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In a 2015 interview at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, Banco Santander Executive Chair Ana Botín discussed the tradeoffs that come with balancing work, family, and personal priorities.

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00:00There are three things that are important. One is, of course, your job and your professional side,
00:04your personal and family, and then your friends and, you know, and community and society.
00:09And so sometimes you spend more time on one than the other. It's very difficult.
00:13And I think one of the things sometimes we don't understand is we do have to choose.
00:17And at different times in your life, you're going to have more or less on one or the other.
00:21And I find having, you know, at least two of the three more or less there is quite important.
00:26And not just relying on just focusing on your professional life or only, I guess sometimes you only have to
00:33or can focus on your family.
00:35But, you know, having that, trying to achieve that balance is quite important.
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