Episode 113 - You can't think straight if you never stop to think
About this episode
This episode discusses the importance of making time for reflection in order to improve decision-making and career direction, particularly for women leaders.
You can't think straight if you never stop to think You've had the same conversation with yourself more times than you can count. Not yet. When this project's done. When things quieten down. And somewhere in the middle of all the meetings and the messages and the situations only you can sort out, there are questions waiting. About your career direction, about something in your leadership that isn't sitting right, about a decision you've been avoiding and you keep not getting to them. Not because they don't matter. Because there's always something more visible, more urgent, more legible competing for the same time. This episode of Career Espresso is about what it actually costs you when thinking never gets space, and what changes when you decide to treat it as seriously as any other part of your work. What you'll discover Why busyness stops being a temporary state and starts being the permanent default Why women often feel they don't have permission to step away from visible, productive output The difference between processing your work and genuinely thinking about it What happens to your decisions, your direction, and your sense of purpose when reflection never gets room What a…
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- Episode 110 - How to stop justifying every boundary you set at work
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