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E8. The Self-Advocacy Trap and Myth of The Girl Boss
The Myth of Self-Advocacy: Beyond the Girl Boss Industrial Complex
We did everything the playbook told us to do—the salary negotiations, the networking, the "leaning in." Why are we still hitting a wall?
IN THIS EPISODE Aparna and Lars are joined by technologist and community builder Hala Saleh to dismantle the myth of self-advocacy. We look back at the era of the "Girl Boss" and the "Queen Bee" to ask: Is individual advancement enough when the system itself is designed to exhaust us? Hala introduces us to mutual aid at work as a survival strategy, moving from "advocating for myself" to…
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