Later in 2012, Barnes sat on stage at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit with her daughter, Erin—who days after graduating from Notre Dame quit a job she’d lined up at Campbell Soup in order to help her mother recover. This MPW Summit session is the only on-stage interview that Barnes ever did about how she willed herself back to life.
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Brenda Barnes, Former Sara Lee CEO and Hero to Working Moms, Dies at 63
Brenda Barnes was a hero to some working moms after stepping down as head of PepsiCo to care for her family.
