Best Jill Avey Podcasts (2024)

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37: Rising Up & Creating More Gender Balance in Male-Dominated Industries with Sumi Singh of Microsoft 26:03

15h ago26:03

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How can we change the gender balance in traditionally male dominated fields? The tech industry is one that's been known to be male dominated. I have a lot of clients in the tech industry, and some of them feel very daunted by this problem, often wondering if they'll ever get a chance to get the recognition they deserve. So I'm so excited to have th…

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36: How Leaders Network Without Being a “Taker” 14:16

8d ago14:16

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Mid-career women often have an allergic reaction to how to build their network. They don't want to feel cheesy, sleazy, or like they're only out for themselves. They've seen others doing this and they don't want to be perceived in the same way. But the problem with this is it holds them back in their careers because your network is more important t…

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35: Handling Challenges as a Leader Without Getting Caught Up in Mind Drama with Wendy 30:40

15d ago30:40

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You’ve likely heard the saying, “you can’t control the situation, but you can control how you react to the situation.” That can be easier said than done, but that’s exactly the skill great leaders are able to develop. Our client, Wendy, was initially a little resistant to the mindset work, but when she was laid off from a role she didn’t enjoy, she…

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34: How to Find a Mentor as a Leader and Be a Great Mentee 21:17

22d ago21:17

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Every leader with an eye on a senior role needs to understand how to find a mentor. When you seek out the right mentors, they become an advantage that will help you rise into senior leadership roles more quickly and easily. In this episode, Jill and SisterSmart Career Success Coach, Sarah, share how to determine what you want to get out of a mentor…

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33: How to Design a Personal Board of Directors That Will Help You Rise into Senior Management 16:42

29d ago16:42

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Everyone's heard the phrase, your network is your net worth. Then why do so few mid-career women have the robust network that will get them into senior management? According to McKinsey, even female CEOs have networks that are several times smaller than their male colleagues and the numbers get even worse the farther down the ladder you go. So if m…

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32: How to Prepare Yourself for Failure and Build Your Resiliency as a Leader with Jessica Bacal 27:30

1M ago27:30

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What happens when you have a failure? Like when you make a mistake at work — big or small — or you get rejected for something that you thought was a sure thing. It’s tempting to hide away or play small after a failure has happened. Sometimes people let it derail them or even end their career. But what happens when you use failure to propel you forw…

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31: How Senior Leaders Bounce Back From Failure 13:45

2M ago13:45

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Are you afraid of taking risks because you don’t know how to bounce back from failure? You’re likely nervous that if you fail, you’ll be “marked” forever or side-tracked for a promotion because of it. This is a common fear that women can hold, and for good reason. Women are criticized for not taking enough risks and being held back from further suc…

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30: Three Mental Challenges that Are Holding You Back from a Senior Leadership Role 21:52

2M ago21:52

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Your mental skills are likely what’s holding you back from being a senior leader. Our inner emotional life is like a governor for our success, and we need to work through our mindset limitations to avoid getting stuck behind outdated ways of thinking. Our growth gets stunted and our potential gets cut off unless we work to expand our mindset into n…

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29: How Nadia is Designing a Path to Executive Leadership With Work-Life Balance Built in 42:09

2M ago42:09

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Senior and executive leadership roles bring more responsibility, but that doesn’t have to mean taking on more work and sacrificing your personal time or well-being in the process. In fact, prioritizing work-life balance and self-care becomes more critical as you rise through the ranks because you need the capacity to navigate more challenging situa…

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28: How Getting Comfortable with Failing Will Get You Into Senior Leadership Roles 16:07

2M ago16:07

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You need to get comfortable with failure to be a successful leader and rise into more senior roles. We all make mistakes and we all have failures, even big ones. Women often take failures hard and it can be debilitating and even derail your career if you don't recover effectively from it. In this episode, you’ll understand why you need to be failin…

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27: How to Find the Right Support at Every Level to Become a Senior Leader with VP Chumi Khurana 29:47

3M ago29:47

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As women, we easily fall into the mentality of “we have to do it all.” But we can’t rise up without the right support. (Or if you somehow muster up the determination to do so, you’ll end up burned out and unsatisfied pretty quickly juggling all those responsibilities). In this episode, Chumi Khurana, vice president of sales and marketing at J& J On…

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26: What to Do When You Don't Feel Like You've Earned a Promotion (But Want One or Got One) 19:26

3M ago19:26

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Whether you received your promotion recently or you want one in the next few months, have you ever felt like you didn't really deserve it? This is a common feeling that leaders have, While men certainly feel this way at times, the problem tends to be bigger for women and underrepresented groups because this feeling of being an imposter can come fro…

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25: Why Women Have More Fear of Making Mistakes at Work and How it Affects Your Leadership Abilities 12:57

