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THE CAREER CATAPULT — 284 episodes

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Episode 283: Fear Masks itself as Logic For the High Achiever

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Episode 282: No One Is Coming With a Better Offer

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Episode 281: 3 Steps to Land Your Director, VP or C-Suite role in 4 months

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Episode 280: The Hidden Cost of Pressing Pause on Your Career

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Episode 279: You don't always have to "stay in your lane"

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Episode 278: 5 Office Politics Moves for Directors, VPs and SVPs

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Episode 277: 5 Truths About Building Relationships With Your C-Suite

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Episode 276: The Danger of Sloppy Thinking

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Episode 275: How to engineer a thriving career at your new company

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Episode 274: How You Create Undue Risk in Your Corporate Career

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Episode 273: Why your internal promotion to Sr Dir, VP or C-Suite will feel underwhelming

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Episode 272: The real cost of Golden Handcuffs

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Episode 271: Navigating high stakes situations with intention

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Episode 270: Conversation with Utibe Bassey - Author of "Love as a KPI"

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Episode 269: What "We Just Need the Right Role" Really Means

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Episode 268: On courage, when you already know too much

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Episode 267: One Big Mistake ONLY Senior Leaders Make

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Episode 266: Is Your Networking actually working or are you wasting time with coffee chats?

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Episode 265: Do you actually know the job you're pursuing?

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Episode 264: Does it really take all that to land the role? (Part 2 - INTERNAL PROMOTION)

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Episode 263: Does it really take all that to land the role? Part 1 (EXTERNAL PROMOTION)

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Episode 262: "Will AI Replace you?"

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Episode 261: Finish the Year Like an Executive: High-Impact Moves for Senior Leaders

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Episode 260: Fear is a terrible financial advisor

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Episode 259: Foundation of a "Catapulted" Career - Day 1 of Bootcamp

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Episode 258: Why I Rarely Recommend Books

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Episode 257: Are your best career wins (days) behind you?

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Episode 256: Is it time to revamp your wellbeing infrastructure?

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Episode 255: What Got You Hired Before, Will Get You "Runner Up" Today

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Episode 254: She onboarded her. Now, she reports to her.

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Episode 253: When Your Strength Becomes Your Ceiling

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Episode 252: From First Chair to Conductor: Transitioning into True Leadership

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Episode 251: You may not actually want a promotion, and that's OK

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Episode 250: Stop Using Company Culture as an excuse

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Episode 249: The 5 Errors Stealing Your Decision-Making Power

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Episode 248: The Illusion of Passion

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Episode 247: The Importance of Setting a Clear Vision in Life and Career

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Episode 246: The hardest level in the Corporate ladder

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Episode 245: 5 Costly Mistakes Senior Leaders Make When Negotiating Executive Compensation"

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Episode 244: Signs You're Losing Altitude in the VP Seat and How to Avoid

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Episode 243: Your Values Are Showing (and They're Not What You Think!)

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Episode 242: 7 Mistakes Costing You Your Next Skip Level Role

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Episode 241: How to Decide the Right Career Play as a VP

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Episode 240: "I Used to Succeed Without Trying too Hard. What Happened?"

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Episode 239: How a VP with under 20 years experience engineered her $1 million cash windfall, accelerating her retirement by years

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Episode 238: How to REST as a High Achiever

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Episode 237: There Is No Perfect Company: Stop Running and Start Leading!

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Episode 236: The Uncomfortable Conversation About Time - Part II (Solving the "Time" Dilemma)

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Episode 235: The uncomfortable conversation about time - Part I

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Episode 234: When The Vision Gets Blurry

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Episode 233: The Discomfort of an Unmet Goal

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Episode 232: Yes, You Can Be in Crisis and Still Reach Your Goals

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Episode 231: How Complacency can Cost you Big In Today's Highly Competitive Market

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Episode 230: Crafting the exact life you want as a Female VP, SVP or C-Suite Leader

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Episode 229: Fixing this Mindset Gap Can Change Everything!

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Episode 228: "Could I even land this same role again today?!"

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Episode 227: A snippet of our recent bootcamp convo on Executive Presence

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Episode 226: The ONLY way to land a skip level promotion to VP, SVP or C-Suite role internally or externally

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Episode 225: Avoiding The Great Burn down: How to Ignite Your Next Level Without Torching It All

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Episode 224: The Disguised Lateral: An Illusion of Progress

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Episode 223: The Tale of the Almost Exec: How High Performers Get Trapped on the Career Carousel

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Episode 222: How Our Clients are landing Sr Director, VP, SVP and C-Suite roles in 60-90 days NOW!

