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The Art of Speaking Up is a podcast that empowers professional women to achieve their wildest career goals by helping them strengthen their voices and find their inner power. The show aims to motivate, entertain, and remind working women that no matter what they might be struggling with, anything is possible for them in their careers. In addition to providing strengths-based professional empowerment, the show curates practical career advice on topics like career advancement, goal setting, job searching, stress management, salary negotiation and more.
Episodes
Monday Mar 25, 2019
Monday Mar 25, 2019
Life can be hard, and it’s nearly impossible for our careers not to feel the strain of the challenges that so often arise in our personal lives.
But the amazing thing is – we can choose how we want to move through personal challenges that impact our careers, and we can decide to focus our energy and efforts on finding professional success and fulfillment despite our struggles.
And if you want a playbook on how to do this, Rachel’s story has you covered. Rachel tells the story of building a successful career from scratch, despite facing challenges with her health, her finances, and her personal life.
In this episode you’ll hear about:
- Bootstrapping a career path without a financial cushion
- What it’s like to pursue an ambitious career path while managing anxiety, depression, PTSD
- What’s worked for Rachel to mentally center and ground herself when things get difficult
- How she’s learned to speak up and become more vocal in meetings
- How she’s advanced in her career and built confidence over time
- How being diagnosed with MS has changed her mindset
- How to deal with a manager who is micromanaging
- And more!
As always, you can submit your listener questions to jessica@theartofspeakingup.com or DM me on Instagram - @theartofspeakingup.
And feel free to join the free facebook group (facebook.com/groups/theartofspeakingup) for more intimate discussion following the show.
Thank you, as always, for listening and being a part of this effort to amplify and uplift professional women.
Life can be hard, and it’s nearly impossible for our careers not to feel the strain of the challenges that so often arise in our personal lives.
But the amazing thing is – we can choose how we want to move through personal challenges that impact our careers, and we can decide to focus our energy and efforts on finding professional success and fulfillment despite our struggles.
And if you want a playbook on how to do this, Rachel’s story has you covered. Rachel tells the story of building a successful career from scratch, despite facing challenges with her health, her finances, and her personal life.
In this episode you’ll hear about:
- Bootstrapping a career path without a financial cushion
- What it’s like to pursue an ambitious career path while managing anxiety, depression, PTSD
- What’s worked for Rachel to mentally center and ground herself when things get difficult
- How she’s learned to speak up and become more vocal in meetings
- How she’s advanced in her career and built confidence over time
- How being diagnosed with MS has changed her mindset
- How to deal with a manager who is micromanaging
- And more!
As always, you can submit your listener questions to jessica@theartofspeakingup.com or DM me on Instagram - @theartofspeakingup.
And feel free to join the free facebook group (facebook.com/groups/theartofspeakingup) for more intimate discussion following the show.
Thank you, as always, for listening and being a part of this effort to amplify and uplift professional women.
Monday Mar 18, 2019
Monday Mar 18, 2019
If I had to boil women’s empowerment down to just one thing, it would be mindset. In my view, mindset is the swiss army knife of any career challenge – because when your mindset is right, you can find the solution to virtually any problem.
Today’s guest, Tasha Thomas, talks all about how mindset how propelled her through her career, starting out as an intern and now propelling her to the leadership position that she holds today.
She talks about everything from building confidence to how to know when the time is right to move on from a job to how to build a tight relationship with your manager. Whether you’re looking for tactical career tips or mindset advice – Tasha hits on pretty much anything.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Finding one’s voice and personality in a professional context
- Why networking is worth it, even if you hate it
- How to get the most learning & development out of a job
- Figuring out when it’s time to move on from a job or uplevel
- Seeing challenges and negative experiences in a positive light
- Developing softer leadership skills
- How to manage up
- Tasha’s advice on building a solid rapport with your manager
- Tasha’s experience being the only black woman in the room
- How Tasha has built up her confidence over time
I hope you enjoy this episode, and as always, Email jessica@theartofspeaking.com or DM @theartofspeakingup on Instagram to submit feedback or a listener question for the show!
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
In today’s BONUS episode, I talk about why it is perfectly OK not to be the loudest, boldest, or most talkative person in the room.
In fact - your introversion can serve you well in the workplace - you just need to learn to harness it!
In this episode, I explain how to begin tapping into your unique introvert superpowers.
Monday Mar 11, 2019
Monday Mar 11, 2019
This week I chat with Nicole Martins all about her career journey in the legal field. Nicole opens up about how some of her personal struggles impacted the course of her career, and we talk about how she remained strong and focused throughout her professional journey, even as she encountered major roadblocks and barriers.
You’ll also hear us talk about:
- How to manage personal challenges that spill over into work
- Getting through work while grieving the loss of parents
- Seeing that career and financial success is possible despite personal struggle
- Landing a high paying law gig without a fancy school, connections, or high GPA
- Getting a resume to the top of the pile without the perfect grades & experience
- Building confidence
- Getting over the fear of talking to very senior colleagues
- And so much more!
This episode is perfect for anyone who is feeling stuck and wanting to get inspired to reach higher in their careers. It is also perfect for anyone who is on the journey of building confidence and trying to understand how to have a powerful and authentic presence in workplace, even when it feels difficult.
I hope you enjoy this episode, and as always, Email jessica@theartofspeaking.com or DM @theartofspeakingup on Instagram to submit feedback or a listener question for the show!
