Eating Your Cake Too Podcast

Ever been curious about the conversations that take place behind closed doors when choices about promotions are made? Maybe you’ve wondered what else you can do to ensure you are recognised for your achievements? Or, perhaps you’ve wished you had the knowledge as to how you can strategically showcase your performance? In this episode, myself and special guest Emma Miller discuss the true definitio...

Do you ever feel ignored, unheard, or unnoticed at work? Even if you want to speak up and be heard more, perhaps you’re afraid of coming across as arrogant or stepping on other people's toes. You have some great ideas about how to make things better. However, you seem to get spoken over or left behind when it comes to putting it out into the world. “How can you get noticed without being the loudes...

How do you juggle the responsibility of raising kids while making a living in a world that demands almost everything of us? Many people will tell you that having a career while raising a child is impossible. They'll tell you that you have to choose between the two; that you can't have it both ways. And no matter how hard you try, there will be times when work bleeds into your personal life and vic...

For those who have worked with me in the past (or maybe you do currently), you’ll know that I often talk about the importance of knowing who you are. The importance of being self-aware. Why? Because if we don’t know ourselves at our core; how we react under pressure, what our triggers are, our drivers, motivators, etc, then all the other stuff that we try to implement won’t have the impact we want...

Every one of us struggles with decisions at one point or another in our lives. There’s a body of research stating that we make about 30,000 decisions a day. Just in one day! But, it’s often the big things, the major decisions that can create the overwhelm and the paralysis that come when we feel stuck in what is the ‘right’ decision to make.      When we don’t stop to think about our decision...

Ever feel like you have a closet full of clothes but nothing to wear? Do you keep clothes that don’t fit anymore and think to yourself, “one day, I’ll be able to wear this again”, and it just keeps taking up space in your wardrobe?  Perhaps all of us have been there at some point in our lives. In this episode, together with Jessie Jolly –professional personal stylist, we’ll talk about all thi...

Do you have trouble saying no to people even though you know you're already stretched too thin? Do you finally work up the courage to say no only to find yourself immediately filled with guilt afterwards? In our latest podcast episode,  I share with you the importance of learning to say no as a healthy part of taking care of ourselves. I also share a piece of advice I received a few years ago...

What is a career sponsor, how can having one benefit you, and how can you get one? In today’s episode, we explore the differences between coaches, mentors, and sponsors, and we talk about how each one can benefit you - with a focus on SPONSORS! I’ll tell you all about what sponsors can do for you, why you need one, and what you can do to find one. We’ll also talk about effective ways to choose the...

What is your career game plan? How are you building your career currency so that you are setting yourself up for success and fulfillment in 2022? In this episode I talk you through the four KEY focus areas that I believe WILL help you with your career and leadership success: (1) Brand YOU (2) Relationships (3) Performance, and (4) Growth and Learning. Get out your pen and paper because in this han...

Happy New Year to you all! To start off 2022, I share a little bit about what I like to focus on at the start of each new year - SPOILER ALERT, these aren't new year's resolutions. Instead, I consider questions like “who do I want to be as a human,” and “ how am I actually contributing to a better world” at the start of this new year!  Then we dive right into today's topic - the power of rela...

Have you been wondering how to be a better leader today while also planning more effectively for tomorrow? Listen in to this amazing conversation between Claire and Shane Hatton, an expert in developing remarkable people leaders, to learn more ways to SHOW UP in your workplace and to EXCEL as a leader no matter what position in the Organisation you are in.  We talk about important topics such...

It's my birthday (sound the alarms - whhooooop!)! And to celebrate with you today, I'm going to share my TOP tips for how to improve your career based on my own personal lessons! Yep, I am stepping back, taking the time to reflect on what I've learned over the course of my career thus far AND am paying it forward to all of you listening to the podcast! Listen in to hear me share some pitfalls I've...

Are you looking for more career opportunities and wondering why your hard work isn't resulting in more chances to grow? In this episode, I talk with you about why JUST working harder, which women in particular are often conditioned to do, isn't enough to get the promotion and stretch opportunities to come our way. I talk about the culture of presenteeism and how that can contribute to this mindset...

Have you ever wondered what can make you stand out when you're applying for a new position? Are you part of the Great Resignation wave that’s affecting the working world? Today, I'm chatting with Jaime Tsimiklis, who is the Group Recruitment Manager Australia & New Zealand at Accent Group Limited, and we discuss tips and tricks to help make your resumé and cover letter one that will stand out...

Are you interested in communicating with MORE confidence? In this episode, I talk with you about how YOU can communicate with confidence like Oprah too! I begin by sharing a little about what that actually means, and what behaviours we can observe in confident communicators. From there, I then outline the traps I so often see people fall into that prevent them from coming across as confident in th...

In this episode, I describe what it looks like when we're apologising all of the time in the workplace (and in our lives), and how this behaviour can negatively impact us and cause us to miss out on career opportunities. After describing what saying SORRY all the time looks like and sharing a little about my own experiences with it, I provide listeners with five tried and true tips sure to curb th...

In this inaugural episode of the Eating Your Cake Too podcast, I share about my own personal journey that led me to the creation of the Eating Your Cake Too business and ultimately to this exciting moment of my very first podcast episode! In this episode, I talk about my childhood experiences, my early career pathway, and the more recent years that have led me to become the global career and leade...

In this episode, I talk with you about what imposter syndrome is, and I’ll dig into the four major types of imposters we find when we explore the phenomenon of imposter syndrome: (1) the perfectionist (2) the workaholic (3) the natural genius and (4) the expert. I share with you about how each type of imposter presents itself and which questions to ask yourself if you believe you might have one of...

I am Claire Seeber, global career and leadership coach, facilitator, speaker AND founder of Eating your Cake too, a business focussed on helping YOU sell yourself with more confidence and take control of your career and leadership success. In the Eating your Cake too podcast, you’ll learn something new, relevant and immediately implementable that you can go and do in your own life ensuring that yo...