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Episode 221: The Power of the Right Room: How Your Environment Shapes Your Mindset, Growth, and Rapid Success

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Episode 220: The Career Bottleneck You Didn't See Coming—And How to Break Through

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Episode 219: Creating Capacity: How to Expand Yourself for More as You Approach the C-Suite

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Episode 218: 3 Powerful Steps to Boost Your Total Comp to $1 Million and Beyond in Your Corporate career

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Episode 217: Understanding various conversation styles during the interview process for Sr Director, VP or C-Suite

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Episode 216: How to deal with a "gut punch" / unforeseen crisis WITHOUT losing momentum in your career and life goals

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Episode 215: The ONE reframe to maximize your income, impact and wellbeing this year

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Episode 214: Learn the Lessons of the Past and Approach 2025 Differently in Your Corporate Career

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Episode 213: 8 Signs You Are Truly On Track For an Internal Promotion to Sr Director, VP, SVP Not Being Placated

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Episode 212: Why Your Internal Promotion to Sr Director, VP, SVP Has Been Stalled

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Episode 211: Top of my pay band, significant unvested stock, no promotion

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Episode 210: "Nature Abhors a Vacuum": How to Maximize Opportunities on Your Path to the C-Suite

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Episode 209: The reason your Big Ask is a"Big NO"

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Episode 208: On Cliff Jumping: How Perfectionism Costs Successful Leaders Their Next Big Leap

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Episode 207: Have it all or ...

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Episode 206: Which should I pursue for VP - Internal OR external promotion?

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Episode 205: The Physics of Energy Management

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Episode 204: 10 Mistakes you are making in your first 90 days on the job

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Episode 203: A snippet of our recent bootcamp convo on Mindset

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Episode 202: BHAG - The Secret to Crystal Clarity

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Episode 201: VP or VP?

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Episode 200: What happens after a big catapult?

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Episode 199: "Does she have 2 heads?"

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Episode 198: Why would a company pay anyone $500,000?

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Episode 197: 3 Hard Truths You Need To Go Beyond Director (to VP or SVP) in this Market

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Episode 196: Do you understand the unspoken expectations around promotions in your org?

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Episode 195: The biggest mistakes costing you skip level promotion to Sr Dir, VP, C-Suite in this market

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Episode 194: Dealing with Procrastination once and for all!

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Episode 193: Navigating "Up or Out" Companies

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Episode 192: Do you have a catapult career strategy?

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Episode 191: How to Cultivate Resilience in Your Career and Life

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Episode 190: The Difference between a 8-9 and a 10 in your Performance Reviews

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Episode 189: "I have just been laid off. What now?" - Replay

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Episode 188: The Importance of Emotional Healing as a C-Suite bound leader

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Episode 187: Once a Hi-Po, always a Hi-Po?

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Episode 186: What does Parkinson's law have to do with your next role?

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Episode 185: What it means to be a visionary leader

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Episode 184: Practicing Restraint as a Leader of Leaders

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Episode 183: The Fallacy of Flexibility

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Episode 182: Why You May Choose NOT to Catapult

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Episode 181: The path to C-Suite before age 60

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Episode 180: 3 invisible saboteurs in your career

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Episode 179: The reason you may be dissatisfied in your new role

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Episode 178: What industry should I work in next?

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Episode 177: Why is history repeating itself at your new company and role

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Episode 176: What it looks like to be in survival mode

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Episode 175: Do not dare land a promotion to VP, SVP C-Suite unless you do this!

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Episode 174: Why Smart, High Achieving People Procrastinate (It may not be what you think!)

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Episode 173: Be Unrecognizable in 90 days or less! - Raise your lowest standard!

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Episode 172: A snippet of our recent bootcamp convo on Burnout

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Episode 171: How to NOT accept a role just based on Comp and Title

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Episode 170: The reason you keep landing lateral roles: How to land an external skip level promotion in 90 days

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Episode 169: The costly (and hidden!) mistakes you are making in your relationship with your manager

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Episode 168: Are you caught up?

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Episode 167: 7 Subtle Signs You've Hired the Wrong VP

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Episode 166: To a First-Generation Corporate Citizen

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Episode 165: Are Performance Ratings a Thing of the Past?

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Episode 164: Redefining Success as a Leader of People

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Episode 163: How to FINALLY surpass yourself In 2024

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Episode 162: How to cut through the BS and figure out your TRUE brand within your company

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Episode 161: Interviewing & Hiring Trends to Prepare for Director, VP, SVP - Replay

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Episode 160: Your Unachieved Goals: Discipline or something else?

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Episode 159: What is a leader, really?

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Episode 158: Are you prepared to face your day?

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Episode 157: Have you been "benched"?: How your reaction to a mistake can cost you your promotion

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Episode 156: Navigating a Mid-Career Crisis

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Episode 155: Yes, you can absolutely catapult as a working parent but…

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Episode 154: "What is wrong with my team?"

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Episode 153: The Power of Discernment in Your Corporate Career

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Episode 152: The hardest level in the Corporate ladder

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Episode 151: Fortune 500 or Startup?

