Posts in elevator pitch
Why does making an ask feel so hard?

When you want to master something, there comes a time when you recognize you've taken it as far as you can…

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Success Story: How an Ambitious High Achiever Got Her Bosses to Perceive, Promote & Pay Her As a Leader

Sometimes being too good at your job is a bad thing…

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Why Being Perfect is Bad For Your Career

Sometimes being too good at your job is a bad thing…

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Is It OK to Do Nothing About My Career During Coronavirus? (Because It's All I Want to Do)

There was never going to be a playbook. The best we can do is compare it to things we've learned from our own experience.


And at this point in our mid-careers that experience is vast & valuable.

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What Getting Fired By Wanda Sykes Taught Me About My Value at Work

I lost my first job at 27 and I’m only owning it now, 10+ years on. What taking the wrong job taught then me about undervaluing myself and how to stop doing that now.

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How to Execute Your Goals? Be A Bridezilla

What do you think about engaged couples who haven't set a date... like, for years?

Here's the story I come up with: they don't actually want to get married.

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How To Convince Your Boss To Do What You Want (Without Selling Out)

Compromising where you want to go for the sake of a sale is selling out. Getting to that same result in an unexpected way that fulfills the spirit of the law, if not the letter: that's called growth. 

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The Best Approach to Communicating Your Elevator Pitch

…there is a dawning realization that if we're going to build anything great, including a reputation, we're going to need a great network, solid sponsorship and a major part of that is nailing your elevator pitch, aka you or your unique value prop.

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