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SisterSmart Leadership
Are you a woman in leadership who is tired of feeling stuck in your career? Like your work isn’t getting the recognition it deserves? Like your voice doesn’t have the influence it needs to contribute to better solutions? Like no matter what you do, you can’t get promoted? While these challenges don’t discriminate against gender, women need different solutions to overcome them. It’s not enough for women to simply get leadership training and career advice. They need to learn how to lead with…
Episodes
- SisterSmart Leadership
66: Leadership Styles For Women With Sara
Most of us never sat down and picked a leadership style. You get the role and you grow into something.And it holds up fine for a long time. Then you get a hard…
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65: How To Get Buy-in From Your Team
Think about the last time something came back from your team technically fine but not what you wanted. You probably fixed it yourself. Most of us do. And you…
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64: How To Bring Up A Problem At Work Without Sounding Negative
Every company has a woman who says the thing out loud. She’s the one who names what isn’t working while the rest of the meeting studies the table. If that’s…
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63: Why You Keep Getting Passed Over For Promotion
You are good at your job. Nobody is arguing about that. So it stings when the promotion goes to someone else and nobody can really tell you why. You ask for…
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62: How To Stay Calm In High Pressure Meetings
People are always deciding how you handle pressure, and most of the time they never tell you what they decide. They’re going off whatever they saw the last…
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61: What Executive Presence Actually Means
Of all the feedback women get, ‘executive presence’ might be the most common and the least useful. It turns up in your review. It turns up in the conversation…
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60: How to Answer "What do you want in your career?"
One of the things women hardly ever do is own their strengths. We're taught to be humble. To not get a big head. To not be too full of ourselves. So when you…
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59: Work on Your Strengths not Your Weaknesses
Every leadership development plan starts in the same place. Here are your gaps. Now go work on them. It is the most standard advice in corporate life and…
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58: How To Stop Self Sabotaging Your Career
You’re up for the VP role. On paper you’re the obvious pick. You have the results, receipts, and a team that would follow you anywhere. And still there is a…
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57: How To Identify Your Core Values
You have two real options in front of you. The promotion and the other thing. Or the stretch role and the job you already have. And you are good at making…
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56: How To Find a Strategic Project at Work with Jen
Somebody finally tells you to go be ‘strategic’. So you sit down to pick a project, and you stare at a blank page. You are a doer. You solve problems. Nobody…
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55: 5 Pillars of Strategic Leadership How to Be Seen as Strategic at Work
Have you ever walked out of a meeting knowing you saw the whole thing coming before anyone else did? And then watched someone else walk away with the word…
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54: How to Prioritize When Everything Is a Priority and Your Boss Wants It All
How do you decide what to work on first when your manager hands you a list of ten priorities with no order and no deadlines, and every single item on that list…
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53: How Women Leaders Get Promoted From Director to VP
Do you keep doing brilliant work and getting warm reviews while the VP title goes to someone you outwork every single day? If you want to know how to get…
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52: How to Be More Strategic at Work and Get Seen as a Leader Not a Doer
How do you become more strategic at work and finally get seen as a leader instead of the best doer in the room? Strategic perspective is the single biggest…
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51: How to Know When It's Time to Leave the Job You Used to Love
Have you been at the same company for years, even decades, and suddenly the work that once excited you feels stale? You are not alone and there is a clear path…
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50: Why High Performance Wont Get You Promoted To VP with Linda
Are you a high performer who has been waiting for your hard work to speak for itself? You are not alone. Most women rise to the director level by being…
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49: The Busyness Trap That is Keeping You Stuck with Lydia
If you are a woman in leadership right now, ask yourself one honest question. When was the last time you felt like you had enough time, enough energy and…
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48: The Leadership Identity Upgrade
Have you ever hit a career level where everything you used to do to succeed suddenly stops working? The problem is not usually a skills gap. It is an identity…
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47: How to Fast Track Your Promotion to VP
