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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 Success62 - Why You Are Miserable at Work
Cindy Esliger examines why it is that so many of us are miserable at work. What is happening to the workplace culture that causes us such misery and what can…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success61 - Should is Damaging
Cindy Esliger talks about ‘should have’, ‘could have’, and ‘would have’ phrases to highlight how they can lead to negative self-talk, self-blame, and feelings…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success60 - Be an Ally
Cindy Esliger directly addresses why women in STEM need allies to build a successful career. She is referring to the type of ally with privilege and power who…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success59 - Challenging People
Cindy Esliger examines how to handle the challenging people we meet in our workplaces. These are the individuals who cause us stress and make the workplace a…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success58 - Good Mentors Are Helpful
Cindy Esliger addresses the helpfulness of having a mentor in this episode. A mentor can guide you through various stages of your career and help set you up…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success57 - Make Yourself Indispensable
Who are the indispensable employees in your workplace? Indispensable people remove obstacles, get things done, know where to find things, and know how to…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success56 - Work Life Balance
Cindy Esliger discusses the idea of work life balance in this episode. There is no one definition that everyone agrees on, but we all agree we want to achieve…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success55 - Stop Procrastinating
Cindy Esliger addresses the topic of procrastination in this episode. What is procrastination, why do we do it, and what kind of procrastinator do we seem to…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success54 - How You Respond
Cindy Esliger examines the dichotomy between staying open to criticism and remaining committed to our own vision in our careers. The truth is that we need to…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success53 - You Are a Grown-Up, So Act Like One
Cindy Esliger takes a look at what it is that we expect of ourselves in order to lay a proper foundation for success. Do we have a purpose and a direction?…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success52 - The Real World Doesn't Reward Perfection
Cindy Esliger presents the truth about perfection in the real world in this episode. The truth is that perfection is not rewarded in real life and the behavior…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success51 - Reignite Your Passion and Purpose
Cindy Esliger looks at exploring our curiosities and experimenting with what interests us to find our passion. Instead of pushing our inner voice down to quiet…
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50 - Your Story is Still Being Written
Cindy Esliger addresses having an intentional path and not leaving our futures to chance. What has to change in order to make what we want to have happen…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success49 - Is It What It Is, or Is It..
Cindy Esliger talks about how facts and emotions intertwine. How we feel about a situation affects how we perceive the facts of that situation. Cindy wants us…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success48 - You Dont Need Their Permission
Cindy Esliger addresses the subconscious need to obtain permission to move forward on our goals. We are socialized from youth to seek permission from someone…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success47 - Clear and Present Danger
Overcoming adversity is what Cindy Esliger addresses today. How we handle feelings of doubt and fear when we come up against obstacles is a necessary part of…
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46 - Who I am Becoming
Cindy Esliger asks us to look at who we are becoming by reflecting on how far we’ve come. Who are we really when our facades and defenses are down? When we can…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success45 - What They Said And What They Meant
Cindy Esliger talks about second guessing ourselves at work. Are things said to us just annoyances to dismiss or are they things to take seriously? Or are we…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success44 - How to Move Forward
Cindy Esliger examines what we need in order to move out of toxic workplaces and into spaces that do not crush our souls. There are options besides simply…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success43 - Do You Really Not Like People
Cindy Esliger talks about connection in this episode. She focuses on the ways in which people assess our communication styles for likeability and competence…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success42 - Falling to Pieces Without Falling Apart
Cindy Esliger addresses workplace resilience in this episode. How do we manage our own behaviors more effectively so stress doesn’t take over? Cindy has advice…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success41 - Stop Fixating on the How
Cindy Esliger talks about letting go of the fixation on how you’ll achieve goals and instead focussing simply on the next step in this episode. Requiring a…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success40 - The Stewing is Worse than the Doing
Cindy Esliger examines the inescapable nature of fear and how confronting and transforming it is the only way forward. Everyone feels fear, but successful…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success39 - Playing Big
Cindy Esliger talks about transformation and empowerment in this episode. She refers to the inner wisdom we all possess that already knows what to do if we’re…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success38 - Your Moment of Reckoning
Cindy Esliger examines the disconnect between the increasing expectations of leaders and the lower levels of engagement in the workforce. Work is becoming less…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success37 - It's Not Personal
Cindy Esliger addresses the need to gain emotional distance from what others are going through and project onto us. We need to learn not to take things…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success36 - See What's Possible
Cindy Esliger talks about our vision for our future in today’s episode. What is it that we want to do and where do we see ourselves? She has some sage advice…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success35 - Job Crafting
In today’s episode Cindy Esliger talks about that feeling of job dissatisfaction, the slump, that often comes in the middle of our careers. She identifies why…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success34 - The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Cindy Esliger addresses the stories we share and the stories we tell ourselves in this episode. Sometimes these stories become rigidly fixed in our minds when…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success33 - Finding Your Power
Cindy Esliger asks “Are you giving away your power?” at the start of this episode. The question sets the tone for addressing the ways in which we allow control…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success32 - Misery Loves Company
Cindy Esliger examines complaining that doesn’t strive for solutions in this episode. Those people who whine and complain about how things are but resist…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success31 - What's Wrong and Who's to Blame
In this episode Cindy Esliger talks about the blame game. We want to know why things go wrong and we like distancing ourselves from the problem, which often…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success30 - Learn to be Savvy to Survive
Cindy Esliger speaks to the reality of office politics in this episode. Women with high levels of political skill are more likely to achieve career progression…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success29 - Persuasion is an Art
Cindy Esliger discusses the art of persuasion in today’s episode. Everything is a negotiation and well refined social skills are a necessity for advancement…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success28 - The Key to Gaining Influence
Cindy Esliger introduces the power of persuasion and influence in this episode. Cindy describes how honing good communication skills and learning to listen…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success27 - Stop Busy Bragging
Cindy Esliger addresses the glorification of busy in this episode. She asks us all to stop bragging about how busy we are. Focusing on spending our time…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success26 - Fear of Failure
Cindy Esliger addresses failure and our fear of it in this episode. Failure isn’t pleasant and we try to avoid it, but it’s necessary for learning and…
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25 - If Not Now, When?