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Episode 150: "I have just been laid off. What now?"

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Episode 149: Why you may be miserable with your skip level VP level promotion

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Episode 148: I am done with Becoming

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Episode 147: "I always feel like somebody's watching me..."

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Episode 146: I need practice - Replay

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Episode 145: If knew I was C-Suite Bound, I would...

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Episode 144: Becoming a Master Delegator

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Episode 143: 5 Ways to Stand Out from the Crowd as 1% talent

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Episode 142: How do I truly become a confident, charismatic, and collected leader?

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Episode 141: Creating an internal brand that withstands an org restructuring

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Episode 140: Why You Felt Nothing After Your Last Promotion? Replay

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Episode 139: If ever there was a time to focus on your development...

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Episode 138: Part 2: On Staying Ready: Safeguarding Your Career

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Episode 137: Do you have a career development plan?

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Episode 136: Part 1: On Staying Ready: Knowing and Communicating What You Want

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Episode 135: Why your relationship with your manager is not working

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Episode 134: Reality vs Imagination in Leadership

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Episode 133: Interview with Utibe Bassey, VP of Customer Experience

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Episode 132: Are you devaluing your role unintentionally? Yes you have the title but...

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Episode 131: Who should pay for your development?

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Episode 130: Decision Fatigue as a Senior Leader

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Episode 129: Interviewing & Hiring Trends to Prepare for Director, VP, SVP

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Episode 128: Do you have Executive Stamina?

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Episode 127: Are You Coachable?Getting the Feedback You Really Need

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Episode 126: Do You Have Any White Space on Your Calendar?

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Episode 125: My Unpopular Take on Burnout

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Episode 124: REPLAY: Dealing with Imposter Syndrome as a Senior Leader

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Episode 123: I need practice

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Episode 122: What Are You Really Saying?

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Episode 121: From Hard Work to "Smart Work" As a Corporate Leader

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REPLAY: Episode 63: Do you have a career timer?

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Episode 119: How Are You Making Big Decisions?

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REPLAY: The #1 Brand Pitfall for Women Aspiring to Senior Leadership

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Episode 117: Is It Time to Dream a New Dream?

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Episode 116: The Power of Asking the Right Questions

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Episode 115: Motherhood & Catapulted Career : Can I have both?

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Episode 114: The Biggest Obstacle Keeping You from Your Next Major Promotion

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Episode 113: Stop Pursuing Your Goals

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Episode 112: Gap vs Gain : Celebrating How Far You've Come

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Episode 111: So you've landed the promotion to Director, now what?

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Episode 110: How to Prepare for a Powerful 2023

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Episode 109: "Should I leave my corporate career to start my own business?"

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Episode 108: Navigating Turbulent Economic Times In Your Career

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Episode 107: From Survival Mode to Thriving in Your Corporate Career

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Episode 106: When it Gets Unbearably Difficult...

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Episode 105: "I made a huge mistake at work. Now what?"

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Episode 104: "They went with someone with more industry experience..."

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Episode 103: Why Taking Time Off or Switching Companies Will Not Fix The Issue

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Episode 102: DO THIS and become UNSTOPPABLE as a Female Leader

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Episode 101: How to Get Promoted Within a Flat Org

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Episode 100: Doing the Math: How Long To Get To $500K?

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Episode 99: Replay: Making The Transition To Senior Leadership

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Episode 98: Replay: 3 Mindset Shifts to Catapult Your Career this Year

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Episode 97: Replay: Who Is Responsible For Your Company's Culture?

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Episode 96: Replay - What Kind Of Woman Gets To $500K In Total Comp?

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Episode 95: The Difference Maker For Rapid Career Success

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Episode 94: A Brief Conversation About Mindset

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Episode 93: The Story of Two Women... Which One Are You?

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Episode 92: What Kind Of Leader Are You?

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Episode 91: The Mirage of Stability - Embracing Change in Your Catapult Journey

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Episode 90: Allow It To Be Simple

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Episode 89: The Power of Executive Presentations

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Episode 88: On Cultivating Strength, Discipline & Resilience

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Episode 87: Are You Missing Your Blessing?

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Episode 86: 3 Door Opening Experiences I Have Had in my Corporate Career

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Episode 85: REPLAY: Dealing with Impostor Syndrome as a Senior Leader

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Episode 84: REPLAY: How Inertia Can Affect Your Career And Life

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Episode 83: Corporate vs Entrepreneur: Which Is Better?

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Episode 82: Women Empowerment: What Does This Even Mean?

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Episode 81: What Precisely Would You Do With More Money?

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Episode 80: Navigating Difficult Periods In Life

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Episode 79: Getting in the People Business

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Episode 78: Are You Missing The Forest For The Trees?

