Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer

Ep #201: 2 Truths and a Lie About Executive-Level Promotions Which one of these statements is a lie? To get an executive-level promotion, you should focus your energy on: 1. Owning that you are an executive leader already, 2. Becoming an amazing subject matter expert, 3. Being more visible to the leadership team. These questions come from a game of ‘2 Truths and a Lie’ that I played recently durin...

Ep #200: Celebrating My Nonlinear Career Path Welcome to the 200th episode of Women Changing Leadership!!!! 🥳🎉🎉🎉 In celebration of this major milestone, I want to talk about the power of nonlinear career paths. I want to celebrate and share my own nonlinear career path from working as an improv performer in New York City to becoming a Promotion Strategist, Executive Coach and podcast host help...

Ep #199: Build Your Wealth with Tess Waresmith You’re probably going to be doing fine financially when you retire, right? But…what possibilities would open up for you if you were expanding your wealth outside of work? How would this change your ability to retire early, leave a toxic job, take a break from the workforce, or spend more time with your kids? Sounds good, right? I’ve invited Tess Wares...

Ep #198: The Secret to Career Happiness Big, exciting changes in your career can bring a whole bunch of happiness into your life… temporarily . You’ve experienced this cycle before. Over time, we go from being incredibly happy about a new role, a new organization, a new team…only for the work to eventually feel like, well… work. Here’s the problem: Working for an organization is never going to be...

Ep #197: How to Create More Meaning in Your Career Let’s be real. Even when we’re showing up as our most strategic, powerful, corporate badass selves…our work can still feel a little empty sometimes, right? I’ve had women come to one of my coaching calls in tears because they just realized they’ve  spent years pouring their heart and soul into a career they didn’t love…only to be completely thrivi...

Ep #196: Your Next Promotion is NOT About You Recently, a lot of corporate women leaders have been telling me that they’re tired of pushing so hard for their next promotion. And my question to them was: Why? Why wouldn’t they want to keep going? Why wouldn’t they want to do hard things ? And then I realized the reason: They think their next promotion is all about them .  But when you can let go of...

Ep #195: How 4 Corporate Badasses Created Magical Promotions As part of 2023’s Summer of Magic, I’ve been on a mission to celebrate 108 corporate badass women leaders both inside my community – and out – who used their career magic to make big promotions happen for themselves this summer. That same career magic is available to YOU. And I’ve brought together 4 amazing leaders to show you how to use...

Ep #194: Advancing Your Career through Community with Cate Luzio Being in community with supportive people you admire is part of the foundation you need to reach and thrive at the executive level. So if you’re ready to invest more into your relationships at your organization (and beyond), you’re going to love this conversation with Cate Luzio. Cate is the Founder and CEO of Luminary, a global memb...

Ep #193: Transitioning into Executive Leadership Outside Your Subject Matter Expertise There’s a super simple and easy way you can switch to a whole new department, industry, or area of expertise while still advancing to the executive suite and without “starting over” or being overqualified and underpaid. It’s called thinking and communicating like an executive leader. In this episode of Women Cha...

Ep #192: My 3-Step Process to Go From ‘I'm Done’ to “I Have Possibilities” The corporate world can be a bunch of Bulls&^%t . Even today, women are often stuck in lower to mid-level leadership roles while the executive suite is still mostly run by men. So after years of trying to break into higher levels of leadership and feeling resistance just because you don’t look, act, or think like t...

Ep #191: Career Magic, Part 3: Curiosity If you ask any of the women I work with: ‘ What got you to the level of success you're at today? ’ The main thread running through all their answers would be: Curiosity . It’s tempting to throw up your hands in frustration when there appears to be an immovable obstacle between you and your next promotion. But this is where your curiosity comes in. Beca...

Ep #190: Dealing with Grief at Work with Krista St-Germain What do you do when a leader or a team member at your organization is personally experiencing grief? And how do you hold space for your own grief while continuing to be the corporate badass that you are? These are important conversations that all leaders need to be prepared to have. So if you’ve ever struggled to find the right words or ta...