3M ago12:57

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Do you ever feel like all the eyes are on you and you have more and more fear of making mistakes as a leader and pressure to work harder? The higher you go, the higher this pressure becomes, especially for women due to gender bias and socialization. Many leaders in this situation just work harder and harder, without it ever feeling like enough. Thi…

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24: How to Develop the Skillset to Navigate Any Career Setback and Turn it Into Opportunity with Sally 36:35

5M ago36:35

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As ambitious leaders rising up in our careers, it’s inevitable to encounter career setbacks along the way. Sometimes you have to restart your career because you had kids or you moved to another country. Or maybe you've done everything right and that promotion you were looking for doesn't pan out or you get laid off right on your way up the ladder. …

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23: How to Create More Psychological Safety at Work 15:38

5M ago15:38

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An employee is only as good as their team. There have been studies that show this. So why is the team dynamic so important? No one gets to the top alone. Even in roles that might seem like they're solo endeavors like sales. We feed off one another and we have a human need to belong to a larger group. And when these interpersonal dynamics are missin…

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22: The Neuroscience Needed to Create a High-Performance Environment 16:00

5M ago16:00

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If you want to improve your ability to create stronger relationships, not only with your team but also with your peers and senior leaders, you're going to want to listen to this episode because we are going to let you in on the secret to how your physiology could actually be holding you back from being the best that you can be. In this episode, Sis…

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21: 8 Conversation Skills for Work 17:16

6M ago17:16

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Understanding how to develop your conversation skills for work is one of the skills that will allow you to confidently navigate any situation you encounter as a leader. So many conversations don't go anywhere or worse — they create a negative situation between two people or different factions. These types of situations are exactly what can get your…

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20: Why SMART Goals Don't Work for Women & How to Set Goals Better (with Lisa) 26:52

6M ago26:52

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Setting SMART goals can lead you to feel like you’re on a “goal treadmill.” Set a goal. Check it off. Set another one. Repeat. This usually results in goals that are good for the company, but not necessarily good for you. Many women we’ve talked to who set SMART goals share they end up feeling unfulfilled and not in alignment with their purpose. In…

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19: Resolving the Unpaid Labor of Women at Work Through an Intersectional Lens with Moriah Johnson and Ashley Ridder 55:28

6M ago55:28

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It's been proven that companies prosper more when diversity increases and we improve gender balance. Yet the workplace is the same experience for all women. In fact, white women are at a distinct advantage in terms of promotions, pay, and dealing with microaggressions. When we can understand how our experience is similar and different from women of…

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18: How to Say No At Work Without Making Enemies with Sandy Reynolds 34:04

6M ago34:04

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It can feel difficult to set boundaries with your coworkers, but learning how to say no at work without making enemies is the very thing that will make you more successful — not saying “yes” to everything. When you set boundaries at work, the way you spend your time, your money, your energy will all become in line with what you really want and you’…

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17: How to Develop Your Career Plan 13:54

7M ago13:54

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If you're like most people, you've taken career opportunities as they've come rather than intentionally thought about how to develop your career plan to get you where you want to go and what you'll need to get there before setting your goals. When you simply take opportunities as they come, you can end up in a place that you never wanted to be by t…

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16: How to Stop Working Too Much 16:45

7M ago16:45

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For most women leaders, learning how to stop working too much is one of the most difficult tasks they face in their career. There are social and psychological reasons that you stay stuck in a busyness trap unless you understand these influences and create a plan about how to work through them. If you've ever struggled with feeling like you have too…

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15: How to Recover from Work Burnout with Jenny 42:26

7M ago42:26

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When you’re feeling burned out at work, the initial thought tends to be, “If only the company would change their behavior, then I could change my own behavior.” But recovering from work burnout is an inside job. SisterSmart client, Jenny, found herself completely burned out, so when she eventually got a new dream job, she wanted to approach it diff…

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14: Taking on More Responsibility at Work Won’t Get You Promoted 16:08

7M ago16:08

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It seems like every woman we talk to is taking on more responsibility at work and working harder and harder in hopes of getting a promotion. They keep their head down and wait for their work to speak for them, except this isn't how it works. This only leads you to burnout. If you're tired of doing more and more and not getting the promotion you're …

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13: 4 C’s of Rising to the Top of Your Career with One of Fortune's Most Powerful Women, Beth DiPaolo 29:46

8M ago29:46

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Very few people reach the highest positions in their career, and even fewer women achieve that feat. But Beth DiPaolo, one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women and the Women Business Leaders in Healthcare, has risen all the way to serve on the Group Operating Council as the Global Head of the Professional Scientific Services, Eurofins, a leader in test…

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12: Five Qualities of Executive Presence 16:06