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Episode 77: The Bridge From Manager To Director

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Episode 76: A 2-year old's Guide To Negotiation

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Episode 75: Are Strengths Overrated?

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Episode 74: Does It Get Any Easier?

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Episode 73: Do You Follow Trends?

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Episode 72: How To Disrupt Yourself For Exponential Career And Life Success

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Episode 71: Am I Fulfilled?

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Episode 70: Replay - It is time to pick a track. Expert or Leader?

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Episode 69: The Secret To Real Transformation This Year

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Episode 68: Who Is Responsible For Your Company's Culture?

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Episode 67: Replay - Your Development to the Next Rung in Your Career

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Episode 66: Replay - Is Your Brand Hindering Your Goals

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Episode 65: Why You Felt Nothing After Your Last Promotion?

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Episode 64: Let's Try It A Different Way: A Compilation

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Episode 63: Do You Have A Career Timer?

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Episode 62: Rip This Up And Throw It Away

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Episode 61: How To Maximize The Current Climate For Catapulted Success

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Episode 60: What Kind Of Woman Gets To $500K In Total Comp?

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Episode 59: The Foundation of a Catapulted Career

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Episode 58: How To Decide When It Is Time To Move On

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Episode 57: Money Mindset When You Already Make Six Figures

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Episode 56: Who Is Making This Decision?

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Episode 55: What Happens When You Take Yet Another Lateral Role

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Episode 54: The 4-Word Question That Will Change Your Career

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Episode 53: Making The Transition To Senior Leadership

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Episode 52: How To Incorporate More Calculated Risk In Your Career

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Episode 51: Catapult Your Career Bootcamp Compilation (July 2021 Edition)

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Episode 50: What Phase Of Your Career Are You Anchored In?

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Episode 49: What Skillsets Do You Actually Need On Your Team?

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Episode 48: Are You Actually Qualified?

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Episode 47: Doing a "Health Check" on Your Corporate Career

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Episode 46: Reignite Your Career & Achieve Your Biggest Goals in 6 Months

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Episode 45: The Real Culprit for Burnout

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Episode 44: Next Level Strategies for Managing Time & Energy

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Episode 43: HOW INERTIA CAN AFFECT YOUR CAREER AND LIFE

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Episode 42: HOW FEAR SHOWS UP FOR THE HIGH PERFORMING WOMAN

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Episode 41: One CORE Skill You Need to Signal C-Level Readiness NOW

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Episode 40: Navigating "Rules" In Your Corporate Career

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Episode 39: Why don't I want to Catapult?

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Episode 37: 3 Mindset Shifts to Catapult Your Career this Year

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Episode 36: Dealing with Impostor Syndrome as a Senior Leader

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Episode 35: Purpose & Meaning in Your Corporate Career

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Episode 34: Seamlessly Transition into Your New Role as a Team Leader

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Episode 33: The #1 Brand Pitfall for Women Aspiring to Senior Leadership

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Episode 32: How do I Lead When I am Not the Expert

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Episode 31: How to Maximize Your Performance Evaluation

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Episode 30: Catapulting Your Career When You Feel Like an Outsider

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Episode 29: 4 Things You MUST Be Enriching Yourself with as You Navigate Your Corporate Career

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Episode 28: Your development to the Next Rung in Your Career

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Episode 27: Define Your Ideal Career and Life

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Episode 25: One feeling You CANNOT ignore

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Episode 24: Corporate Career as a Legacy Builder

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Episode 23: What Your Manager Isn't Telling You

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Episode 26: Prioritizing Flow & Alignment to Avoid Burnout While Climbing the Corporate Ladder with Staci Berrey

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Episode 22: Is Your Brand Hindering Your Goals

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Episode 21: Bring Yourself to The Role

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Episode 20: Leadership Your Way

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Episode 19: What level of leadership are you really in?

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Episode 18: How to stay Resilient, Accomplish your goals and Finish the year strong

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Episode 17: Untethered

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Episode 16: Do not let fear keep you stuck

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Episode 15: Time to pick a track: Expert or Leader?

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Episode 14: 3 Costly Communication Mistakes You May Be Making

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Episode 13: Life is what happens as you pursue your dreams

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Episode 12: Doing the "inner work" as a senior leader - Part 2

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Episode 11: Does it really have to take that long?

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Episode 10: Do your "inner work" for the people in your life

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Episode 09: What level of the game are you playing?

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Episode 08: Are you choosing to be where you are?

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Episode 07: Avoiding Self Sabotage

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Episode 06: It's Time to Act!

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Episode 05: An Ambitious Working Mom During COVID-19

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Episode 04:Recession-Proof Your Career

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Episode 03: Transformational Leadership During COVID-19

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Episode 02: Manage Stress While Social Distancing

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Episode 01: Maintain Executive Presence... From Home!

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Episode 0: Welcome to the Career Catapult.

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