Are you trying to figure out how to get promoted to VP but feel like you are missing pieces of the puzzle? This episode is the career strategy for women in…
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46: How to Overcome Being Labeled Too Bossy and Earn a High-Visibility Senior Leadership Promotion with Christel
Have you ever been told you are too direct, too strong, or too bossy -- only to find yourself shrinking down just to keep others comfortable? If so, you are…
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45: 5 Types of Invisible Work That Are Keeping Women From Getting Promoted to VP
Have you ever trained the person who got promoted over you? Or held your entire department together behind the scenes while someone else got credit for the…
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44: How Women Can Win Any Negotiation Without the Backlash
How to negotiate as a woman without getting penalized for it -- that is exactly what Columbia Business School professor and negotiations researcher Malia Mason…
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43: Meeting Yourself Where You Are
Have you ever wondered why you keep getting in your own way, even when you have the talent, the drive, and the dream? That is exactly where Krystal found…
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42: The Cost of Emotional Labor
Emotional labor at work is one of the biggest invisible barriers holding women leaders back, and most have never even named it. As women in leadership, we…
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41: How Women Can Move from Director to Vice President
How to transition from technical leader to executive leadership as a woman in 2025. Learn proven leadership development strategies for career advancement and…
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40: How to Build a Professional Network for Women Leaders
That promotion you did not get? It was probably not decided in a performance review. It was decided on a golf course, at happy hour, or in a conversation you…
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39: How to Decide: Should I stay or should I go?
Should I stay or should I go? This is a question many of my clients come to me with. You've invested years at your company, built strong relationships, and…
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38: The Likeability Trap: What’s Really Stopping Women from Getting Promoted
Have you ever been told you need to be 'warmer' in a meeting... and then told you need to be 'more assertive' in your next review? This is what researchers…
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37: Rising Up & Creating More Gender Balance in Male-Dominated Industries with Sumi Singh of Microsoft
How can we change the gender balance in traditionally male dominated fields? The tech industry is one that's been known to be male dominated. I have a lot of…
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36: How Leaders Network Without Being a “Taker”
Mid-career women often have an allergic reaction to how to build their network. They don't want to feel cheesy, sleazy, or like they're only out for…
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35: Handling Challenges as a Leader Without Getting Caught Up in Mind Drama with Wendy
You’ve likely heard the saying, “you can’t control the situation, but you can control how you react to the situation.” That can be easier said than done, but…
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34: How to Find a Mentor as a Leader and Be a Great Mentee
Every leader with an eye on a senior role needs to understand how to find a mentor. When you seek out the right mentors, they become an advantage that will…
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33: How to Design a Personal Board of Directors That Will Help You Rise into Senior Management
Everyone's heard the phrase, your network is your net worth. Then why do so few mid-career women have the robust network that will get them into senior…
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32: How to Prepare Yourself for Failure and Build Your Resiliency as a Leader with Jessica Bacal
What happens when you have a failure? Like when you make a mistake at work — big or small — or you get rejected for something that you thought was a sure…
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31: How Senior Leaders Bounce Back From Failure
Are you afraid of taking risks because you don’t know how to bounce back from failure? You’re likely nervous that if you fail, you’ll be “marked” forever or…
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30: Three Mental Challenges that Are Holding You Back from a Senior Leadership Role
Your mental skills are likely what’s holding you back from being a senior leader. Our inner emotional life is like a governor for our success, and we need to…
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29: How Nadia is Designing a Path to Executive Leadership With Work-Life Balance Built in
Senior and executive leadership roles bring more responsibility, but that doesn’t have to mean taking on more work and sacrificing your personal time or…
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28: How Getting Comfortable with Failing Will Get You Into Senior Leadership Roles
You need to get comfortable with failure to be a successful leader and rise into more senior roles. We all make mistakes and we all have failures, even big…
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27: How to Find the Right Support at Every Level to Become a Senior Leader with VP Chumi Khurana
As women, we easily fall into the mentality of “we have to do it all.” But we can’t rise up without the right support. (Or if you somehow muster up the…
