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How do I ask my boss for a race?

I'm so jealous of my co-workers' promotion. I just don't know what to do.

Is there a good way to brag about my accomplishments? You know, without sounding like a complete jerk?

Careers are complicated and there are so many hush hush topics we're told we can't talk about.

That's why you have the Career Contessa podcast, a weekly advice show that takes your workplace

dilemmas and offers you a better way forward. I'm your host, Lauren McGudwan, and each week

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welcome to press send. I'm Chanel Exander and this is the podcast that we talk to all of your

problems and I give you my best advice. So today, we're kind of shortening up the episode,

so just one topic from here on out, but I am going to be giving you guys a little bit more of a

life update on the front of the shows. So you'll be hearing like a little bit more about like

my personal stuff that we don't share on Instagram and then we'll go into the listener question.

So what's going on with me? Well, I don't know about anybody else, but with the state of the world,

it feels like I don't know what to do. I feel like I'm in some really weird place between

I am so empathetic and I want to help and I want to be involved and I feel like knowing

what's going on is in some way helping and then I also feel like my brain is being turned into

some sort of weird jelly texture from the amount I am checking the news. Obviously, you know,

I'm just so impressed by the people and President and just the world support of Ukraine,

but it's just it's really hard to watch and if you're any of you are feeling really depleted

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