leave transition can lead to role and identity confusion and, at times, even conflict between those two spheres of your life.