Episode description
Christina Hillsberg is a former CIA intelligence analyst, writer, and mom. She is the author of License to Parent: How My Career as a Spy Helped Me Raise Resourceful, Self-Sufficient Kids. While at the CIA, Christina regularly wrote analytic assessments for the President, his Cabinet, and other senior-level policymakers. She specialized in African politics and leaders and was one of the Intelligence Community's few Swahili and Zulu linguists. She also worked in CIA's Directorate of Operations, collecting intelligence from the field and has been awarded multiple CIA Exceptional Performance Awards.
After leaving the CIA, she worked in Information Security and PR at Amazon, helping to create a new global framework to analyze cyber risks, and utilize intelligence tradecraft to analyze information security threats.
In 2017, she began a new chapter as a full-time writer and Stay at Home Mom. Her writing has been featured in outlets such as The Washington Post, The Seattle Times, Parents Magazine, Thrive Global, Working Mother, and more.
Definitely an interesting perceptive on parenting!
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