Ep 438: The Lies Women Are Told At Work (And Why We Shouldn’t Believe Them)

HerMoney with Jean Chatzky

Jean Chatzky Her Money

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Very classy, very demure, very mindful…that’s how the new TikTok trend that recently went viral from creator Jools Lebron says we should be in the workplace. We should be presentable, wear minimal, clean makeup, and not take up too much space. In other words, we should be bringing a muted version of ourselves to the workplace. Bonnie Hammer, Vice Chairman of NBC Universal and author of: “15 Lies Women Are Told At Work: The Truth We Need To Succeed” has a different take. She says work doesn’t have to be the place where we leave our “fun” real selves behind, not anymore. Listen in to hear the other outdated lies Bonnie says are holding us back at work and the truths we need to succeed. Takeaways: You can embrace fun, humor, and collaboration at work and still be taken seriously. Follow the opportunities and be open to learning new skills rather than focusing on chasing one big dream. Personal worth and professional worth and not the same thing. In a professional setting, it’s important to work hard to prove yourself. Stereotypically female characteristics, such as empathy and collaboration should be seen as strengths in the workplace, not weaknesses. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 2:55 Embracing Fun and Authenticity in the Workplace 04:33 Following Opportunities Instead of Chasing Dreams 08:14 Differentiating Personal Worth and Professional Worth 13:54 Embracing Stereotypically Female Characteristics as Strengths 19:52 Supporting and Uplifting Women in the Workplace 29:54 Embracing Change and Paying It Forward 35:00 Transition to Mailbag Segment 38:00 Mailbag Question 1: Pre-retirement, should I pay off my home or put more money into an annuity? 43:00 Mailbag Question 2: I want to retire when I’m 56, do I have enough saved? Have a question for us? Write to us at [email protected]. While you’re at it, join the HerMoney community! For the latest episode drops and financial news-you-can-use, subscribe to our newsletter at Hermoney.com/subscribe! Interested in learning more about investing alongside hundreds of other women? Join us every other Monday night on Zoom and learn more at investingfixx.com. Thank you to Gainbridge® for supporting the HerMoney podcast. Gainbridge® created ParityFlex™, a multi-year guaranteed annuity, to offer women security and flexibility at a time when they need it the most—retirement. Learn more about ParityFlex™ here. The HerMoney with Jean Chatzky podcast is sponsored by Edelman Financial Engines. The podcast team and its host are neither employees nor clients of EFE, however, the show does receive fixed compensation and is a paid endorser and therefore has an incentive to endorse EFE and its planners. To learn more about the sponsorship, please visit PlanEFE.com/HerMoney. Please contact [email protected] if you would like to advertise on our podcast, and to learn more about Airwave, head to www.airwavemedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.0	Hey everyone, I'm Jean Chatsky.
0:40.4	Thanks so much for joining me today on her money where we talk about how personal
0:44.4	finance and money touches everything in our lives. Look I know the Barbie movie
0:49.2	it's a little old at this point frankly I could watch it again and again, but I want to talk about what it said about
0:56.1	corporate culture and women. There's a scene in the movie you'll remember where Barbie makes it to the Mattel offices which are gray and
1:05.8	colorless and tries her best to evade the all-male by the way corporate
1:12.1	executives who unbeknownst to her want to put her back in the
1:15.9	toy box, want her to conform to what society believes Barbie should be, not the woman that she is becoming.
1:26.4	Tons of other movies and television shows through the years show the corporate world as bleak, as oppressive, especially for women where we need to be ruthless
1:38.7	backstabbers or risk not getting ahead, where we need to leave our kind, caring, fun selves behind or our positions are at risk,
1:51.2	where we need to come to work wearing some version of a suit of armor that we can
1:57.4	strip off at the end of the day when we return to our real lives. But no matter how modern media portrays it, the reality is that work does not have to be the place where we leave our fun real selves behind.
2:14.0	Not anymore.
2:15.3	Bonnie Hammer, my guest today,
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