Alicia Menendez, THE LIKEABILITY TRAP

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🗓️ 24 December 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Alicia Menendez is an MSNBC anchor and leads the “Latina to Latina” podcast. Previously a cohost of PBS TV’s Amanpour & Co, her reporting has appeared on Bustle, ABC News, Fusion TV, PBS, and Vice News. Her book, The Likeability Trap: How to Break Free and Succeed as You Are, is the perfect pick to put at the top of your new year's reading list. Her examination of the cultural pressure often placed on women to walk a professional and personal tightrope of likeability and leadership.

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1:08.1	I'm really excited to be here today with Alicia Menendez, who is an MSNBC anchor and leads the Latina to Latina podcast.
1:12.6	Previously a co-host of PBS TV's Amunpore & Co. Her reporting has appeared on Bustle, ABC News, Fusion TV, PBS, and Vice News. Her book, The Likeability Trap,
1:18.7	How to Break Free and Succeed as You Are, is published by Harper Business. A native of Union City,
1:23.8	New Jersey, Alicia is a graduate of Harvard College. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two daughters. So welcome, Alicia. Thanks for coming on. Moms, no time to read books. Thanks for having me. We've already been chatting, so I feel like now we'll let the rest of you into this little conversation. So Alicia's book, The Likeability Trap, How to Break Free and Succeed as you are. Can you tell everybody what it's
1:45.1	about and what inspired you to write it? Yeah, I'm a person who cares a lot about being well-liked.
1:49.8	And so originally I wanted to write sort of like an eat, pray, love for likability where I would
1:55.4	do fun things like meditate and go to yoga and somehow release this care I have about what other people
2:01.8	think of me. And what I learned talking with other women is that even women who don't give a
2:07.9	damn feel that they often pay a price for being so brazenly themselves. And it shifted my focus
2:15.3	to ask why that is and what these challenges are that women contend with.
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