Stop Waiting for Permission: Ambition, Identity and Getting Heard

Rebecca Harding has spent 25 years in rooms where most people are still waiting to be invited in. She left a prestigious corporate career at 30 (against everyone's advice) built Salt Whistle from the ground up and went on to advise organisations including Deloitte, PwC, BP, and Shell on how to communicate and win. She did all of it by learning, slowly and not always easily, to stop waiting for permission.She's candid about what that looked like from the inside: the corporate culture of the early 90s that taught women their silence was their best asset, the years of running a business while raising young children and quietly losing herself in the process, and the internal voice that keeps even the most capable women measuring themselves by the gaps rather than the ground they've covered. She also gets sharp on marketing such as why most businesses are invisible not because they aren't trying, but because they've confused activity with direction.This is a conversation about what it actually takes to back yourself before anyone has given you permission to.Key Timestamps:[00:00] Failure, communication, and speaking up [02:02] Leaving corporate at 30 when everyone said don't [07:03] What she knows now at 50 that she wished she'd known at 30 [11:15] Do you actually feel successful? [14:32] The 90% problem — why capable women still undersell themselves [17:26] Identity, worth, and what you tie yourself to [20:11] Running a business with young children — what actually helps [26:41] Being assaulted at a corporate dinner — and the woman she became [30:20] How Salt Whistle helps businesses stand out in a noisy market [36:08] The most important lesson from helping businesses grow [41:10] What do you want people to say when you're not in the room?Memorable Quotes:"I was given praise for not complaining about a sexual assault at a dinner in front of other people." — Rebecca Harding"I think women are terrible at not looking at what you've done, but just looking at all the gaps in what you think you should have done." — Rebecca HardingTake the Archetype + Growth-Readiness Super Quiz to discover your Business Growth Archetype in eight minutes or less and walk away with a radar view of your company, an immediate action plan, and the insight to grow smarter and faster: https://disha-wuqmsieb.scoreapp.com/Connect with Rebecca Harding Website: https://www.saltwhistle.com Connect with us: Website: https://thetrailblazehers.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetrailblazehers/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-trailblazehers YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTrailblazeHersProduced by Evolved Podcasting: https://www.evolvedpodcasting.com