Alexis Ohanian found a role model in his wife Serena Williams.
While speaking about his advocacy for paid family leave on CBS This Morning Monday, the entrepreneur, 38, praised his tennis star wife, 39, for her ability to multi-task as a pro athlete and a mom.
The Reddit co-founder, who shares daughter Alexis Olympia, 3, with Williams, said that he previously had a “warped view of the path to excellence and the path to greatness being a direct result of just pure work,” which Williams helped him to dispel.
“That is obviously core to it, but one thing that I’m still working on is balancing that with time off, time away, time to reset and recharge,” he continued. “Something [Williams] is really good at is shutting it off and focusing on family time and personal time.”
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“I’m always a smartphone away from dipping back into a term sheet or dipping back into work,” he continued.
“I certainly still get checked from time to time on that one,” Ohanian added. “We need more men talking about this stuff.
The father of one, who wed Williams in 2017, has previously spoken out about the importance of paid family leave and why fathers should be eligible for the benefit.
In August 2019, Ohanian published an essay for The New York Times in which he opened up about why paternity leave is so important, despite men feeling a “stigma” around it.
While Ohanian understands that “not every father has the flexibility to leave without the fear that doing so could negatively impact his career,” he stressed the importance of paid family leave for everyone.