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Do you self-cancel? How to Network Your Way Out of Invisibility
Fellow Empresses,
Do you ever feel like you're disappearing?
Maybe you've counted the number of times you were interrupted during your last meeting, and it was well into the double digits. Have you ever talked yourself out of a gig you’re totally qualified for amid some babbling shame spiral? Ageism is real. You're not imagining it.
A colleague of mine was telling me about a recent study that indicated before age 25, women had very low perceived credibility in the workplace. From the ages of 25 to 35, women were taken equally seriously in professional environments as their male counterparts, but after 35, their credibility begins to dramatically decline. This means we have 10 years. After all the study, hard work, training, and lessons learned, we have 10 years to build our careers and then we fade.
And it made me so angry because there is so much more that women can do beyond the age of 35. Just LOOK at THE WORLD. Look at Michelle Obama, Oprah, Michelle Yeoh, Martha Stewart, Naomi Watts, Judy Greer, Reese Witherspoon, Drew Barrymore, Kara Goldin, Serena Williams, and whole empires... The average age of female CEOs is 54. By then, you’ve seen every scenario, you genuinely know how to get stuff done, and you bring zero drama to the table.
But one of the things that can happen with women during peri/menopause—because it’s a messy, confusing, liminal phase—is a genuine crisis of confidence whereby... we cancel ourselves.
Sometimes the best way to SHIFT that narrative of feeling invisible is to forge new, meaningful connections. My own Career Development Coach, Andrea Macek, who led me toward starting THE EMPRESS is offering a masterclass in networking to do just that.
Whether you’re feeling like you’ve disappeared, you’re in a career pivot, or you’ve actually been laid off, working with Andrea can help rewrite your future story by giving you the right tools & scripts to feel SEEN & HEARD again. The thing I like most about coaching is that it’s HIGHLY actionable AND unlike therapy tax-deductible. (And I love how she told me, “Remember, my job is to ‘un-f*ck’ your brain when it comes to work,” which is SO what I needed when I hit perimenopause.)
There are still some slots left in her $99 masterclass on April 14th!
Remember, an Empress never self-cancels. Huzzah!
And stay tuned for our next dispatch where we do a deep dive into some very personal care with THE EMPRESS Nookie Series. You won't want to miss it. Until next time.
Yours in Grandeur,
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