Just two weeks after hiring her, Nagral decided to let her go. In a candid post, she explained why her mother’s instincts as a parent made it difficult to separate family from professional decisions.
Nagral wrote that she was on a gap year before Harvard and was performing across stages around the world, including theatre and music. As her work grew, she realised she needed someone to handle the business side of her career, including emails, rates, logistics, outreach and operations. “She wasn’t managing my career. She was protecting her daughter.
“She said no to almost everything, because she felt I deserved much better,” she wrote. Those are two very different jobs,” Nagral said. Nagral said she eventually found managers, agencies and other professionals who could separate her personal life from her professional career. “There’s no real infrastructure for a working artist to find their crew,” she wrote, adding that many people end up asking a parent, partner or friend to help because they care enough to say yes.
