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Stop Sabotaging Your Success
The podcast for ambitious, professional women who are tired of playing small and ready to overcome the invisible barriers that are holding us back at work.
Episodes
Stop Sabotaging Your Success242 - Their Problems Are Not Your Problems
Cindy Esliger explores the invisible work of managing everyone else's emotions while quietly suppressing our own. Being the steady one at work, smoothing over…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success241 - Rebuilding in the Aftermath of your Burnout
In this episode, Cindy Esliger explores what it really takes to rebuild our careers, professional reputations, and confidence after burnout. Burnout isn't just…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success240 - What Healthy Professional Reciprocity Actually Looks Like
In this episode, Cindy Esliger explores what healthy professional reciprocity actually looks like and why the people in our inner circle can either accelerate…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success239 - How to Build Trust When You've Already Been Burned
In this episode, Cindy Esliger explores what happens after someone has burned us at work and trusting people no longer feels safe. Betrayal, sabotage, or…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success238 - Stop Doing Everything on Your Own
In this episode, Cindy Esliger challenges the belief that career success comes from being completely self-reliant. Working hard, figuring things out alone, and…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success237 - The Art of the Strategic No
Cindy Esliger explores how to tell the difference between paying our dues and getting stuck with dead-end work that does nothing to move our careers forward…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success236 - Reclaiming the Joy of Small Victories
In this episode, Cindy Esliger discusses why so many of us move from one task to the next without stopping to acknowledge what we have accomplished. Big…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success235 - What Progress Really Looks Like
In this episode, Cindy Esliger explores what progress really looks like after a career setback, especially when confidence has taken a hit. Not getting the…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success234 - You Might Be The Problem
In this episode, Cindy Esliger tackles one of the most uncomfortable questions to ask when workplace conflict keeps following us: what if some of it is us?…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success233 - Developing Presence Before You´re Granted Permission
Cindy Esliger explores the gap between the level we’re operating at and the title on our business card. We too often wait for the promotion before developing…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success232 - Reclaiming Your Voice After Spending Years Minimizing It
Cindy Esliger explores what happens when years of quietly minimizing ourselves at work start to make our expertise invisible. Many of us have learned to soften…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success231 - Becoming Someone Your Younger Self Didn't Know Was Possible
Cindy Esliger looks into the gap between who we have become and what we still won't allow ourselves to believe is possible. Many accomplished women in…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success230 - Recognising a Career Plot-Twist Before It Happens
In this episode, Cindy Esliger explores the career plot twist and why so many ambitious professionals wait until burnout forces us to make a change instead of…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success229 - Dreaming Bigger When You're Surrounded By Small Thinkers
Cindy Esliger examines what happens when we have a bigger vision for our career than our current work environment supports. Bold ideas can disappear into the…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success228 - Accountability as Power, not Punishment
Cindy Esliger explores why accountability has earned such a negative reputation and reframes it as one of the most empowering tools we can develop in our…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success227 - Overfunctioning is Killing Your Career
Cindy Esliger looks into why being the most reliable, hardest-working person in the room can quietly become one of the biggest obstacles to career success…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success226 - Your Belief In Yourself Is Powerful
Cindy Esliger explores the real cost of losing belief in ourselves and how self-doubt quietly limits career growth, especially for women in STEM and other…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success225 - Build Relationships to Create Opportunities
In this episode of Stop Sabotaging Your Success, Cindy Esliger dives into why building professional relationships can feel uncomfortable, especially for women…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success224 - Stop Trusting The Wrong People
In this episode of Stop Sabotaging Your Success, Cindy Esliger explores a difficult truth about career growth: not everyone in a professional circle is…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success223 - Some Do Want You To Succeed Some Do Not
In this episode of Stop Sabotaging Your Success, Cindy Esliger dives into an uncomfortable workplace reality: some people genuinely want to see us succeed…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success222 - Discomfort or Misalignment
In this episode of Stop Sabotaging Your Success, Cindy Esliger explores why so many professionals achieve a goal only to immediately move the goalposts and…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success221 - Technical Competence is Not the Differentiator
Cindy Esliger addresses the uncomfortable truth that technical competence is really only the price of admission in today’s workplace, not advancement…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success220 - Becoming Better Than Before Requires Courage
Cindy Esliger explores why personal and professional growth often feels threatening. This feeling can be compounded for women working in environments where…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success219 - Confidence Is The Moxie You Need To Get Ahead
Cindy Esliger unpacks the hidden cost of self-doubt and how hesitation quietly sabotages career growth. In competitive workplaces, many women spend too much…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success218 - Standing Your Ground Without Losing Your Cool
In this episode, Cindy Esliger explores the difficult balance between standing up for ourselves at work and maintaining professionalism. This is especially…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success217 - The Hidden Career Costs of Fawning
In this episode, Cindy Esliger explores why fawning in the workplace impacts your career. Fawning is that automatic “yes” that shows up before there’s even…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success216 - Embracing Possibility Rather Than Settling For What's Probable
Cindy Esliger challenges the habit of making career decisions based only on what seems realistic, explaining how probability thinking keeps many professionals…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success215 - You're More Qualified Than You Think
Cindy Esliger examines how constantly relying on external validation keeps capable professionals stuck. She describes a pattern of achieving meaningful results…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success214 - Imagine Not Always Being On The Defensive
In this episode, Cindy Esliger challenges how we tend towards defensive career management and invites us to consider what it would look like to build a career…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success213 - Preparing In Advance For Tough Interactions
