Twenty years after Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office changed the conversation about women in the workplace, the mistakes it exposes are still happening, but now in new settings, with higher stakes, and sometimes in subtler forms than ever before.

In this episode, Melody sits down with Dr. Lois Frankel, the bestselling author behind the Nice Girls series, to talk about what has (and hasn't) changed for ambitious women navigating today's corporate landscape.

You’ll Discover:

• The specific seating choice most women make in meetings that suggests they don't belong at the table before they've even said a word
• What to say when someone takes your idea and presents it as their own
• A two-step approach for shutting down gaslighting colleagues

About Dr. Lois Frankel

She is the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling business bible for women, Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office. Other books in the "nice girls" series include Nice Girls Don’t Get Rich, Nice Girls Just Don’t Get It and an audiobook, Nice Girls Don’t Speak Up or Stand Out. She has appeared on the Today Show and Larry King Live and has been interviewed in the Wall Street Journal, People magazine, Cosmopolitan, and other print media. Her client list includes Amgen, ARCO, BP, Goldman Sachs, Lockheed Martin, McKinsey & Co., Cedars Sinai Medical Center, and The Walt Disney Company. https://drloisfrankel.com/

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What if the thing standing between you and the career and leadership impact you want isn't strategy, skill, or hustle…but hope? In this episode, Melody sits down with Jen Fisher, former Chief Wellbeing Officer at Deloitte and author of Hope is The Strategy. Jen shares the science of hope as a performance skill – one that the research shows directly predicts goal achievement, drives higher performance, builds stronger teams, and creates the kind of leadership presence that people genuinely want to follow.

You’ll Discover:

• The sneaky ways hopelessness creeps into high-performing teams (and why most leaders miss it until it's too late)
• What Jen did with her team during a major corporate restructuring that kept them connected, motivated, and growing with almost no resources
• The one question that trains your brain to find possibility instead of defaulting to threat and catastrophe
• The three most powerful words you as a leader can say right now to instantly build and disarm skeptics

About Jen Fisher

Jen Fisher is a global authority on workplace wellbeing, the bestselling author of Work Better Together, and the founder and CEO of The Wellbeing Team. As Deloitte US's first chief wellbeing officer, she pioneered a groundbreaking, human-centered approach to work that gained international recognition and reshaped how organizations view wellbeing. https://www.jen-fisher.com/

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How do you deal with uncertainty at a time when our careers and work have never felt less certain? Melody sits down with journalist Simone Stolzoff to talk about his brand new book How to Not Know and how to stop letting anxiety about the unknown dictate your decisions.

You’ll Discover:

• The #1 reason your tolerance for uncertainty is getting worse (and it has nothing to do with stress or your job)
• How to identify which of three “certainty traps” is holding you back from career opportunities
• The surprising thing smart people do that makes professional uncertainty so much worse
• One question that cuts through analysis paralysis faster than any pro/con list ever will

About Simone

Simone Stolzoff is a journalist and author from San Francisco. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and on the TED stage. His debut book, The Good Enough Job, was translated into over a dozen languages. https://simonestolzoff.com/

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Connect with Melody:

1. FREE NEWSLETTER: Psychology at Work Weekly
2. Get on the Waitlist for Speak Like a Senior Leader™
3. Get on the Waitlist for Lead from Within
4. Get Melody's new book, Managing Up