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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 Success122 - Boundaries, Not More Self-Care
Cindy Esliger addresses the self-care craze that has become less about caring for ourselves and more of a quick-fix industry. She explores setting healthy…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success121 - Strong, Calm and Kind
Cindy Esliger explores the necessity of emotional intelligence in leadership, delving into why responding to challenges with calm and kindness promotes a…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success120 - Be Someone Worth Listening To
Cindy Esliger talks about the art of communication in today’s episode. If people aren’t listening when we speak, it’s time for a self-assessment. How are we…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success119 - Generosity Versus Manipulation
Cindy Esliger examines how the scarcity mindset, which seems prudent to adopt in today’s competitive market, can negatively impact our worldview. Adopting a…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success118 - Assume the Best
Cindy Esliger talks about the detrimental effect of rising stress levels and changing workplace priorities on our interactions with others. In these days where…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success117 - Beware of Expectation Escalation
Cindy Esliger addresses the phenomenon known as expectation escalation in today’s episode. Expectation escalation is the subtle challenge of incrementally…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success116 - When To Walk Away
Cindy Esliger talks about the art of negotiation and how frequently we approach it with uncertainty despite how much negotiation infiltrates our daily lives…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success115 - How You Want to Feel
In today's episode, Cindy Esliger examines our careers and career satisfaction. Are we simply adhering to the conventional benchmarks that society labels as…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success114 - How You Do Anything
In today's episode, Cindy Esliger unpacks the adage “How you do anything is how you do everything”. How we approach all tasks, big or small, demonstrates our…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success113 - Bravery or Boldness
In today's episode, Cindy Esliger examines the differences between boldness and bravery. Although the terms are often used interchangeably, they are different…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success112 - You Will Figure It Out
In today's episode, Cindy Esliger challenges the myth that all successful people have everything figured out. The belief that at some point in our career, we…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success111 - It's Not Better There Than Here
Cindy Esliger challenges the belief that achieving future success will be what makes us happy. Achieving a goal is a milestone but if we don’t value the…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success110 - Notice the Patterns
Cindy Esliger examines how our patterns of behavior and decision-making are ingrained along the course of our lives and can influence outcomes on our journey…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success109 - Your Perception of Time
Cindy Esliger introduces us to the notion of the productivity illusion in today’s episode. The productivity illusion is the mindset that says the primary goal…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success108 - Name It to Tame It
In today’s episode, Cindy Esliger talks about fear, specifically the fear that can hinder career growth. It may appear as imposter syndrome, perfectionism, or…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success107 - The Longer You Stay
In today’s episode, Cindy Esliger addresses the subject of gaslighting. Gaslighting is a term that’s used a lot because it is a prevalent form of undermining…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success106 - Burnout or Betrayal
Cindy Esliger talks about two challenges commonly faced in the workplace, burnout and feelings of betrayal, and explores the distinctions between the two. Each…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success105 - Fight Fair
Cindy Esliger discusses office politics and the necessity of engaging in them with integrity. While the term often carries a negative connotation, office…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success104 - Keep Them Talking
Cindy Esliger talks about the pivotal role asking open-ended questions and keenly listening to the answers plays, not just in effective communication, but in…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success103 - Consider the Source
In this episode, Cindy Esliger talks about the pivotal role feedback plays in professional growth. However, while constructive feedback is important, it’s…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success102 - There Is Still Work To Be Done
Cindy Esliger talks about the work that still needs to be done by women to improve their experiences in the workplace. Though workplaces have evolved and…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success101 - Taming Tough Negotiations
Cindy Esliger tackles the issue of negotiation in this episode. Negotiation is a part of life, it’s a skill we all engage in and one which allows us to…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success100 - At What Cost
Cindy Esliger talks about the cost of attempting to succeed in our chosen professions. Women in male-dominated fields feel this especially acutely because…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success99 - Self-Sabotage
Cindy Esliger talks about our conscious and sometimes unconscious tendencies to self-sabotage our own success. When we begin engaging in things that hinder our…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success98 - Unapologetically You
Cindy Esliger addresses navigating life authentically in this episode. Being unapologetically ourselves is difficult when we crave acceptance and learn to…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success97 - Diminishing Yourself
In this episode, Cindy Esliger talks about how the natural human tendency to compare ourselves to others can become a trap. Comparison can be a helpful guide…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success96 - Setting and Achieving Goals
In this episode, Cindy Esliger talks about setting goals, both short and long-term, and the necessity of also having a plan for achieving them. January is a…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success95 - Solve For Happy
In this episode, Cindy Esliger explains the idea of solving for happiness. Solving for happiness as a concept has gained increasing attention in recent years…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success94 - Boredom Has Its Benefits
Cindy Esliger talks all about boredom in this episode. Often viewed as a negative, research actually suggests that boredom can have some surprising benefits…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success93 - Elevate the Ordinary
Cindy Esliger discusses how taking the time to elevate small seemingly ordinary things can transform everyday experiences into something special. When we pay…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success92 - Feeling Overwhelmed
