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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.
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Tuesday Oct 09, 2018
Tuesday Oct 09, 2018
This show was designed to do two things: share real stories about personal growth from real working women, and give young women honest, helpful career advice.
Kaitlin Maud, digital brand strategist, seriously over delivered on both of these goals. I was blown away by her honesty, eloquence, and her intense passion for supporting the inner growth of other women.
In this two-part conversation, I talk with Kaitlin about what it was like to navigate her early career days and push through impostor syndrome. At the time, she didn’t even realize that she was battling issues of self-worth. Like myself, she thought it was normal to be questioning her ability to contribute and finding ways to overcompensate for a perceived lack of competence.
If someone as smart, gifted, and talented as Kaitlin felt this way – I think it’s safe to say that this struggle can be pretty universal for women.
Kaitlin also talks about the challenges she faced working in the male-dominated advertising vertical. Her stories are funny yet haunting, and they serve as a powerful reminder of the privilege that men hold in the workplace and the ways in which men can cause harm without intending it or realizing it.
My conversation with Kaitlin made me feel energized, excited, and empowered. Kaitlin’s strong presence inspired me to become even stronger in my own presence. Her honesty made me see that speaking up and owning our experiences is an act of courage.
I truly hope that she does the same for you.
Here are links to the books and resources that Kaitlin mentioned in our discussion:
Crucial Conversations book:
https://amzn.to/2DnaaYm
Google study on team dynamics:
HBR article on women being less likely to get raises:
Only 11% of creative directors are women:
https://www.adweek.com/digital/pinterest-right-the-ratio/
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Tuesday Oct 09, 2018
Tuesday Oct 09, 2018
I would be overjoyed if you promised me this one thing: next time you’re debating whether you should share your idea out loud or not, DO IT.
I really, really, really want you to do it. I want you to do it so badly that I started and named a podcast around this entire topic.
For a long while, I thought I was the only weirdo who would stew and chew over an idea in a meeting and never actually share it, out of sheer paranoia that my idea was secretly dumb.
But many of us are keeping our ideas to ourselves, not even aware that we’re applying perfectionistic standards to all of our ideas before we give ourselves permission to share them.
Here’s where I’ve landed on the question of whether an idea deserves to be shared out loud:
If an idea comes to you, it’s worth sharing.
It’s very normal to question whether an idea is ‘good enough,’ and it can be a difficult habit to break. And as you’ll hear Rose and I discuss in this episode, we both went through a period of time where we only shared our ideas if we could make them sound super fancy and smart.
Which is better, I guess, than not sharing them at all, but the thing is – the best approach is simply to share, and not waste any brain space or emotional energy evaluating, judging, and editing our ideas. Because as women, we are incredibly creative and intelligent, and our gifts are best used sharing and discussing our ideas - not editing or filtering them.
And besides – why edit something that’s good enough as it is?
Rose is an incredibly gifted coach – I especially love her approach to mindset. If you want to learn more about her coaching, or get in touch with her – check out her site: www.rosekirby.com
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Tuesday Oct 09, 2018
Thursday Sep 20, 2018
Thursday Sep 20, 2018
In this episode, I share a little bit about my inspiration for creating the show. Spoiler: I was incredibly awkward, shy, and insecure in my early 20s. And I was alone, with no mentors to help me through it. And it was one of the most un-fun times in my career.
I don’t want any woman to go through some of the struggles I encountered and feel like she’s alone. Whatever someone’s career struggle may be – whether it relates to confidence, fear, anxiety, frustration (or like me, all of the above) – I think it’s so important to have more voices out there unequivocally telling women this one very important thing:
The way that you are feeling is okay.
As women, we simply don’t hear this enough. And in fact, we often hear the opposite – we’re not only told that we need to look, act, and behave perfectly – but we’re often subtly & sneakily told that if something is hard for us, we are somehow to blame. And that we should quickly fix, or hide, whatever is wrong.
I want to start a dialogue around professional women’s empowerment that tells women the opposite. That they’re awesome, and that anything that’s a struggle for them is normal. And I especially want to remind them how amazing and talented they are, because I think one of the most important ingredients in women’s empowerment is helping women see and understand their own power.
And that’s my goal for the show: to help you see how incredible you actually are, so that you can go after your career goals with reckless abandon.
I hope you enjoy it!
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