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26: What to Do When You Don't Feel Like You've Earned a Promotion (But Want One or Got One)
Whether you received your promotion recently or you want one in the next few months, have you ever felt like you didn't really deserve it? This is a common…
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25: Why Women Have More Fear of Making Mistakes at Work and How it Affects Your Leadership Abilities
Do you ever feel like all the eyes are on you and you have more and more fear of making mistakes as a leader and pressure to work harder? The higher you go…
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24: How to Develop the Skillset to Navigate Any Career Setback and Turn it Into Opportunity with Sally
As ambitious leaders rising up in our careers, it’s inevitable to encounter career setbacks along the way. Sometimes you have to restart your career because…
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23: How to Create More Psychological Safety at Work
An employee is only as good as their team. There have been studies that show this. So why is the team dynamic so important? No one gets to the top alone. Even…
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22: The Neuroscience Needed to Create a High-Performance Environment
If you want to improve your ability to create stronger relationships, not only with your team but also with your peers and senior leaders, you're going to want…
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21: 8 Conversation Skills for Work
Understanding how to develop your conversation skills for work is one of the skills that will allow you to confidently navigate any situation you encounter as…
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20: Why SMART Goals Don't Work for Women & How to Set Goals Better (with Lisa)
Setting SMART goals can lead you to feel like you’re on a “goal treadmill.” Set a goal. Check it off. Set another one. Repeat. This usually results in goals…
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19: Resolving the Unpaid Labor of Women at Work Through an Intersectional Lens with Moriah Johnson and Ashley Ridder
It's been proven that companies prosper more when diversity increases and we improve gender balance. Yet the workplace is the same experience for all women. In…
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18: How to Say No At Work Without Making Enemies with Sandy Reynolds
It can feel difficult to set boundaries with your coworkers, but learning how to say no at work without making enemies is the very thing that will make you…
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17: How to Develop Your Career Plan
If you're like most people, you've taken career opportunities as they've come rather than intentionally thought about how to develop your career plan to get…
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16: How to Stop Working Too Much
For most women leaders, learning how to stop working too much is one of the most difficult tasks they face in their career. There are social and psychological…
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15: How to Recover from Work Burnout with Jenny
When you’re feeling burned out at work, the initial thought tends to be, “If only the company would change their behavior, then I could change my own…
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14: Taking on More Responsibility at Work Won’t Get You Promoted
It seems like every woman we talk to is taking on more responsibility at work and working harder and harder in hopes of getting a promotion. They keep their…
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13: 4 C’s of Rising to the Top of Your Career with One of Fortune's Most Powerful Women, Beth DiPaolo
Very few people reach the highest positions in their career, and even fewer women achieve that feat. But Beth DiPaolo, one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women and…
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12: Five Qualities of Executive Presence
How can you tell if you possess the qualities of executive presence? If you have ever felt like your ideas aren't being taken seriously or that you aren't…
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11: Preparing for a Promotion When You Don’t Feel Quite Ready with Nicolle
If you’re overwhelmed or burned out in your current role, you might not feel ready to go for a promotion. This is what our client Nicolle was experiencing…
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10: What is Executive Presence And How it Differs for Women
Most women don't fully know what executive presence is and how they need to develop it to advance in their careers. And since it's hard to explain, managers…
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9: How Women Need to Lead Differently (And Why We Need to Stop Acting Like Men to Earn Promotions) with Mary Shapiro
If you're a female leader in the corporate world, you have undoubtedly noticed that things are different for you than they seem to be for men — it's not your…
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8: Uncovering Your Inner Desires to Find Your Dream Job with Charissa
How do you know if you should stay at your current job and try to work things out when things aren't quite working the way you want them to, or whether it's…
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7: The Research-Backed Tools That Will Help You Know Your Genius
Leadership experts like me will tell you that one of the most important skills as you rise up into senior leadership is self-awareness. Yet, how much time have…