Cindy Esliger talks about the common experience of feeling overwhelmed in today’s episode. She defines overwhelm as the result of the constant battle between…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success91 - The Power is in Your Questions
In this episode, Cindy Esliger talks about asking ourselves good questions. Specifically, the right questions, ones that will help us evaluate career goals and…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success90 - Don't Avoid Conflict
In this episode, Cindy Esliger addresses the tendency to avoid workplace conflict and why avoidance can have negative consequences. She explores the fear…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success89 - Borrow Their Belief
In this episode, Cindy Esliger addresses one of the most essential components for achieving our dreams: believing in ourselves. It’s a far easier thing to say…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success88 - Find Your Role
Cindy Esliger talks about finding your role within your organization. Having your role clearly defined is important for job satisfaction and career success…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success87 - Are You Climbing The Right Ladder
Cindy Esliger tackles the question of whether or not we’re on the right career path in today’s episode. Climbing the corporate ladder isn’t for everyone and…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success86 - Ready or Not Just Start
Cindy Esliger addresses the topic of procrastination and the obstacles that keep us from taking action. Procrastination can sometimes be around waiting for the…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success85 - Lessons Learned the Hard Way
In this episode, Cindy Esliger addresses one of the most frustrating aspects of the lingering gender bias in workplaces. The pervasive assumption that women…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success84 - Calm is a Superpower
In this episode, Cindy Esliger talks about developing calmness as a superpower to help us achieve career success. Staying calm and composed under pressure is a…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success83 - Unshakable Self-Confidence
Building unshakable self-confidence means we have the necessary mindset to achieve our goals and realize success no matter what happens. Cindy Esliger explains…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success82 - Pushing Back
Workplaces are complex environments full of different personalities and skill sets even as everyone is striving for a common goal. Differences of opinion will…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success81 - Making it Fun
Not everything that’s important needs to be serious and challenging. Cindy Esliger examines the idea of making things fun and easy as an alternative to always…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success80 - Whose Expectations Are They Anyway
Cindy Esliger discusses expectations: how to balance meeting the expectations of others with our expectations for ourselves. We need to meet the goals set out…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success79 - Choose Your Own Adventure
Cindy Esliger offers the perspective of viewing our careers as an adventure we get to choose. The challenges of discovery keep life and jobs interesting, so…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success78 - Future Proofing Your Career
Cindy Esliger examines how today’s fast-changing job market demands that we adapt by future-proofing our careers. It’s important to stay relevant and…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success77 - What Are You Making It Mean
Cindy Esliger addresses how our interpretations of other people’s actions can shape our emotions and behaviors. What we think is being said may not actually be…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success76 - What Are Your Priorities
In this episode, Cindy Esliger discusses the importance of priorities and how understanding them can help us make better decisions. We can get lost in the…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success75 - Toxic People
Cindy Esliger talks about the reality of toxic behavior in many workplaces and why it’s important to understand it to protect our safety and wellbeing. Cindy…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success74 - They Are Looking To You
Cindy Esliger addresses being a role model, specifically being a role model as a woman for other women. It can add a lot of pressure to the already difficult…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success73 - People Like Helping People
Cindy Esliger explores the myth that we need to do everything on our own to succeed. Asking for help is difficult but it’s something necessary to achieving…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success72 - Celebrate Your Wins
Cindy Esliger discusses the need to celebrate our wins, to recognize our own accomplishments in order to build career momentum and a sense of progress…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success71 - What Is There To Worry About
Cindy Esliger addresses the omnipresent topic of worry, our tendency to dwell on negative thoughts about what the future could bring. Some worry can be…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success70 - There's No Going Back
Cindy Esliger talks about continuously moving forward in our careers rather than resting on laurels and simply expecting to succeed. There is a need to not go…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success69 - What You Say And How You Say It
Cindy Esliger addresses the fact that how we say things, not just what we say, can have an impact on career opportunities and advancement. Our communication…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success68 - Try On A New Identity
Cindy Esliger discusses the idea of trying on a new identity as a way to develop new skills and attributes that can advance our careers. Adopting a different…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success67 - Promote Yourself
Cindy Esliger tackles the topic of self promotion in this episode. It’s tempting to just hope that our great work will speak for itself, but in reality nobody…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success66 - Whats Next for Me
Are you waiting for a master career plan to be handed to you? Cindy Esliger talks about how we can go about exploring possibilities in our careers, because we…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success65 - Reimagine Your Career
Cindy Esliger discusses feeling stuck in our careers and the potential to change where we currently are to grow into a new career. We have the power to…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success64 - Who Do You Envy?
Cindy Esliger talks about envy in this episode. Different from jealousy, envy is often viewed as a negative emotion. But Cindy explains how envy can be a…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success63 - Embrace Uncertainty and Ambiguity
Cindy Esliger addresses uncertainty and ambiguity in the workplace, defining exactly what they are and how they manifest. Navigating them can lead to stress…