About this episode
The episode discusses the impact of microaggressions on professional women and emphasizes the importance of recognizing and responding to these experiences.
There is a word that stops rooms, shuts down conversations, and makes even the most qualified women second-guess themselves before they finish the sentence. That word is microaggression. And in this episode we are done tiptoeing around it. A microaggression is not a misunderstanding. It is not oversensitivity. It is a comment, a behavior, an action that delivers a hostile message wrapped in plausible deniability — and professional women absorb dozens of them every single year while being told their discomfort is the real problem. Today we name one specific incident, out loud, with full detail, because the more specific the story the more universal the truth inside it. My guest brings a moment she still thinks about — the thing that was said that was technically not offensive and absolutely was. We walk through what happened inside her when she heard it, what the soul work looked like in the aftermath, and how she decided what to do about it. Because here is what I want every woman listening to understand: individually, these moments are manageable. Accumulated over years, they are the reason brilliant women leave organizations that never figured out why they lost them. Your…
People in this episode
Host: Mo Faul
Guest: not specified
Topics covered
- microaggressions
- professional women
- workplace culture
- self-advocacy
- emotional impact
Keywords
- microaggression
- women in the workplace
- hostile messages
- self-awareness
- soul work
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