Jamie Lee is an executive coach for smart women who hate office politics. She helps them get promoted and better paid without throwing anyone under the bus.
🫵🏽 YOU, my reader, are a leader.
Here's how I define leadership:
Your willingness to go first before knowing exactly how it all gets done.
Your capacity to come up with solutions that benefit others.
Cindy Gallop and I discussed:
Women at any age can relish having (more) money and sex
Ending rape culture and the culture of enabling workplace sexual harassment
A vision that upturns our socialized norms about sex and how that can change how we relate to each other and share power in the workplace
We have the silent, lethal epidemic of LONELINESS amongst us. Here are steps to cure it: Form in-the-flesh, IRL connections with a community unrelated to your work or career. Let youreslf detox from screens, even if for 2 hours at a time, and embrace physical activities, which boost your overall well-being, creativity, confidence, and leadership presence.
Annie, a Corporate Development Director, shifted from feeling stuck in the “weeds” to “wowing” the decision-makers. She set SMART career goals, devised strategies to overcome obstacles, and articulated her vision to senior leadership. Her story can be yours, too.
I went from earning 50% below average as the only woman on a hedge fund team to coaching women to getting promoted and launching companies that pay multiples of their previous salaries. How? By getting unstuck, getting strategic, and quieting the itty bitty sh*tty committee in my mind. It's your turn. Join the free webinar on 1/19/24 - "SMART Start."
Got big goals for 2024 but feeling stuck? Meet the itty bitty shitty committee - that pesky voice in your head giving you a million reasons why you'll fail or why today's not the day to get started.
You ready for this?
My client shared something so delightful, I asked her permission right away to share this genius bit of wisdom with you.
The plagiarism accusation against Harvard President Claudine Gay reveals the intertwining of office and race politics in higher education. Women of color leaders often face heightened scrutiny due to systemic biases in the workplace. As an executive coach for women, I help WOC leaders who feel like they're walking a narrow "tightrope." To hear it in action, listen to an actual coaching segment.
No more dreading the persistent question at family holiday gatherings.
Equip yourself with self-advocacy and leadership skills to elevate workplace conversations and career confidence. As a result, you'll achieve both personal and professional growth. Transform your trajectory with 1:1 coaching.
Being gaslit, under-estimated, unfairly criticized and lowballed -- it happens to the powerhouse women I know.
The capacity to not crumble in the face of injustice is a SKILL you can learn. It takes strength to NOT doubt yourself and make you wrong, because toxic workplaces have wronged you. And that strength is built through practice.
For many smart, competent women, the mere idea of being free of their self-doubts can trigger Socialized Guilt.
Socialized Guilt is the culmination of -- over a lifetime -- being exposed to patriarchal conditioning, the message that we're wrong to take up so much space, to have power and to wield authority, because we're *supposed to* defer to others.
The world -- and especially the workplace -- is built in favor of non-HSP’s, but your natural talents have profound value.
You’re the real deal with an incredible capacity to empathize, which builds trust and connection, the raw ingredients for great leadership.
To be born into patriarchy, or any society that systematically gives the upper hand to men, is to be conditioned to internalize the falsehood that there’s something inadequate in us.
ESPECIALLY when we dare ourselves to ask for more power and money.
While the decision to get coached is NOT quite the same as the decision to spend $40 on a jar of ultra hydrating facial cream…
What I do know is that to be informed is to be empowered to make the right decision for you.
So, allow me to share a couple of reasons why the 30 women who DID decide to work with me in 2023 to date have shared with me.
You’re DONE feeling as though you’re at the effect of someone else’s subpar people-management skills and internalized biases.
And here’s the thing to know when working with difficult people, so you don’t lose your sanity while advancing your career.
In the article “Dos and Don’ts of Asking for a Raise,” you’ll learn:
What and when to document to build a strong case for your raise
How to tailor your ask in a way that minimizes blowback and maximizes respect
Word-for-word suggested scripts from two experts, and so much more
"When I think about asking for raise, my anxiety spikes, because what if they say no? I'll feel like a total failure."
A BIPOC client said this to me the other day.
Read on for the three-step strategy I offered my client, so she can advocate for her career growth with more ease and confidence.
✨ Do this 1 minute exercise to dissolve 🫠 your anxiety
Ahead of a negotiation, board presentation, or a difficult conversation…
(Or to stop 🛑 rumination when things are slow)
There's at least 50+ things you can negotiate in your career beyond starting salary, spanning from equity compensation to getting paid out unused and accrued PTO.
To help you brainstorm and strategize for success, I've compiled a list with links to free articles and podcast episodes.
You, who's reading this, is so much more resilient and capable than anyone else's misconceived notions of you.
You want to be able to redirect your brain from a tailspin to coherent problem-solving-mode, so you can calmly respond and rise above the nonsense.
So try these three techniques on for size today.
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