Please Advise: Stop Networking. Do This Instead.

About this episode

Suzy Welch provides career advice to listeners Erin and Parnian, emphasizing the importance of building relationships over traditional networking.

This week on Becoming You’s Please Advise series, your host Suzy Welch takes two more listener calls. Erin is a 55-year-old single mom of three, working a job in HR that's quietly hollowing her out, and she wants to know: does she stick it out until she knows exactly what to do next, or does she leave now? Suzy walks through Erin's top values and lands on a piece of advice that has nothing to do with a resume: Stop building the website, and start building the business. Then Suzy talks to Parnian, an executive and entrepreneur navigating the "messy middle" of career, marriage, and family planning all at once, who asks how women can better lean on each other to get ahead. Suzy's answer takes an unexpected turn into a new definition of resilience, and a hard line she draws for her students: Don't network, make friends. It's Suzy at her most personal, weaving in stories from her own divorce, her PhD, and a friendship that changed the entire trajectory of her career. Real questions, real answers, no scripts — Please Advise Season 1 continues. As a Becoming You podcast listener, use code PODCAST for 50% off The Values Bridge .  You are always growing and evolving and so are we…

People in this episode

Host: Suzy Welch

Guests: Erin, Parnian

Topics covered

• career advice
• networking
• resilience
• personal growth
• women in business

Keywords

• networking
• career advice
• resilience
• women empowerment
• personal values

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