Cindy Esliger addresses doing the things we want to do in this episode. She asks why we’ve been putting off those goals, dreams, or plans we have for…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success24 - Know Your Value
This episode, Cindy Esliger addresses knowing your value and negotiating for the compensation you deserve. Women are more likely to be offered less than men…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success23 - What Are Your Triggers
Cindy Esliger guides us through what it is that triggers our frustration. She reveals the surprising fact that what someone says or does may not be the thing…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success22 - What You Need to Believe
Cindy Esliger tackles the understanding that our thoughts form our belief system, therefore it’s the thoughts we cling to as indisputable facts about ourselves…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success21 - More than a Seat at the Table
Cindy Esliger addresses the sensitive subject of gender equality in today’s episode. Getting a seat at the proverbial table in the workplace is part of the…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success20 - Do You Have to Do it All to Have it All
Today Cindy Esliger talks about all or nothing thinking and the pursuit of perfection. There is a give and take in life where some things must be good enough…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success19 - What Will This Make Possible
Cindy Esliger focuses our attention on the mindset shift required to reach our goals. We set big goals but lose steam before we make it happen, so Cindy has…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success18 - You Can Do Hard Things
Limiting beliefs and achieving hard things is the topic of today’s podcast. Cindy Esliger explores how the discomfort of doing hard things causes us to limit…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success17 - Decide to Decide
Cindy Esliger addresses decision making in today’s episode. She breaks down our tendency to avoid making hard decisions with strategic advice on overcoming our…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success16 - Silence is not the Solution
Cindy Esliger examines silence in this episode: the times when silence can work in your favor versus the times when silence comes at a cost. She has advice on…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success15 - What's Done is Done
Cindy Esliger focuses our attention on leaving the past behind us and looking forward to who we are becoming. She addresses how worry and our own limiting…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success14 - No One Has it All Figured Out
Cindy Esliger explores imposter syndrome in this episode - that persistent fear that people will somehow find out we don’t know what we’re doing. We all have…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success13 - Find Your People
This episode is about finding our people and the community we as humans so vitally need. Cindy Esliger talks about the key ingredient required for all…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success12 - Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway
Cindy Esliger addresses the subject of fear in today’s episode. She acknowledges that fear is natural and something everyone feels, and she discusses how to…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success11 - Expand Your Skill Set
Cindy Esliger addresses how to examine your career in terms of opportunities and advancement. She has sound advice on how to make yourself more competitive so…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success10 - Great Work Doesn't Speak For Itself
Cindy Esliger talks about the reasons why we undervalue ourselves at work and the toll that takes on our careers. She acknowledges that women have a harder…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success09 - Let Them Be Wrong About You
Cindy Esliger addresses how we all share responsibility for how we are treated and why worrying about the opinions of others is wasted energy. She acknowledges…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success08 - Create Space to Succeed
Cindy Esliger discusses the subject of boundaries, both personal and professional, in this episode. She introduces the idea that boundaries are not limiting…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success07 - Embrace the Difference
Cindy Esliger addresses differences and how differences are what make us stand out from the crowd. When we try too hard to fit in and hide our quirks and…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success06 - The Meritocracy Myth
Cindy Esliger directly addresses the myth about the workplace being a meritocracy in this episode. Specifically for women, the key to achieving promotions…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success05 - Everything is a Negotiation
In this episode, Cindy Esliger explores the art of negotiation and how so much of our daily lives involves negotiation, sometimes before we even realize it’s…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success04 - Achieving Extraordinary Success
In this episode, Cindy Esliger addresses the thinking and fear holding us back from achieving the extraordinary success we want in life. She breaks down what…
Stop Sabotaging Your Success03 - Let Them Be Who They Are
In this episode, Cindy Esliger discusses how to let go of the emotional reactions we tie to our expectations of other people. She introduces four tips on how…