Tuesday Feb 12, 2019
Tuesday Feb 12, 2019
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This week’s episode is a solo episode, where I explore the emergence of my inner critic both in my career and in my creation of this very podcast.
As part of this exploration, I unpack the ways in which internalized misogyny has hardened my inner critic and caused me to direct a very viscous kind of hatred inwards, towards myself.
I share what I’ve been learning from this experience, how I plan to dismantle my inner critic, and how this might be helpful to you.
In doing so, I hope to bring light and positivity to the parts of ourselves that can often feel cruel or painful.
If you’ve been listening since the beginning of the show – thank you so much! I am enormously grateful for your support.
If you’d like to receive my inner critic journaling prompts, just write a review for the show in iTunes, screenshot it (before you submit), and send it to jessica@theartofspeakingup.com or DM it to @theartofspeakingup on Instagram.
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I can’t WAIT to catch you again in Season 2!!!
Tuesday Feb 05, 2019
Tuesday Feb 05, 2019
This week I chatted with Regina Romeo about her career in HR and everything she’s learned along the way about salary negotiation. Regina and I talked about the mental side of negotiation in addition to the tools and tactics of salary negotiation. In this conversation we cover:
- How to prepare to negotiate salary
- How to collect information prior to discussing salary so that you are prepared and informed
- Why it’s normal to be nervous or stressed to negotiate salary
- How to frame salary negotiations and asks
- Why it’s okay (and not a deal-breaker) to be nervous during interviews
- How to mentally get through career setbacks and tough times
- And lots more!
Check our Regina’s podcast, office politics radio: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/office-politics-radio/id1358857631?mt=2
Join the Facebook group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/722566004802516/
I hope you enjoy this episode, and as always, Email jessica@theartofspeaking.com or DM @theartofspeakingup on Instagram to submit feedback or a listener question for the show!
Tuesday Jan 29, 2019
Tuesday Jan 29, 2019
This week, I’m talking with a childhood best friend of mine and landscape architect, Alexia Friend. In this episode, Alexia shares all about how she learned to manage her workload without sacrificing her dedication to her work and while still being a top performer at the architecture firm that she works at. In this episode we chat about:
- Pushing back against too much work
- Work like balance
- Time management
- How to communicate with maturity and leadership
- How to strategically push back with your manager
- Why it’s scary to ask for help at work
- How to strategically ask for help at work
- Having the confidence to leave the office when your coworkers/manager are still working
- Balancing work and having a family
- And much more!
I hope you enjoy this episode, and as always, Email jessica@theartofspeaking.com or DM @theartofspeakingup on Instagram to submit feedback or a listener question for the show!
Tuesday Jan 22, 2019
Tuesday Jan 22, 2019
This week I chatted with career coach Meg Duffy about the work she does helping women make career transitions. Meg specializes in helping women build and grow careers in tech, and supports her clients on a practical and an emotional level as they chart the next steps in their careers. In this conversation we hit on:
- How to break down big career transitions into smaller steps
- How impostor syndrome, fear, and anxiety can make career growth challenging and how to build confidence over time
- How to figure out what you like and what you don’t like professionally
- How to gain clarity about the direction of your career
- How to figure out what you want and set career and life goals
- What to do if you’ve just started a new job and are realizing it might not be a good fit
- Resources to help you better understand potential employers when you interview
Get in touch with Meg:
- @Futureproofmeg on Instagram, https://meghan-duffy.com
Resources:
Creative morning job board: https://creativemornings.com/jobs
WORK job board: https://www.bwork.com/
Keyvalues.com
I hope you enjoy this episode, and as always, Email jessica@theartofspeaking.com or DM @theartofspeakingup on Instagram to submit feedback or a listener question for the show!
Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
Today I’m chatting with licensed therapist, Risha London Nathan, about her work as a therapist and how she supports female clients through some of the professional challenges that they encounter. Risha share advice and practical insights based on her years of training and experience, and in this episode we talk about:
- Why it can be difficult to ask for what we need and assert boundaries
- How fear of not being good enough can manifest professionally
- The importance self-acceptance and acknowledging our emotions
- How to release, process, and let go of strong negative emotions
- Being highly sensitive at work
- And much more!
Check out Risha’s site, www.WellwithRisha.com and follow her in Instagram at @wellwithRisha.
I hope you enjoy this episode, and as always, Email jessica@theartofspeaking.com or DM @theartofspeakingup on Instagram to submit feedback or a listener question for the show!
Tuesday Jan 08, 2019
Tuesday Jan 08, 2019
This week I chatted with Helen Foster about toxic masculinity in the workplace. Our conversation was recorded back in September in the midst of the Brett Kavanaugh hearing, so toxic masculinity was thick in the air around us and fueled this conversation on a very important topic.
In this conversation we talk about:
- What toxic male behavior in the workplace can look like
- How it can make us feel
- What to do if you are dealing with a toxic male coworker or work culture
- Why disrespectful coworkers make us feel bad even when we know we shouldn’t let it get to us
- The social pressures & timelines that women often face
- And so much more
Follow Helen on Instagram at @Helefab_ and check out her website at www.Helefab.com
I hope you enjoy this episode, and as always, Email jessica@theartofspeaking.com or DM @theartofspeakingup on Instagram to submit feedback or a listener question for the show!