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The podcast that helps women in tech accelerate their influence, step into their dream leadership career and break through the glass ceiling.

047: Launching a Business and Pivoting into Tech while Starting a Family with Jenn Hunter

Are you thinking about pivoting your career? Or maybe you’re expanding your family and need some tips to maintain balance while still standing out as the amazing tech leader that you are?

Let’s talk about how my guest launched a business and pivoted into tech – all while starting a family!

In today’s episode, I have an inspiring conversation with Jenn Hunter, COO of PayShepherd, self proclaimed nerd, and mom (of two under two!) about her entrepreneurial journey. We discuss how she balances motherhood and business, the challenges around adopting technology and instigating change in the construction industry, and some helpful insights on how to uplevel your leadership in a male-dominated industry.

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046: Preparing for Management Interviews

How do you prepare for a management interview? If you are embarking on this journey, I know it can be daunting – but don’t worry, I’ve got you!

Let’s talk about preparing for management interviews.

In today’s episode, I go over the KEY preparations you need to ace your next leadership interview and some of my favorite advice to help you stand out and shine!

Ready to take that next step and get a more rewarding job (and hopefully a salary raise to go along with it?)

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042: 5 Tips to Ensuring You Get Noticed Next Time You Want To Be Noticed

Frustrated at being passed over for another promotion? Applying for jobs and not getting the right traction?

Let’s talk about what you could have been doing all along to get noticed at work and what you can do NOW to make sure you are noticed when the next opportunity comes!

In today’s episode, I share the 5 MOST IMPORTANT things you need to be doing right now (and really, all the time!) to get noticed in the workplace so you can get the new job title, pay raise, or promotion that you deserve!

Ready to start getting noticed for the standout leader that you are?

Let’s go to the show!

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041: The Mindset of Stepping up to the Executive Team with Jossie Haines

Want to take that next step in your career and step into an executive role? Maybe you feel burnt out or stuck where you are and need a shift to get you moving in the right direction?

Let’s talk about what it takes to step into your dream role!

In today’s episode, I talk with award winning leader and champion for women in tech, Jossie Haines. We discuss how she shows up in the industry – her role as V.P of Software Engineering at Tile and her mission to keep women and underrepresented minorities in tech – and the mindset shifts that you need to step up to the executive team (or any leadership role that you want!)

Ready to shift your mindset and get a seat at the table?

Let’s go to the show!

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040: My Journey To The C-Suite

Wondering what your path to the c-suite could look like? Need some guidance on upleveling your career, leadership, and executive presence?

Let’s talk about my journey to the c-suite – what drove me and how I got there (and what you can do to get there too)!

In today’s episode, I give you a behind the scenes peek at what it took to land my first executive role (wrote the description for the job myself!) and the major lessons I learned along the way so you can use these same tools to ditch the self-doubt and become the standout leader you were born to be!

Ready to become a better leader and elevate your career?

Let’s go to the show!

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038: How to Land and Excel in an Informational Interview to Accelerate Your Career and Job Hunt

Are you getting ready to apply for a new job? Or maybe you’re looking for a way to uplevel in your current role, but aren’t quite sure where to start?

Let’s talk about how to boost your career success by landing (and excelling in!) informational interviews.

In today’s episode, I talk ALL things informational interviews – what they are, why they are SO important for your career success, and my 6 TOP TIPS for how to prepare for them.

Ready to accelerate your career or job hunt and set yourself up for success?

Let’s go to the show!

I dive into:
Why informational interviews are one of the FASTEST ways to boost your career success
My 6 TOP TIPS to help you prepare for an informational interview so it can feel easy and get you that job or advancement in your career that you’re looking for!
How you can better position your covering letter based on what you gain from an informational interview (this WILL help you land that next job!)
A FREE resource to help you organize and run an informational interview so you feel prepared and ready!
The TRUE purpose of an informational interview (that most people don’t talk about!)
What you should ALWAYS start with in an informational interview to set yourself up for success
And so much more!

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031: 4 Tips for Standing Out and No Longer Being Passed Over for Your Next Opportunity

Doing all the right things at work, but not getting noticed for your efforts with the opportunities you want and deserve?

Let’s talk about getting yourself back on track for promotion!

In today’s episode, I am digging into what’s going on if you keep getting passed up for opportunities at work and my 4 TOP TIPS to help you break that glass ceiling and meet your big career goals.

Ready to do more of what gets you noticed at work?

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What to do when you feel frustrated

Do you feel frustrated at the lack of progress in your career? Frustrated at yourself, at others? Annoyed that you didn’t get something done, or that someone else didn’t produce as quickly as they should do (whatever should means)?
Right now, our natural tendency to feel frustrated is coming to new heights and peaks as we deal with the uncertainty of a world under lockdown, having to homeschool and realising that productivity drops for us and our colleagues when we are all stressed, even without children at home. Then there are the additional frustrations around stalled promotion prospects. The frustrations build. Want to know how to feel better and channel your frustrations for good rather than giving into the annoyance, anxiety and even anger that it generates? Read on.

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Strategies for managing up

Ever felt like your boss is the one stunting your professional growth? That you are held back because they don’t listen or don’t recognise your contributions? Maybe you’ve recently had a performance review that you felt just didn’t demonstrate your worth.

Even if you like your boss as a person, if you feel like they just don’t give you what you need professionally, then it is time to start actively managing them.

Yes, managing-up really is a thing, and it is one the most important things for accelerating your career, whatever stage you are at. Even entrepreneurs need to manage up to their board and investors.

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Leading strategically to sustain your team

Ever thought about your ability to anticipate as a strategic leadershp skill? Well believe it or not great leadershp isn’t just about clarity, communication, trust, recognition and the ability to get a team to deliver on a product or outcome (although that is what I often focus on – those ‘real skills’ not ‘soft skills’ 😉). Great leadership is also about foresight, prediction and anticipation, trust, empathy and empowerment. And right now, being strategic in your leadership is more important than ever. So if you are ready to uplevel and lead here are the most important strategic leadership skills you need in your leadership toolkit.

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