“I regret focusing on things that don’t really matter now … like missing work and financial stuff shouldn’t have played a role in my decision making. If we’d had paid medical leave, it just would have taken all of that away so that I could have been there more.”

We filmed Erin at her home, which also has bike trails on her land. Erin shared her story of losing her mother, and how a lack of paid family and medical leave influenced her decisions during her mother’s last days.