Cindy Esliger tackles the reality of why avoiding difficult workplace interactions often makes things worse. She describes the familiar experience of…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success212 - Why Letting Go Is Your Secret Weapon
In this episode, Cindy Esliger explores the instinct to hold onto everything and introduces the idea of strategically letting things fall through the cracks on…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success211 - Your Future Is Not In Someone Else's Hands
Cindy Esliger challenges the habit of treating a career like a group decision in this episode, emphasizing that outsourcing choices to managers, mentors, and…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success210 - How to Receive Feedback Without Spiralling
In this episode, Cindy Esliger discusses why receiving feedback can feel so emotionally overwhelming and how it can quietly derail careers if left unchecked…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success209 - When Loyalty Becomes a Liability
In this episode, Cindy explores the difficult but important truth that sometimes professional relationships that appear supportive are actually holding us…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success208 - You Need Challengers Not Just Cheerleaders
In this episode, Cindy Esliger challenges the conventional advice that building a strong support network is essential for career success. While cheerleaders…
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207 - Adapt or Get Left Behind
In this episode, Cindy Esliger explores why adaptation is no longer optional in today’s workplace. Often, we double down on working harder, believing our…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success206 - Thriving When You're The Only One
In this episode, Cindy Esliger dives into what it’s like being the only woman in a room full of men, and the unique challenges that present to our careers…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success205 - You Don't Notice Your Growth Until Someone Points It Out
Cindy Esliger addresses the reality that we often fail to recognize our own growth and why that matters to our careers. Our brains are wired to overlook wins…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success204 - One Chance to Make a First Impression
Cindy Esliger unpacks the reality about first impressions and how they can quietly make or break a professional trajectory at work. While we tell ourselves…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success203 - Always Ready For a Fight
Cindy Esliger addresses defensiveness at work, that tendency that some of us have to walk into work already braced for a fight. We assume criticism is coming…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success202 - What It's Really Like to Work With You
Cindy Esliger discusses the difference between being good at our jobs and being easy to work with in this episode. Self-awareness is the key to career growth…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success201 - But Will You Still Have Regrets?
Cindy Esliger explores regret, the unpleasant emotion we’d rather forget about that can actually help us grow and gain clarity. Regret isn’t a sign that…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success200 - You Deserve Better Than This
Cindy Esliger puts the spotlight on people-pleasing and conflict avoidance in the workplace, exploring how to stop playing small to please others. If we don’t…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success199 - More Than You've Ever Imagined
In this episode, Cindy Esliger confronts self-doubt and explores what it takes to counteract it in our careers. Self-doubt shows up quietly, like a persistent…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success198 - Step Back From the Brink of Burnout
In this episode, Cindy Esliger unpacks what burnout really looks like when we’re still functioning at a high level. Burnout doesn’t happen all at once; it…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success197 - Striving For Perfection
In this episode, Cindy Esliger addresses perfectionism and why the drive to be perfect quietly sabotages us, fuelling procrastination and self-doubt. The…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success196 - What's The Worst That Could Happen?
In this episode, Cindy Esliger discusses the pattern of catastrophizing that keeps us stuck in inaction and blocks career opportunities before we even give…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success195 - We Are Not All Meant To Manage People
In this episode, Cindy Esliger addresses the myth that managing people is the only way up the career ladder. We’re often told that stepping up into management…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success194 - How Are You Doing, Really
In this episode, Cindy Esliger explores why answering the question ‘how are you?’ with the knee-jerk answer of ‘fine’ is holding us back. It’s a reflex to…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success193 - You Will Have To Work With Them
In this episode, Cindy Esliger talks about the necessity of learning how to collaborate effectively with coworkers. We need to learn how agreeable we need to…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success192 - Combating Emotional Numbness
In this episode, Cindy Esliger addresses emotional numbness: that lack of joy and quiet disconnection from the person we once were. It often begins as a way to…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success191 - Managing Stress Without Losing Your Spark
In this episode, Cindy Esliger asks ‘What if work could actually be fun?’ She’s talking about finding room satisfaction, creativity, and fun in our careers…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success190 - Bring Clarity To Chaos
In this episode, Cindy Esliger addresses what she calls ‘work albatrosses’, the hidden burdens that steal our time and focus and derail our long-term goals…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success189 - Rest, Recharge and Reset
In this episode, Cindy Esliger challenges the mindset that the need to rest, recharge, and reset is an indulgence: it is a necessity. Constant burnout and…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success188 - Who Do You Think You Are
In this episode, Cindy Esliger explores identity, not the curated professional version of ourselves, but the real and evolving true version of ourselves. We…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success187 - Are You Playing The Victim Or The Villain?
In this episode, Cindy Esliger discusses how workplace drama casts us in the role of victim, villain, or rescuer. Sometimes we stick to one role, but usually…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success186 - It Must Be Nice
In this episode, Cindy Esliger breaks down all the meanings behind the deceptively innocent phrase “It must be nice”. We were taught not to say certain things…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success185 - Dare To Be More
In this episode, Cindy Esliger explores how we can dare to be more at work and avoid slipping into the conformity we think is expected. We’re conditioned to…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success184 - Is It Dangerous To Hope Things Will Get Better
In this episode, Cindy Esliger talks about hope. Hope is complicated. It keeps us going, but it can also sometimes feel dangerous. Hope spurs us onward when we…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success183 - What You Do When Things Go Wrong
In this episode, Cindy Esliger looks at a better way we can choose to respond when things go wrong. We tend to spin out in overthinking or tighten our grip on…