There is a subtle, definitive moment when a woman realizes she has been auditioning for a role she already owns. It’s rarely a loud, dramatic epiphany; it’s usually a quiet exhaustion that settles in after the third time she’s adjusted her schedule, her tone, or her expectations to accommodate someone else’s lack of effort. That is the moment the shift begins. She stops calling it "work" and starts calling it misalignment. She realizes that if she has to stretch herself thin