8M ago16:06

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How can you tell if you possess the qualities of executive presence? If you have ever felt like your ideas aren't being taken seriously or that you aren't being heard when you speak up in meetings, you might be lacking executive presence. Executive presence is all about having influence — it’s that something special about you that tells people that…

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11: Preparing for a Promotion When You Don’t Feel Quite Ready with Nicolle 27:54

9M ago27:54

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If you’re overwhelmed or burned out in your current role, you might not feel ready to go for a promotion. This is what our client Nicolle was experiencing before she started working with us. She wasn’t sure if she was ready for the next level up and was feeling anxious and burnt out as she tried to prepare herself for a promotion. In this episode, …

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10: What is Executive Presence And How it Differs for Women 17:27

9M ago17:27

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Most women don't fully know what executive presence is and how they need to develop it to advance in their careers. And since it's hard to explain, managers can have a challenging time helping them to understand what it is and specifically what they need to change. Women also don't fit into traditional male leadership models, so it can be hard …

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9: How Women Need to Lead Differently (And Why We Need to Stop Acting Like Men to Earn Promotions) with Mary Shapiro 45:20

9M ago45:20

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If you're a female leader in the corporate world, you have undoubtedly noticed that things are different for you than they seem to be for men — it's not your imagination. There's social science that explains how we got here and how we can move forward into a new future. Mary Shapiro, a Fellow at Simmons Institute for Inclusive Leadership, is a lead…

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8: Uncovering Your Inner Desires to Find Your Dream Job with Charissa 23:30

10M ago23:30

23:30

How do you know if you should stay at your current job and try to work things out when things aren't quite working the way you want them to, or whether it's time to move on to another role? This is the exact same question that our client Charissa was facing when she joined the Sisters in Leadership Program. Tune in to hear how Charissa gained the c…

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7: The Research-Backed Tools That Will Help You Know Your Genius 15:02

10M ago15:02

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Leadership experts like me will tell you that one of the most important skills as you rise up into senior leadership is self-awareness. Yet, how much time have you actually spent getting to know yourself? For most of us, we really haven’t spent that much time. If we want to play to our strengths, we have to get to know ourselves better than we do n…

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6: Stop Trying to Turn Your Career Weaknesses Into Strengths 20:05

10M ago20:05

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“Turn your career weaknesses into strengths,” is common advice you can find when you’re trying to move up in your career. But it’s that very advice to focus on your career weaknesses — rather than your strengths — that keeps many women stuck in their careers, unable to earn that next-level title (and the salary to go with it). Here, Jill and Sara, …

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5: How Your Lack of Confidence At Work is Blocking Your Career Growth 13:26

10M ago13:26

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If you’ve ever felt a lack of confidence at work, you’ve likely come across the advice, “fake it ‘til you make it.” That hasn't worked for you, has it? That's because, for many women leaders, confidence doesn't work that way. Women want to feel confident first from the inside before they can show it on the outside. So that advice that usually works…

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4: How to Gain Influence as a Leader in a New Department with Monica 34:30

11M ago34:30

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How do you get established in a new department at your company? Meet Monica, a client of the Sisters in Leadership program who works for a large pharmaceutical company and transitioned to a new department. She shares how she’s been able to quickly gain recognition, establish relationships, and gain influence in a brand-new department so she can be …

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3: 7 Steps For How To Get Promoted From Director to Vice President 13:35

11M ago13:35

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Do you feel like you have all the right skills to lead at a higher level, but you don't know what's missing for how to get promoted from director to vice president? Working with hundreds of clients, Jill has identified seven steps as the missing pieces that are keeping women stuck in the leadership pipeline, which she shares in this episode. You’ll…

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2: How To Deal With Not Getting Promoted 23:17

11M ago23:17

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It can be demoralizing when you’re not getting promoted when you feel like you’ve earned it. When you asked for a promotion, they say, “You're great at what you do. Why would you want to do something else?” “Oh, you don't have enough executive presence.” We don't have the budget for that.” Or, “If I promoted you, I would have to promote everyone el…

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1: “Why Am I Not Getting Promoted At Work?" Why it Took Me 10 Years to go from Director to VP 17:11

11M ago17:11

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Do you find yourself asking, “Why am I not getting promoted at work?” even though you’re a valuable leader? It took Jill Avey ten years of trial and error to finally get promoted from director to VP in her career. Years later, Jill is now a career success coach, and she now understands exactly what was holding her back and helps women make that mov…

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Join Us to Advance Women's Leadership by Using Our Feminine Energy Our Biggest Advantage 1:05

12M ago1:05

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Are you a woman in leadership who is tired of feeling stuck in your career? Like your work isn’t getting the recognition it deserves? Like your voice doesn’t have the influence it needs to contribute to better solutions? Like no matter what you do, you can’t get promoted? While these challenges don’t discriminate against gender, women need differen…

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