The Art of Speaking Up

Are you self-conscious about the sound of your own voice? Do you hesitate to speak up for fear that you won't sound confident?   If you struggle to accept the sound of your voice, then today's episode is for you. Today I'm speaking with Tracy Goodwin, voice coach and owner of Captivate the Room. Tracy has dedicated her career to helping people connect with their authentic voices.  In addition to w...

Have you ever felt uncertain about your career path, wondering whether you're moving in the right direction and whether you are where you are supposed to be professionally?   It’s easy to get swept up in the uncertainty of not knowing exactly where we want to go professionally, and this uncertainty can transform enjoyment of our own careers into a sense of dread and anxiety.   But all it takes is...

Do you ever find yourself being excessively nice or getting addicted to people pleasing in the workplace? If you answered yes, you are not alone. So many women struggle with adopting niceness and people please as a front to cover up and conceal our true feelings, opinions, and emotions. And this is an unfortunate thing, because when we conceal what we want to say and who we are, we can't bring our...

We're all trying to be more confident at work, which is why I love talking with women who exude an authentic sense of confidence and who fully embrace themselves and who they are. Today's guest, Trina Martin, has built an impressive career in STEM and in the Navy, pursuing her dreams and reaching her goals without a support system. In today's conversation I talk with Trina all about her key learni...

Have you ever found yourself feeling confused at work, having no idea what the people around you are saying? Does this make you feel uneasy or anxious? If so, this episode is for you.   It's actually totally normal not to know what is going on - and this episode will explain exactly why.   To get in touch, come find me at @theartofspeakingup on Instagram!

If you discovered that you only had a decade left in your career, how might you begin to show up differently?   Perhaps you’d begin to speak up more at work, or set more ambitious career goals.  Or maybe you’d simply allow yourself to have more fun, take more risks, and be more adventurous.   Today’s guest had a moment in her career where a scary health diagnosis lead her to ask herself a scary qu...

If you've ever wondered, "how do I uncover my strengths?" then today's episode is for you! If you only ever focus on one thing in your career, let it be your strengths.   Your strengths will get you farther than anything else, because they are truly the place where your natural born gifts intersect with your joy.  Once you learn what they are and begin to unleash them across your career, everythin...

In this week's bonus episode, Geeta explains why visualization works from a scientific perspective, and explains how we can use visualization to build confidence and speak up at work.  

When things get tough at work, we have a tendency to blame ourselves.  We may wonder whether we lack the talent to do things properly, or whether the struggle we’re running into is a result of our own lack of talent or intellect.   And unfortunately, when we go down this line of thinking, it can make these tough situations even tougher.  When we begin stressing about our own capabilities and tying...

I loved this week’s conversation with Asari so much.  Asari is an attorney who opens up about how she’s built a successful career and remained authentic to her true personality at the same time.      We talk about how mentorships and professional relationships are often at the core of a successful career, but more importantly, Asari explains why you don’t have to be super extraverted or even 100%...

I know very few women who don’t struggle with saying ‘no’ – especially in a professional environment.  It’s often instinctual for us to want to say and do the right thing so that we can preserve our reputations, do good work, and make the people around us happy.   But when does the tendency to always say yes bring us farther away from our goals?  The more we say yes on autopilot, the more we risk...

Self-confidence can be one of the most important, and also one of the most elusive feelings that we pursue in our lives and our careers.  We all want to feel strong, powerful, and at ease each day in our jobs.  We’ve tried the power poses and the tips and tricks around building confidence, and while these confidence hacks might give us a temporary boost, we are often left back at square one, feeli...

Life can be hard, and it’s nearly impossible for our careers not to feel the strain of the challenges that so often arise in our personal lives.   But the amazing thing is – we can choose how we want to move through personal challenges that impact our careers, and we can decide to focus our energy and efforts on finding professional success and fulfillment despite our struggles.   And if you want...

If I had to boil women’s empowerment down to just one thing, it would be mindset.  In my view, mindset is the swiss army knife of any career challenge – because when your mindset is right, you can find the solution to virtually any problem.   Today’s guest, Tasha Thomas, talks all about how mindset how propelled her through her career, starting out as an intern and now propelling her to the leader...

In today’s BONUS episode, I talk about why it is perfectly OK not to be the loudest, boldest, or most talkative person in the room.  In fact - your introversion can serve you well in the workplace - you just need to learn to harness it! In this episode, I explain how to begin tapping into your unique introvert superpowers.

This week I chat with Nicole Martins all about her career journey in the legal field.  Nicole opens up about how some of her personal struggles impacted the course of her career, and we talk about how she remained strong and focused throughout her professional journey, even as she encountered major roadblocks and barriers.   You’ll also hear us talk about:   How to manage personal challenges that...

Join the facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/theartofspeakingup/   This week’s episode is a solo episode, where I explore the emergence of my inner critic both in my career and in my creation of this very podcast.   As part of this exploration, I unpack the ways in which internalized misogyny has hardened my inner critic and caused me to direct a very viscous kind of hatred inwards, to...

This week I chatted with Regina Romeo about her career in HR and everything she’s learned along the way about salary negotiation.  Regina and I talked about the mental side of negotiation in addition to the tools and tactics of salary negotiation.  In this conversation we cover:   How to prepare to negotiate salary How to collect information prior to discussing salary so that you are prepared and...

This week, I’m talking with a childhood best friend of mine and landscape architect, Alexia Friend.  In this episode, Alexia shares all about how she learned to manage her workload without sacrificing her dedication to her work and while still being a top performer at the architecture firm that she works at.  In this episode we chat about:     Pushing back against too much work Work like balance T...

This week I chatted with career coach Meg Duffy about the work she does helping women make career transitions.  Meg specializes in helping women build and grow careers in tech, and supports her clients on a practical and an emotional level as they chart the next steps in their careers.  In this conversation we hit on:   How to break down big career transitions into smaller steps How impostor syndr...

Today I’m chatting with licensed therapist, Risha London Nathan, about her work as a therapist and how she supports female clients through some of the professional challenges that they encounter.  Risha share advice and practical insights based on her years of training and experience, and in this episode we talk about:   Why it can be difficult to ask for what we need and assert boundaries How fea...

This week I chatted with Helen Foster about toxic masculinity in the workplace.  Our conversation was recorded back in September in the midst of the Brett Kavanaugh hearing, so toxic masculinity was thick in the air around us and fueled this conversation on a very important topic.    In this conversation we talk about:   What toxic male behavior in the workplace can look like How it can make us fe...

In this solo episode, I talk about why it can be so hard for us to be ourselves at work.  We often contort our personalities or expend large amounts of energy trying to be the perfect persona at work, and we blame ourselves and turn self-critical when we fail to live up to this standard.   In this episode I talk about why it’s not just okay to be and feel awkward and different at work – but why le...

This week, I talk with women’s empowerment coach Lainey Crawford about moving through feelings of shyness and letting more of yourself show at work.  Like myself, Lainey knows like what it is like to get stuck in silence and struggle to bring one’s ideas and uniqueness to the world around us.  In this episode we talk about:   How shyness and feelings of smallness can manifest in work and life Tech...

Samantha Siffring is a business coach who works with working moms who are growing their online businesses. Overwhelm and mental drama is an area she is deeply familiar with, and in this conversation, Samantha shares the tools and tactics that she uses with herself and with clients to help manage feelings of overwhelm, and to prevent overwhelm from spiraling into even deeper overwhelm and even pani...