Ep #189: Career Magic, Part 2: Belonging When you don’t look, think, talk and act like the rest of the room, it’s easy to feel like you’re on the outside looking in. So what do we do? We hope that our organization will create that sense of belonging for us, or we look for other organizations where we might fit in better. But this is an incredibly passive approach to your career. Here’s what corpor...

Ep #188: Career Magic, Part 1: Setting Intentions If you’re setting intentions for your career and not actually getting the results you want, it’s time to tap into your ✨ magic . ✨ Welcome to Career Magic ! This is Part 1 of a 3-part series where I break down the three ways you can begin to use your unique career magic on purpose to create incredible results for yourself. In this episode of Wome...

Ep #187: Being Unapologetically Visible with Bibigi Haile If being visible at work or online feels scary to you – I get it. Openly sharing your ideas with your boss, the executive team, or even on your LinkedIn profile can feel like you’re deliberately putting yourself in the crosshairs of people who want to ‘ put you in your place .’ It can even cause you to be sent to the Human Resources office...

Ep #186: Tap into Your Leadership Magic to Create Unimaginable Career Results Have you experienced 🔮 magical results ✨ in your career and life? I have. There are times when I have created life-changing, seemingly-out-of-nowhere opportunities for myself – as if by magic. And…I’ve also spent about 90% of my life trying to recreate those magical moments and failing . But I’ve doubled down on my mag...

Ep #185: Building Allies at Work NEVER Gets Easier (and That's a Good Thing) Most of the steps inside my executive promotion process will literally transform who you are as a person. You learn the steps I teach, you implement them for a while, and within a short period of time, you are effortlessly thinking, communicating, and operating at an entirely different level of leadership. But there...

Ep #184: How to Deal with a Less-Obvious Toxic Boss When we talk about toxic bosses, we often imagine someone who is aggressive, dismissive, childish, or openly rude. But the toxic bosses I’m talking about in this episode are way more insidious and absolutely deadly when it comes to your career. They’re likely sliding under your radar because they’re not overt assholes and they probably aren’t bei...

Ep #183: Eradicating the BS that Plagues the Corporate Workplace with Erin Hatzikostas There is a lot of BS lurking around every single corner of your workplace. BS like: thinking you need to hustle yourself into an early grave or treating the executive team like they’re high up on a golden throne instead of seeing them as peers you can start building relationships with. The truth is, you have eve...

Ep #182: Should You Stay at Your Company or Should You Go? If you’ve listened to this podcast for some time, you’ve probably gotten clearer and clearer on what it’s actually going to take for you to build a career you love. But what’s probably a lot less clear is whether or not you can build that big, beautiful career at your current organization. So is it best to jump ship or to stay put? In this...

Ep #181: The Feminine Way to Become a Corporate Athlete A lot of the concepts and action items we traditionally associate with becoming a corporate athlete are rooted in masculine ideals around leadership and high-performance. Many of the male leaders I’ve spoken with over the years describe their secrets to success as doing more . More meetings, more work, more highly productive morning routines....

Ep #180: Break the Burnout Cycle and Rediscover Your Greatness with Christy Rutherford I will never teach you how to hustle your way to the executive suite. Look at it this way: If you focus solely on getting your next promotion – without taking care of yourself in all aspects of your life – you are going to arrive at the leadership table already burnt out and unable to make the impact you always...

Ep #179: The Corporate Badass Way of Setting Boundaries at Work We’ve all had those frustrating moments in our lives where we thought: “If I could just get better at setting boundaries, everything would be so much easier!” But here’s the truth: You are so much better at setting boundaries than you think you are. But thinking you’re terrible at setting boundaries is just one of the ways that you’re...

Ep #178: My Leadership Mission to Give Agency to All Women in Corporate The vast majority of corporate women don’t have any agency at work because the corporate structure was literally set up to prevent us from having it. So if you feel like a corporate badass, yet you’re waiting for your next performance review to get promoted, you don’t have enough agency. Or if you’re worried to death about bei...

Ep #177: The Anger Episode with Angela Han Anger is a dirty word in the corporate world, especially for women. You’ve probably experienced this firsthand. You showed up as the corporate badass you are, you really went for the promotion…and now you’re labeled as “too aggressive” or “too angry” to get promoted. But let’s get real. Executive leaders get mad. A lot. And learning how to deal with your...