Speaking up pays off
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These 9 successful women opened up and shared their personal stories on how they spoke their minds at work. They talk about fears, risks, and conquering while speaking their truth.
MANAGE YOUR CAREER
A Breakthrough Career Conversation You Need To Pursue Your Dreams (With Google UX Researcher Ojuolape Junaid)
“In 30 min my life changed”; “It was a brave request”. Google researcher Ojuolape Junaid shares courageous moves and powerful conversations that led to an important career change, the pursuit of a big passion project, and that helped her initiate a hard conversation at work.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
How a 30-minute conversation can pivot your career to where you want.
How to use your passion to select the right people to reach out to, prepare for important conversations, and effectively connect.
An unusual stress-coping strategy.
Why correlating workload with stress doesn’t work.
How to find courage through gratitude for significant people in your life.
The benefits of pairing structured work and unstructured exploration activities.
APPLY EVEN IF NOT QUALIFIED
How To Get The Job When You Don’t Meet The Requirements (With Director of Engineering Jess Sahagian)
Should you apply for a job if you don’t meet the qualifications? When there are candidates that meet the job requirements a lot better? What do you say when you don’t have experience for a job? The answer is absolutely yes, apply, but you need to be strategic about it. That’s what Jess did. And now her teams and company can benefit from all the unique qualities that she has to offer.
In this episode you’ll discover:
How she convinced leadership to hire her for promotion instead of external recruit
How she got a job two level up at a different company without the JD qualifications
The secret Socratic question that disarms people who disrespect you
The quality all senior women in her company have
How she mentally shifts from aggressive to assertive in an instant
A winning tactic to resolve mutual resentment between coworker who feel like the other isn’t doing enough
What you may be doing to be overworked, unrecognized, and create unnecessary conflict
CONFIDENCE WITH ASSERTIVENESS
Gain Massive Confidence With Assertive Communication (With Ph.D. Paulette Dale)
Confidence makes us feel good, increases our performance, and also changes how other people treat us. The question is, how can you quickly increase your confidence?
I interview Paulette Dale, Ph.D., professor Emeritus, and author of “Did You Say Something, Susan? How Any Woman Can Gain Confidence With Assertive Communication” to find out how to build confidence with assertive communication.
In this episode, Paulette talks about how to respond to unfair accusations like “you are too aggressive / selfish / sensitive”, why so many women fail to assert themselves, assertiveness, compliments, and much more.
SELF-ADVOCACY
5 Self-Advocacy Lessons That Will Pay Off And Make You Feel Powerful (With DEI Leader Zahida Sherman)
Here’s a fantastic example of how you can make advocating for yourself and for others work for you with vulnerability. This is a story of how to use self-advocacy and advocating for others for more dignity and respect with the one and only, cheerful, light-hearted, yet courageous Zahida Sherman, Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Southern California Institute of Architecture.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
How to speak up for others when you witness microaggressions happening.
A self-advocacy journaling practice to fuel your courage and self-confidence.
Learning data talk to successfully advocate for yourself and for your ideas.
When confused about your career path, how to use interviews to find out what you really want.
The secret to take a leap of faith while defying the messaging from society, colleagues, and family about what your life is supposed to be and look like.
YOUR OWN ADVISORY TEAM
How You Can Assemble a Powerful Advisory Team To Support Your Career (with VP of Engineering Sabeen Syed)
VP of Engineering Sabeen demonstrates the power of having mentors and advisors to support you and catapult your career through several examples.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
A framework to help you decide your next best career move.
The smartest way to get new mentors at work.
Why using mentors can spark your ambition and elevate your career.
The mindset hack to get you to finally share your half-baked ideas in meetings.
A strategic power move that gets even the most uncollaborative coworker to collaborate without any conflict.
ADVOCATE FOR OTHERS
How This Female Lawyer Advocates for Others Without Being “Difficult” or Burning Out
Want to be a better advocate for others without coming across as difficult while still taking care of your own needs? Attorney Dorian Morello describes her best strategies to achieve that fine balance.
She also talks about how she handles people who challenge her credibility as a female lawyer. And how to earn respect from people who don’t take you seriously.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
The single most important factor when fighting for someone.
The importance of finding your unique advocating style.
The traits of a great advocate for others.
TOO AGGRESSIVE?
How To Make People Listen To You When They Try To Ignore You (With Senior Director Vishwaa Vaidya)
Discover how to think like an assertive woman who refuses to be put down and owns who she is with Senior Director of Engineering at Visa, Vishwaa Vaidya.
In this episode, you’ll discover how she:
Asked to work remotely for some time despite leading a new international project.
Persuaded a senior man that was ignoring her at a conference to apologize and invite her to meet his team.
Landed big promotions and opportunities in her career.
Responded to people telling her and her team are too combative or aggressive.
3X SALARY MOVES
She 3x Her Salary In 5 Years and Conquered Job Given to Other (With Women’s Leadership Advocate Maria Kauffman)
In this fun episode Maria Kauffman reveals her powerful stories as a woman in male-dominated workplaces: getting a massive salary increase, landing the job she wanted that had already been committed to another person, and saying no to her boss. Today, Maria helps women ‘Handle Anything’, ENJOY life, and have fun transforming from IMPOSTER to IMMUNE by building a strong personal brand. Find out:
How she tripled her salary in 5 years.
How she got the promotion that had already been given to someone else and became their boss with a single move!
How she successfully said “no” to her boss regarding working on weekend, even though her boss was looking for an excuse to fire her.
PROMOTION TO MANAGER MOVE
How She Became a Manager For The First Time (with Project Manager Joy Makumbe)
Civil Engineer and Project Manager Joy Makumbe shares her thoughtful and fun career stories.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
How she got her first job managing a team.
Her philosophy on why she always negotiates her salary without any guilt.
How she dealt with non-supportive coworkers even though she was scared of their reaction.
How she commands respects as the female joyful boss in a male-dominated industry.
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